Career Guidance and Student Internship Counselling:

Unsure about the area of Interest?

  • Course and career counseling can help you decide on appropriate domains/areas and educational pathways to reach your goals.
  • Careers counseling is available to prospective and current students, in their second Year and also throughout the completion of course through EduXconnect.
  • Call us to arrange a counseling session.
  • If you would like more information on courses or the application process, please submit your name, email address and one of our Careers counseling consultants will contact you.

Personal Counseling

About the student counseling service

Life’s difficulties and demands can get in the way of studying and achieving goals.

EduXconnect offers a counseling service to assist students through these difficulties, and help them reach their educational and placement goals.

The counseling services are:

  • staffed by experienced counselors
  • offers face to face, in private, web-based counseling
  • available by appointment only
  • ongoing telephone counseling, if necessary.

Some concerns and problems which you might seek assistance for are:

  • Adjusting to major changes such as study commitments and internships pathway
  • Managing stress and balancing other commitments
  • Learning methods of relaxation
  • Overcoming fears (e.g. of giving presentations or of assessments)
  • Working out relationship and family problems
  • Coping with lack of friends or support
  • Motivation, goal setting
  • Easing depression, distress
  • Rebuilding self-esteem, confidence
  • Dealing with challenging situations
  • Understanding the work culture and education
  • Sorting out mental health issues that may affect your study and work life balance
  • Resolving conflict with other people

Our counselors can also help you apply for Special Consideration or any another serious cause has interfered with the completion of your internship pathway.

How can I talk to a personal counselor?

Feel free to consult with a counselor about any matter that is getting in the way of your work/study/iternship. If this kind of counseling turns out not to be what you need, the counselor can refer you to other dedicated professional help/services.

If the matter is urgent, our counselors will make every effort to assist you as soon as possible.

Confidentiality

Counseling is confidential. Nothing you say to a counselor will be disclosed to a third party without your consent. Counselors do speak about their work, in a professional way to other counselors (who are also bound by confidentiality) for the purpose of reviewing the counselor’s work. Usually only the first name is used in order to protect the person’s privacy.

There are exceptions to confidentiality when the counselor believes that your life or someone else’s is at risk. In this case, the counselor will usually tell you of their concern and what they intend to do. The counselor may need to contact other health professionals and/or your family depending on the nature of the risk.

Feel free to ask your counselor any questions you may have.  EduXconnect will provide contact details of specialized support services on a need basis.

Learning Support

You may find internship challenging.

Maybe it’s the common student problem of too many tasks and not enough time? Or maybe you are not sure how to begin your internships or work on the project or write them up?  Perhaps you are finding flexible learning harder than you expected?  Or possibly you are nervous about having to do assessments?

If some of these sounds like you, you may benefit from our learning support service which offers skills and ideas to help you study more effectively

Our counselors can provide coaching in:

  • Creating an effective study and work environment
  • Goal setting
  • Time organization
  • Motivation and overcoming procrastination
  • Note-taking
  • Quiz/Assessment preparation, Assessment anxiety control
  • Memory retention
  • Academic expressions
  • Essay/report writing
  • Advancing your learning skills
  • Work and course issues
  • Getting back to study
  • Flexible learning techniques

Other skills

Internship skills workshops

EduXconnect offers a variety of study and Internship skills workshops for both students and members of the faculty. These include:

  • Study skills essentials
  • Stress management
  • Time management
  • Relaxation techniques
  • Preparing for assessments
  • Creative learning tools
  • Flexible learning 1: Getting started
  • Flexible Learning 2: Maximising progress

Workshops are held twice a year, or depending on demand.

Language Support

Having trouble writing research papers? Need to brush up on grammar and spelling?

EduXconnect offers language support for enrolled students.

Working in small groups of students, our staff will help you develop your:

  • Writing skills (i.e. essays, research papers and reports)
  • Grammar and spelling
  • Study skills
  • Speaking skills

Useful Links

  • Helping young people connect to their future. 
  • The ultimate online career resource, providing free access to job seeking tools and tips including an overview of the job market. 
  • Provides assistance with career planning and job searching.