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Academic Strength vs Career Fit: What's the Difference?
Academic strength tells you something about performance in an educational setting. Career fit involves a wider set of questions.
Career fit questions
What work can the person perform? What capabilities do they want to develop? What interests them? What values matter? What environment suits them? What problems do they want to contribute to solving?
Grades are evidence, not a decision
A student who performs well in mathematics may have several possible directions. The grade provides evidence. It does not make the career decision by itself. The strongest career exploration combines academic evidence with skills, natural gifts, values, interests, experiences, and knowledge of actual careers.
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