Career and Academic Planning Certification CAP-C

Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Fall 2013 Spring 2015

Competency 1: Discover and utilize goal-setting techniques and college success skills. Competency 2: Identify values, interests, personality, skills, and strengths to create a personal profile. Competency 3: Make connections within personal profile themes and understand how these themes connect to major and career options. Competency 4: Explore a decision-making model to guide the academic and career development process and become aware of barriers to decision-making. Competency 5: Systematically explore majors and careers, using online, people, and experiential approaches. Competency 6: Develop a two-year educational plan integrating academic, career, and co-curricular goals and skills development. Competency 7: Begin building basic career development skills related to creating self-marketing materials (focus on resumes and basic networking skills).

Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Fall Quarter Complete by December 6, 2013 Competency 1: Discover and utilize goal-setting techniques and college success skills.

Goal Setting

Resources

Reflection

Time Management

COMPLETE:

COMPLETE:

Attend CAP-C Orientation

Attend the S.M.A.R.T.
Goal-Setting workshop

CHOOSE ONE:
A) Write about a time you set a goal and accomplished it. What were the steps you took? How did you handle barriers to success? What resources did you use? Discuss with your Premajor advisor

CHOOSE ONE:
A) Meet with a Learning Specialist in Learning Assistance Programs to discuss time management techniques

Take Money Mojo Cash

course

CHOOSE ONE:
A) Visit the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) to learn how they can help you adjust to campus life B) Attend an event hosted by Commuter & Transfer Student Life to learn about how they can help you adjust to campus life C) Meet with Wellness and Health Promotion to talk about strategies for self-care D) Visit Campus Ministry to discuss how to approach your education from a holistic perspective

Create S.M.A.R.T goals

using worksheet

B) Attend a yoga class or meditation session, possibly offered by University Recreation C) Go on a student retreat

B) Input your assignments/ exams/papers for the quarter into a calendar (may be electronic)

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Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Fall and Winter Quarter Complete by March 17, 2014
Competency 2: Identify values, interests, personality, skills, and strengths to create a personal profile.

Workshops

Reflection

COMPLETE:

COMPLETE:

Fall Quarter: Attend

the Skills Scan Workshop

Create and upload a

video where you define your personal profile and provide a concrete example of each area.

Values worksheet after

first workshop

Winter Quarter: Attend

the Personal Profile Interpretation Workshop

Scan and upload all

personal profile (Personality, Interests, Values and Skills) assessment results reports to Canvas

Visit your Canvas account to get detailed instructions for how to complete the competency

Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Winter Quarter Complete by March 17, 2014 Competency 3: Make connections within personal profile themes and understand how these themes connect to major and career options.

Connection

Reflection

COMPLETE:

COMPLETE:

Attend a
Making-theConnections workshop to discover how your personal profile themes connect to major and career options.

Connect your
personal profile themes with majors/careers. Include next steps for exploring possible majors/ careers.

Visit your Canvas account to get detailed instructions for how to complete the competency

Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Spring Quarter Complete by June 9, 2014

Competency 4: Explore a decision-making model to guide the academic and

career development process and become aware of barriers to decision-making.

Connection

Reflection

COMPLETE:

COMPLETE:

Attend CAP-C DecisionMaking Workshop

Submit a one page

reflective essay about the ways you have made decisions in the past and the influences on decision making

Meet in small groups

to reflect on background influences on decision making

Develop a draft of your

one-quarter educational and career plan

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Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Fall Quarter 2014

Competency 5: Systematically explore majors and careers, using online, people, and experiential approaches.

Major DiscernmentPeople
COMPLETE:

Major DiscernmentExperiential
CHOOSE ONE:
A) Participate in servicelearning in your area of interest
B) Get involved in an academically-affiliated or professional-related student club

Career DiscernmentPeople
COMPLETE:

Career DiscernmentExperiential
COMPLETE:

Major/Career
Investigation Worksheet

Meet with a Career

Advisor to plan next steps for your experiential research.

Submit a one page

reflective essay on

CHOOSE ONE:
A) Speak with 2 faculty about majors in their departments and careers their students pursue
B) Conduct 2 informational interviews with students pursuing a major of interest and learn about their experience and goals

transferable skills

CHOOSE ONE:
A) Attend an employer information session on campus
B) Idenitfy and meet with a mentor who can support your career development process

CHOOSE ONE:
A) Conduct an informational interview with a professional in a job/field of interest B) Conduct a job shadow or participate in an employer trek to learn about an occupation that interests you

C) Take a major related course

C) If exploring pre-law, prehealth, pre-education, meet with the appropriate advisor and a faculty member to learn about the major and career opportunities

C) Attend a networking night on campus hosted by Career Services or Alumni Relations

D) Attend an on-campus career or internship fair and speak to 3 employers

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Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Winter Quarter 2015 Competency 6: Develop a two-year educational plan integrating academic, career, and co-curricular goals and skills development.

Discernment

Reflection

COMPLETE:

COMPLETE:

View Creating an
Educational and Career Plan Module

Meet with a career advisor

to review a draft of your twoyear educational and career plan to get their feedback and signature

Create a draft two-year (or

three-year) educational and career plan for a potential major

Journal about what

information you still need to gather. What else do you need to make your decision? Share with your Premajor Studies Advisor

Meet with a faculty advisor

in your potential major to review a draft of your two-year educational and career plan

Visit your Canvas account to get detailed instructions for how to complete the competency

Career and Academic Planning Certification (CAP-C)

Spring Quarter 2015 Competency 7: Begin building basic career development skills related to creating self-marketing materials (focus on resumes and basic networking skills).

Skill Building

Application

COMPLETE:

COMPLETE:

Attend a resume workshop

offered through Career Services

Create a full profile on the

Redhawk Network and LinkedIn

Participate in a workshop to
explore basic networking skills and learn about how to create on online presence (LinkedIn, social media etc), including online branding and image do and donts

Meet with a Career advisor

to identify gaps in your resume and review a draft of your twoyear educational and career plan for feedback

Visit your Canvas account to get detailed instructions for how to complete the competency