Career goals

IND 299 Module One Career Center Activity Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: This assignment is designed to guide you to the SNHU Career Center, a valuable SNHU resource and to help you create a resume, practice interviewing, and see you all the way through to salary negotiation and advancing your career. As you develop your goals and identify your concentration and course plan, one thing you will need to keep in mind is why you are pursuing a General Studies degree and what you plan to do with it once you graduate. One important consideration is how this degree and your specific concentration choice will help further your career. Prompt: For this activity, you will visit the Career Center. From the list of webinars on demand, choose a webinar that you feel most closely relates to your experiences or goals. Feel free to look through the tabs at the top to locate additional webinars in the Professional Series, Webinar Archive, or Career Day Recordings. Then, take a look at the list of available concentrations in the BA.GST degree located in the module resources. You will be declaring your concentration in Module Five, so it is a good time to begin thinking about what concentration(s) align with your goals and prior learning. After viewing your chosen webinar and scanning the list of concentrations, you will write a short, 1- to 2-page reflection about what you learned. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Describe what Career Center webinar you viewed and what the webinar was about. What webinar content did you find the most interesting or useful? What is one idea from the webinar that relates to any of your goals or prior experiences?

 Reflect on what you learned in the webinar. Did this information give you some ideas for short-term goals in your personal or professional life? How do you think these ideas might be relevant right now as you work to complete the BA.GST?

 Finally, outline two to three concentrations you reviewed that you think may help you achieve your goals and briefly explain why. You are not committing to these concentrations yet; this is just an opportunity for you to start looking at what is available and what transfer credits you may already have toward these concentrations. Why did these concentrations stand out to you?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Webinar Content Clearly explains new information learned during the webinar, and relates webinar content to personal goals.

Explains new information learned during the webinar, but does not clearly explain the content, or fails to connect the webinar content to personal goals.

Does not explain new information learned during the webinar.

30

Short-Term Goals Identifies short-term goals and articulates how the goals will be relevant in pursing the BA.GST degree.

Identifies short-term goals, but does not draw connections between goals and pursuing the BA.GST degree.

Does not identify short-term goals. 30

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Concentrations Outlines two to three possible concentrations and discusses why these concentrations would contribute to achieving personal goals.

Outlines two to three concentration options but does not discuss the reasoning behind each concentration, or does not outline two to three options but does discuss relevance of one concentration option.

Does not outline two to three possible concentrations.

30

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%