Counseling
Career counseling is about learning how to make informed decisions; decisions that reflect your personal criteria for choosing work you will enjoy.
The NOVA Career Center offers drop-in and individual career counseling services for students and alumni. Career counseling includes a wide range of services, including self-exploration; researching academic and career options; decision making and developing action-steps; experiential learning opportunities, and job search strategies and resources. If you need assistance with choosing or changing a career path, career counseling may be right for you.
Career counseling services at NOVA are available to assist students and alumni in any of the following areas:
- Choosing or changing a career path
- Decision-making, goal setting and/or developing action steps
- Internships and other experiential learning opportunities
- Job search strategies
- Resume and cover letter writing; resume critiques
- Practice for interview sessions
- Assessment of skills, values, and interests
- Overcoming obstacles to achieving your education and career goals
- Interviewing techniques
- Part-time jobs
- Speaking with professionals in your field of interest
A NOVA Employer Services representative can provide a confidential consultation to answer your questions. Contact us at (318) 855-1923 to learn more or email us at info@novanela.org.
CLIENT’S TESTIMONIALS
"Gardner Denver has had great success with the NOVA program - the candi-dates we've hired are committed to hard work, to self-improvement, and to the success of our team. We strongly support the mission and intent of NOVA, and it will remain for us a preferred program to depend on for entry level op-portunities to join our team."
Erik Stoor
Director, Operations North America Gardner Denver Thomas
"St. Francis is excited to partner with NOVA as a means to support our organization, our mission, and our community. NOVA provides a unique ability to enhance the abilities and skills of individuals that are needed for them to secure stable employment and economic independence. They have been helpful in connecting our workforce needs to those individuals which allow St. Francis as an organization to provide for our patients and community."
Debbie Horstmann
MBA, SHRM-SCP SPHR | Director, Human Resources St. Francis Medical Center
"As an employer who has been in the paper and plastic industries for some 40+ years, I along with many other employers, have been concerned about the lack of a skilled workforce in the area of manufacturing in our community. NOVA is an organization which has made great strides in taking individuals who for whatever reason have taken the wrong path in life and need someone to give them guidance and vision in becoming a contributing source in the general workplace."
BIll Kight
President Euroboard Inc.
"As one of Monroe’s larger employers planning to grow locally, CenturyLink recognizes the importance of cultivating a qualified workforce. This is why we support NOVA in its mission to not only prepare individuals in our community for living wage jobs but to also help them secure employment. NOVA is driving economic development and the services it provides are beneficial not only to businesses and individuals but to the entire region.”
Annmarie Sartor
CenturyLink