Reflection Paper #3 Then write a reflection paper detailing: What was your experience like with the assessment you chose? Include detail about strengths, weaknesses, limitations, potential bias, and other points of your choosing. Further, Discuss how you feel the topic of the Great Resignation, and career exploration tools will affect the counseling field and you personally. How do you feel about the mental health counseling fields projected growth? You'll need to demonstrate that you have read the articles and integrated that content into how you are thinking about career and assessment. How could you use your chosen assessment with clients? Paper should be 2-3 pages long of written content with in-text citation of the material read, assessment used, and a References page for full credit.
Part I – Current Trends Selected Topic: Career Transformations Research a career development assessment. I recommend https://www.truity.com/test/holland-code-career-test but you can find others at https://www.cleverism.com/10-free-career-self-assessment-tools/ and I encourage you to find the one that you really want to learn about, complete, and write about. The Holland code (RIASEC occupational categories) and the background of the assessment has traditionally been tested on during the NCE exam. Take the assessment. Read these relatively brief articles, first concerning the pandemic/post-pandemic Great Resignation, then the outlook for mental health counseling as a career, finally the ACA Workforce summary for counselors (click on the .pdf link below): Great Resignation – Great Reshuffle https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2022/09/27/the-great-resignation-as-an-opportunity-for-the-great-reshuffle/?sh=351d19fda5e4 Managing people in a post-Covid world https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PR-03-2023-914/full/html What can we learn from the Great Resignation? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/what-is-the-great-resignation-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it/#:~:text=URL%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weforum.org%2Fagenda%2F2021%2F11%2Fwhat Mental Health Jobs Predictions https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/mental-health-jobs-projections-dg/index.html