Week 4 Activity- Connecting the Dots

Overview

Now that you know your strengths and have started to identify your personal brand, you want to think about your career path. An important part of building your brand and marketing yourself is to understand your skills, interests, and values and to leverage those into a fulfilling career. The Strayer University Career Center offers many valuable resources to help students identify and investigate career choices.

In this activity, you will review the Career Exploration Guides available in the Strayer Career Center. This will help you determine your educational and/or career goals and improve your professional marketability by better understanding occupation-specific information. You will also find this information useful when you develop an Elevator Pitch as part of your next assignment.

Instructions

Using the information from your exploration of the Career Center and the O*Net Occupational Information Network, imagine you completed an interview for the job you researched.

• In a Word Document, draft a hypothetical Thank You email to the employer who interviewed you.
• Include the following information to reiterate why you would be perfect for the job:
• The job title.
• The characteristics you possess that make you well-suited for the position (these can be hypothetical): knowledge, skills, strengths (from your CliftonStrengths assessment), experience, training, education, tasks, etc.
• Conclude with your personal brand statement.
• Save the document as Lastname_FirstName_BUS210_Week4.
• Submit the activity using the Week 4 Assignment link.

Note: This is personal writing, so you shouldn’t need to cite anything, but if you use information from a source, be sure to cite it. The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Optional tip to extend this learning: Visit the to leverage a library of 8,000+ interview-driven videos with industry professionals. Here you can find videos that align with your specific career interests. With each Candid Career video, you can choose to watch the full video (which is just a few minutes long) or skip to the parts youre most interested in by clicking a specific tab, like how to prepare or finding success. Each video features professionals working in that particular career area.

How to Access Career Information

Step 1: Visit the located in the Strayer Career Center. Log in as a student.

Step 2: Select your program (or a program you are interested in) and then select a degree and view the Career Exploration Guide.

Note: These are listed on the page and expand when clicked, but they are not titled “Program.”

Step 3: Under Explore This Field, you will find links to professional organizations, industry information, and job boards. Select a few from each category to learn more about jobs that require the skills, knowledge, and abilities you have or are pursuing in your academic journey.

Step 4: Under Industry Information, click on

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Step 5: In the top right corner, enter a job title in the Search field. Choose a job that matches your unique personal brand.

Step 6: Select a position and take note of the details under each of the categories listed here:

• Occupation-Specific Information
• Occupational Requirements
• Experience Requirements
• Worker Requirements
• Worker Characteristics
• Workforce Characteristics

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