2 Major Aspects Of College Career Planning
There are two main parts of process for college career planning . One is own evaluation and self-study and the other part brings in career planning methods and formal programs from universities and private companies.
Firstly, one should take some kind of evaluation test that can guide to identify personal interest, skills and values. One main aspect in the process of career planning is identifying the person and his personality traits fitting with the college and career path.
While going through this part of the process which is more on personal level, one should start looking at colleges by location, financial implications etc. During this period, pupils and teachers can assist identifying which main subjects you are best at the School and then how they can help in choosing a career. This also is the period to write your resume, lilst out activities, hobbies etc. to utilise in personal portfolio. You can also make use of internet which has become a boon during the last few decades. Internet has a lot to offer for those looking out for college of career planning.
Then the next comes that part of the process where individual decides which career or college will utilise one’s strongest skills, expertise, interests and values. One can get easily overpowered by the information revealed in college career planning. With concentrating on particular interest areas as well as questions, the search will become somewhat simpler.
On focusing attention on some very good earlier programs of both private firms and universities will help to reduce the choices. Young people can also utilise a formal method to help with college career planning. These methods range form interest testing to assessment of skills as well as personality analysis and academic searches.
Some universities also have their own college career planning programmes. Such university plans can have exhaustive information and evaluation material specially designed for student selecting path from a college-to-career. This can be very good activity for new graduates from high school and community college. Some of these methods that can be sent to the one for utilising at home. Some companies have their program as web-based, interactive system. Most have one goal of assisting the applicant orthe person seeking a job get a good post as part of a college career planning effort.
Abhishek Agarwal
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College major question?
I’m currently a junior (will be a senior next semester) going for a bba in CIS (computer information systems). Any ways long story short I was a former biology major (loved the subject hated the idea of doing research for the rest of my life) and switched to CIS (I like working with computers) I would have loved to have majored in computer science (more technical more knowledge) but there are so many intro courses that I would have basically been pushing my graduation back about 3 years. I don’t really enjoy the business aspect of my current major but if all things go well I’ll be done in a year and 1/2. My plan is to go back to graduate school later and get a master in comp sci knowing full well that I’ll have to take the intro courses. I figured going back 3+ years and coming out with a masters beats changing majors now and graduating in 3 years and only having a bachelors. Do those of you in IT professions see this as a good career move? I plan to utilize this degree in either Federal Law Enforcement or Teaching (I know the money isn’t as good as the private sector but I prefer job satisfaction over money) Thanks in advance for the answers.
It would all depend on which IT professional you ask. You seem to have it all planned out.
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The thing to remember is there are a few careers where it matters what you major in, others where it really doesn’t. Computer careers tend not to care what you major in, just what classes you took and what computer languages you know. I know several people who earn a lot in computers, none of them majored in it in college.
If you are going into teaching. there is a huge shortage of math and science careers, so majoring in biology would be great. (An Education Minor might be helpful). If you are going to graduate school in computers I’d suggest you major in biology and only minor in computers now. (Broaden your horizons, don’t over-specialize. A Masters in computer science would be more than enough background in computers for most jobs. Anyway, it is easy to burn out on computers). I kind of wished I had majored in biology, it can open the doors to a lot of fields, from patent law to compliance.
In law enforcement, some background in computer security or cryptography would be great. Biology would be useful also, for forensics. Look at:
http://www.usajobs.gov/
See what jobs look interesting, and what degrees they require.
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I have many friends in IT and know what they majored in
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