career services: explore. experience. achieve. welcome class of 2015
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Career Services: Explore. Experience. Achieve.Career Services: Explore. Experience. Achieve.
www.career.vt.edu
Welcome Class of 2015
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Aspirations for Student Learning and Career Services …Aspirations for Student Learning and Career Services …
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• Commit to unwavering CURIOSITY
• Pursue SELF-UNDERSTANDING and INTEGRITY
• Practice CIVILITY
• Prepare for a life of COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP
• Embrace UT PROSIM as a way of life
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Career Development ModelCareer Development Model
Gaining Experience and Developing Job Search Skills
JobSearch
Career Exploration Explore
Self-UnderstandingCuriosity Experience
CivilityCourageous Leadership
AchieveUt Prosim
One-on-One appointments can be made to assist you in every step of your Career Development Process
SuccessfulEmployment
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Self-Understanding …Self-Understanding …1. Self Assessment
• A realistic appraisal of yourself and the starting point for career planning.
• Online and paper career assessments are available to help you narrow down your major and career options, specific to your personality, skills, interests, and values.
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Curiosity …Curiosity …2. Career Research
• This takes time and dedication, as you gather information about academic options and career fields that compliment your self-assessment results.
• Career Resource Center contains hard copy resources (most available for overnight and weekend checkout) covering all areas of the career development process.
• Career Services Website has multiple links that provide further information on majors and career options.
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Self-Understanding continued …Self-Understanding continued …
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3. Decision Making
• Takes place after you have become familiar with your personality, skills, interests, and values, and once your research is completed.
• Career Services offers a 3 credit course, “Exploring Careers: Making Decisions and Plans”, which teaches students different methods for researching and making decisions on major and/or career options.
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Self-Understanding continued …Self-Understanding continued …
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4. Goal Setting and Action Plans
• Define your career goal(s) and set a realistic action plan with steps and deadlines to meet your goal(s).
• Career Services can assist you in making and setting S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) goals, both short and long term, through one-on-one appointments with one of our advisors.
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What is Experiential Education?What is Experiential Education?
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Integrating Work & Learning
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Career Related Experience …Career Related Experience …
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What does “career related experience”
mean to you?
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Here are some choices you have for gaining experience …Here are some choices you have for gaining experience …
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• Internship (paid/unpaid, academic credit/no credit)• Cooperative Education (Co-op)• Summer Job/Part-time employment• Externship (Job Shadowing)• Volunteer Work (www.engage.vt.edu)• Study/Work Abroad• Research• Student Service Learning• Field Study
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Why Gaining Experience is Important…Why Gaining Experience is Important…
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• 97.5% of employers factor candidate experience in hiring
• 76.6% of employers prefer to hire candidates with relevant work experience
• Of the 90% of Virginia Tech graduates who had career related experience 57% wished they had gained more
• Look ahead and begin exploring opportunities now
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Be Curious …Be Curious …
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• Explore your possibilities• Career Paths
• Organizations
• Various Majors, Minors, and Concentrations
• Ask questions of people within your career interests
• Learn why people enjoy what they do
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Self-Understanding … Self-Understanding …
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Experiential Education allows you to…
•Learn about yourself• Strengths and weaknesses
• Work environment preferences
• Values and what is important to you
•Reflect on your experiences and how they fit into your career aspirations
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What is the Cooperative Education/Internship Program? What is the Cooperative Education/Internship Program?
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• A formal academic program which integrates classroom learning with a full-time work experience
• Participating students maintain full-time enrollment status with Virginia Tech and receive official recognition on their transcript
• Students may begin working the summer following their freshman year
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Here are some interesting companies where Hokies have gotten experience in the past …Here are some interesting companies where Hokies have gotten experience in the past …
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Want to learn more?Want to learn more?
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• Visit us at Career Services
• Talk to a Co-op/Internship Advisor in Career Services
• Attend a Co-op/Internship Orientation session this Fall
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How Do You Achieve Your Future Goals? – START EARLY …How Do You Achieve Your Future Goals? – START EARLY …
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• Perform to the best of your ability in all your classes
• Pursue organizational leadership on campus
• Gain career-related experience
• Have a strong sense of what you want to do OR at least a strong sense of what you don’t!
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Post Graduation Plans and Preparing for Courageous Leadership …Post Graduation Plans and Preparing for Courageous Leadership …
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• Achieving your post-graduation goals can be easy:
• Early and frequent contact with Career Services
• Familiarize yourself with our services and resources to help you reach your goals
• Learn the tools for pursuing employment and/or graduate school
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Employment Tools …Employment Tools …• Hokies4Hire Database
• On-Campus Interviews
• Mock Interviews including InterviewStream
• CareerShift
• Going Global
• Career Fair Information
• Hokie Nation Network
Where the jobs are!
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• United States Air Force
• United States Navy
• United States Army
• Northrop Grumman
• Accenture
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Top Employers of Virginia Tech Graduates: VT = Tied #3Top Employers of Virginia Tech Graduates: VT = Tied #3
Source: Virginia Tech Post-Graduation Report, 2009-10
• IBM
• CGI
• Freddie Mac
• Lockheed Martin
• Tied - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Teach for America
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Embrace UT PROSIM as a Way of Life …Embrace UT PROSIM as a Way of Life …
• Peace Corps
• Teach for America
• AmeriCorps
• Missionary Work
• Campus Crusades for Christ
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Graduate School Prep Tools …Graduate School Prep Tools …
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• Graduate admissions test prep seminars and GRE Test Drives
• Graduate program directories such as Petersons Guides with program profiles
• Personal statement examples and critiques
• Extensive online resources
• Departmental Career Advisors
• Office of Health Professions Advising (OHPA)
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CAREER SERVICESSmith Career Center
Corner of Washington Street & West Campus Drive
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Hokies4Hire
“Where the jobs are!”
First Friday of Classes 10 AM – 3 PM
Things you want to do … Things you want to do …
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