Career Development: Looking Towards Your Future
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 228
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 266
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Chapter 1 Career Readiness
What is career readiness?
What do I know? Assessing skills, closing the skill gap
Why is communication important? How do you communicate?
What does critical thinking have to do with preparing for a career?
Are you emotionally intelligent? How do I know?
Financial literacy: understanding money.
Time management: getting it all done.
Stress management: Taking care of yourself.
What do I what to do?
Am I ready a career?
What is the difference between a job and a career?
Who am I? What do I want?
Chapter 2: Let’s Start Career Exploration (part 1)
Discovering career options when you not sure what you want.
Setting long and short-term goals.
Skill building: Resume Writing
Skill building: Resume Editing
Creating your elevator pitch: How to market and network.
What is my body language saying.
Creating a cover letter.
What effect does your social media have on your job search?
Job Boards: How to get the best results.
Professional phone etiquette.
How to dress for an interview.
Professional e-mails
Chapter 3: Career Exploration (part 2)
What is the purpose of an interview and how do I prepare?
Preparing responses to common interview questions.
Managing interview anxiety
Mock interviews and phone interviews.
Managing career fairs
In the work place: Managing conflict and difficult situations.
Work ethic.
Positive work habits.
Accommodations in the workplace.
Office etiquette.
Organization and time management.
Preventing termination.
Chapter 4: Voices from the Field (part 1)
Deciding on your career path.
How to interview professionals in the field. Conducting an informational interview.
Defining career clusters.
Guest speaker time!!
Invite someone to come to class to discuss Career cluster one: Hospitality/service industry.
Career Cluster two: Human resources, Management
Career Cluster three: Health Care
Career Cluster four: Education
Career Cluster five: Law
Conduct your own interview with a professional in the community.
Research jobs in the field that interest you
You’re the guest speaker: What did you learned from the guest speakers as well as your own research.
Investigating the job market
Chapter 5: Voices from the Field (part 2)
Finding an internship
How does my internship relate where I am going?
Entrepreneurship: where do I start?
Interviewing role play with professionals
Guest speaker: Having more than one career path
Career cluster six:
Career cluster seven
Career cluster eight:
Networking
Inquiry phone calls/ e-mails
Researching and planning for career requirements
Now what? Creating a road map
Chapter 6: Bridging the gap (part 1)
Understanding the purpose of an interview
Interview accommodations
Know your learning style
Time Management
Understanding Benefits
Conflict Resolution
Dealing with difficult co-workers
Getting along wit your boss
What have you learned?
Chapter 7: Bridging the gap (part 2)
Where do I want to be in 1yr/5yrs?
Career Terminology
Succeeding at work vs termination
Overcoming weaknesses
Stress Management
Boundaries
Money Management
Salaries
Review
Chapter 8: Transition (part 1)
Dress for success
Career fairs
Ethics
Know your rights.
Job Travel
Expressing yourself at work
Going beyond the minimal
Body Language
Role plays/ Review
Chapter 9: Transition (part 2 )
Work etiquette
Selecting and acquiring references
Juggling work and personal life
Use of benefit days
Mapping your future
Staying organized
Transferable skills
Finding resources in the community
Putting it all together
References
Yvonne Andrews is a Career and Executive coach with over thirty years of experience helping people create significant changes. She is a mother of 7 and a foster mom to many. Yvonne is a Core Faculty Member with the Threshold Program, Lesley University. Her focus is career development. The Threshold program is a program for young adults with diverse learning, developmental and intellectual disabilities. She is also adjunct faculty with Mount Wachusett Community College for over 20 years and in 2018 was appointed as part-time faculty of Fitchburg State University. In addition to teaching, she has a private practice in Fitchburg, Ma.
For more than 20 years she has worked with individuals ranging from ages 5 to 80.
In addition to psychotherapy, she is also a certified coach, trauma yoga instructor, Master Practitioner in Holy Fire Reiki and an ordained interfaith minister.
She uses a variety of modalities including Client Centered Psychotherapy, Progressive Counting, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychoanalysis, Sand Tray and Art Therapy.