Career Exploration: Teaching Students to Pack Their Own Chutes

Abstract

One of the most difficult tasks facing most of our students is the choice of an aviation career path and the best approach in pursuing their goals. Too often, at many schools, students are more or less left to "scramble" for themselves in conjunction with the campus placement office in order to obtain whatever information may be available. There is usually a considerable amount of wasted time and various aviation fields. However, this was largely on an ad hoc basis, typically career choices were at best only marginally satisfactory because the approach effort; students who are improperly prepared for the process of job and career choice often make many mistakes and experience a great deal of frustration in their efforts to make the transition fran the campus to the world of work.