Developing Your Career Readiness

This activity is important because being career ready is a lifelong process that requires you to continually learn and develop your competencies. In order to develop your career readiness, you should recognize the different ways you can proactively and continually improve.

The goal of this activity is to demonstrate your understanding of how various activities enhance your career readiness in six key categories.

Each statement describes a person engaged in an activity that develops career readiness. Read the statements, then match each person to the category of developing career readiness that their activity best represents.

Experiment Model Others Possessing the Targeted Competencies Build Self$-$Awareness Learn From Educational Activities Learn From On$-$the$-$Job Activities Seek Experience From Student Groups and Organizations

Match each of the options above to the items below.

Gabriela thinks she may want to start her own company, but she$$s not sure she$$s the entrepreneurial type. She takes a few validated assessments of entrepreneurial potential to get a better idea.

Chandler wants to work in HR and would like to increase her knowledge of employment law. She signs up to attend a local continuing education seminar on employment law.

Spencer wants to be a professional pianist after earning his music degree but is having trouble booking gigs. He gets in touch with several successful local musicians and asks if they would have coffee with him and share wisdom on breaking into the music scene.

Emery asked his summer internship supervisor if he could switch between different jobs each month so that he could obtain as many new skills and experiences as possible.

Jaime is working on a degree in landscape architecture and has decided to run for the office of vice president of his university$$s chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Reese started a career journal during her freshman year to document all of her personal developmental efforts during college. She noted her struggles, improvements, and growth, and can now discuss these learning experiences during job interviews.