Unit 7: Career Exploration
Learning Objectives
After you have completed this unit you should be able to:
- Identify your motivations for attending college
- Correlate your short-term goals with longer-range ambitions
- Define college ready and career ready
- Describe how your longer-term goals might evolve, relative to your deepening experiences
- Differentiate between “job” and “career”
- Explain the five-step process for choosing a career, which includes aligning your personal interests and skills with appropriate fields
- Identify sources for learning more about specific careers
- List key strategies for selecting a college major
- Identify the relationship between college majors and career paths (both why they matter and why they don’t)
- Identify sources for learning more about specific majors and related careers
- List specific skills that will be necessary for your career path
- List transferable skills that will be valuable for any career path
- Explain how to acquire necessary skills, both in and out of class, for your career goals
- Describe the stages of career development, and identify the stage you’re currently in
- Identify career development resources in your school, community, and beyond
- Define network and identify strategies for networking
- Identify sources for developing professional networks
- Define the purpose and contents of a résumé
- Identify characteristics of an effective cover letter and résumé
- Describe effective strategies to prepare for an interview
- Differentiate between different types of interview situations and identify appropriate interview techniques for each
- Analyze different question types common in interviews
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CC licensed content, Original:
Beiderwell, Bruce , Linda F. Tse, Tom Lochhaas, and Nicholas B. deKanter. “College Success”. Lumen Learning. 2016. Located at: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/collegesuccess-lumen/chapter/the-big-picture/ sources in Career Exploration Unit beginning with The Big Picture chapter and beginning of all Career Exploration Unit chapters). License: CC BY: Attribution.