The document proposes an online career training and coaching program called CareerGetGo for college students. It would take students through different career development modules from an interactive online platform. The modules would include career assessments, exploring interests and skills, focusing on specific careers, and preparing for the job search. Students would receive video lessons, connect with career coaches and mentors, and participate in online forums. Feedback notes the benefits of making career resources accessible online and throughout college. Areas for improvement include developing the software platform and facilitating online coaching. Key questions discuss engaging freshmen, helping students choose careers, and addressing faculty and department concerns.

1. Reaching them from the get go and
while they are on the go

2. Part I- Prototype of CareerGetGo, an online
training and coaching program for college
students
Part II- Prototype for Module Two of
CareerGetGo
Part III- feedback from Stakeholder that applies to
both prototypes

4. Students need training in job search techniques, resume and
cover letter writing and interviewing techniques
Students need to start with awareness from the beginning of
college about their future career needs upon graduation
Students need to learn more about what careers would be a
good match
Students need access to help with career issues at times other
than regular office hours of career center
Students need emotional support through the difficulties of
finding jobs after college
Students will access this help more readily through means they
are most comfortable with, such as internet, social
networking, mobile apps, youtube, etc.
Students need some form of motivation to encourage them to
take advantage of this opportunity

5. Career GetGo is an online training program/course that
takes the student through the different steps of
searching for a job and career, using an animated guide
or video lectures along with direct online interaction
with a counselor and with student support groups
Every student is introduced to the career program and
provided with an online link for their interactive
training program to be done at their own pace and at
any time
Career GetGo is designed to be accessed at any one of the
module entry points. They do not have to be accessed
in any in specific order, any of them can be skipped,
and any of them can be revisited as many times as
needed

6. Find Your
Map Your Course
Get Hired!

7. Instructional Videos Online Coaching with Counselors
Links to Online
Resources
Video Tutorials
Forums
Online Peer Mentors
Online Career networking groups
Each
module
contains
these
elements

8. 1- What’s Your Source of Power? Who are you what’s
your source of power, what are your strengths,
skills and career interest?
2- Map Your Career-Know the steps you need to take
along the way. What major and courses would
give you the skills and prepare you for careers that
you want after college?
What summer activities would help you prepare
for your career after college?
3- Get Hired- What do you need to do and know
before you graduate to get a job for after? Job
search skills, interviewing skills, resume writing
skills, networking

9. Students, go get CareerGetGo
and get your career going
now!
Sign up for your program at:
careergetgo.yourcollege.edu

10. Find Your

11. ASSESS
Career Aptitude and Interests-
Administration of online career tests that assess aptitude, interest and personality match
Links to other resources to learn more about personality and career matching careers tests
Online assessment feedback with career counselor
Videos about how career assessments work and how to use them for career development e.g
explanation of Myers Briggs personality and which careers work for which personalities
EXPLORE
Interactive online exercises that help student define what they really want to do
Online chat with career counselor about the exercises and explorations
Online Discussion Forums for students about their self discovery and career matching
FOCUS
Specifically designed videos with informational interviews about different career paths – e.g
lawyers, doctors, engineers, educators, etc
Post links to summer jobs and internships that may match what career track student wants to
explore
Post research about which college majors lead to which careers.
Online forum with student about value of intenships, what kind of internships are useful for career
development

12. Part III- Feedback

13. What Worked
Giving students the opportunity to do their career
development using formats that they are comfortable
with- notably online and in their own time frames
Lessens the burdens of the career centers because of the
delivery of the training to all the students with one format
Gives students an early start on addressing these issues
and helps them plan their studies and course accordingly
Improvement
Delivery of the system would need a lot of software design
work
How can you design a platform that can be used by any school
yet can be modified for that specific institution.
The online coaching needs to be worked out better for both
sides.
Students need to both asynchronous and synchronous online
interaction
Career counselors need to manage time spent with students.
There is no mechanism in this prototype that solves this.
Ideas?
Schools willing to flex more on course
requirements and offerings so that students can
do both- take courses that are “ broadening”
liberal arts type course and more practical, like
“accounting”
Schools offer more internship semesters that give
students the opportunity to develop necessary
job expereince and skill that the academics can’t
provide
Questions?
Engage students as freshmen when they can’t see as far ahead
as graduation?
How you get students to discover what they really want to do
before it is too late?
How can career centers to work more closely with faculty to
help student design course work that is relevant?
How can you prevent uproar from departments that have
majors with no clear relevance to getting jobs in the future?
How can you get schools to buy this product? ( Is that a good
question?)
One student and
one professor