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Leadership & Career Center

Leadership & Career Center provides systematic programs for cultivating students’ leadership skills and career development. Students will discover their own identity, enhance their leadership skills, and improve teamwork skills vital to a successful career. 

Students also get personalized coaching to research, organize, and plan their career path throughout the entire four years of their TAEJAE journey. TAEJAE’s support to students continues even after graduation, with an extensive and valuable network for TAEJAE alumni.

LEADERSHIP & CAREER PROGRAMS

Leadership & Career Program is designed as two-phase, sequential programs: self-development and career advancement. The initial phase focuses on students discovering their dreams by exploring themselves and developing leadership skills. This sets the stage for the subsequent phase, in which they learn practical skills to effectively pursue and achieve their career goals.

Self Development Programs:

  • In Discovering Self-identity Program, students reflect and explore their personality, values, and strengths to enhance self-awareness and discover career aspirations.
  • Leadership & Team Building program helps students to experience and understand leadership, followership, and group dynamics.
  • Belongingness program encourages students to reflect on how life at Taejae has influenced them, fostering a sense of belongingness. This will help students learn how to promote a sense of belonging in community and its importance.

Career Development Programs:

  • Exploring Meaning & Value of Work program gives students opportunities to explore the meaning and value of work in depth prior to setting career goals. Students discuss the difference between working and playing, explore different kinds of values in jobs, and discover their career aspirations.
  • Exploring Person-Job Fit program helps students identify their strengths, weaknesses, and their career goals to determine if their career goals align with their personal interests and capabilities.
  • At Understanding and Preparing Job program, students learn practical and concrete details of jobs with experts. Career mentors guide students to take specific steps and necessary requirements or supplements to successfully approach their career path. Students also can express themselves and get opportunities to connect with professionals at the TJ Job Fair.

WELLNESS CENTER

Wellness Center provides services tailored to each student’s unique well-being needs and cultural backgrounds. TAEJAE wellness programs focus on helping students boost their wellbeing and thrive in college. Students can attend programs to develop self-care skills such as time management or test anxiety coping skills. They also learn psychological aspects of happiness and practices that can enhance their life satisfaction. TAEJAE also offers mental health care programs such as psychological assessments for screening and counseling services. These services will enable early intervention and help students develop resilience and maintain good mental health.

WELLNESS PROGRAMS

The aim of Student Wellness is to enhance students’ wellbeing through two approaches. First, we support students to foster emotional competence by enhancing self-awareness, monitoring wellbeing, practicing coping skills, and learning how to increase happiness. Second, we offer peer counseling, mental health coaching, and professional counseling services; these support systems will help students going through mental health struggles to develop insights and strategies to overcome challenges. 

  • In the Psychological Wellbeing Workshop, students learn practical skills to manage academic stress, public speaking anxiety, and time management challenges. 
  • Psychological Resources Workshop includes programs that support students cultivate happiness by exploring various aspects of happiness, including finding meaning, experiencing flow, building healthy relationships, while learning practical tips to increase life satisfaction. 
  • Students can request psychological evaluations, helpful tools for enhancing self-awareness. Psychological evaluation topics include personality, character strengths, and career aptitude. Students can also use psychological wellbeing checklists to monitor their emotional health. 
  • Students are trained to provide non-judgmental and empathetic space in a Peer Counseling Workshop;  a trained peer counselor can provide emotional support and guidance for a friend struggling due to daily stressors.
  • Students meet with coaches for bi-weekly Mental Health Coaching to encourage students to have social interactions, monitor each others’ wellbeing, and provide social support. Students can also request 1:1 coaching for more in-depth conversation on personal issues. 
  • Counseling services are available for students that need more specialized, professional care.

SOCIAL VALUE CENTER

TAEJAE Global Citizenship Center is dedicated to fostering students to become informed and socially responsible global citizens. Our students are encouraged to cultivate a strong sense of social responsibility that extends beyond personal interests, and to actively engage in tackling pressing global challenges. Students are encouraged to proactively promote social values such as altruism, community spirit, diversity, equality, human rights, and environmental sustainability. Through their experiences at TAEJAE, students will be empowered to make a meaningful and positive impact on the world around them.

SOCIAL VALUE PROGRAMS

  • Altruism & Community program encourages each student to identify one's unique talents and exchange them with other students; students experience self-improvement and other benefits through altruistic behaviors including a sense of community and belongingness.
  • In Diversity⋅Equality⋅Human Rights program, students share ideas and discuss their opinions, organize workshops and debates on these topics. Through this experience, students will develop open-mindedness, gain a wider perspective, and refine their ideas and opinions as global citizens. 
  • Environmental Sustainability program enhances students’ awareness on the seriousness of environmental problems, and habituates environmentally friendly behaviors in daily life to save resources and reduce waste.

SSI Programs