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WEEK 9 – At
a Glance |
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Announcements: Oncourse and Career Services (USCO) |
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Reading
Assignments: Chapters 21 and 22 |
Review Projects |
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Lecture
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Projects: |
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Lecture
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Discussion
Sessions have concluded for the semester. |
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LECTURES: Schedule |
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This is the last week of lectures.
The only activity next week (Week 10) will be for Career Counselor
appointments to review your final projects and your grade record. |
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Lecture 17: Balancing
Career and Life Priorities--What Matters? |
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The first on-the-job
experience almost always starts out on a very positive note. The employer
wants to see their judgment about you and the career positively confirmed.
You want to prove that your background is perfect for the job. Both parties
do whatever they can to make the career side of your life work smoothly. What strategies do you
wish to employ to help develop your career potential to the highest possible
level? How can you influence your promotability with your first employer? Is
your long-term goal to work for yourself? How will advanced education
influence your future career direction? How often should you put yourself
back on the job market? Where can you see yourself in 10 years? The faculty and guests
will focus on a forward view of your career potential. Using examples, you
will see what others have achieved. This very popular presentation will
inspire you to greater heights. A positive start and
upward mobility is everyone’s goal, but life’s needs can get in the way of
career progression. What is really important to you when a reasonable balance
between work and career must enter into the equation? What’s important to you
matters! You may have to choose
between a loved one and a career. A tragedy may occur that influences your
career mobility. Stuff happens. Demands on you build up. More activities
create more time demands. A job can become all-consuming in your career
development. Family interests can override the importance of career. Peaks
and valleys are part of everyone’s life. Balance is not just a fine line
between career and life needs. There are ups and downs on
both sides. Factors beyond the control of you or the employer can take
control. Can you plan for these events? The economy takes a toll on people
and employers. Unforeseen circumstances drive personal and career decisions. This presentation
addresses the balance issue. What is important? How can I recognize issues?
How do I respond to pressing priorities? |
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Lecture
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Career/Life
Balance Ø
Job
Satisfaction/Passion Ø
Health Issues Ø
Stress and
Pressure Ø
Entrepreneurship Ø
Discrimination |
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Significant
Others Ø
Economic
Adjustments Ø
Mergers and
Acquisitions Ø
Children Time
Demands Ø
Family
Concerns Ø
International
Options |
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Lecture 18 – Using
Technology in Career Strategies |
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Not all students will gain
employment through the UCSO. Many students will be interested in working in a
particular geographic location. Others will be seeking non-traditional jobs.
And many students who would like to have a job from UCSO interviewing will
not have one through no fault of their own but due to reduced opportunities
or other factors. All these situations and others will find it beneficial to
extend their job search to the World Wide Web. Our guest speaker will share
tips and strategies to make the best use of web technologies and online
career services. Our guest, who will be from one of the major job search
websites, will introduce us to the newest career-seeking technologies. The job search websites
pervade the Internet. A new boutique website opens almost daily. The
so-called “Big Boards” like CareerBuilder, Monster, HotJobs, and Americas Job
Bank do much more than list jobs. Not only can you upload multiple special
interest resumes, but you can form “agents” that only send you very targeted
job information via email. These websites go beyond
job search, resumes, and cover letters. They now use intelligent software
that searches for your biographical data, provides online interviews, tests
candidates, and assists in career planning activities. There are undoubtedly
more tools on the horizon to help bring job candidates and employers together
in a much more efficient manner. Efficiency is not the only
reason for the big and boutique web-based job boards. They can also provide
research on employers, career fields, job market outlooks, salary
comparisons, and other criteria to help you in your career choices. Perhaps
the future holds candidate testing and job criteria matching to build a
better match between jobs and applicants. Each year a website is
featured to show you what you can use to enhance your long-term career
management strategies. These web tools should greatly help before, during,
and after your career planning job search activities. |
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Lecture
18 Topics: |
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Internet Search
Tools Ø
Employer
Research Ø
Career Option
Exploration Ø
Job Leads Ø
Resume
Distribution Ø
Career
Comparison |
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Job
Description Reviews Ø
Salary Data Ø
Job Choice
Analysis Ø
Contact
Identification Ø
Economic Job
Outlook Ø
Continuing
Education |
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Lab Counseling Session
– Lab 9 |
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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 18: Career
Management |
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Always number this as Project 18, 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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Finding and securing a job
is a crucial step, but it is only the beginning. Your career will continue
throughout your lifetime and you must give a great deal of thought to your
success in this new career. This project will provide you with insight into
issues you will encounter both as a new hire and throughout your career. This project is particularly recommended
for students close to accepting a current job, for those already holding
job offers, or for those already working. The goal is to be looking ahead to
the next promotion or job change.
This project could also be used for students planning graduate study as a
tool for a job search following that graduate study. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project instructions
are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Project 19: Graduate
Study Research |
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Always number this as Project 19, 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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For many students the
option of graduate school is a foregone conclusion; but, which school is the
right one for them to attend? What coursework should they pursue? This
project will provide an opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with
graduate school options by examining admissions requirements, admissions
procedures, courses of study, and placement statistics. It is recommended that you
do Projects 19 and 20 as a set. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Project 20: Graduate
Study Application |
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Always number this as Project 20, 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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This project will provide
an opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with graduate school
admissions requirements and admissions procedures. It is recommended that you
do Projects 19 and 20 as a set. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Project 21: Which
Employer? Which Job Option? |
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Always number this as Project 21, 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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Most job seekers, like you, eventually receive
multiple job offers. You have options and, thus, decisions to make based upon
a well thought out analysis. Which opportunity is right for you? What factors should you
evaluate? How important is each factor to you? What interests you about each
opportunity? Even a short-term job decision, like an internship, can
influence your future career success. Success must be defined by you, not
others. Whether you are choosing
between an internship or a full-time job several years hence, the analysis is
very important. You could be making a lifestyle decision. Money, location,
training, type of work, security, future family concerns, advancement,
friends, etc. can be influenced by your decision. This project is designed
to teach you how to conduct a logical analysis, not just evaluate the
decision at hand. Therefore, even if you have already accepted employment,
chosen a graduate school, decided on a future option, there is great value in
you doing this project, Which Employer? To do this project you
need to first describe your situation. What is the decision to be made? How
many employers are you comparing? Even if you are sure of your choice, it is
important for you to go back to a comparison point in order to maximize your
learning experience. If you are not comparing
to another offer, you should compare the option to your own standards to see
if you should continue your search. You may have more than two
choices but for the purposes of this project, use only two. Phase I is an
analysis of two different employment options. Phase II is a comparison
between these two options. Phase III is your decision and the last phase,
Phase IV, is a written statement of your reasoning. If you are in the pre-employment
phase and still trying to decide on a career option that best fits your
needs, you can modify this project by substituting “the Employer” (Figure 19.1) with “the Job Description” (Figure 19.2). The analysis
between career fields and specific employers is similar. You have your choice
depending on which analysis might best fit your current needs. |
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Project Instructions: Actual project
instructions are located in the Projects Section of the syllabus. |
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Discussion Sessions |
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DISCUSSION
SESSIONS have concluded for this semester. |