STUS110 Career Decision Making
Department of Student Services: Student Services
- I. Course Number and Title
- STUS110 Career Decision Making Course No Longer Offered
- II. Number of Credits
- 3 credits
- III. Number of Instructional Minutes
- 2250
- IV. Prerequisites
- None
- Corequisites
- None
- V. Other Pertinent Information
- None
- VI. Catalog Course Description
- Occupational and educational research is presented to acquaint the student with the requirements for and avenues toward entering or changing careers. A study of the decision-making process, goal-setting, fundamental job-finding skills, resume writing, and interviewing techniques. Students will participate in an in-depth look at personal and job characteristics.
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
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Course Learning Goals
This course will prepare students to make effective decisions regarding their futures. At the completion of the course, the students should:
- have a greater understanding of the current nature of work, including understanding employment projections, issues related to work, and the organization of employment in general and within specific industries;
- have a greater understanding of the place work plays in their lives and the other roles that define them;
- be able to identify their interests, abilities, values, personality, and desired lifestyle and determine how these factors impact career decisions;
- demonstrate improved decision-making skills and be able to utilize various methods for decision making;
- have a plan in place that includes the identification of long- and short-term goals and the specific tasks required to meet each; and
- be able to implement a successful job search plan, including resume writing, interviewing skills, and identification of available jobs.
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Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities
- Making Career Decisions in a Changing World
- Understand the changing nature of work, including the history of work, current perceptions of work, anticipated changes in work, and identification of future trends
- Identify personal views of work and successes/failures as related to work
- Understand the impact of family on views of work
- Virtual Career Planning
- Understand the use of the internet for career planning, occupational information, and job search strategies
- Skills
- Identify current and potential skills through use of informal assessment exercises
- Explore the link between work and skills
- Thinking and Learning Styles
- Identify thinking and learning styles and explore the link between these and career, these and learning, and these and interpersonal communication
- Use assessment tools to identify thinking style
- Personality and Interests
- Understand the development of interests and how these are related to the career search process
- Become familiar with the organization of work developed by John Holland -- Use this to gain an understanding of interests
- Use formal and informal assessment tools to identify career interests
- Connecting Personality and Interests to Work
- Link interests to the world of work using the Holland model
- Self-Motivation
- Use the needs theory developed by Abraham Maslow to understand the difference between needs and career/life satisfaction
- Explore the difference between needs and values
- Use informal assessment exercises to identify desired values and their link to careers
- Decision-Making
- Use Department of Labor information to gain an in-depth look at careers
- Identify careers for research
- Set-up meetings with professionals in specific career fields for informational interviewing
- Compare and contrast career information on specific careers
- Explore the concept of tentative decision-making as related to careers
- Goal-Setting
- Understand the difference between long-term and short-term goals
- Develop a plan for goal implementation using good goal setting strategies
- Envision self in future to help think about the planning process
- Self-Empowerment
- Identify potential internal and external barriers in the career process
- Develop strategies to overcome or avoid anticipated or current barriers
- Job Search Strategies
- Learn about resume writing, interviewing skills, hidden job market, and job lead identification in order to develop a plan for a successful job search
- Write a resume that can be used currently
- Practice interviewing skills
Assessment Methods for Course Learning Goals
Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Student:
May include, but not limited to, texts, periodicals, electronic resources, area professionals, movies, books, formal and informal assessment tools, and other exercises selected by the instructor. -
Review/Approval Date - 8/02; New Core 8/2015