1. Career Management

2. Use this Master Student Map to ask yourself,
WHY?
You can gain strategies to succeed as a job hunter, worker, career planner, and lifelong learner
WHAT?
Power Process: Be it
The master employee
Tap the hidden job market
Build an irresistible résumé
Use job interviews to “hire” an employer
Succeeding as a new employee
Learning on the job
Creating value from any job
Discover yourself: Explore career assessments
Create your career plan
HOW?
Learn effective strategies for job hunting
Use work as a path to lifelong learning
Create a long-term vision for your career
WHAT IF?
...you could work in way s that align with your core values, connect with your passions, and contribute to others?
Master Student Maps that introduce each chapter guide students through the chapter with an overview while reinforcing the four key questions of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory – Why? What? How? and What If? You may wish to highlight key articles as you walk students through this slide, or ask if there are any questions about any of the articles.

3. Be it 3 Basic Choices in Life
What we have
What we do
Who we are
Visualize where you want to be in your life.
Then, be it.
This power process will help your students enhance all of the techniques they have learned in this course, by changing the way they seem themselves. As the course comes to an end, it’s a good time for more self-reflection.
Think about these three choices: What we HAVE, what we DO, and who we ARE. The challenge is choosing your own balance between having, doing, and being. Do you know anyone who is very materialistic? Their focus is all about what they have. How about someone who exclusively identifies herself by what she does… by what she accomplishes? And finally, do you know anyone whose primary focus is who they are… their being? If you assigned a total of 100 points to these 3 qualities, how many points would you give yourself in each of these three areas?
If you want to be a friend, visualize yourself as a friend. Be a friend. If you want to be more trustworthy, visualize you as a trustworthy individual. Be trustworthy. If you want to be a nurse, visualize yourself as a nurse. Be it.

4. The master employee
Excellence in higher education promotes success on the job. Ask students to generate skills they learn in college that will be valued in the workplace (being on time, focusing during lecture, leadership, communication, thinking creatively & critically, collaboration, living with vibrant health, etc). They are now on the path of becoming a master employee. Use this chapter to explore the question: “what’s next?”

5. Tap the hidden job market
Think like an employer
Discover your network
Contact people in your network
Go beyond your network
Be specific about the job you want-and why you can do it
Offer a limited amount of work for free
Cope with emotional ups and downs
Employers prefer to hire someone that they know or who has been recommended. To succeed at job hunting, students need to use a variety of methods. The traditional method relies on sending out resumes and waiting for responses. This list represents a more active approach to help students stand out and find the jobs that may never get advertised.

6. BUILD AN IRRESISTIBLE résumé
Build from a skills perspective
Build skills for your ideal resume
Remember the reason for it
Use resume checklist
list your contact info
state your objective
focus on what you can do for the employer
highlight your experience
highlight your education
include references
write so facts leap off the page
cut the fluff
get feedback
take charge of your online resume
This detailed article guides a student to make a better resume. Ask students to talk about their resume experience to date. What has worked and what hasn’t. If they have a current resume, compare it against these resume suggestions. If they don’t have a resume, use it to create one.

7. BUILD AN IRRESISTIBLE résumé
Include a portfolio
A resume is a work in progress

8. Fine tune your cover letter
Gain attention
Build interest
Take care of business
And don’t forget…
Address the letter to a specific person
Use simple typeface
Tailor letter for each job
Thank the reader
Employers are looking for what you have to offer. Use this three-part structure to get this across.

9. Use job interviews to “hire” an employer
Put interviews in context
Start building your network-now
Before you go to the interview
Learn about the organization
Prepare for common questions
During the interview
Arrive early
Observe the workplace
Smile, make eye contact, give a firm handshake
Keep to the point
Be prepared to ask questions
After the interview
Follow-up with a thank you contact
Use feedback to prepare for you next interview
Add to your network
While the employer is evaluating your value to his/her organization, you have a chance to size up potential employers. Successful interviews require preparation and follow-up.
Contact your career center for a list of potential questions asked by employers and have students role play being the employer and the applicant. Offer feedback based on the suggestions on this list to help students improve their interview skills.

10. Succeeding as a new employee
Prepare for culture clash
Focus on attitudes first
Use a knowledge of learning styles to decode the culture
Master office politics
The first year at a new job poses a major transition. Ask students to identify strategies from the introduction of this book that can help them navigate this new world of work. The information in this article will help students develop office behaviors that are worthy of a master employee.

11. Learning on the job Let go of old ideas about learning
Seize informal opportunities to learn
Learn as an intern
Work with a mentor
Coach yourself
Learning and the workplace are inseparable. Learning how to learn is a key skill if you want to prosper in your career. Use these ideas to become a lifelong learner.

12. Creating value from any job
Manage your expectations
Practice problem solving
Focus on process
There is something to be learned and gained from any job. These strategies will help you appreciate and enjoy any job. Ask a couple students to share jobs they hated and have the class brainstorm how they could use these strategies to turn things around and to identify what skills they could acquire in the process.

13. Discover Yourself: Explore career assessments
Add the human touch
Assessments are not tests
Ask about cost
Assessments differ in quality
Take several and compare
Keep the results on file
Combine assessments with other forms of self-discovery
What you do with the results is a personal choice
Look for assessments online
Have fun
A career assessment is not magic ball. It will not give you the one perfect career match. It is a tool that will give you information that you can consider in combination with other information to make decisions. To get the most out of assessments, keep these ideas in mind.

14. Create your career now YOUR CAREER IS A CHOICE, NOT A DISCOVERY
YOU HAVE A WORLD OF CHOICES
PLAN BY NAMING NAMES
DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAL LIFESTYLE
CONSIDER SELF-EMPLOYMENT
TESTING YOUR CHOICE – AND BE WILLING TO CHANGE
Create your career using these steps. Consider assigning students the task of responding to each of these 8 strategies as they relate to their chosen career, or a career they may make up as a result of this process.