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WEEK 7 – At
a Glance |
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Announcements: Oncourse and Career Services (USCO) |
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Reading
Assignments: Chapters 14, 15, 16, and
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Review Projects |
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Lecture
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Projects: P13: Network Informational Interview |
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Lecture
14: Creative
Search Strategies: Networking and Search Firm Use and Introduction
to Professional Employment Services |
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Lectures: Schedule |
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Corporate guest lecturers continue
this week. You will continue to meet at your regular class times and the
professors will introduce a guest lecturer. The topic and guest lecturer’s
name and contact information will be given in the Announcements on Oncourse.
If there are any changes, you will find them in the Lecture Schedule. This week focuses on
interviewing and selection. Listed below are some PowerPoint lectures you
will find useful. The guest speaker’s PowerPoint presentation will be
uploaded immediately before their lecture. Please review these and the
textbook chapters on interviewing before completing related projects and
before coming to class. Ø
Preparing a Winning Interview Strategy Ø
Presenting Your Interview Case Ø
Addressing Common Interview Issues Due to possible
last-minute speaker changes in availability, we cannot be assured that guest
lecturers will always follow the specific topics assigned or scheduled. |
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Lecture 13: The
Secondary Interview |
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The secondary interview
initiates a series of further interviews with a number of different people
employed in the department that has the actual job opening. It is these
people who will evaluate your abilities, competence, and personality. This
set of all-day interviews is usually conducted at the employer’s
facilities |
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Lecture
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Selection
Methods: Data Used? Ø
Use of Tests:
Selection Tool Ø
Expenses: Who
Pays? |
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Role of
Multiple Interviewers: Consensus Ø
Assessment
Centers: Testing Ø
Types of
Interviews: Behavioral? |
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Lecture 14 – Creative
Search Strategies and Search Firms |
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The number one source of
job placement remains the personal network. Network management is establishing
a plan to get interviews. What others say about you directly impacts both
upon obtaining the interview and succeeding in the interview. By touting your
motivational qualities, others open doors for you which permits you to
leverage yourself by building flourishing relationships that may lead to
life-long mentors. Through networking and informational interviewing, you
build a long-lasting personal sales force which is your entry into the hidden
job market. |
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Lecture
14 Topics: |
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A Planning Model:
Networking Ø
Mobility
Strategies: Getting Ahead Ø
Change Agents:
People Resources |
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Out-placement:
Fired? Ø
Job Shock: New
Options Ø
Protection
Tactics: Who You Know |
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Lab Counseling Session
– Lab 7 |
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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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You
must attend your assigned lab for review of your projects. |
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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. |
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Project 13: Network
Informational Interviewing |
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Always number this as Project 13, not by the number
of projects you have turned in. |
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Overview:
(See full descriptions of projects in project section) |
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Networking is one of the
most important activities that you will do in your lifelong career endeavors.
It has two main facets: interviewing for information (getting known) and
creating a networking database that grows continuously. One of your
networking projects will focus on the interview and the other on your
database creation. Just like cover letters, resumes, interviewing skills, and
career focus, networking skills improve as you implement actions recommended
in your textbook. Who are your potential network
partners? Whether you are as happy as possible in your chosen career field
and with your current employer or if you have just been terminated, you never
want to stop your networking activities. Even in retirement, it is networking
that keeps you growing in your life’s working activities. This project complements
the Network Partner Database Creation project
in Week 8. You might find that completing both of these projects will best
fit your needs, depending on your career track direction. Who are the
influential people that you will interview for information? These projects work
especially well for students who will eventually need graduate study
references, are considering an entrepreneurial track, or see themselves on a
fast track up into a given career field. This is an excellent
project even if you have already
accepted employment. Creating a database of contacts will always enhance
your future plans regardless of your career directions. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Project 14: Independent
Job Search Strategy |
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Always number this as Project 14, not by the number
of projects you have turned in. |
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Overview:
(See full descriptions of projects in project section) |
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Chapters 14 and 15 in the
textbook focus on the job search process. Students who are seeking employment
soon after college in a given locale or in a specialized job function often
use the independent job search. They typically would not be seeking
employment with the medium- to large-sized firms that typically recruit on
campus. Job location is often the driving decision. The majority of job growth
in the world comes from firms that employ 20 or fewer employees. The
specialized employment opportunities are located in smaller boutique-sized
firms or specialized departments within larger firms. Rarely do budding
entrepreneurs seek career options from the type of firms that recruit on
campus. Chapters 14 and 15 discuss
the common methods that are used by candidates who desire to interview for
non-traditional jobs, smaller firms, specialized jobs, not-for-profit
organizations, and start-up options. If you find yourself with needs that fit
these employment options, you need to use this independent job search
approach. The first step in the
search process is to clarify the type of employment options you are seeking.
This usually means that you have created some type of job description using
an outline like Figure 9.1 in your textbook. You
have summarized this into a few job titles and brief job summaries similar to
the career objectives shown in Figures 11.3 and 11.4. With your qualities in mind,
this project asks you to create a job search plan and implement several
components of it. You probably already have a cover letter and resume as part
of your tool set. You will now be asked to identify the jobs and create a
plan that fits your unique talents, timetable, and future plans. If you are going to graduate school, you can use this
process to review the process that you will use to seek employment (or an
internship) after you complete your advanced degree. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Project 15: Mock
Interview |
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Always number this as Project 15, not by the number
of projects you have turned in. |
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Overview:
(See full descriptions of projects in project section) |
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Chapters 17, 18, and 19
discuss many aspects of interviewing. Interviews are conducted for employment,
graduate school admission, bank loans for entrepreneurs, promotions,
recognitions, and even for volunteer positions. Employers, and others, are
taught how to interview using many different methods. Over many years,
extensive improvements have been incorporated into interviewing with the goal
of making the interview process more valid and reliable. A great deal is at stake
for both the interviewer and the
interviewee. The process is constantly making continuous and substantial
change to ensure better employment, acceptance, and promotional decisions.
Seldom is this a casual “let’s talk” situation. The research presented in
your textbook reports on the results of this progress so you can learn how to
better perform in these more sophisticated approaches to selection. The
interview is no longer a gut feeling
situation, especially in the hiring process where high salaries are involved. One of the best ways to
learn any topic well, after you have been properly trained, is to practice
what you have just learned. This role playing will give you valuable insight
that should be helpful in your future interviewing preparation. You are asked to set up a hypothetical situation that involves
your interviewing for consideration. The situation may be a real job, an internship
opening, a call-back interview, graduate school admission or for promotion.
You can even make this interview a meeting with a commercial banker where you
are requesting a loan for your business. The situation is up to you to select
but the situation must be well described. Your Career Counselor will be the mock interviewer. Your counselor will critically evaluate you on an
evaluation form that you give to them at the beginning of the mock interview.
As you will see from the instructions, this must be as real as you can make a mock interview. You should prepare behavioral-based questions based upon
your specific courses, work experiences, and activities listed on your resume
that are oriented to the job you want. Your Career Counselor will
ask you most of these questions which you should be prepared to answer with
succinct past behavioral-based answers. You should be prepared to answer any
probing follow-up questions. The Mock Interview project
may be one of the most important exercises that you do in this class, so everyone is encouraged to complete it.
Every interviewer, regardless of the situation, has multiple candidates and a
limited time in which to make decisions. Why pick you? Upon completing this
project, you will have observed and experienced a major part of the interview
selection process. Just the activity in preparing for this will be a major
career educational experience. The goal of this project is to put you over
the top in all of your future interview situations. Even in the call-back
interviews, this behavioral-based interviewing is used. Get prepared with a
mock interview. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Review this week’s
schedule by clicking above. These topics, lead by a Discussion Leader, are designed
to provide you with skills that are very helpful in your career activities.
Choose topics that best enhance your career needs. Some are focused on the
early stages of career planning while others focus on on-the-job advancement
strategies. Discussion Sessions begin
at Please review your grade point totals. Next week is
the last time you can earn Discussion Session credit so plan carefully. It is
wise to give yourself some grade cushion and not risk failing a project in
the last week and not getting the grade that you had planned. Discussion
Session attendance is one way to help build some grade insurance. |