1. Tusculum Experience Class 2019-2020
CAREER WORKSHOP

2. Be Prepared
VIDEO CLIP “Sully”
(Prepare for the unknown – 208 seconds.)
Prepare early and continue to practice skills
Keep asking for help with each developmental stage.
Slide 2: Five minutes for clip and discussion. Finding your first job after college is not “life or death” but it might feel like it is.

3. Getting a job: “It is who you know.”
Know Yourself
Know Industry
Know Employer
Know Job
Know what you want. (Video Clip: “Divergent Choosing Ceremony”)
(It’s okay to change your mind. Your life is not like “Divergent.”
Slide 3: Three minutes: Show clip 1.5 min. and discuss.

4. Who Are You?
What are your career-related hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses? (Exercise)
Print a hope and a fear on one side of an index card. Then, print a strength and a weakness on the other side. (Do not put your name on the card.)
Class discussion. (Online students may discuss answers with online classmates and instructor, if desired.)
Slide 4: Five-ten minute exercise with index cards: Write fears, hopes, strengths, and weaknesses; shuffle cards; re-distribute cards (no names); ask students to share what is on cards. (Normalize) Song, Do you know where you’re going to…

5. Managing Expectations
Realistic expectations are modified multiple times as you progress through the process of learning new career-readiness information and practicing new career-readiness skills.
With each layer of new academic information and career skills development, practice and assessment of practice, provides new information about additional information and skills that are needed.
This process of learning, practice, & assessment; then, learning, practice, & assessment; continues throughout your career.
Mapping out the steps from intern to CEO will be revised multiple times over the course of your career.
Students attending the same school, pursuing the same degree and major, earning the same grade point average can have vastly different career outcomes, due to individual differences and preparation. (Pioneer Certified Professionalism Program)
Slide 5: Two minutes:

6. Dream Job/Goals/Opportunities
Questions for out-of-class exploration:
What is your dream job/career?
How are you preparing for that job/career?
What are your short and long term goals?
Doors of Opportunity
Slide 6: Five minutes: Doors of opportunity open at critical times during your college career. Only those who have prepared will be ready to walk through those doors, when they open. Some of those doors will close before you graduate, never to open again. Each door leads to another door. Don’t miss your golden opportunity!

7. Career Resources
Four-Year-Plan
Every time you meet with your academic advisor assess your progress toward your career goals, class selection in light of internships and graduate school requirements, and review the Four-Year-Plan.
What Can I Do With This Major? (WCIDWTM?)
College Central Network (CCN)
Career Resources available online 24/7 & career advising by appointment.
Most students benefit from meeting with a career advisor. With each stage of career development ask for more help.
Slide 7: Five minutes: At least once a semester consider the Four-Year-Plan with class selection/academic advising and with career advising to assess progress.

8. The Basics Steps of a Job Search
Career Assessment
Networking
Linkedin Profile & College Central Network
Informational Interviews / Mentor
Social Media Review
Prepare: Resume/Cover Letter/Interview-Dress / Interview-Questions/Business Cards / Thank You Notes
For more information on career resources view the TU website at
Slide 8: Three minutes: Handout

9. Networking for a Job Most jobs are obtained through networking – 85%
Elevator Pitch Video
Network - volunteer work
Linkedin account – Professional online networking
Join College Central Network
Slide 9: Five minutes: Show video & Elevator Pitch

10. Pioneer Certified Professionalism Program
Why become Pioneer-Certified?
To Better Know Yourself, Industry, Employer, & Job
To Improve Networking and Job Search Skills (Practice!)
Benefits to Pioneer Certification:
Graduation Honor Cord & Awards Ceremony
Reference: Review the Pioneer Certified Checklist on the TU website
Slide 10: Two minutes

11. Career Preparation: “Swim at Your Own Risk”
Preparing for your career without help is like swimming without a life guard.
You might be okay. ..
You might not…
Keep asking for help. More education and experience facilitate the growth of additional career development skills. The more you learn, the more you can learn. (You must learn the ABCs before you can write a dissertation.)
Slide 11: Two minutes: Example: You have to learn the ABCs before you can write an essay. You have to develop strong skills in multiple areas to write a thesis or dissertation. Career development skills must be learned in layers of information and skills practice.

12. Contact Information
Career Services - Room # 405 Niswonger Commons
Director, Robin Lay
& Phone:
Drop-in/call-in hours available most weekdays (3pm-4pm) for (15 minutes).
Available most weekdays by appointment (9am-5pm).
Evening appointments available by appointment on a limited basis.
For more information view the TU website at
~ Stay motivated the job search is a marathon not a sprint!
Slide 12: One minute