Self-Assessment Skills, experience, interests, values, and personality

Exploration Reading, informational interviewing, classes

Goal-Setting Identifying SMART goals

Action Preparing a plan and taking steps to meet your goals

Evaluation Assessing options through interactions & experiences

What are your primary interests Classes you’ve enjoyed, done well in?

What do you value in a career? How do things like family, money, lifestyle,

influence, long-term career potential factor?

What are you skilled at doing? Project management, financial analysis, event planning, meeting facilitation, team- building, databases, marketing, etc.

• Positions include Market Research Analysts, Business Analysts, Budget Analysts, Operations Analysts, etc.

• Uses advanced methods of analysis to help organizations identify root problems and apply tangible solutions

• Works in gov’t agencies, consulting firms, banks, company finance depts.

• Help company’s implement projects in a fiscally responsible manner

• Familiar with budgeting, financial ratios, and basic accounting

• May also assess the performance of stocks, bonds, etc.

• Work for investment firms, government agencies, and companies

• Review financial statements (e.g. Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flows Statement)

• Use financial ratios to assess the financial strength of borrowers

• Work in banks, mortgage brokers, credit card companies

• Analyze financial costs of risk and uncertainty to help businesses develop policies that minimize risk-related costs

• Use math, statistics, financial theory

• Works for insurance companies, healthcare organizations, government agencies

• Internal and external auditors check

for mismanagement of an organization’s funds

• Can become a Certified Internal Auditor after two years in the field through the IIA

• Work for public accounting firms and government regulatory agencies

• Propose ways to improve an organization's efficiency by analyzing work policies, procedures, and processes.

• Advise managers on making business operations more efficient through the implementation of software and systems.

• Work for consulting firms and the human resources offices of various organizations.

• Obtain clients through persuasive formal and informal presentations

• Manage the client relationship for the lifetime of the product or service Work for major companies, universities, consulting firms, etc.

• Great earning potential, due to bonuses and incentives

• Do research on prices, employment,

taxes, investments, etc.

• Conduct surveys, college and interpret data, write in-depth reports

• Masters degree required for advancement

• Work for local, state, and federal government, as well as universities.

• Collect and compile statistical data

• Analyze the effects of current policy and recommend policy changes

• Requires an advanced degree in law or a masters/Ph.D. in economics

• Work for universities, think tanks, media outlets/newspapers, government agencies, etc.

• Conduct original research and write

scholarly articles for publication

• Teach classes, explaining complex concepts in an accessible manner

• Compile curriculum, create tests, grade assignments

• Work for high schools, colleges, and universities

www.bls.gov/ooh

Corporate America

Small Business

Government Agency

Non-Profit Organization

• Student Organizations

UO Economics Club

International Business & Economics Club

UO Human Resources Association

• Experiential Learning Panel Discussions, Business Trips, Job Shadows, Volunteering

• Analytical, Problem Solving, and Decision-Making

• Communication, Business Writing, and Public Speaking

• Math and Statistics

• Research

• Applied Economics

• Statistics and Research Methodology

• Finance and Accounting

• Human Resources Management

• Writing and Communication

• Start with a subject (e.g. “my career”) in the center of the map.

• Begin drawing branches out from the center with related words

• Continue branching off (free-association-style)

• Download, photocopy, or cut out/copy & paste at least 50 job postings that when you see them you think:

– I’ve always wanted to do that!

– Looking interesting, I could probably do that, too.

• Once you’ve collected at least 50 postings:

o Look for patterns or common themes

o Create at least 1 (no more than 5) potential career tracks

o Assess your end goals

o Take stock of your qualifications

o Work backwards to your build skills and experiences accordingly

• Volunteer or job shadow

• Conduct informational interviews • Alumni, Facebook, LinkedIn, Family friends,

Professors

• Find (or create) an internship

• Attend networking events

• Join professional associations & boards

• Bill Sherman, Director of Career & Advising Services (PLC 405)

• By Appointment:

wsherman@uoregon.edu

A seven-part workshop series

Tuesdays @ 6 pm (PLC 410)

Part 1: Making Smart Career Decisions

Part 2: Everything You Need to Find an Internship

Part 3: Resume Writing—Taking it to the Next Level

Part 4: How to Write a Darn Good Cover Letter

Part 5: Job Search 201—Better, Smarter, Faster

Part 6: Preparing for the Career Fair

Part 7: Interviewing: Getting Past the 1st & 2nd Rounds