Welcome to exploring your career brought to you by the University of Delaware Career Center. Today, we will review what the career center does and how it can help you reach your career goals during and after UD. You will learn about our new career center Canvas site, the Career Management Certificate, LinkedIn learning, as well as how to begin your own action plan for your career aspirations. You will also learn about resources like handshake, a platform which will contain your profile, allow you to search for job postings, on-campus jobs, internships, and full-time jobs. Seek out events such as employer information sessions, meetups, and career fairs, access various resources and if needed, make an appointment for career guidance. On campus. The career center is located at 401 academy street next to the Perkins Students Center and attached to the Perkins garage. We offer services to help you explore career options, as well as connect with employers, alumni, and experiential opportunities. So you're ready to embark on your next chapter after graduation. The Career Center also offers hybrid programming. This means that some events will be meeting in person, while others will be virtual. Beginning in the fall of 2022, all full-time undergraduate will have access to our new career center Canvas site. There you will find self-guided modules, which would be your first stop when going through the process of self major and career design. The modules cover career exploration, preparation, and professional development topics. Resume building, job searching, networking, and interviewing skills are also included. Regardless of your major, career exploration as a process exists at all levels of your career development. When you think of your own career journey, consider this. Where are you now? Do you know what future companies, internships, or full-time jobs are most appealing to you. It's important to pinpoint where you are in your current career development. So you can begin to design an appropriate action plan to address your current needs and move forward. We have the Career Center recommend three steps to building the foundations of self major and career design. First, assess your interests and your personality characteristics. This way you can learn about the environment, values and skill sets that are of interest to you. This leads to the second step, reviewing the major's career options and industries with which your personality aspects would mesh. Then, as you review and revise your options, you will be able to complete the third step, developing goals and a plan of action for reaching them within the Career Center Canvas site. Module two would be your best tool to begin this process. As mentioned in the previous slide, knowing self and self-assessment is the key to making the right decisions in your career development. It's so important to know who you are, your interest, your strengths, values, attributes, et cetera. Career assessments can help answer questions like, what types of job-related tasks would I enjoy doing? What values are important to me? And how does that impact my career options? Where do my natural strengths lie, and how can I apply that to my work? Are there aspects of my personality that lend themselves well to particular types of careers over others. One assessment in particular that the Career Center staff recommend starting with is pathway you not only does it evaluate your values, interests, personality, workplace preferences, it also contains a mapping feature that connects to all 150 plus majors at UD, as well as provide options for potential career paths based on your results in a variety of industry areas. Where information very helpful AT while you're signing on. You will be asked to complete a survey on a variety of questions, provide the platform insights to meet you on, will then be equal to rules are for giving information about your career interests, areas, personality factors, personal values that can affect your career satisfaction and workplace. Once you upload your results, you can then view a personality of career matches based on yours. There's a vast amount of careers accounted for him, platform raging through many different industry areas. Within international. Paper File. Explorer information about position, possibility, average starting salary, and related majors available to prepare you for the career. This feature, especially anyone having a hard time finding a good fit within your current jumpstart, your career exploration today with property law onto the site when you're logging information to complete the assessment and your results, be sure to take time to reflect on both the result on the three magic. It's just read it. You didn't favorite for files that sound interesting to you for easy access at a later time. Remember, this is only a tool to help you insert it and researching careers. It is not diagnostic. For further exploration support. You can always make an appointment with a career counselor. Exploring your career options means gaining the information and insights you need to make informed decisions on taking next steps. In a study focusing on college graduates and careers. Those that reported finding fulfilling positions after graduation attributed their success to doing the following. Participating in some sort of class program or activity that supported their career development, researching their industry in terms of norms and possible career paths. Having an applied experience related to their career of interests in finding and developing a relationship with a mentor. These are all ways you can start to go about the career exploration journey. Let's take a look at each of these items more closely. Examples of career programs you may consider are joining a registered student organization for your field or major, participating in undergraduate research programs related to your field, and signing up for a class that focuses on career development. Any of these options can provide more insights to your field and yourself as a professional. While the Career Center offers many fares, meetups, which are smaller industry-specific fairs, panels, and sessions. So to do many college majors and departments. So be sure to check your college and department websites and read the newsletters and event emails that come your way. Along the lines of exploring industries and career paths. The Career Center organizes its efforts into career communities. These communities are based on different industry areas you might be interested in. They include business, health and science, education and helping professions, engineering and technology, agriculture and environment, arts, media and communication, and public service, policy and social impact. For each career community, there are dedicated resources unique to those industry areas. Depending on your career interests, you may find that more than one career community fits your needs. And that's fine. Students are allowed to live in more than one career community. However, if you are considering more than one way or more than two, you may want to live in the exploring and deciding career community and do some further research and career exploration. One easy way to explore how the majors at UD translate to first step career paths is by looking at the career outcomes data for UT graduates. This website contains information on multiple graduation years for both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Providing details on where students found employment, company and entry-level job titles, as well as where they further their education. To get to this site, simply go to the Career Center website homepage, scroll down and click on the word career outcomes. You'll find even more information about different career fields and industries overall. On first-hand, which you can access anytime through the resources section in Handshake. There you will find career guides, industry profiles and career profiles, as well as industry specific resume, interviewing and networking Advice. The new Career Center Canvas site can also connect you to this information to help you develop your industry awareness and better understand career possibilities. Additionally, you will find industry-specific job and internship resources on each career community webpage. Knowing what you're getting yourself into before choosing your major and even job searching will make everything go much more smoothly. It is important to become aware of the following job aspects so that you can customize your action plan throughout college to your specific goals. Things like job titles, job descriptions, salary averages, job outlook, education requirements, competencies and skills needed, and career trajectory. Much of the industry job information just referred to can also be found within the career profiles in pathway you, which is another benefit to using that assessment. You can also find more information like this on websites such as the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Feel free to pause this recording to jot down that website listed on the slide. This site lists career information for thousands of different career paths and obtains its information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most career pages also contain a short video you can watch. While researching a job or career, you may start to realize that gaining experience in the field should become a priority to you. It can help give you applicable experience to add to your resume. Help you decide what you like or dislike about a job. Further determine your strengths and challenge areas and help you develop new skill sets that you'll need in the future. It's important to remember that experience doesn't always have to be in the form of a formal internship position or program. That knowing what is typical for the career path, if you have one or positions you are most interested in is important. Gaining experience can take many forms. Having a job or an internship will definitely be great additions to your resume. But so will research, volunteering, job shadowing, and project-based work. Be sure to check out handshake for opportunities like these and more. You might also want to check with your college or academic department, the UD undergraduate research program, as well as your career community webpage on the Career Center website. For other options and suggestions. There's no better guidance that can be gained from people that have already gone through their own career exploration. Finding a mentor to develop a professional relationship with can be an extremely rewarding experience for both mentor and mentee. You can check with your college or department to see if they have a formal mentoring program. But if they don't, that doesn't mean you can't find a mentor. A mentor can be anyone that can support you and your aspirations. And remember, some mentoring happens outside of a formal mentor mentee relationship. So don't get hung up on the formal title. Who can be a mentor, anyone, a friend or family member, a professor, a colleague, a coworker, or professional in a career field, you are interested in. Mentoring relationships can take time to develop. When looking for a mentor. First, think about the people you have connections with already. Is anyone doing work that you'd like to do in the future? Or maybe they're not doing the exact work you'd like to do, but you admire them as a professional and still would like to learn from them. Or perhaps they work or worked at a company you're interested in for future internships or full-time job opportunities. You can use platforms like mentor collective or LinkedIn. Find the alumni working in your field to connect with. Mentor collective is available in every college, with the exception of learner, which has its own mentoring programs, students should check with their colleges for more information. The UD Career Center YouTube page also has videos on networking, which can help you find a mentor as well as other connections. If you aren't sure where to start, a good place to begin is the career management certificate. There are two levels. You get to choose. What the UDC staff recommend you go for the goal. There. Our three goals related to the certificate. Go one is to identify and articulate your skills and strengths. This goal includes completing the pathway you assessment. The second goal is to identify and articulate your knowledge and experience. This goal helps you create or edit a resume. And finally, goal three is to help you build your network and learn career fields of interests. This goal includes creating or editing a LinkedIn profile. And if you take a class where this certificate as part of the grade and you do it now, that's one less assignment you'll have to do in the future. While the Canvas modules will guide you through all of these aspects and resources, you will find tons of information on the Career Center website and YouTube channel based on your needs. So be sure to take some time to check them out. The Career Center has an abundance of ways to get you started in achieving your goals depending on where you are in your career journey. Remember, the Canvas site, which will appear for all undergraduate students, means 247 access to modules, resources, and guides to help you whenever you are in your career, wherever you are in your career and life design journey. Before you make an appointment with a career counselor, you should move through the Canvas modules first and or complete the career management certificate. Handshake has resources for you to access everything from career assessments to resume and interview preparation, networking guidance, industry and career community resources. And much, much more. Familiarize yourself with handshake and Canvas. Mini general questions such as how to discover career possibilities, how to create a resume, how to search for internships and jobs and prepare for an interview can be found on those sites. And in case you haven't heard, all UT students, faculty, and staff now have unlimited access to the resources of LinkedIn Learning and Online Library featuring scores of instructional videos on topics covering the latest developments in software, creative and business skills. And a number of learning opportunities are always developing. To get started, go to my dot u del.edu login and type LinkedIn Learning. One LinkedIn Learning course recommended by the Career Center is the rock your LinkedIn profile course, where you will learn how to create a LinkedIn profile that tells your unique story and can help you stand out to potential employers. Your next steps for career exploration will be unique to you. But hopefully, you now have a place to start. Whether it's participating in a class or program, researching your industry, working toward finding an internship or job or finding a mentor. The career center should be a part of your undergraduate journey from your first year to your last. Make sure you read the Career Center email newsletters, check out the new Canvas site as well as handshake. And don't forget to update your Handshake profile. That's all for now. Thank you for listening and be sure to take advantage of the career center as you navigate through your time. The University of Delaware.
UDCC Overview: Exploring Your Career with the Career Center 2022-2023
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