Chapter 12: Choosing a College Major and Career DO NOW: List your career options from e-Journal 2 (#2c) and name 3 potential majors that can lead to each of them.

35 What is a career?? Share and Rate Sum of 7: 1 and 6 2 and 5 3 and 4

Which idea comes first: the career or the major?

How to Launch a Career Brand Yourself Interview at Your Best Identify your brand. Create a personal branding statement. Manage your brand. Design business cards. Leverage social media. Interview at Your Best Play up the positive, downplay the negative. Stay focused. Don’t just give answers, get some. Watch for questions that seem to come out of left field. Don’t start off with salary questions. Negotiate wisely. Realize you may be asked to demonstrate your skills. Know what you’re dealing with.

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Build Your Professionalism Skills Ten Things Employers Hope You Will Learn in College Exhibit a strong work ethic. Study up. Prove you’re a problem solver. Speak and write well. Polish your people skills. Learn the rules of the game. Know how to gather information and use it. Understand that numbers count. Go for extra credit. Manage your time, your attention, and yourself.

“It takes courage to up and become who you really are.” “To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” “We can never see past the choices we don’t understand.” “That would never work in the real world… the real world isn’t a place, it’s a justification for not trying.” “Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?” “The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.” “Follow your bliss and be what you want to be. Don’t climb the ladder of success only to find it’s leaning against the wrong wall.” “I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” “The self is not something that one finds. It’s something one creates.”

FOCUS Career Inventory due Sept 24th