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WEEK 2 – At
a Glance |
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Announcements: Oncourse and Career Services (USCO) |
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Reading
Assignments: Chapters 3, 4, 5, 13, 20 |
Review Projects |
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Lecture 3: Ø
Finance |
Projects: P1: UCSO Resume (Resume review) -
Required P2: Career Plan - Required |
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Lecture 4: |
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SCOOP: Schedule / Description |
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Lecture 3: Career
Options Introduction / Management
& Marketing / Finance
/ Technical |
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What is available? Setting
smart, concrete goals requires information about potential options. The
government job classification scheme identifies over 50,000 related job
families. No one could analyze each cluster, but you can make intelligent
choices by narrowing the field after your self-assessment. Career exploration is a
systematic process of elimination and inclusion based on your values,
interests, personal qualities, and skills. A flexible scheme allows a slowly
emerging career profile that integrates job market realities such as
compensation, growth potential, supply/demand, work settings, job
requirements, etc. with the self-assessment. The result is a roughly tuned
set of career directions. |
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Lecture
3 Topics (within career areas of Accounting/Finance, Marketing/Management,
and Technical and Technology Consulting): |
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World of Work:
What’s Available? Ø
Career
Profiles: Fits My Background? Ø
Information
Collection: Job Descriptions Ø
Supply/Demand:
Job Possibilities? Ø
Systematic
Analysis: Best Fit? Ø
Growth Rates: Future
Outlook |
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People
Sources/Contacts: Networking Options Ø
Job
Performance Facts: My Potential? Ø
Publication
and Web Sources: More Info? Ø
Career
Resources: Job Details Ø
Dollars and
“Sense”: Earnings Potentials? Ø
Salary
Determinants: Realistic Expectations |
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In what type of
organization do you want to work? Business, government, education, and
nonprofit sectors of an economy each provide a variety of unique cultures.
Employing organizations often recruit talent with common attitudes and credentials.
Even with the most strongly autocratic institution, there are pockets of
participative management units. To avoid anarchy, every organization employs
a management structure of professional talent. You need to understand where
you fit within the group and where your level of responsibility falls. Upward mobility typically
follows a planned advancement path dictated by established performance
standards. Regardless of the type of employing organization (sector or size),
aspiring professionals typically seek employment in marketing, finance,
operations, engineering, research, or general administration functions. Most business-related
career opportunities are found in three general areas: marketing/management,
financial, and technical fields. Early career work experiences in business
firms often rotate potential managers through a series of assignments
(including the entry assignment). These assignments entail work experiences
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Mgmt. Development Programs Sales Management Retailing Buying/Purchasing Marketing Research Product Management |
Industrial Accounting Banking Public Accounting Financial Analysis Real Estate Credit Analysis |
Consulting Operations Management Decision Technology Computing Science Systems Analysis Information Systems |
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For this lecture you must decide which of these
three areas you would be more interested in exploring. An expert in each area
will discuss your job possibilities. The financial group will meet in one room, the
marketing/management group will meet in another room, and students with
technical interests will meet in the third room, all at the same time. You
can receive credit for attending only one session, but you are invited to
attend more than one at a different time if you are not certain of your
career plans. Check the Oncourse website
announcements for room locations. |
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Lecture 4: SCOOP
SESSION #1 |
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The next five classes
consist of special sessions. Each year over 100 executives participate in
Business X420 by discussing career opportunities in their industry or
occupation. These guest lecturers represent alumni and many employers who
recruit on campus. The information that they provide adds to the career
information that you need in the career decision-making process. Each guest
makes a 17- to 20-minute presentation as part of a 3- to 4-member panel. Check the Oncourse
website announcements or UCSO
SCOOP Schedule for which companies will be attending and for room
locations. There may be last minute changes from employers which will always
be posted on the door of the main lecture rooms. Each class is divided into
separate rooms, one or two of which is oriented towards finance and accounting, one towards systems and operations (technical), and one or two with a management/marketing (non-technical)
orientation. You may elect to attend any of these at your regular class time
and receive points to be applied towards your course grade. You may attend extra sessions for points
as long as you attend at your assigned class time for one of the sessions.
You may leave a resume with each presenter; however, classes meet
back-to-back so very little personal question time is available to talk to
the presenters. The SCOOP sessions meet for five class periods. Go
to the program that best meets your career interests. |
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Lab Counseling Session
– Lab 2 |
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General
Project Directions: 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. They could be useful to you later. Be prepared to make an oral
presentation to your counselor on your project. Follow project directions
carefully. See full descriptions of projects in project section. |
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Project:
Project 1 – Resume Review You must attend your
assigned lab session to discuss required Project 1: The Resume. Your resume
will be graded during this lab counseling session. (A regular 20-minute lab
appointment time was assigned to you in Lab 1.) Please bring a printed copy of your resume with you
to this lab. You are welcomed to bring other versions of your resume also.
Most students have a recruitment resume (UCSO is the best example) and a
networking resume (used with references and other career partners). |
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Use textbook
and at least two different websites 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. |
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Project 2: Career
Plan - REQUIRED |
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Always number this as Project 2, not by the number of
projects you have turned in. |
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Overview:
Required Project (see full descriptions of projects in project section) |
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This course is designed to
help you in your current job search and to provide you with skills for career
planning and future job changes. This project gives you an opportunity to
familiarize yourself with what the course has to offer, and to strategize
about how you can use what you learn in this course to your advantage. While
there is no requirement for you to carry out all of the plans you outline in
this project, it will help to guide you through the semester and your career
search. The goal of this project
is to help you define your job search plans by identifying various methods of
job searching and determining which you think you will employ. It will also
help you explore how you will make practical use of what you have learned in
this course to help you reach your career search goals. Completing this
project will get you to look ahead, complete the Project Planning Form,
and lay the foundation for your final project, the Career Portfolio. What projects will you be
completing? You need to focus your efforts on preparation of weekly projects
which, when reviewed at the end of the course, logically flow into your Career
Portfolio. Your Career Portfolio will probably be
reviewed and revised many times after you leave this course as, over time,
you develop and refine your long-term strategic career plans. If you have already made
an employment decision, you can see how the career management part of your
long-term goals can be enhanced by selecting appropriate projects that best
fit your on-the-job or graduate student needs. You are welcome to modify
the project description (if approved in advance) to better fit your unique
career interests. NOTE:
Project 2 must be turned in on Week 2 and will be discussed at your Week 3
lab session. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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The 75-minute Discussion
sessions begin at Over 40 different topics
will be offered in Weeks 2 through 8. Most, but not all, discussion topics
are repeated on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Foreign national students
are strongly encouraged to attend a specially-designed set of discussion
topics every Tuesday at The numbers listed before
the name of each program is the actual number which you need to mark on your
evaluation card for credit. |