{"id":40,"date":"2020-11-04T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/part\/module-14-finding-a-job\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:01:11","slug":"finding-a-job","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/part\/finding-a-job\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 12: Career Development: Finding a Job","rendered":"Chapter 12: Career Development: Finding a Job"},"content":{"raw":"

Study Questions<\/h1>\r\nSQ1 - What are the two specific skills necessary for your career? Explain how to acquire the necessary skills for your career goals.\r\n\r\nSQ2 - What are the stages of career development\r\n\r\nSQ3 - What are the strategies for networking? Describe effective strategies to prepare for an interview.\r\n\r\nSQ4 - What are the different types of interview situations? Describe various question types in interviews.\r\n\r\nSQ5 - Describe the differences among functional, reverse chronological, combination, targeted, and scannable r\u00e9sum\u00e9s.\r\n\r\n
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<\/h2>\r\nWhy It Matters: Finding a Job<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWhy learn to network and apply for jobs?\r\n\r\n\"PhotographNadine had worked as a manager at the local grocery store while attending college, working towards graduating from university with a BA in business. She appreciated the store's support during her years of employment as the company allowed her to work around her class schedules. However, she did not anticipate making this her life-long job\u2014or even her first long-term career job. With her degree and experience, Nadine was ready to jump to a larger employer with greater opportunities and variety.\r\n\r\nDespite knowing that she wanted to move on, Nadine wasn't sure where exactly she wanted to go\u2014or how exactly she would go about finding that career job with a bigger company.\u00a0If she couldn\u2019t say exactly what it was she was thinking about doing, she was going to end up staying at the local store by default.\r\n\r\nNadine knew that if she wanted to move on in her career, she needed to make a plan; take stock of her goals, her years of experience, and her degree; and turn her knowledge and qualifications into actions.","rendered":"

Study Questions<\/h1>\n

SQ1 – What are the two specific skills necessary for your career? Explain how to acquire the necessary skills for your career goals.<\/p>\n

SQ2 – What are the stages of career development<\/p>\n

SQ3 – What are the strategies for networking? Describe effective strategies to prepare for an interview.<\/p>\n

SQ4 – What are the different types of interview situations? Describe various question types in interviews.<\/p>\n

SQ5 – Describe the differences among functional, reverse chronological, combination, targeted, and scannable r\u00e9sum\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

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Why It Matters: Finding a Job<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why learn to network and apply for jobs?<\/p>\n

\"PhotographNadine had worked as a manager at the local grocery store while attending college, working towards graduating from university with a BA in business. She appreciated the store’s support during her years of employment as the company allowed her to work around her class schedules. However, she did not anticipate making this her life-long job\u2014or even her first long-term career job. With her degree and experience, Nadine was ready to jump to a larger employer with greater opportunities and variety.<\/p>\n

Despite knowing that she wanted to move on, Nadine wasn’t sure where exactly she wanted to go\u2014or how exactly she would go about finding that career job with a bigger company.\u00a0If she couldn\u2019t say exactly what it was she was thinking about doing, she was going to end up staying at the local store by default.<\/p>\n

Nadine knew that if she wanted to move on in her career, she needed to make a plan; take stock of her goals, her years of experience, and her degree; and turn her knowledge and qualifications into actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-40","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/40\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oswego-businesscommunicationmgrs2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}