Career Services hosted their first Career Cafe of the semester on Monday, Feb. 29 at 2 p.m. in the Multipurpose Building room 201.

Career counselors, Traci Ukita and Clara Ross-Jones, guided attendees through an individual activity

For the activity, students were each given a deck of cards and a worksheet. The cards represent a value and students aligned each card, as indicated on the worksheet, in each of the following categories: Always Valued, Often Valued, Sometimes Valued, Seldom Valued and Never Valued.

Work-related or career values are characteristics of a work environment. These include, but not limited to: opportunity for collaboration with team members, job advancement for a particular field, salary – making a certain amount of money.

Amongst the attendees was, biology major, Sarah Hinton, who said, “My top values were: knowledge, helping others and research.”

Career Cafe chooses different topics that will be meaningful to students. This time the topic of conversation was: understanding your work-related values.

Career counselors expressed how values are a factor that students might want to consider when it comes to career decision-making.

Ross-Jones, said, “Values are really guiding us but we don’t really talk about them a lot. This is the reason we are having this discussion topic as an opportunity for students to think ‘When I’m thinking about a career, what values do I have that are important to me even before I get that career?'”

Students should be determining and consider what their values are when looking at the world at the work side.

“I thought it was a good workshop. It really helped to look at ourselves and our own values to try and place that with a career that we will be happy with. It was very resourceful and it offered a lot of good information.

Hinton said, “It provided us with self evaluations, therefore by evaluating our own requirements for a career, we could point that out what type of career we want.”

New this semester, Career Services and the Re-Entry Resource Program, will have a free drawing at the end of each month.

A raffle ticket will be given to each attendee prior to the start of the workshop.

Attending multiple workshops will allow a student to gain multiple entries for a whole month.

This month’s winners are:

• Maricela Pena who attended the Choosing a Major workshop – Double Tree Hilton Gift Certificate
• Stephanie Burros who attended the Scholarship workshop – Target Giftcard
• Nancy Lima who attended the Disney College Program Internships workshop – Gas card

Career Cafe will have another meeting on Monday, Mar. 28 at 2 p.m. in the Multipurpose Building room 201 to have another career-related conversation.