Putting THEORY......into PRACTICE
Recently Awarded The National Association of Colleges and Employers
" 2005 Award of Excellence for Educational Programming"
BA 143 - Integrating College and Life Options: Know Yourself
Intended to generate an enhanced level of self-awareness related to integrating college and life choices…choosing a major and career path. Students will be challenged to identify their personal skills, goals and objectives and relate them to curricular, cocurricular and extracurricular opportunities and possible professional/career alternatives. A review of current economic, professional and societal trends/opportunities will help students become aware of diverse career alternatives.
The course will include comprehensive career assessments, corporate research, informational interviewing, resume introduction, life-stages and career cycles, matching careers to majors, goal setting and entrepreneurship.
BA 243 - Exploring and Evaluating Life Options: Know the “World” and Build Your Personal “Brand” and Plan
Designed to help the student reflect upon and refine their professional and personal objectives while gaining vital skills and knowledge that will help them successfully plan for and achieve those objectives upon graduation and throughout their lives. Students will engage in activities and personally relevant research designed to expand their knowledge of available opportunities and personal/professional success factors for those opportunities, while continuing to relate them to curricular, cocurricular and extra curricular opportunities. They will also develop a better awareness of their personal strengths and weaknesses as they relate to their desired futures and refine or develop plans for pursuing their desired careers and/or courses of graduate study.
The courses will include refining resume portfolios, examining corporate culture, career planning and alternatives, career field analysis, personal SWOT and gap analysis, personal ‘brand’ and marketing, and identifying transferable skills.
BA 343 - Pursuing Personal Life/Career Plans: Sell Your Brand and Execute Your Plan
Created to help students prepare for and accomplish a successful transition from college to graduate study or a professional career. Students will be challenged to understand various elements of successful pursuit of an ultimate career, including interviewing, career-related communication and professional presence.
Workshops and lectures led by recruiting professionals will provide important applied techniques and theories. Students will integrate those theories and techniques into their own skill/knowledge base and use them to map out strategies for achieving their professional and personal objectives to maximize opportunities and outcomes for their education.
The course will include completion of the professional resume portfolio, practice job fair/evaluation, job search strategies, corporate communications, salary/benefit negotiations, etiquette luncheon.
These courses are offered by a collaboration from the Department of Economics, Accounting and Business Administration and the Office of Career Development.