Professional Development

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Professional Development

• Starts Now!

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Community of Scholars

• Welcome to be beginning of your professional
  and educational future!
• All steps taken now will prepare you to
  achieve your future potential and life-long
  goals
• Making you a unique scholar who shines
  brighter.
• Bonus! ... You have selected a highly
  regarded, lucrative, secure job force.

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Time Flies

• Four years will go by quickly and will
  consist of many required elements
• Attending courses
• Completing course work outside of class
• Completing degree requirements
• Professional development

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Professional Development

• The extras that contribute to career building
  now and in the future!!
• Benefits

• Long-Term Benefits
• Make you uniquely qualified
• Networking
• Help make a difference
• Keep skills updated
• Increase your marketability and earning
  potential

• Short-Term Benefits
• Shape your interests
• Learn more about the field
• Gain confidence
• Succeed in your courses
• Meet and make new friends
• Have fun!

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Additional Skills Required to be a Professional

• Oral communication
• Written communication
• Teaching
• Team building
• Collegiality
• Motivation
• Outside of the classroom activities are needed!

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Activities to Achieve Goals

• Read additional career-related material to
  expand your knowledge
• Work on additional projects outside of classto
  expand your skills
• Join a club or organization
• Seek assistance from school professionals
• Career Management Center
• Advisors
• Faculty

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Activities to Achieve Goals

• Attend career-related events
• Competitions
• Conferences
• Career fairs
• Network with peers and professionals
• Seek tutoring
• Study groups
• Develop relationships for success
• Serve as a mentor or tutor to someone else
• Seek employment while in school related to your
  degree

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Benefit Examples

• Make new friends
• Join a club/organization
• Ask for advice from peers, alumni, or others
• Work at a job related to your major
• Serve as a mentor or tutor for someone else
• Receive tutoring
• Attend a conference
• Participate in a study group
• Attend a competition

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Student Success

• Participating in a student organization
• It was the first thing that helped me get to
  know people within my major because I came in
  with little to no experience with this field
  That kind of opened the door for me to network
  with some other people and to get to know some
  other people.

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Benefit Examples

• Gain practice applying major-related skills
• Work on additional projects outside of class
• Work at a job or internship related to your
  major
• Serve as a tutor
• Attend a competition
• Join a club/organization

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Student Success

• Working on projects outside of class
• I will have the knowledge that I wouldnt
  have had otherwise when I get out, so once I come
  out I can say on my resume that I know a lot of
  things that a lot of my peers wont. Unless they
  have also done it on the side.

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Long-term vs. Short-term

• What can you work on today to prepare for your
  future?
• Professional development is a life-long
  pursuit
• Document your experiences!

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• Brief Reflection Activity

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AssignmentDUE Mon 9/27

• Blackboard activity and quiz
• Apply what youve learned
• Read about professional development activities
  and benefits on the Wiki
• Share experiences by posting 3 comments
• Complete a quiz
• Covering this lecture and the Wiki