UWC Career Update Handbook 2021

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FUTURE PATHWAYS CONSULTANTS

Paving my own path Coming to UWC

by Dean Mazhawidza CAREER UPDATE (CU) CATCHES UP WITH DEAN MAZHAWIDZA, UWC Alumnus and the Director of Future Pathways Consultants to chat about his career journey. He tells us how his engagements from the sports field and the lecture room shaped his journey to becoming a practitioner and an entrepreneur.

In 2012, I was granted a scholarship by Sports Skills for Life Skills (SS4LS), a sports and educational NGO in the Western Cape, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in psychology at the University of the Western Cape. I was passionate about and interested in psychology. I always wanted to understand how people think, process information and make decisions. I enjoyed my studies and was eager to become a Clinical Psychologist helping patients with psychological problems. However, SS4LS exposed me to various career opportunities that l had not been informed about at high school. The, then, Executive Director Adv Nicolas Kock, conducted academic debriefs where he  UWC CAREER UPDATE 2021 |

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