Design Your Career and Life while at BSU.
What if every time you were struggling with a problem about your career or life, you had a simple five-step process to help you move forward? Life Design@BSU is that process.
What Is Life Design@BSU?
This new initiative, adapted from Stanford University’s Life Design Lab, was developed by the Career Services & Internships Office to help BSU students think early and often about where they want to go in their careers and their lives. By using this problem-solving approach, our students will build resilience when faced with adversity while also creating a career and life vision for success after BSU.
How Does Life Design@BSU Work?
Life Design@BSU guides students, through advising, activities, programs, and events, to solve “the wicked problems” of career and life.
Life Design@BSU’s five-step process includes:
- Step 1: Learn
Explore who you are, what interests you, and where you want to go in your future life and career.
- Step 2: Question
Choose one challenge and create a question based on that challenge.
- Step 3: Brainstorm
Brainstorm with others, including BSU faculty and staff, to collect as many ideas as possible to answer that question.
- Step 4: Act
Take one step forward and test one of those ideas.
- Step 5: Review
- After testing that idea, review the end result. What did you learn? Are you on the right path? Depending on your answer, you can either choose a new challenge, rebuild your question, or sort through and act on other ideas from your brainstorming session.
How Can I experience Life Design@BSU?
There are several way to learn and practice this five-step process. They include:
- The Designing Your BSU course
This one-credit course for first year students and new transfers actively engages students in Life Design@BSU and helps students transition to the university. Students can register for this course on InfoBear.
- Life Design Appointments
You can now meet with a career advisor in the Career Services and Internships Office to build your career vision as well as create action steps to test that vision. To schedule a Life Design appointment, use Handshake or call the office at 508-531-1328.
- Life Design Studios, Workshops, and Programs
The Career Services and Internships Office provides opportunities to learn and practice these skills through events, Studios, and workshops, held each semester. You can find these programs on Handshake, EngageBSU and our social media channels – look for Life Design@BSU in the title.
