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Course Outline: Business X420 |
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This description contains a complete guide to the
weekly events and due dates. Lecture topics are briefly outlined, Counseling
Lab Session requirements are explained, and Discussion Session topics for
each week are given. All projects should be sent as an attachment via
Oncourse messenger email to your Career Counselor before your lab
appointment. Also, bring a printed copy with you to lab and be prepared to
make an oral presentation of your project. Please
follow this guide closely each week! |
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WEEK 1 – At
a Glance |
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Announcements: Oncourse and Career Services (USCO) |
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Reading
Assignments: Chapters 10, 11, 12 on Resume
Preparation |
Lab 1: Intro to Lab – Course Structure Meet Your Career
Counselor/Time Assignments |
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Lecture 1: |
Projects: P1: UCSO Resume - Required |
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SCOOP: Schedule / Description |
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Lecture 1: Intro
to Career Planning Strategies / Career
Education Plan |
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Lecture
1 Topics: |
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Know Thyself Ø
Your VIPS:
Values – Interests – Personality Ø
Interests
Prioritizing: Organizing Ø
Career
Goal-Setting Ø
The Model
Framework Ø
Career
Exploration: Options Ø
Interviewing
for Information |
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Career
Planning Theory Basics Ø
Values
Clarification: Understanding Why Ø
Personal
Descriptors – VIPS: Unique Personalities Ø
Information
Sources: Research Option Ø
Self-Assessment
Instruments Ø
Career
Decision-Making Process Ø
Employment
Selection Testing |
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Lecture 2: Resumes
for Life / Career
Portfolio |
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Networking plays a
significant role in the career planning and job search process for a high
percentage of the class. Over 95 percent of the class registers and actively
utilizes the resume, interviewing, literature, referrals, career information,
counseling, and other services offered by the UCSO. This lecture recommends
the Undergraduate Career Services Office and how to most effectively use
them. Emphasis is placed on the recruitment resume, the networking resume,
job prospects, the real employment system, career fairs, employer presentations,
and techniques for getting better known. |
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Lecture
2 Topics: |
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Career Street
Journal (CSJ): Job Leads Ø
Resumes:
Recruiter Screening or Networking; Circulating Talents Ø
Job Referrals:
Contacting Job Ads Ø
Career links:
Getting Info Online |
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Career fairs:
Ultimate Networking Ø
SCOOPS: What
Job? Ø
Interviewing
for Information: Network Ø
Company
Presentations: Working the Room Ø
Career
Resources: Sourcing Network Job Leads |
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Lab Counseling Session
– Lab 1: Course
Structure and Project Requirements |
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For this first session only, you will meet at the time and in
the room assigned to you at registration. The faculty will cover the
essentials of the course structure. It is extremely important to attend this
first lab since it is a verbal synopsis of the course syllabus. The following
topics will be covered: |
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Purpose: Why? Ø
Project
Requirements Ø
Grading System |
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Career
Projects: Options Ø
Relationship
to UCSO Ø
Textbook
Required |
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Use of
Oncourse Ø
Resume Types Ø
Weekly Career
Counseling |
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At the end of the short
lecture, you will be assigned a Career Counselor who will work with you each week
throughout the semester. These meetings allow you to have brief one-on-one
counseling sessions, project presentations and/or question-and-answer
periods. The priority event at each meeting will be the discussion of any
project submitted for that particular week. If you positively cannot
attend your time assigned by the Registrar, just attend any session this
week. The times are listed above and room numbers are in the schedule of
classes and available from the Course
Assistant in the UCSO waiting room. If space permits, you may be assigned
a time at the end of the class you attend. If your preferred space is not
available, please go to the Course Assistant in the UCSO who will take your
name and assign you a counselor based on the times available. If you miss your class,
please see the Course Administrator
in the UCSO between The Lab meets one time per
week at |
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Project:
Work on Project 1 and submit via the UCSO website.
General project directions: Ø
Follow project
directions
carefully. Ø
Send projects as an attachment via Oncourse Messenger Email to
your Career Counselor. Ø
Send to your
Career Counselor before your lab appointment. Ø
Bring a copy with you to the appointment so your Career
Counselor can mark on it with you present. Ø
Counselor will
grade, sign,
and return at your appointment time for verification. Ø
Save your projects. |
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Career
Resources (on UCSO website) / Career
Links (on Oncourse) |
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Use textbook
as a resource for your projects. Ø
Many
career-related websites follow your textbook Table of Contents structure. Ø
The UCSO Career Resources also provides links
to helpful research resources. Ø
Career Links is a more extensive list of research websites developed by course
faculty. |
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Project 1: UCSO
Resume |
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Must be uploaded onto the UCSO website
before |
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Overview:
Required Project |
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The resume is the
fundamental tool around which all of the UCSO Career Services revolve. It is
an instrument with which you will sell yourself to prospective employers by
organizing and presenting your goals, education, experience, activities, and
honors. The utmost care should be taken in its preparation. It is vital that
this resume be well organized, articulate, and completely free of
typographical, spelling, and grammatical errors. NOTE: Project
1, Project 2, and Project 23 (the final project) are required projects and must be completed in order to pass this
course. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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All Discussion Sessions
during Week 1 will feature the lecture “UCSO Services Resume Preparation.”
Attend any evening, Monday through Thursday, at either Employers are logging onto
the UCSO Web Resume Book right now to view the online resume book that is
selectable by the many variables on your resume. The UCSO resume version is
due by Friday at You may update this resume
as often as you wish. Your Career Counselor will assist you with it soon.
Later, you may wish to create a different free-form resume to use in your
networking which your textbook calls the Networking Recommender Resume,
also called your free-form or networking resume. Nearly all students will
prepare this two-page resume and cover letter which is due in Week 3 as
Project 3. This presentation will
assist you in writing the first resume for full-time positions and/or
internships (see Discussion Schedule for date,
time, and room). Even though additional experience and a new grade point
average will change the look of the final draft, it is helpful to create a
“finished” version of the resume that can be shared with employers as soon as
possible. This UCSO version should
be carefully phrased for potential impact to help “sell” your candidacy. It
must have a nice layout and be error free – no misspellings or typos of any
kind. It should include relevant facts that support your interest in the
initial career area indicated in the objective statement on the resume. This
assignment must be prepared as a MS Word resume and must be submitted via the
Upload Resume option on the
UCSO website. Oncourse will accept your MS Word version of the resume also. You will have an
opportunity to enhance your UCSO resume anytime in the future. Using this as
your first draft, you will earn additional optional project credit if you
expand this to a 2- to 3-page Recommender Networking Resume as described in
your textbook and syllabus. This is part of Project 3 on Communications. Regularly scheduled
Discussion Sessions begin in Week 2 and continue through Week 8. Consult the Discussion
Schedule in the Table of Contents of the syllabus on the Oncourse
website for topics and rooms. You may attend any program at either time on
any evening. You are NOT required to attend at your regularly assigned
discussion time. |