As I am reaching the end of my third year at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU, M), I realized that I had never utilized the Career for Academic Success like I should have. There had always been people coming into my classes taking about the endless uses for the Center, but I’d never thought I had a need for it. Thee has been nothing preventing me from using the Center, I just have never struggled in a class or had a need to go there. They seem very helpful and useful, although I don’t usually like to ask for help. After turning into their website, I noticed that they can also help standardized test preparation for tests like the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). This is the examination I must take in order to get into a Doctorate
The site is very professional looking and gives a great deal of credibility to the organization. The site is easy to navigate through and the interactive options such as the video library and quizzes are interesting features.
2. To provide comprehensive career planning services that support all members of the Northeastern University community in identifying, planning, and implementing sound career decisions
Throughout this course, topics such as the transition from high school to college, learning skills, self-discovery, and career exploration have been discussed. Conversations occurred concerning the challenges and benefits of private and public colleges as well as the transition from high school to college. We also talked about our strengths and weaknesses while studying. Finally we talked about the jobs that we wanted, and the jobs we would be good at. During the rest of this paper, I will go into more detail about the topics we discussed; and go more in detail with what I learned.
The strengths and weaknesses of Skagit Valley College differ from which campus you attend. The particular strengths and disadvantages can range from: students able to retake their Compass Test, high school students can attend free, Skagit prepares students for four year colleges; but my campus does not have many classes, its first come/first serve, and it’s a small school that doesn’t have many programs. My campus has criminal justice classes, but not a criminal justice program. The class points you in the right direction but doesn’t help you in real life situations. There could be possible solutions for these weaknesses.
Imperative 3 – The strengthening of the career services identity with the institution. The career services depart was very small! I do not feel it was advertised enough around campus to what services were offered. I learned of the career center by the recommendation of someone that did not attend the university. They had advised they visited their career center and urged me to do the same.
Only two months ago, I moved into room 426 of Trinity Hall and began my journey at Azusa Pacific University. I still remember how nervous and excited I felt when I arrived. Everyone was incredibly kind and overjoyed to have the freshmen move in. Beneath all the exhilaration, I had three big fears that felt like heavy weight on my chest. Because I did not grow up from a Christian family, I feared that I would not fit in with everyone else. I was also intimidated by how extroverted everyone was. I was introverted, so it required extra effort for me to make new friends. Another one of my fears was nursing school since the nursing program is known for its heavy load of work and commitment. Through experimentation, communication, and hard work,
We all practiced assisting each other with standing, sitting, and falling. In the next lab, Ms. D demonstrated how to use safe and effective transferring from a bed to a chair. Ms. D also showed us how to properly do range of motion (ROM) with D, my classmates, the skills book and videos were my influencing factors for this lab. I find the clinical learning centers to be exciting and places me in my professional work place.
Time sure does fly; in the blink of an eye, yet another 7.5-week class has come and gone. Just like life, it is scary to think that in just a few short years I will be graduating college and be in search of a future career. The magnitudes of readings, assignments, PowerPoint lectures, and videos have all contributed to the valuable knowledge I have gained since taking this course. Nothing that was presented or required was seen as invaluable towards my progression of career development. This career development course has allowed me to do some self-exploration, career research, and help me understand what influencing factors were related to the job market. Ultimately, this class helped me gauge and find a suitable career path, which will forever shape my future.
This tool is an excellent way to get in touch with our card members and to see how they feel the company is doing and what they feel is going right and what needs to be worked on. By doing this the company can take this information and better the customer satisfaction by either up training of employees are reviewing and possibly changing the policies or procedures.
During college, I mastered abundant theoretical knowledge including psychology, human behavior, social work skills and social work with different communities including youth and elderly. Besides, I did something to enhance my skills and prepare for my graduate study.
Everyone wants to better themselves in life…right? No one wants to graduate high school and be stuck living with their parents or only make minimal wage. There are plenty of ways to have a better life, one in which is attending college. If a person attends college, they have a more likely chance of making more money, being more successful, and securing their future financially. Going to college not only leaves someone with better opportunities but it can instill in a person responsibilities, persistency and work ethic. All of these things are important unless a person is born into a rich family and are automatically given a job, the rest of civilization has to work and that is where college comes into play.
Community colleges retention rates remain low despite their important role in providing affordable access to a degrees and certificates (Fike and Fike, 2008). Institutions offer a wide range of degrees and certificates, causing students to enter and not have a clear direction of what they want to pursue. The lack of clarity on the part of the students can lead them to take courses and jump from program to program, and eventually if they cannot figure out their career path they could drop out (Fike & Fike, 2008). Students in the community college setting need help clearly identifying their role in the college, and it is important for college administrators to help students connect to campus community (Friedman & Mandel, 2011). Friedman and Mandel (2011) further explained that students who had a clearly identified plan of courses and degree program tend to retain and persist to graduation. Therefore, it is important of colleges to offer guidance and assistance to their students in order to help retain
Colleges and universities need to be structured so that they prepare students for specific career roles, as well as give them a level of appreciation for the world in which they live. Brewer’s succe...
Although career centers are most often associated with student affairs, some campuses may house it under academic affairs, the institutional development office, or they may be decentralized into academic departments within professional schools. (Komives, Woodard, & Asso...
My journey as a student has always been focused on the path to college and success. Before I even set foot in kindergarten my mother, a college dropout, always told me that “honor roll wasn’t an option” and that I would be attending college in the future and achieving a degree. Most of the time I made these requirements. Most of the time I was awarded honor roll or had a newly edited list of colleges to attend, but sometimes life got in the way of my dreams of achieving success.