Pathfinder:

Christian Educational, Vocational, and Career Guidance

• Middle School, High School, College, and Career
• Home School, Private, Public

Testing • Analysis • Consultation • Coaching

Pathfinder guidance counseling services are similar to other services offered at local colleges and career centers except that Pathfinder recognizes that career and educational exploration is at its heart a spiritual matter. We are grounded in the belief that it is God who gives men and women the talents, abilities, and opportunities that they have in their lives and that only when they discover and utilize them to the best of their ability before Him will they find fulfillment / true prosperity, God’s name be honored, and other men and women be blessed.

We believe that it is wise counsel to avoid wasting time, effort, and finances in an uninformed, undirected career journey or laboring in areas in which one was not made to be effective. We believe it is wise to prepare for a lifetime of career/s of service to God and man by evaluating what He has given us and made us and beginning early to map out and collect the tools needed to exploit the opportunities placed before us by His good providence.

To start this process, we utilize the proven tools of Crown Ministries, Career Direct computerized career assessment test, and DISC type Personality ID for a foundation. The Career Direct test prints out a 30+ page evaluation of personality, interests, skills, and values. We then add other tests such as the Birkman test, Meyers-Briggs and/or others to arrive at a Composite Personal Profile that the counselor and client feel comfortable with using as a working model for exploring core capabilities, means of expression, career options and goals, educational requirements, and opportunities. This usually involves three to four hours of testing and counselor/client discussion. Further assistance is also available for the second phase "Building Your Portable Career." This second phase takes the information and materials acquired in the first phase and applies them to begin the construction of a personal portfolio, beginning resume, and targeting of specific educational or employment goals. The total effort assists the client to arrive at a more settled, focused, course/s of action and provides the foundational components for lifelong career tools. While it is possible to accomplish some of these things alone, it is recognized to be most effective when done with an experienced counselor/coach for the purposes of instruction, objectivity sustained effort, guidance, and accountability. The client simply does a better job in less time with assistance. Pathfinder exists to provide that assistance.

Jonny Whisenant Owner/Administrator of Pathfinder has been involved in vocational testing and counseling as a teacher in a private Christian school and in a social work capacity. He received a bachelor’s degree in social work and his history of employment in the workplace includes 30+ years of experience with the industries of sales and marketing, manufacturing and industrial, technical, service, hospitality, retail, and entrepreneurship. His experience extends to counseling within the church as an elected officer and is the father of four children who have participated in both private Christian and homeschool education.

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