Reverse Engineering Your Career: a global workshop for school counsellors
Students do not need a single perfect answer. Instead, they need support that helps them feel safe exploring multiple possible futures.
One of the biggest sources of anxiety in high school college counselling stems from a simple idea many students quietly carry for years: the belief that there is only one correct answer to the question, “What do you want to study?”
For many students, traditional college counselling can unintentionally frame career choice as a high-stakes identity test. The underlying message becomes: “choose correctly, and your future will work out; choose incorrectly, and you risk falling behind.”
However, the world students are preparing to enter no longer follows a linear path. It requires adaptability, reinvention, and a more flexible understanding of identity, skills, and potential.
As counsellors, it is important to help students recognise that the true value of an undergraduate degree lies not only in the professional title it leads to, but in the transferable skills it develops, such as communication, negotiation, creativity, critical thinking, data analysis, collaboration, adaptability, and lifelong learning.
This philosophy is at the heart of Reverse Engineering Your Career, a workshop designed to help counsellors and students navigate uncertainty through a more flexible, updated, and human approach to career conversations.
Join Navitas Global School Engagement Team for a Virtual Global Workshop
Date: Thursday, June 4th
Time: 12:00 pm UTC
- São Paulo | 9:00 am
- Nairobi | 3:00 pm
- Dubai | 4:00 pm
- New Delhi | 5:30 pm
- Jakarta | 7:00 pm
Participants are welcome to reach out at any time. The team is just an email away.