Career Exploration, Degree Planning, and Leadership
Chapter Outline
3.1. Why Worry About a Career While I’m in College?
3.2. Your Map to Success: The Career Planning Cycle
3.3. Planning Your Degree Path
3.5. Developing Your Leadership Skills
Student Survey
How ready are you to plan your career? Take this quick survey to figure it out, ranking questions on a scale of 1–4, 1 meaning “least like me” and 4 meaning “most like me.”
- _______ I am feeling certain about my major (or my ability to choose a major soon).
- _______ I know what kinds of jobs I can get with my major.
- _______ I am familiar with the requirements I must complete and options I must select to obtain a college degree.
- _______ I have a good idea of what I need to do in each year of college to graduate and achieve career success.
- _______ I am aware of what resources are on campus to help me create a career plan.
- _______ I am exploring ways to develop my leadership skills while in college.
Chapter Outcomes
In this chapter you will learn more about setting the foundation for college and career success by gaining a deeper understanding of how to begin your academic and career planning. It will also help identify the nature of leadership characteristics needed in the workplace.
By the time you complete this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Learn what a career is and how it applies to you.
- Identify resources on campus that can help you explore careers and develop a plan.
- Increase self-awareness relative to career aspirations and create a plan to reach career goals.
- List the types of college certificates, degrees, special programs, and majors you can pursue.
- Describe the nature of leadership.
- List the behavioral and situational perspectives on leadership.
- Give examples of transactional and transformation leadership characteristics.