Going from College to Career

Everette Fortner on The Me-Suite podcast

Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with college career counselor, Everette Fortner. We talk about one of the biggest questions when you're 18-22: "What am I going to do with the rest of my life?" Everette applies principles of design thinking to help early career/young adults design their life in three steps:

• clarifying

• exploring

• prototyping

Everette challenges students (and parents) to think about:

• If anything were possible, what would I be doing after college?

• What are my three possible lives?

• What is the design criteria for creating those three possible lies for myself?

• What is my passion? What gives me energy?

• Where do I start figuring out my career next steps?

• How important is my major?

• How important is that first job out of college?

And of course, we talk about the important role parents play at this life stage.

Everette's core values: family first, energy; exploring.