Unit 4: Career Exploration
Learning Objectives
After you have completed this unit you should be able to:
- Identify your motivations for attending college
- Correlate your short-term goals with longer-range ambitions
- Define college ready and career ready
- Describe how your longer-term goals might evolve, relative to your deepening experiences
- Differentiate between “job” and “career”
- Explain the five-step process for choosing a career, which includes aligning your personal interests and skills with appropriate fields
- Identify sources for learning more about specific careers
- Identify the relationship between college majors and career paths (both why they matter and why they don’t)
- Identify sources for learning more about specific majors and related careers
- List specific skills that will be necessary for your career path
- List transferable skills that will be valuable for any career path
- Describe the stages of career development, and identify the stage you’re currently in
- Define network and identify strategies for networking
- Identify sources for developing professional networks
Licenses and Attributions:
CC licensed content, Original:
Beiderwell, Bruce , Linda F. Tse, Tom Lochhaas, and Nicholas B. deKanter. “College Success”. Lumen Learning. 2016. Located at: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/collegesuccess-lumen/chapter/the-big-picture/ sources in Career Exploration Unit beginning with The Big Picture chapter and beginning of all Career Exploration Unit chapters). License: CC BY: Attribution.
