Careers

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Careers

• Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Ph.D.
• Middle Tennessee State University
• Presented at
• University of Nantes

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Career Goals

• Decide Where You Want to GO (BE)
• Have, Do, Be
• Be
• Do
• Have

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Career Goals

• Read about career options
• Ask questions about career options
• Chinese Knowledge
• Observe occupations firsthand
• Sample occupations of interest (Internships,
  Volunteer Jobs)
• Join Professional Organizations

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Career Marketing

• Your Resume Who you are and What you are.
• Tailor your Resume to the Position you are
  pursuing
• Identify your Most relevant Skills and
  Experiences
• Different Positions or Occupations Multiple
  Versions of your Resume
• Obtain a Position Description (or JD) listing the
  various responsibilities
• Tweak your resume to tailor it directly to that
  position.

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Career Marketing

• Present your academic experiences
• Keep your Resume Fact-oriented
• Use Functional headings and terms
• Education, Work Experience, Activities, Skills
• Use ACTION verbs

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Strategy

• Respond to Job Advertisements
• Post your resume online
• Participate in on-campus recruiting
• Participate in job fairs
• Participate in your career centers resume
  referral program
• Register with third-party employment firms
• Mass mailing
• Targeted mailing
• Networking

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Employers Top 10 Qualities

• 1. Communication Skills
• 2. Motivation/Initiative
• 3. Teamwork Skills
• 4. Leadership Skills
• 5. Academic Achievement

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Employers Top 10 Qualities

• 6. Interpersonal Skills
• 7. Flexibility/Adaptability
• 8. Technical Skills
• 9. Honesty/Integrity
• 10. Work Ethic/Problem-Solving Skills

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Yearly Salary BA--Business

• Accounting 33,500-40,000
• Bus. Adm./Management 30,000-42,000
• Economic Finance 33,000-42,000
• Mgmt Information Systems 40,000-48,000
• Marketing/Mkt. Mgmt 29,000-37,500
• NACE Salary Survey (July 2000)

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Yearly Salary BA

• Bus. Adm./Management 30,000-42,000
• Computer Science 45,000-52,000
• EE 45,520-52,000
• Agricultural Bus Mgmt 27,000-35,000
• Communications 25,000-35,000
• Public Relations 25,000-30,000
• Psychology 24,000-33,500
• Elementary Education 24,000-28,500

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Yearly Salary MBA

• BA Bus. Adm./Management 30,000-42,000
• Accounting 37,500-42,000
• MBA
• 1 yr or less experience 40,000-60,000
• 1-2 48,000-67,000
• 2-4 57,000-72,000
• 4 60,000-78,000

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The Best B-Schools

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  Pre-MBA Post-MBA
• Pennsylvania (Wharton) 60,000 156,000
• Northwestern (Kellogg) 55,000 142,000
• Harvard 65,000 160,000
• MIT (Sloan) 55,000 149,000
• Duke (Fugua) 48,000 128,500
• Business Week (October 2, 2000)

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The Best B-Schools Global

• 
  Pre-MBA Post-MBA
• INSEAD (France) 60,000 124,000
• London Bus (UK) 50,000 137,000
• IESE (Spain) 40,000 77,000
• IMD (Switzerland) 69,000 126,000
• West Ontario (Canada) 35,000 74,000
• Rotterdam (Netherlands) 43,000 91,000
• Business Week (October 2, 2000)

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Network

• Networking is the sharing of information and
  building trust.
• Networking is a formal, rather than informal
  activity.
• It is an interconnected web of individuals to
  whom you return over and over.
• Tread your informational interview like any job
  interview.
• Maintain relationships. Dont cut and run!

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International Careers

• Corporations increasingly view all professional
  careers as potentially international.
• The employee who displays cross-cultural
  competence has an understanding of the
  international business environment, plus the
  skills and knowledge needed for applying these
  effectively in new situations.

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An International Job

• Involves working for an international company
  that views the world as its market.
• Involves contact with people from other countries
• May require living and working abroad for periods
  of time.
• Usually demands a targeted skill or area of
  knowledge
• Is extremely demanding

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Skills Required for International Jobs

1. Ability to learn
2. Adventurous spirit
3. Creativity
4. Curiosity
5. Functional Skills
6. Initiative

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Skills Required for International Jobs

• 7. Language Skills
• 8. Sense of Humor
• 9. Sensitivity, adaptability, and flexibility
• 10. Strong International Skills
• 11. Tenacity
• 12. Willingness to take risks

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Interpret Your Past

1. Your experience counts
2. Use the vocabulary of your chosen field whenever
   possible in your resume and in the interview
3. Examine and narrate your out-of-class experience
   through the lens of your career goal
4. Convey what you learned, as well as what you did
   in your job, internship, or activity.
5. Quantify your actions

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Interpret Your Past

1. Control the way your information impacts
   employers through sequencing and amplification.
2. Credit your contributions and impact.
3. Take stock of occurrences that spotlight your
   personal attributes.
4. Showcase your skills and talents with a
   portfolio.

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Tips for YOUR Resume

1. Pay careful attention to spelling, punctuation,
   grammar, and style
2. Proofread your resume carefully and have other
   people proofread it as well
3. Organize information in logical fashion
4. Keep descriptions clear and to the point
5. Confine your information to 1 page

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Tips for YOUR Resume

• Use a simple, easy-to-read font
• Use good-quality white or off-white bond paper
• Include as much work experience as possible
• Tailor your information to the job your are
  seeking

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Punctuation

• An English professor wrote the words, "a woman
  without her man is nothing" on the blackboard and
  directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
• The men wrote "A woman, without her man, is
  nothing.
• The women wrote "A woman without her, man is
  nothing."

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1998 Harvard Commencement

• Formal Governor of Massachusetts
• AB Harvard
• JD Harvard
• 5 Jobs in the Public Sector
• 5 Jobs in the Private Sector

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1998 Harvard Commencement

• The process that produces success and
  satisfaction is a game.
• Game has rules for players.
• Here are the rules of the game for success.

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1998 Harvard Commencement

• 1. Solve the problem yourself. The buck stops
  here.
• 2. Take pleasure in doing little things well.
• 3. Think outside the box. After you resolve the
  issue with the parameters given, challenge the
  parameters.

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1998 Harvard Commencement

• 4. Never mind who gets the credit. This is the
  only sign on President Ronald Reagans desk.
• 5. You meet the same people going down as you
  did going up. If you are getting angry at
  someone, it is time to re-group.
• 6. Dont complain and dont explain. One is
  useless and the other unnecessary.

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1998 Harvard Commencement

• 7. Never make an important decision under
  pressure.
• 8. You never know where your next friend is
  coming from. Disagree without being disagreeable.
  Never use the words intend to wound.

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1998 Harvard Commencement

• A resume is a shorthand of your accomplishments
• Dont just dribble, dribble, and dribble the ball
  all around the court. Take shots. Take risks.
  Score some points.

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The Churchill Effect

• If you have to kill a man, it costs you nothing
  to be polite.

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David Burke

• In November 1987, David Burke, a 35-year old
  USAir agent was fired by Raymond Thompson, a
  customer-service manager for the same airline.

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David Burke

• He terminated Burke for the theft of 69 from
  flight cocktail receipts.
• Aware that Thompson would be aboard Pacific
  Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 to San Francisco,
  Burke purchased a one-way ticket for that flight
  bearing a Smith Wesson .44 magnum revolver.

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David Burke

• The jet made it halfway to its destination before
  crashing.
• FBI evidence included the gun with six empty
  casings and a threatening note that read I
  asked for some leniency for my family, remember.
  Well, I got none. And youll got none.

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David Burke

• Other 41 passengers caught up in the act of
  revenge. (43 died)
• Lancaster Tang (1989, April, Personnel
  Administrator)

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Thank You

• Danke
• Dankeshen
• Grazie
  
• Merci
• Muchas Gracias