Chapter 12: Creating Your Future

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Creating Your Future



What are What are youyou most interested most interested in learning about?in learning about?

What are What are youyou most interested most interested in learning about?in learning about?

• How to launch a career

How to launch a career• How to write a résumé

How to write a résumé • How to interview successfully

How to interview successfully• What to consider if you’re thinking

What to consider if you’re thinking of continuing your education

of continuing your education• How to put what you learned in

How to put what you learned in college to good usecollege to good use• How to think about the future

How to think about the future


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What’s the Next Step? What’s the Next Step? What’s the Next Step? What’s the Next Step?



Launching Launching a Careera Career

Launching Launching a Careera Career

Exercise 12.1:Exercise 12.1:Career AuctionCareer Auction

Who are you?

What do you want?

Which career is right?



Try On a Career for Size Try On a Career for Size Try On a Career for Size Try On a Career for Size

p. 328

Exercise 12.2:Exercise 12.2:Group RésuméGroup Résumé


Build a Portfolio of Your Best Work Build a Portfolio of Your Best Work Build a Portfolio of Your Best Work Build a Portfolio of Your Best Work

PAPER 1

ENGLISH COMPOSITION



Network, Network, Network!Network, Network, Network!Network, Network, Network!Network, Network, Network!



Write the Right RésuméWrite the Right RésuméWrite the Right RésuméWrite the Right Résumé

• Use this approach if your experience isn’t especially relevant or you don’t have much.• Highlight skills that could transfer to the new job.

Skills Approach:Skills Approach:

Chronological Approach:Chronological Approach:• Use this approach if your job history is relevant.• Detail your experience job by job.

Sample RésuméSample Résumé


Cover Letter CritiqueCover Letter CritiqueCover Letter CritiqueCover Letter Critique

Exercise 12.3, p. 333


Interview at Your Best Interview at Your Best Interview at Your Best Interview at Your Best

1. Play up the positive, and downplay the negative.

2. Stay focused.

3. Don’t just give answers, get some.

4. Watch for questions that seem to come out of left field.

5. Don’t start off with salary questions.

6. Negotiate wisely.

7. Know what you’re dealing with.

1. Play up the positive, and downplay the negative.

2. Stay focused.

3. Don’t just give answers, get some.

4. Watch for questions that seem to come out of left field.

5. Don’t start off with salary questions.

6. Negotiate wisely.

7. Know what you’re dealing with.


An Educational Career Path

Associates Associates Degree in Degree in

Social Social ServicesServices

Bachelors Bachelors Degree in Degree in SociologySociology

Masters of Masters of Social Work Social Work

(MSW)(MSW)

Ph.D. in Ph.D. in SociologySociology

Average Time To Complete:

2 years 4-5 years

2 years beyond a bachelor’s

Degree

3-4 years beyond a masters

Degree

Average #

of required courses:

Approximately 20Approximately

40

10 courses and 900 hours of supervised experience

10 plus dissertation

Type of Work:

Social Service Assistant or Aide.

Help people in need.

Social Worker. Work in Schools,

Hospitals, Etc.

Social Worker, clinical work.

Supervise other social

workers.

Professor, High- level

administrator, researcher.

Future Demand:

Much higher than average. 34%

growth in next 10 yrs

FavorableFavorable, much faster

than average

Generally good for faculty positions

Average Salary:

$28,200 $42,480$48,140

and higher$62,050


Sharpen Your FocusSharpen Your FocusSharpen Your FocusSharpen Your Focus

Why do college students lose Focus?

Reason 12: They lack time management skills.

Your time management skills are something a prospective employer will be interested in. It seems that most jobs today require a significant – sometimes frantic – investment of your time and energy. When requests are coming at you from all sides on the job how will you fare? Can you sharpen your focus and prioritize?

At the beginning of your day determinethree things that must get done nomatter what. Check back at the end ofthe day to see how successful you were.



1. Exhibit a work ethic.

2. Study up.

3. Prove you’re a problem solver.

4. Speak and write well.

5. Polish your people skills.

6. Learn the rules of the game.

7. Know how to gather information and use it.

8. Understand that numbers count.

9. Go for extra credit.

10. Manage your time, your attention, and yourself.

1. Exhibit a work ethic.

2. Study up.

3. Prove you’re a problem solver.

4. Speak and write well.

5. Polish your people skills.

6. Learn the rules of the game.

7. Know how to gather information and use it.

8. Understand that numbers count.

9. Go for extra credit.

10. Manage your time, your attention, and yourself.

10 Things Employers Hope 10 Things Employers Hope You Learn in College You Learn in College

10 Things Employers Hope 10 Things Employers Hope You Learn in College You Learn in College


What Ifs What Ifs What Ifs What Ifs

What If College Isn’t Right for You?What If College Isn’t Right for You?

What If You Can’t Finish a Degree Now?What If You Can’t Finish a Degree Now?

• Don’t feel like a failure if that happens.• Take time off, regroup, and come back

when you can.

• Consider the real reasons behind why you think so.

• College may not be the right place for you at this point in your life.

“ ”Every adversity, every failure, every heartachecarries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” Napoleon Hill, author, Keys to Success

Exercise 12.4:Exercise 12.4:Circling a CareerCircling a Career


Michael Johnson Quote

“People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.”

Michael Johnson, American sprinter


Career Outlook: Career Outlook: Keep Your BalanceKeep Your BalanceCareer Outlook: Career Outlook:

Keep Your BalanceKeep Your Balance

Why are you working so hard?

You’re a winner. You’re working hard as a highly motivated, ultra-competent employee. Your new position requires you to work harder and harder, and before you know it, you’re promoted again. This cycle keeps repeating itself, and over time, you have success written all over you.

But the underlying question is: why are you working so hard? What if you actually dislike your work?

What does balance mean to you as a college student? What will it mean in your future career?


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Career AuctionCareer Auction

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Group RésuméGroup Résumé

Circling the Right CareerCircling the Right Career

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Sample Resume

Skills Skills ApproachApproach

ChronologicalChronologicalApproachApproach

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Work experience is buried atthe bottom.

Transferable skills are highlighted.

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Chronological Approach Resume

Relevant work experience is highlighted up front.

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Right CareerRight Career



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