SDS 3340 FSU Career Development Essay

Directions: This project is the culminating activity of the course. It is designed to help you pull together all that you’ve learned in the class. You should use all the papers, assignments, activities, and reports that you have completed to prepare this paper.

Specific requirements:

• Use the CASVE Cycle phases (see following pages) as section headings to structure your paper. Use the question for each CASVE cycle phase to help structure the paper’s content. Read the material in each of the six sections below before you begin to write and refer to them again while preparing your paper.
• If you are still unsure of your academic and/or career plans, discuss the situation with your instructor, advisor, or counselor and specify the processes and resources you will use to make your academic/career decisions. Use the CASVE cycle model.
• This is a formal paper and should follow appropriate academic style. It should be repaired with a cover page and a table of contents. If you make reference to specific sources of information, those must be properly cited and a reference listed included. Staple the pages together in the upper left corner, do not use a binder or cover. If you adequately cover the categories outline, your people will be at least 60 pages not including the cover page and the table of contents.

Summary

Remember that the purposes of this project are to help you put together what you have learned about yourself and the academic and career options available to you, and to use the information to develop a plan for yourself. This paper should represent your highest level of academic work and career thinking. If you have any questions–or get stuck–work with your instructor.

Strategic Academic/Career Planning Project Outline

Cover Page

Table of Contents (include page numbers for each of the six topics below)

Contents:

• Communication
  • What was the concern that prompted you to begin the academic/career decision-making process at the beginning of the class?What was the gap between your situation at that time and the situation you wanted to be in?
  • What internal(feelings, emotions, hunches) and external(family, the university, news reports, grades, letter saying you had to declare a major, upcoming graduation) cues did you experience that alerted you to this need to reduce the gap between your situation and the desired state?
  • What did you want to learn from this class? What were your learning goals?
• Analysis
  • What have you learned about yourself in this class that is important in making your academic and/or career decisions? Examine your values, interest skills, and experiences.
  • What have you learned about the world of work that will influence your decisions? In a broad sense, what kinds of occupations/majors/jobs seem most attractive? What types of organization? What kind of activities? What scheme did you learn about for organizing options?
  • What have you learned about your decision-making process that will relate to your future choices? In general, which CASVE Cycle phase or phases are you in? What evidence can you provide to support your thinking about this? Do your CTI results apple, for example decision-making confusion? Commitment anxiety? External conflict?
• Synthesis
• Valuing
• Execution
• Communication

Outline (already started)

• COMMUNICATION
  • Why did you choose your major? Does your major line up with what you wanted to be when you graduate college? If it changed, why? Can speak honestly about your pursuit to the NFL while also knowing the importance of having a back-up plan.
  • Knowing you are close to graduating, what are your feelings as you realize college is coming to an end/about to enter the real world? Can talk about the fact that you still have two more years of eligibility left and that although you aren’t exactly sure of what you want to do after college (with NFL being such a real opportunity), you feel beyond lucky to take advantage of the opportunity to take Grad classes at FSU to better your academic background-Grad classes will help your future become clearer. What you wanted to learn from class? Maybe talk about how unsure you really have always been about what you will do after college because of your NFL aspirations but you wanted to take this class to help the picture become clearer for you (and maybe it did?) Can fake like it was such a big help at least and note a couple examples of ideas you have in your head of what you want to do now.

• ANALYSIS
  • Talk about what you have learned about yourself and how the picture has become clearer for your future with some of the assignments/activities you have completed in this class. Can just ramble on a bit and go back on some assignments/lectures and make up a few things.
  • What have you learned about the work world that has influenced your decisions on what you want to do/need to do to be successful in whatever career it is you decide? Talk about whatever it is you think you want to do, and what jobs seem attractive with that. Maybe can make this part a little longer and talk about a couple different options that intrigue you.
  • What have you learned about your decision making processes that will relate to future choices for you? How indecisive you are in what you want to do exactly but knowing that you want to be involved in an organization that has a purpose (maybe helping others) and you believe that as long as whatever organization you work lines up with your core beliefs/purposes toward the goodwill of others, you know life will be good. Not considered work if you love what you do.
  • What CASVE cycle phase are you in? Having issues committing to what exactly it is you want to do because all you want to do is play in the NFL.

• SYNTHESIS
  • What have you done/or plan to do to give yourself other alternatives in case your number 1 job choice doesn’t work? GRAD school + Can talk about how you have interned with Mike at NSD, where you went in a couple times a week just to see what work felt like. Talking to me about the stock market just to continue learning about things you don’t know. (importance of knowing a little about a lot of things). Joining PKE to expand your relationship reach. Growing your reach with the public through social media with all of your new NLI deals. Going to visit kids at schools/signing for kids/etc. All of these have made you realize you enjoy just helping people.
  • What are some of the educational, occupational, employment alternatives that you’ve considered? 3-5 choices. What are some maybe that you cut out to get down to that number and why?

• Valuing
  • What will be the most important factors that come into play when you make your decision on what you will be/what job you take?

• You want your organization to have a true mission that will keep you motivated every day to help achieve that
• You want to work with good people as you have always believed that you are only as good as those around you
• You value helping others so it’s a must that your job commits to a workplace that is involved in making a difference in other’s lives
• A job without an overwhelming schedule/vacation time off every year as you want to have a big family and believe family time away is vital.
• Having a job near your parents/brother/sister

• Cost and benefit of each alternative to yourself, your significant other and society? SPECIFICALLY describe the pros and cons of each option. The alternatives you must talk about are the alternatives you wrote down above under the SYNTHESIS category. Basically just jot down why each alternative job would be good and why it would be not good. (Examples-far from family, not a very high paying job, very time-demanding, scared it doesn’t have a true mission, not many job openings in south florida for this job)
• Based on your answers to these questions above, RANK your alternatives in order from SYNTHESIS section above.

• Execution
  • What will you need to do to land your number 1 job choice? You can number the steps you take to make it easy. (example: 1. Sit down and complete your resume 2. Begin doing more specific research on the job’s available in south florida? 3. Call these places ……etc)
  • How much time do you think it will take to implement your top ranked ALTERNATIVE? Just make up some shit. It will take awhile so maybe talk about how you understand that landing your number one choice may not be easy so you realize you need to start lining up your ducks for your number one alternative.

• COMMUNICATION
  • Where are you now in your educational and/or career decision making and where do you want to be in a year? Well you feel blessed because you will either go to the NFL or have 1-2 years more of grad school before you even have to have your choice solidified.
  • How do you feel about the current academic and/or career situation? Just blab about this for a little bit and would reiterate what you talked about in the bullet point above.
  • Next questions/issues you will need to address? If not satisfied with your current major, what do you need to focus on? If you are happy with where you’re at, maybe just mention the process you listed in the EXECUTION section and say it is time to get after step 1. That makes this question the easiest. You can also just make up a funny line and say a lot will depend on how the team plays this year.
  • below I attached an outline