Building Student Resilience and Career Agility: Lessons from Industry

Goals

1. Equip counselors with practical strategies to help students develop resilience and adaptability.
2. Provide tools for counselors to translate career challenges into student growth opportunities.
3. Inspire counselors to integrate lessons from industry, education, and sports into student guidance.

Expected Outcomes

For Counselors:

1. Gain concrete methods to foster resilience and agility in students.
2. Learn how to frame setbacks as learning opportunities when guiding students.
3. Acquire strategies to connect career readiness with personal development.

Impact on Students (through counselors):

1. Students become better prepared to handle academic and career uncertainties.
2. Students learn to view challenges as stepping-stones, not barriers.
3. Students strengthen employability and life skills (adaptability, persistence, growth mindset).
4. Students gain confidence in navigating transitions from school to university to career.