Take the first step - see an Educational Advisor
"Meeting with the advisors is always helpful. They always answer my questions and exceed what I need."
1. Explore
- Research Careers and Post-Secondary Education and Training
- Navigate the VIU website to find program information, learner support services and more
- Learn what career opportunities exist for various majors
2. Make Choices
- Use information and knowledge of values, strengths, interests and career and life goals to make choices
3. Decide and Action Plan
- Apply decision making and planning skills to build and revise a workable education plan that fits with short and long term personal, career and lifestyle and educational goals.
4. Enrich the Experience
- Discover VIU’s many enrichment opportunities
- Consider participating in enrichment opportunities
5. Problem Solve
- Identify obstacles and challenges to meeting your goals
- Make plans to over come obstacles and challenges and to develop your abilities as a self-regulated learner
6. Focus on Goals
- Clarify the steps that lead to your desired credential
- Identify details that become significant along the path to earning your current credential or another one beyond it
7. Self Knowledge and Advocacy
- Learn about student rights, responsibilities and relevant VIU policies and procedures
- Seek support in striving toward self-regulation, self-directed learning and self-advocacy
*It is, ultimately, the student’s responsibility to choose courses and programs to meet his or her own career or educational objectives.
