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 knowledge, skills, abilities, and other attributes. In order increase your career readiness, you should recognize the different ways you can proactively and continually improve in the six categories of career readiness.

The goal of this exercise 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.

1. Learn From On-the-Job Activities
2. Learn From Educational Activities
3. Build Self-Awareness
4. Experiment
5. Seek Experience From Student Groups and Organizations
6. Model Others Possessing the Targeted Competencies

Match each of the options above to the items below.

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

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

• 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.

  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. Open choices for matching

• 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.

  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. Open choices for matching

• 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.

  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. Open choices for matching

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

  Jaime is working on a degree in landscape architecture and has decided to run for the office of vice president of his universitys chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Open choices for matching

• 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.

  Process for Managing Career Readiness

  This textbook aims to help you become more career ready by teaching you about the principles of management and then helping you to integrate what youve learned in each chapter into the process of building your career readiness. This activity is important because it demonstrates a step-by-step process to help you apply what youre learning to building your career readiness.

  The goal of this exercise is to challenge your understanding of the process for managing career readiness as outlined in figure 1.5 of your textbook.

  Following are scenarios related to the process for managing career readiness. Some scenarios depict a student trying to use a step in the process, other scenarios describe students using steps in the process improperly. Read each scenario and select the step of the process from managing career readiness that it depicts, or select if it is a scenario that depicts a person improperly using the process.

  1. Sarah wants to develop her cross-cultural competency, so she finds two international student events to attend in the upcoming semester to help her learn more about these cultures.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  2. Wilder wants to be as career ready as possible, so he reads through the list of KSAOs in Table 1.2 of his textbook and decides to work on improving every single one of them this semester.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  3. Imani is about to enter the job market. She combs through the list of KSAOs in Table 1.2 of her textbook and chooses Self-Awareness and Oral/Written Communication to work on. She knows these are two important skills to develop before submitting resumes and going on job interviews.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  4. Rick wanted to develop networking skills so he attended an event for young professionals. He didnt know one person and felt too intimidated to talk to others. In considering what went wrong, he realized it may be best to attend these events with a friend or colleague who is already plugged into the network.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  5. Aspen has a 4.0 grade point average and has already landed several job interviews. She ignores the career readiness development materials contained in her textbook because she feels shes as ready as shes ever going to be.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  6. Fletch is a natural at sales and marketing but hes heard that data analysis is a hot skill on the job market. Hes not interested in an analytics job but decides that since he doesnt have this skill he should spend the next two years earning a degree in data analytics.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  7. Miguel wants to work on his ability to understand the business before his upcoming job interview. He recalls that his textbook includes a discussion of this, so he searches the book for ways to work on this competency.

  (Click to select) Step 1: Identify the KSAOs you want to develop Step 2: Determine which concepts are relevant for developing your targeted KSAOs Step 3: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your KSAOs Step 4: Evaluate the results of your experimental small steps Depicts a person improperly using the process

  8. As soon as Kenzie implements a few small steps toward developing one KSAO, she goes back to Table 1.2 in her textbook and picks another KSAO to work on.

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  Fair Oaks Farms

  Seven challenges face any manager: You need to manage for competitive advantageto stay ahead of rivals. You need to manage for the effects of globalization and of information technology. You need to manage for diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, and so on, because the future wont resemble the past. You always need to manage to maintain ethical standards. You need to manage for sustainabilityto practice sound environmental policies. Finally, you need to manage for the achievement of your own happiness and life goals.

  Fair Oaks Farms, which is located in Fair Oaks, Indiana, is Mike and Sue McCloskeys flagship farm. It includes a dairy-based company, Fairlife, which produces ultra-filtered, nutrient-dense, lactose-free cow milk with reduced sugars and high levels of natural protein and calcium, and a host of other products, including Core Power protein shakes, Fairlife Smart Shakes, and Fairlife YUP!.

  The goal of this video is to demonstrate how Fair Oaks Farms successfully faces many managerial challenges.

  Click the button to watch the video. Then, answer the questions that follow.

  Play Video

  Mike and Sue McCloskey wanted to change the dairy farming industry itself. They did this by opening up their farms to the public to educate people on the farming industry. To which managerial challenge is this most closely related?

  Multiple Choice

• managing for information technology

• managing for globalization

• managing for competitive advantage

• managing for employee needs

• managing for diversity

  Seven challenges face any manager: You need to manage for competitive advantageto stay ahead of rivals. You need to manage for the effects of globalization and of information technology. You need to manage for diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, and so on, because the future wont resemble the past. You always need to manage to maintain ethical standards. You need to manage for sustainabilityto practice sound environmental policies. Finally, you need to manage for the achievement of your own happiness and life goals.

  Fair Oaks Farms, which is located in Fair Oaks, Indiana, is Mike and Sue McCloskeys flagship farm. It includes a dairy-based company, Fairlife, which produces ultra-filtered, nutrient-dense, lactose-free cow milk with reduced sugars and high levels of natural protein and calcium, and a host of other products, including Core Power protein shakes, Fairlife Smart Shakes, and Fairlife YUP!.

  The goal of this video is to demonstrate how Fair Oaks Farms successfully faces many managerial challenges.

  Click the button to watch the video. Then, answer the questions that follow.

  Play Video

  Fair Oaks Farms manure management, specifically the use of cow manure to power their facilities and fuel their milk tankers, is most closely related to which managerial challenge?

  Multiple Choice

• managing for animal welfare

• managing for information technology

• managing for sustainability

• managing for diversity

• managing for globalization