career success series - part 1 - making smart career choices (1.15.13)
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Self-Assessment Skills, experience, interests, values, and personality
Exploration Reading, informational interviewing, classes
Goal-Setting Identifying SMART goals
Action Preparing a plan and taking steps to meet your goals
Evaluation Assessing options through interactions & experiences
What are your primary interests Classes you’ve enjoyed, done well in?
What do you value in a career? How do things like family, money, lifestyle,
influence, long-term career potential factor?
What are you skilled at doing? Project management, financial analysis, event planning, meeting facilitation, team- building, databases, marketing, etc.
• Positions include Market Research Analysts, Business Analysts, Budget Analysts, Operations Analysts, etc.
• Uses advanced methods of analysis to help organizations identify root problems and apply tangible solutions
• Works in gov’t agencies, consulting firms, banks, company finance depts.
• Help company’s implement projects in a fiscally responsible manner
• Familiar with budgeting, financial ratios, and basic accounting
• May also assess the performance of stocks, bonds, etc.
• Work for investment firms, government agencies, and companies
• Review financial statements (e.g. Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flows Statement)
• Use financial ratios to assess the financial strength of borrowers
• Work in banks, mortgage brokers, credit card companies
• Analyze financial costs of risk and uncertainty to help businesses develop policies that minimize risk-related costs
• Use math, statistics, financial theory
• Works for insurance companies, healthcare organizations, government agencies
• Internal and external auditors check
for mismanagement of an organization’s funds
• Can become a Certified Internal Auditor after two years in the field through the IIA
• Work for public accounting firms and government regulatory agencies
• Propose ways to improve an organization's efficiency by analyzing work policies, procedures, and processes.
• Advise managers on making business operations more efficient through the implementation of software and systems.
• Work for consulting firms and the human resources offices of various organizations.
• Obtain clients through persuasive formal and informal presentations
• Manage the client relationship for the lifetime of the product or service Work for major companies, universities, consulting firms, etc.
• Great earning potential, due to bonuses and incentives
• Do research on prices, employment,
taxes, investments, etc.
• Conduct surveys, college and interpret data, write in-depth reports
• Masters degree required for advancement
• Work for local, state, and federal government, as well as universities.
• Collect and compile statistical data
• Analyze the effects of current policy and recommend policy changes
• Requires an advanced degree in law or a masters/Ph.D. in economics
• Work for universities, think tanks, media outlets/newspapers, government agencies, etc.
• Conduct original research and write
scholarly articles for publication
• Teach classes, explaining complex concepts in an accessible manner
• Compile curriculum, create tests, grade assignments
• Work for high schools, colleges, and universities
www.bls.gov/ooh
Corporate America
Small Business
Government Agency
Non-Profit Organization
• Student Organizations
UO Economics Club
International Business & Economics Club
UO Human Resources Association
• Experiential Learning Panel Discussions, Business Trips, Job Shadows, Volunteering
• Analytical, Problem Solving, and Decision-Making
• Communication, Business Writing, and Public Speaking
• Math and Statistics
• Research
• Applied Economics
• Statistics and Research Methodology
• Finance and Accounting
• Human Resources Management
• Writing and Communication
• Start with a subject (e.g. “my career”) in the center of the map.
• Begin drawing branches out from the center with related words
• Continue branching off (free-association-style)
• Download, photocopy, or cut out/copy & paste at least 50 job postings that when you see them you think:
– I’ve always wanted to do that!
– Looking interesting, I could probably do that, too.
• Once you’ve collected at least 50 postings:
o Look for patterns or common themes
o Create at least 1 (no more than 5) potential career tracks
o Assess your end goals
o Take stock of your qualifications
o Work backwards to your build skills and experiences accordingly
• Volunteer or job shadow
• Conduct informational interviews • Alumni, Facebook, LinkedIn, Family friends,
Professors
• Find (or create) an internship
• Attend networking events
• Join professional associations & boards
• Bill Sherman, Director of Career & Advising Services (PLC 405)
• By Appointment:
A seven-part workshop series
Tuesdays @ 6 pm (PLC 410)
Part 1: Making Smart Career Decisions
Part 2: Everything You Need to Find an Internship
Part 3: Resume Writing—Taking it to the Next Level
Part 4: How to Write a Darn Good Cover Letter
Part 5: Job Search 201—Better, Smarter, Faster
Part 6: Preparing for the Career Fair
Part 7: Interviewing: Getting Past the 1st & 2nd Rounds