PROTOTYPE FOR ONLINE CAREER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS

Reaching them from the get go and while they are on the go

Prototype Assignment

Part I- Prototype of CareerGetGo, an online training and coaching program for college students

Part II- Prototype for Module Two of CareerGetGo

Part III- feedback from Stakeholder that applies to both prototypes

Career GetGo

Basic Rationale

Students need training in job search techniques, resume and cover letter writing and interviewing techniques

Students need to start with awareness from the beginning of college about their future career needs upon graduation

Students need to learn more about what careers would be a good match

Students need access to help with career issues at times other than regular office hours of career center

Students need emotional support through the difficulties of finding jobs after college

Students will access this help more readily through means they are most comfortable with, such as internet, social networking, mobile apps, youtube, etc.

Students need some form of motivation to encourage them to take advantage of this opportunity

Here Comes Career GetGo!

Career GetGo is an online training program/course that takes the student through the different steps of searching for a job and career, using an animated guide or video lectures along with direct online interaction with a counselor and with student support groups

Every student is introduced to the career program and provided with an online link for their interactive training program to be done at their own pace and at any time

Career GetGo is designed to be accessed at any one of the module entry points. They do not have to be accessed in any in specific order, any of them can be skipped, and any of them can be revisited as many times as needed

CareerGetGo

Find Your

Map Your Course

Get Hired!

Interchangeable Resources

Instructional Videos Online Coaching with Counselors

Links to Online

Resources Video Tutorials

Forums

Online Peer Mentors Online Career networking groups

Each module contains

these elements

Modules of Career GetGo

1- What’s Your Source of Power? Who are you what’s your source of power, what are your strengths, skills and career interest?

2- Map Your Career-Know the steps you need to take along the way. What major and courses would give you the skills and prepare you for careers that you want after college?

What summer activities would help you prepare for your career after college?

3- Get Hired- What do you need to do and know before you graduate to get a job for after? Job search skills, interviewing skills, resume writing skills, networking

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Students, go get CareerGetGo and get your career going now!

Sign up for your program at: careergetgo.yourcollege.edu

Part II-Prototype for Module I

Find Your

CareerGetGo- Module1Find Your Power

ASSESSCareer Aptitude and Interests- Administration of online career tests that assess aptitude, interest and personality match Links to other resources to learn more about personality and career matching careers tests Online assessment feedback with career counselor Videos about how career assessments work and how to use them for career development

e.g explanation of Myers Briggs personality and which careers work for which personalities

EXPLOREInteractive online exercises that help student define what they really want to doOnline chat with career counselor about the exercises and explorationsOnline Discussion Forums for students about their self discovery and career matching

FOCUSSpecifically designed videos with informational interviews about different career paths – e.g

lawyers, doctors, engineers, educators, etcPost links to summer jobs and internships that may match what career track student wants to

explorePost research about which college majors lead to which careers.Online forum with student about value of intenships, what kind of internships are useful for

career development

Part III- Feedback

Feedback- from student and one professor

What WorkedGiving students the opportunity to do

their career development using formats that they are comfortable

with- notably online and in their own

time framesLessens the burdens

of the career centers because of the delivery of the training to all the students with one

formatGives students an

early start on addressing these issues and helps them plan their

studies and course accordingly

Improvement Delivery of the system would need a lot of software

design work How can you design a platform that can be used by any school yet can be modified for that specific institution.The online coaching needs to be worked out better for

both sides. Students need to both asynchronous and synchronous

online interaction Career counselors need to manage time spent with

students. There is no mechanism in this prototype that solves this.

Ideas?Schools willing to flex more on course

requirements and offerings so that students can do both- take courses that are “ broadening” liberal arts type course and

more practical, like “accounting”Schools offer more internship semesters

that give students the opportunity to develop necessary job expereince and skill

that the academics can’t provide

Questions? Engage students as freshmen when they

can’t see as far ahead as graduation?

How you get students to discover what they

really want to do before it is too late?

How can career centers to work more closely with faculty to help student design course work that is

relevant?How can you prevent

uproar from departments that

have majors with no clear relevance to getting jobs in the

future?How can you get

schools to buy this product? ( Is that a

good question?)

One student and one professor