Career Planning Steps

• Outcome (Reflection and Self-Awareness)
  Research has shown that most people begin to gravitate towards certain career interest, and away from others around middle school. Therefore, at this stage, our students reflect and identify potential career interests. Then OMA coaches use ‘well-formed outcome’ criteria to help our members define clearly the stated career choice or choices. 

• Coaching (SEL Training, Exploration and Decision Making)
  Open Mind Africa train students in Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Growth Mindset, as well as Character Development (Grit). We also provide academic guidance and counseling, and mentoring for the students. This stage is very important in preparing our students to explore and research further in order to make informed decisions towards desired outcomes for the future.
  

• Initiation and Execution
  At this stage our students have already decided on their career choices and are already in their first year of university. From here on, we encourage and support initiation and execution on the choice of career path students are pursuing.
  

• Fine-tuning and Implementation
  Open Mind Africa partner institutions, organizations and companies guide our members to fine-tune and implement the career choice/start up they have been working on since the first year of high school. Open Mind Africa hope to collaborate with the Counsel for Scientific and Industrial Research/ Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR) in Ghana for implementation of this step.