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CARD 405 Career Development

CARD 405 Career Development

A+ Entire Course: Self-Assessment Week 2 | Resume Draft Week 3 |

Career and Company Research Week 4 | Portfolio Draft Week 4 | Cover
and Thank you Letters Week 5 |Resume Final Week 6 | Interview
Questions Week 7 | Portfolio Week 7 | Informational Interview Week
8 | Discussions Week 1-7

Self-Assessment Assignment Week 2

There are FOUR parts to the Self-Assessment.

Part 1: Reflect on your results from the self-assessment exercises you’ve done
from the textbook, as well as others you might have done in the past, and
complete the table below. Review current or past jobs to identify your
transferable skills. Develop an inventory of your most marketable career-
related skills (minimum 15), instances where you have demonstrated these
skills (minimum three), and the core values you want your work to
reflect (minimum five). Take into consideration the traits employers are
seeking, including technical and transferable skills and general abilities. (30
POINTS)

SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES & MY RESULTS

I completed the following assessments/inventories as part of my self-assessment activ

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My most marketable career-related skills are . . . (minimum 15) (Remember to include te

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Examples of instances where I have demonstrated these skills include . . . (minimum 3

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Core values I want my work to reflect are . . . (minimum 5)

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Part 2: Describe your ideal job. (20 POINTS)

MY IDEAL JOB

In my ideal job, I would be . . . (state what you see yourself doing as part of your ideal job)
Part 3: Identify your one-, two-, and five-year career goals, create a list of
possible employers of choice in your career field (minimum 3), possible job
titles for your one-, two-, and five-year goals (one for each goal), and current
salary ranges for those job titles. (30 POINTS)

CAREER GOALS

Possible Job
Career Goals Potential Employers (minimum 3)
Titles (minimum 3)

My one-year career goal is . .

1. 1.
. (state your goal here)
2. 2.

3. 3.

My two-year career goal is . .

1. 1.
. (state your goal here)
2. 2.

3. 3.

My five-year career goal is . .

1. 1.
. (state your goal here)
2. 2.

3. 3.

Part 4: Provide a summary of what you have learned about yourself and the
characteristics of your dream job as a result of the reflection and research you
have done as part of this assignment (minimum 100 words). (20 POINTS)

CARD 405 Career Development

Resume Draft Week 3

Update or prepare your resumé for submission. You are highly encouraged to
review the MCMC Student User Guide inside Doc Sharing to learn more about
the resources available to you. You may also reference the Resumé Evaluation
Checklist available in Doc Sharing to better understand what is expected in
your resumé. Please plan to use the results of your self-assessment activities,
the lectures, our discussions, and your text as a guide. Make every effort to do
the very best job you can on this first version of one of the most important job
search documents you will create!

Career and Company Research Week 4

Now that you have identified some career-related goals, it’s time to match
those goals to potential employers. In this assignment, you will investigate
companies based on those goals, and you will also spend some time thinking
about how you will market yourself to those employers.

There are TWO parts to the Career and Company Research assignment.

Part 1: Complete the table below and link your one-, two-, and five-year goals
(recall that you identified these in the Week 2 Self-assessment Assignment) to
specific company research. You can also use employers you identified in the
Week 2 assignment if you wish. (50 POINTS)

One-year Goal Two-year Goal

(State your two-yea

GOALS (State your one-year goal here.
here. Must be differ
Must be different from your two-
your one- and five-
and five-year goals.)
goals.)

Employer of Choice for One- Employer of Choi

year Goal (must be different from Two-year Goal (m
EMPLOYERS
your two- and five-year different from your
employers) five-year employer

Name, location(s), contact

information

Products and/or services

Number of employees

Annual sales/profits/growth for

the past year

Potential for growth of the firm

and the industry as a whole

Major competitors

Mission and/or vision statement

Reputation
Part 2: What is your personal marketing strategy; i.e., what do you plan
to do to ensure you achieve your goals? (Some questions you might reflect on
in your response include: How will I penetrate the hidden job market? How will
expand my professional network? Are there skills I need to be working on to
be more competitive as a candidate? How will I track my job search? What
resources can I use to help me in my job search and how I often should I be
contacting them? How will I ensure my resumé and other job-search tools stay
current? Where will I look for job leads? How will I hone my interviewing
skills? What will I do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to ensure I am
conducting the most proactive job search possible?) (50 points)

CARD 405 Career Development

Portfolio Draft Week 4

You will be preparing an electronic portfolio documenting your educational

and career achievements and aspirations. You can choose to create a web
page or you can use an application like Microsoft Word or Microsoft
PowerPoint. Your portfolio should be logically organized, visually appealing,
and include the following items (required content items are noted).

Title Page (*REQUIRED*)

Table of Contents (*REQUIRED*)

Statement of Authenticity: This is a statement indicating that you are the

author of all materials contained within your career portfolio, that it is your
original work, and that it is an honest representation of your skills. It should be
inserted in your portfolio immediately following the Table of Contents.
(*REQUIRED*)

Personal Mission Statement: The Week 4 Lecture will contain helpful

information on how to write your personal mission statement. (*REQUIRED*)

Your Elevator Speech (also called a 30-second commercial): This is a short 15-
to 30-second speech that memorably and succinctly introduces you and that
you can use anytime and anywhere you wish to introduce yourself to a
potential contact to spark his or her interest. (*REQUIRED*)

Education section with

DeVry plan of study (*REQUIRED*);

DeVry course descriptions (*REQUIRED*);

DeVry academic history (to be replaced by your transcript after graduation)

(*REQUIRED*); and

Documentation of prior post-secondary education (optional).

Resumé (*REQUIRED*)

Professional Development and Training section (*REQUIRED*) (with supporting

documents if available)

Reference section (*REQUIRED*) with

One letter of reference related to your technical skills; and

One letter of reference related to your transferable skills.

Reference list with your contact information and contact information for your
references (minimum four) (*REQUIRED*)

Awards and Accomplishments section (*REQUIRED*) (with supporting

documents if available)

Volunteer History section (*REQUIRED*) (with supporting documents if

available)

Professional Affiliations section (*REQUIRED*) (with supporting documents if

available)

Career Pathing section with your 1-, 2-, and 5-year goals (*REQUIRED*)

Work Samples (*REQUIRED*)

CARD 405 Career Development

Cover and Thank you Letters Week 5

Find a job ad for a position you would be interested in once you graduate.
Write a targeted cover letter responding to the ad.

Assume you were given the opportunity to interview for the position. Write a
post-interview thank you letter to the employer.

Final Resume Week 6

Find a job ad for a position you would be interested in once you graduate.
Using the ad and feedback you received on your draft resumé, prepare a
targeted resumé for submission this week.

All required sections of the resumé are included, i.e., personal information,
education, skill summary (including both technical and transferable skills), and
work experience. Previous work experience is summarized using achievement
statements, not task lists. Resumé is targeted to the job ad and is free of
spelling and grammatical errors. Formatting is well done and professional. Job
ad has been submitted. (For an explanation of “achievement statements,” see
Lamarre Martucci, 2006, pp. 53-54.)

Interview Questions Week 7

Below you will find a list of potential interview questions. It is possible that you
could be asked some of these exact questions during an interview. Choose 7
questions from Group A and 3 questions from Group B, for a total of 10. Your
responses to the questions in Group B should have three parts. Respond to
these using Martucci Lamarre’s (2006) B.A.R. (background, action(s), results)
framework (p. 124). Respond to the questions as you would during an
interview and provide as complete an answer as possible for each one.

Group A: Standard Questions (Choose 7 questions from this group, from p.

121).

Tell me something about yourself.

Why should I hire you?

What are your strengths?

What are your weaknesses?

Why are you applying for this position?

How are you qualified for this position?

Why are you interested in working for our firm?

What can you contribute to this company?

What are your short-term goals?

What are your long-term goals?

Group B: Behavior-Based Questions (Choose 3 questions from this group,

from p. 124).

Tell me about a difficult situation you dealt with when supervising others.
What did you do, and what were the results?

Describe a time when you had to use your best oral communication skills.
What was the situation, and what was the outcome?

Describe a time when you had to adjust to change. How did you cope?

Explain a role you filled as a group or team member.

We all face disappointments in life. Tell me about a time when you had to
handle disappointment or rejection.

Describe a situation that required you to show initiative.

Tell me about a time when someone made an unreasonable request of you.

How did you react, and what happened?

Describe a time when you were most frustrated or discouraged in reaching

your objectives or goals. How did it turn out?

Describe the last time that you did something that went beyond what was
expected in work or school.

Tell me about a difficult challenge or problem you’ve faced and how you
handled it.

CARD 405 Career Development

Portfolio Week 7
Based on feedback from the draft version of your portfolio, make any changes
you feel are appropriate and submit them to the Dropbox. For information on
content, please see the Week 2 Assignments page.

Content Pts Awarded Pts Content

Title page
5 Reference List

Table of contents Awards & accom

2
(with or without

Statement of authenticity Volunteer histo

2
without docume

Personal mission statement/quote Professional affi

2
without docume

Elevator speech Career path sec

5
goals

Work samples (
Education section: Plan of study/academic
10 high-quality pas
history
etc.)

Education section: Course descriptions (for

all courses to be completed during DeVry
degree program)

Resumé
5 Grammar/spelli

Prof. development & training section (with

25 Visual appeal; lo
or without documents)

2 Letters of reference
100 TOTAL

Informational Interview Week 8

As part of your job search preparation, you will plan for, conduct, and detail
notes for an Informational Interview of someone working in your target career
field. Please be sure you review the assignment template prior to completing
the interview.

There are FIVE steps to the Informational Interview.

Step 1: Compile a list of individuals in your target career field whom you
would like to interview. Try to identify people who are working at a company
in which you are interested. This is a good opportunity to practice your
networking skills. Let your classmates, friends, family members, and colleagues
know that you need to complete an informational interview with someone in
your intended career field. You’ll be amazed at how effective networking can
be.

Step 2: Prepare a brief introduction of yourself and the purpose(s) of the

informational interview. Prepare a list of open-ended questions that would be
appropriate to ask during the informational interview. An Internet search using
“informational interview” will provide you with many examples of questions
you might want to use.

Step 3: Practice your interview with a classmate, friend, family member, or

colleague and ask them to critique your performance. Identify ways to
improve based on their feedback.

Step 4: Set up a day and time for the interview. Record the interviewee’s
responses to your questions. Send a thank-you letter, note, or email to the
interviewee within two business days of completing the interview.

Step 5: Complete the table below and submit it in Week 8….

CARD 405 Career Development Entire Course

Discussions Week 1-7 All Students Posts 367 Pages – 2 Sets

Self-Awareness and Career Success Discussions Week 1 All Posts 51 Pages

Why is understanding yourself important in your career development? How
can you ensure that an employer will realize that you have a clear grasp of
who you are and what you have to offer? How do you self-assess? Where do
you look for those opportunities to improve? Do you think most people know
what they are good and not so good at or is it something that they need to
actually find out through and assessment type activity?…

Direction is so much more important than speed! We will discuss how being
self-aware is part of your marketing and brand! If you don’t understand
yourself, who will? In marketing yourself, it’s best to know who your market is,
and what your brand means to you! If you believe in it, and have sold yourself
on your product and skill set, then you will be able to convince everyone
else!…

CARD 405 Career Development

Job-Hunting Techniques Discussions Week 2 All Posts 54 Pages

The prospect of searching for a job can be very intimidating. What techniques
have you used in the past when you were job hunting? Which ones were most
effective? Least effective? What do you attribute their effectiveness (or lack of
effectiveness) to? Can you spend a little more time elaborating on LinkedIn
and how you make connections? How does this site work? will you be using
newspapers in your future job searches? Will they have the jobs that you are
looking for after you graduate?…

Don’t be afraid to go for it. Sometimes employers are doing themselves a

disservice by raising the experience level so high, even for entry level
candidates, however, they also do it because they know it will intimidate those
who do not feel they can be valuable to the company without it. You’re hardly
ever going to meet 100% of the job description, but as long as you’re in the
70th percentile, you’re good to go! So apply apply apply! What if you asked
the employer on the interview, who would be training you?…

The “Hidden” Job Market Discussions Week 3 All Posts 49 Pages

Although estimates vary, it is suggested that 80% or more of the job openings
that exist are in the hidden job market. What is the difference between
the published job market and the hidden job market? What techniques would
you usually use to access the published job market? What techniques would
you use to access the hidden job market? Does anyone agree/disagree with
this statement, “It’s the best way to get a job in my opinion because there is
no competition.” Is there competition in the hidden job market? Which job
market is more dependent on you knowing technology? Why?…

Look at how networking is already getting the wheels spinning in motion!

You’re going to do great in your field. If you know those professors still, see if
you can speak with them to do a warm introduction! This way, you can
conduct an informational interview and get more insight into the position…as
much as they can share! That would be awesome!…

Marketing Yourself Discussions Week 4 All Posts 47 Pages

In Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide, Martucci Lamarre (2006)

suggests that if we want to realize our job dreams, we need to think about
ourselves as products to be marketed, and in order to do this, we need to
contextualize ourselves within the five Ps of marketing: product, price, place,
presentation, and promotion (p. 4). Please reflect and respond to the following
questions taken from our textbook.

 What exactly is your product and how is it different from (or better than)
other similar products?
 Where will you sell your product?
 Who are the potential buyers of the product and how does that price
compare to similar products being offered?

 How will you let others know about your product, and how will you
develop its presentation to appropriate markets?

Do you have testimonials? Also what are learning skills? I suppose that
everyone would want a consistent product. Do you have any examples to
illustrate what is consistent about your product to bring your claims to life?….
A person who constantly (without being asked) thinks of ways to make
something better is not only an invaluable skill set, but it’s something that
cannot be taught! That in itself is a commodity to a company! When you
incorporate your flexibility and drive to produce products that you’re proud of
with your well-rounded skill set, you’re on the road to a fantastic career
journey!…

Preparing for Your Interviews Discussions Week 5 All Posts 49 Pages

Experts will tell you that it is important to prepare for an interview. What type
of preparation could and should you do? Lots of people practice in front of a
mirror. Wouldn’t it be better to bring in other people? Do all of you have
honest friends and family that can give you feedback? what does knowing
whether or not a company is relaxed get you in terms of interview prep? Does
that mean that you can approach the interview in a relaxed manner? It is
important to do research on the company you are interviewing with. Is this a
nice thing to do though or a required thing? Also in terms of researching
what are your thoughts about trying to research the person who is scheduled
to interview you?…

Research, research, research! The key to a successful interview is being

prepared. Actually, let’s just call that the recipe since it’s all in the preparation.
Great job on doing your research, which helped you land the job….

CARD 405 Career Development

Responding to Interview Questions Discussions Week 6 All Posts 62

Pages

Once you have a resumé that gets noticed by employers, the next step in
securing the job that you want is to interview successfully. The key to
interviewing successfully is your ability to respond appropriately and well to
the questions asked during the interview. Pick three questions from the
following list (Martucci Lamarre, 2006, p. 121) and tell us how you would
respond to them.
 Tell me something about yourself.
 Why should I hire you?
 What are your strengths?
 What are your weaknesses?
 Why are you applying for this position?
 How are you qualified for this position?
 Why are you interested in working for our firm?
 What can you contribute to this company?
 What are your short-term goals?
 What are your long-term goals?

While there is no doubt in that how you have identified yourself is important is
it what an employer wants to hear in a response? What do the rest of you
think? When you take things personal, what does it look like?…

Experience is very important Joanna, you’re right! Before graduation, we will

definitely work together to get you some opportunities to gain experience! A
career with good work/life balance is key….

Evaluating a Job Offer Discussions Week 7 All Posts 55 Pages

Review the “Criteria for Evaluating a Job Offer” on pages 138–139 in the
textbook. What are your top two criteria out of each of the four basic areas?
Why did you choose these criteria? No doubt that salary is important. Is it
really a mystery though when you go into an interview situation on what you
will be offered? Don’t we all kind of know based on our qualifications and
demand what we are worth? Do all of you know this? What size pay increase
is typical? Being almost a college grad I would say a good typical pay is in the
40K”. Does being a college grad guarantee you a particular salary? What
does the research say that you should expect for the position you are looking
at with your experiences and in your area?…

Two very important factors one must consider when selecting a job! You have
to do what works for you! The things we all take for granted when we have
them! Who would have thought, clean air and breathing would be, of all
things, a necessity that isn’t always given!…