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Thinking about changing your major?

By: Rodger Bailey, MS

Are you thinking about changing your university major? It is common for university students to change their major. For most students the first few years of university life are very informative. High school life is limited compared to the experiences students have at college or university. These experiences offer new frames-of-reference about life and work. Often, these new experiences provide motivation for students to view their lives in new ways, and with new outcomes. So, it is common for university students to change their major.

Of course, one of the most important considerations in changing major is your exposure to the new major and how much you like everything you have been exposed to in the new major. Have you only had one course? Was it the professor or the content which attracted you to this field? You might improve the possibility of success in this new field if you take more courses and make sure you take courses from diverse professors in that major.

Another important consideration is to make sure you are a good match for this new major. This means that you make sure your patterns of thinking and behavior match up with what will be needed for the field. How can a person know if their patterns match up with the patterns needed for a job or career?

One way to make sure you have the patterns for a field is to visit people who are performing the tasks within a field. Watch them working and consider if those tasks are tasks you will be comfortable performing.  Talk with many different people working in that field and take the time to recognize if those are the kinds of people with whom you want to spend your time.

Another way to make sure you have the thinking and behavior patterns for a field is to have a career assessment. This is a test which evaluates your thinking and behavior patterns (traits) so you can examine how you fit in with certain careers and jobs. The LAB Profile is based on interviews and tests with ten of thousands working people from dozens of countries.

When you take this test, you receive a report which shows your patterns on 40 scales. Each of these scales represents a specific behavioral or thinking pattern. The scale is described and your position on that scales is shown graphically, in percentages, and with text.

In your phone consultation, you can ask about your old major, your new major, and if other careers would be a good fit for your patterns.

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