Let's get to work! This workshop will assist students in the development of their career plan. It incorporates questions with options and action steps. The presenter will walk students through a process that will have each participant depart with a plan incorporating 3 career options, use of resources, and action steps. The workshop is interactive and a working session!
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developing your professional playbook
for Maximizing Your Summer Break
Lenroy Jones, Associate Director
University of Kentucky
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Overview of James W. Stuckert Career
Center
Purpose of a resume
Get you to continue your career exploration
Inspiration
Motivation
Essentials of career goal setting
Individual Professional Playbook
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First Year Focus Series
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Serves University of Kentucky students,
alumni, and local, national, and
international employers.
Goal is to provide students with major &
career exploration and job search tools.
Our ultimate goal is to connect students,
graduates, and employers from the
freshman year and beyond with
internships and full-time jobs.
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James W. Stuckert Career Center
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James W. Stuckert Career Center
Staff are available to provide
individualized assistance regarding career
exploration from choosing a major to
identify career paths within a major.
Students seeking internship or a job can
meet with staff to polish resumes and
cover letters as well as perfect
interviewing skills.
Staff also assist employers in reaching out
to colleges and departments.
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What do you want to be
when you grow up…
Question
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Write Your Vision Statement
Don’t get overwhelmed
if you don’t have a
vision statement.
We are darning you to
dream today!
See yourself pictured in
your vision.
A solid Vision Statement
can motivate you.
Begins to place a shape
of your future.
Forces you to choose.
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Put simply, a vision statement is a…
Short sentence or
tagline, if you will, that
defines where you
want to go
Expression of your
future state of being
Theme that inspires
and connects people
Common view of how
things should be
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Make Children’s Dreams Come True
My life vision is to serve children and families through teaching art,
music and language development to enrich, value and be a part of
children's lives through a team of individuals determined to work
together in excellence and truly see dreams come true. —Guest
Michele
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Make Children’s Dreams Come True
My life vision is to serve children and families through teaching art,
music and language development to enrich, value and be a part of
children's lives through a team of individuals determined to work
together in excellence and truly see dreams come true. —Guest
Michele
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Make it Personal
1. Three months from today, I will be
happily employed and earning a
competitive wage.
2. Five years from now, I will positioned to
be a manager of a IT department at
Xerox.
3. Five years from now, I will be a Vice-
President of Sales of a Fortune 500
Company.
4. Within ten years, I would have graduated
from a Top 10 MBA Program and
working on Wall Street.
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Resumes verses CV
Resume is French for “summary”
Tailored document
Highlights of key skills and qualifications
CV is Latin for “course of life”
Full history of experience, education, and
involvement
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It’s your story!
Make your 1-page count
Layout/format that is clean and consistent
Concise, yet descriptive details
Action and achievement oriented
Most relevant and recent information
Put your “best foot forward”
The content contains the best information about you
Laid out to reflect YOUR strengths
Your main goal is to land an interview
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Overall Goals of Resume Writing
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Career Exploration
Take time whenever possible and here are a
few examples:
Research Papers and Presentations
Part-time Employment
Job shadowing
Information Interviews
Internships
Company Field Trips
Career Fairs
Researching companies, industries, positions
and descriptions, locations to live, etc.
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Playbook
Plan, Preparation, Strategy, etc.
Every sport has one…
Baseball
Football
Gymnastics
Men’s Basketball
Men’s Golf
Men’s Swimming
Men’s Tennis
Rifle
Softball
Women’s Basketball
Women’s Golf
Women’s Swimming
Women’s Tennis
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What is a playbook?
A "playbook" is what a coach in sports uses to
tell his/her team what to do, as in what plays
to make and how to perform them. In
business a manager will use a playbook to
educate his staff on what to do in certain
situations and/or communicate policy. It's
easy to figure out why RIM chose to use this
word, I believe it fits. Unfortunately it is a
relatively American term (in its current use) so
people outside of North America may not
understand its meaning.
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Individual Professional
Playbook
Individual Professional
Playbook
Never Quit!
SUCCESS
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Individual Professional Playbook
Vision and Mission Statements
Career Options
Values and Goals
Skills Inventory
Professional Etiquette
Developmental List and Action Plan
Research
Resources (Stuckert Career Center, LinkedIn,
Alumni Association, Articles, What does the research
suggest?, web base tools, etc.)
Contact List
Career and Professional Life Coaches
Identify Career Stoppers and Strategies to
address them
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Questions and Discussion
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