1. Watson Career and Alumni Connections Engineering Building C-Pod
You!
Watson Career and Alumni Connections Engineering Building C-Pod
CS 101, LH-14
Watson Career Connections
Achieve!
Thank you for your full attention. We have just one class, but what we have to say will crucial to your potential in life!
You as students are the driving force to who you will be and what outcome you will have after you graduate. But you don’t have to do it alone!
Our office partners with the Fleishman Center (Career Services) to provide supplemental service, utilizing instructional efforts to enable student and alumni towards self-empowerment.
What that means is, the effort you put will drive us to help you achieve!
Brief Question:
Beyond Academics, what is the most important thing to prepare before applying for jobs?
-Resume?
-Degree?
-ACTUALLY, it is your skills and abilities!
Though a resume, cover letter, and degree are VITAL; without knowing what specific content or experiences to highlight they may not be as effective
Fleishman Center

2. Minding the Gap Employers Personal Academics Dream Job
Personal
Career Preparation
This graph illustrates the magnitude of career preparation and the effort needed to accomplish gaining those skills and abilities.
[Click] This red bubble illustrates your innate skills and abilities from birth, and the placement on the graph will vary by individual. As more effort is placed, the red bubble will rise. As you become more career ready, the red bubble will move further to the right. But the inverse is also possible.
[Click] This green bubble illustrates education. Some early education may take less effort, but as you will see college will take more than high school and so on. Some education will occur towards your career preparation, but some times you find that you need to change your major to better fit your skills and abilities.
[Click] This blue bubble illustrates employers. Little jobs take less combined education, career preparation, and effort. Some employers may require more education (on the job or academic).
[Click] This star illustrates your dream job. It will take X amount of career preparation (skills and abililties) and Y amount of effort. The key to move your red bubble to that star will be what those skills and abilities are that you gain from academics and what skills and abilities you are lacking. Thus finding the gap and trying to close it
Effort Needed

3. Moving the Bubble | Personal
Assessing your skills and abilities
Searching for what skills you need
Assessing your skills may seem simple, but as you can see with our self-assessment there are many levels to prepare and explore.
Once exploring, some of these tools such as O-Net can help you find career options and skill. There are also other ways to explore potential career paths. FOR EXAMPLE we arranged for Tim Kelly from Macedon Technologies will be talking with you in a few weeks during class.
Cross-referencing this with what skills you need for a job may help aid you in choosing your path. This will aid you in knowing what you possess as well as areas you need to improve.

4. Moving the Bubble | Employers
Understand the full picture of Employment
Develop a targeted approach to find your dream job
Depending on your personal preference, there are different elements (salary, location, application)
During some workshops we explore these websites. [Point out aspects of the website while clicking through]
As you can see, these sites ultimately aid in your preferences in hireBING. HireBING is vital in what Binghamton University (Watson and Fleishman) has to offer. Each student already has a profile, but it is up to you to make sure it is complete. On the BU website, search “hireBING” and log in using your BU and password. Click on the profile make sure you complete it 100%

5. Let’s Play a Game
How long does an employer spend reviewing a resume before the think “fit or no fit”?
The percent of applicant that get interviews?
How long an average interview is?
Percent of jobs never advertised?
So now that we have framed the necessity to assess skills and abilities relative to academics and careers, lets play a game.
How long does an employer spend reviewing a resume before the think “fit or no fit”?
6 seconds
The percent of applicant that get interviews?
20%
How long an average interview is?
35 minutes
Percent of jobs never advertised?
80%

6. What Do We Do? One on One Consulting Professional Skill Building
Create Industry/Alumni Opportunities
Technical Experience Development
Sounds like a pretty tough challenge right? The great thing is you don’t have to do it alone!
How you can use our office
Resume templates that are industry recommended to make that 6 seconds count
One on one consultation meetings for resume reviews and career advice to improve the interview process (achieving and attending)
Host networking events and career preparation programs to help you with that 80% of jobs never advertised.
And sharing with you ways to connect with alumni and industry through site visits, info-sessions, and other opportunities like HACK-BU and ACMs that will enrich your experiences.

7. 97% of those seeking Continuing Ed Achieved
Why does this matter?
Employment
Think often and early
Continuing Education
Research opportunities
97% of those seeking Continuing Ed Achieved
So we just shared what we do, so why does this even matter to you? Well…
As a student you want a return on your investment of time and money, so here are the two outcomes that we help you achieve [Click for Company Logos]
Here you can see many companies that either our alumni currently work for and/or actively recruit Watson students! If you want this for your future you must think about your career often and early!
Maybe continuing education through Grad school or a post-baccalaureate path is more of your goal. Well you are in luck [Click for School Logos]
Ultimately we want to help you in achieving your goals!

8. How can we help Assist You?
Watson 105
Career Horizons
Watson Career Connections | Bingo
Utilize Fleishman and Watson Career and Alumni Connections (Events and Services)
Workshops
Info-Sessions
And here are just a few!
Watson 105 is a non-credit course that reviews and helps develop essential skills and abilities for Watson students. This course is funded through you all, and should be taken advantage of. Over 5 classes you explore what you need to launch your career, and how to achieve it.
Career Horizons is a road map through your time in undergrad. It is built from the textbook used in Watson 105.
The Watson Career Connections Bingo sheet provides hyperlinks to tools you can use in real time and build your personal skills and abilities.
Both Fleishman and Watson Career Connections offer workshops, info sessions, and services to allow you to practice these skills. For example
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9. Justin Hoch, 2016 
Justin Hoch, 2016 
Justin Hoch, 2016 
Justin Hoch, 2016 
Ultimately, we make it available for your personal “Bubble” to climb the graph, but it is your drive to attend and move it that changes the gap.

10. Think, Pair, Share | Activity
Using the Presentation, Career Horizons, and Bingo Sheet:
Individually answer the following questions:
What areas do you think could benefit you the most?
Why would it benefit you?
Which 3 will you take advantage of this semester?
Repeat with a partner
Group Share
[Hand out forms]

11. Closing the Gap Academics Employers Dream Job Career Preparation
Effort Needed
Dream Job
Watson and Fleishman Assistance
We encourage you to have the drive to develop your skills and abilities to reach your dream job. Remember you don’t have to do it alone. We out assistance [CLICK], you can [CLICK] reach your goals!

12. What to do now? Register for Wtsn 105
Explore Watson Career Connection Website
Sync your calendar with ours for workshops and Employer info-sessions
Review and use resume template
Utilize all aspects of our page
Look for an s from
Plan to visit the Fleishman Center and Watson Career and Alumni Connections to…
Review your resume and cover-letters
Verify hireBING account is complete and up to date