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Four-Year Career Plan Year One
- Enroll in Core courses and survey classes that help you
determine your interests.
- Conducting a self-assessment is the
first stage of the career-planning process. Learning about your
skills, interests, and personality - and being able to describe
those to others - is essential to setting your career goals and
finding a job. How can you conduct your own "self-assessment"?
Visit the career library for
values games and skills inventories, and use the SIGI+ career
guidance program. SIGI+ is a computer program that leads you
through the self-assessment process, taking in your skills,
values, and interests and suggesting possible career fields that
fit your preferences.
- Make an initial selection of a major field. Wondering what
you can do with your chosen major? Visit the Career Library for
hand-outs or to use the SIGI+ career guidance program.
- Learn the academic system, utilizing the catalogue and
schedule of courses. Talk with your academic advisor about what
classes are needed for your possible major.
- Develop skills for success in college: organizational skills,
study skills, stress management skills. Need help? Visit the
Academic Resource Center in Goodman Hall or the Counseling Center
in Emerson Student Center.
- Learn about resources available on campus.
- Write a resume, have it critiqued by Career Services, and keep
updating it throughout your college career. The resume will be
necessary to obtain an internship and job - writing one as you go
will help you to remember and describe
your accomplishments.
- Start your personal development by participating in campus
activities. The O Book lists campus organizations and the
Office of Student Affairs can give you more information about student
group meetings.
- Plan volunteer and employment experiences for exploration of
careers in your areas of interest.
- Get to know faculty, counselors, and administrators. Make it
your goal to meet and get to know well one professor and/or staff
member each semester. By the end of your 8 semesters at
Oglethorpe, you will have
at least 8 people who can serve as references for you.
- Summer Vacation:
Get a job, earn money, get work experience, learn to get along
with people, develop your work ethic and maturity.
Adapted from The Blue Chip Graduate and Boston
University's career blueprint.
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