Careers' Crafting
The Toolkit to creatE purposeful career pursuits
Are you flourishing in your Career?
Do you find purpose and meaning with your career ? Do you feel engaged with your academic tasks?
Career Crafting captures the active changes a student makes to his/her own life designs in ways that can bring about numerous positive outcomes including better performance, scores, engagement, satisfaction, resilience, purpose and thriving. How a student does Career Crafting is by exercising the three drivers explained below:
1.1 Purpose Crafting
Changing the way students think about life purposes at campus as a whole. This emphasizes on finding multiple goals and purposes aligned to Core; passion, strengths & future skills (changing perception to attach more meaning to career and life).
Example: A student seeing academics as a way to ‘Learn from people building meaningful relationships’, rather than just getting a degree.
A student holding a purpose as to ’Be an asset and add value to the institution’ and hence he/she helps in the college activities and placement team to benefit people around.
1.2 Task Crafting
Adding or altering tasks, and making a few changes to the as-is activities in the college/ academics to make it more meaningful (minor tweaks and additions to the activities/ tasks).
Example: A student ‘finding a new method to get into an internship, and make his/her learnings more fruitful’.
A student adds a new task of ‘being on Linkedin for 10 mins’ every day to expand the network among corporates and to create a personal brand.
1.3 Relationship Crafting
Altering the interactions or the control, the students have over the people they deal with. This includes modifying the way you do these formal interactions to build better relationships (forging into new and meaningful relationships).
Example: A student offering ‘mentoring support to others to experience more social capital and connections’.
A student ‘participating in college events to build better relationships and engage in powerful networks’. This also makes him/her feel purposeful as an asset to the institution.