In order to improve the professional ability of counselors to deal with students' professional confusion and career planning problems, and deepen the effectiveness of three comprehensive education, on April 8, the School of Marine Science and Engineering organized all full-time and part-time counselors to carry out business learning with the theme of Clearing the Fog and Finding Goals in Conference Room 410 of the College. This business learning was led by teacher Meng Xuanzhen, focusing on practical problems such as students' anxiety about changing majors and occupational cognitive biases.
Based on his own experience, Mr. Meng first shared the case of students face the choice to change majors due to transfer into the materials major, and put forward the three-step strategy of tapping the potential of the major, breaking the cognitive bias, home-school collaborative education, resolving decision-making conflicts, and customizing the growth path to balance interests and reality, so as to achieve the development effect of 1 1 > 2 on the basis of respecting students' interests. Then, Mr. Meng also shared the case of poor students are confused due to concerns about the employment prospects of materials majors, through the interpretation of student aid policies, reducing economic pressure, the combination of empathetic listening and role model incentives, science and technology innovation mentors guide experiments, strengthen professional identity, guide students to scientifically evaluate career matching and development potential, and solve the advanced employment anxiety.
Dong Chaoqun, deputy secretary of the Party committee, concluded that professional choice is a key node in the construction of youth self-identity, and counselors need to transform from problem firefighters to growth designers.
Written by: Song Fengxi, Sun Hanfen
Source: College of Ocean Science and Engineering
Figure 1 The meeting site