Higher education
COURTESY OF AUGSBURG COLLEGE, MINNEAPOLIS
Students find more than the typical career services offerings at the Augsburg College Clair and Gladys Strommen Center for Meaningful Work, Minneapolis. The center helps students with strength-finding assessments, coaching, interviewing, résumés, internships, employer informational sessions and more.
Helping students find jobs S
With a sense of vocation, ELCA schools go beyond basic career services By Elizabeth Hunter
40 The Lutheran •
www.thelutheran.org
itting down with students, Cynthia Favre, director of career services at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., has learned a lot. “Sometimes students think that if they haven’t figured it all out yet or if they aren’t in a job they’re totally passionate about, they’re a failure as a human being,” she said. “It’s a sad thing.” Favre traces much of that confusion to a culture that can make work seem like “drudgery,” and to such well- intentioned sayings as “Choose a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” These expectations, she said, “are misleading and pressuring.” Instead, Favre and other staff members tell students that, for most people, figuring it out and finding fulfill- ment in work comes over time. “It’s a journey,” she said. “We talk about persistence and resilience so they will be
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