Counseling and Career Development Center Services

Professional counselors help students clarify educational goals, identify program options, make decisions about degrees and select courses that fulfill a student's degree requirements, transfer plans, and educational goals. In addition, counselors also help students with academic progress issues:

Academic planning

• How to make sure you are selecting correct courses.
• Questions about transferring to and from IHCC.
• Schedule planning worksheet.
• Finding out about financial resources.

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Career planning

• How to make career related decisions.
• Changing your major.
• Occupational career information.

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What Can I Do With This Major? See outlines of common career areas, employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities.

Student success

• How to do your best in college.
• College jargon.
• Study skills.
• Time management and procrastination.
• Math and speech anxiety.

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Personal concerns

• Crisis assistance.
• How to maintain focus despite outside distractions.
• Managing stress.
• Anxiety, depression, eating disorders.
• Relationships.

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Getting to know the counselors 

• Who are the Counselors?
• Learn which counselor has eaten beetles, view counselor & department photos plus more!

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Making an appointment

• When can I see a Counselor or visit the Career Development Center? Learn about walk-ins and more!
• Considering Transfer? What you need to know for transferring!
• Returning students may choose to see a counselor for assistance with academic advising, educational counseling, career planning, and personal concerns.

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Quotes:

There are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still.  Franklin Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.  Eleanor Roosevelt

It doesn't matter how fast you're going if you're going in the wrong direction. Henry David Thoreau

The first two letters in the word goal are GO!  Anonymous

Only I can change my life.  No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett

There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.  Colin Powell

The best way out is always through.  Robert Frost

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.  Henry Ford

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.   Horace Walpole

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) English poet, playwright, and novelist

Half this game is 90% mental. Yogi Berra

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein