EPIC Career Focus
What is the difference between a job and a career? There are four primary differences:
- A job is something you have to do, while a career is something that you want to do.
- A job is something you get, while a career is something you develop.
- A job is something you lose, while a career is something you always have.
- A job requires short-term planning, while a career requires long-term planning.
The EPIC Career Focus program helps people develop the right career, on the way to finding the right job. Whether you are young or old, male or female, married or not, college educated or not, career development is absolutely necessary.
Career Focus is partly an educational experience, partly a counseling experience, and partly an assessment experience. Counseling, education, and assessment are used together to help the individual develop the skills to negotiate the first few years of career exploration and development. Learning how to use the Holland System of Occupational Types, the O*NET Occupational Information System, and information from high-quality assessments is combined with counseling to identify strengths and weaknesses and goals.
As a person matures, his or her interests, aptitudes, and temperament begin to consolidate and become useful to develop a career focus. This information, properly collected and analyzed, can help guide the individual into successful career development. This greatly increases the likelihood that the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities will be developed to bring that career to fruition.
Whether the next formal step in career development is college, graduate school, an apprenticeship program, or a new job, the clarity necessary for a good decision is based on self-knowledge that can be facilitated through the EPIC Career Focus counseling and assessment process.