M05 Overview: Career Goals

     In this session, we will continue to build on the one before.  We each have unique interests, abilities, and strengths.  In this session we will explore our career interests and what steps are needed to reach our goals.  The Indiana Career Explorer Assessment will be our first step in reflecting on career interests, skills confidence and work values.  This can be helpful tool to be sure you have chosen a career that suits your skills and interests and can also be helpful for those of you that are still undecided.  Once you have completed these inventories you will search job postings in your desired career field -Hire Ivy, Career Builder, Monster, professional organizations websites and review what desired hard and soft skills are listed.  The first project in the course, Project A, asks you to do a little digging in terms of job responsibilities, salary range, education requirements and more.  Are you on the right path?  Are you asking the right probing questions? How does the idea of life learning go beyond the classroom and into the real world? The career world?

This is a perfect connection back to support networks and being assertive.  We definitely have our own areas of expertise but this is an opportunity to seek professional.  Ivy Tech’s Career Services is a wealth of resources.  Check out the numerous videos and resources.

To get registered with Hire Ivy review this and see how to get connected to jobs specifically posted for Ivy Tech students! HireIvyforStudent2015.docx

Read the Lumen text to understand the career decision-making process  and take a proactive approach to meeting your goals and making an informed decision.

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” -Dale Carnegie

Course & Module Objectives

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Increase self-awareness of personality type and learning-style and demonstrate the ability to take personal responsibility by creating personal and educational goals.
    • Modify vocabulary to practice the language of personal responsibility that leads to success
  • Explore the college’s social environment and demonstrate understanding of the impact of diversity
    • Examine the benefits of being an active participant in the community (college, city, neighborhood)

Here is the content for this session:

  • Textbook Reading: Lumen Ch. 5 Career Goals: Career Development Starts Now, Career Exploration, Career Decision-Making Process, Assessment: Career Interview (optional)
  • Assessment:  If you are unsure of what type of career you would like to pursue, feel free to take the Indiana Career Exploration Assessment.  Just click on the link and create a new account.  This is not required.  
  • Assignment: DB3 – Career Research
  • Assignment: Module 5 Quiz
  • Assignment: Continue working on Project A, this module will help you pull together information for the Project. 

When you are ready to get started on this module, click the “Next” button below.