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Learning Outcomes

• Understand the elements of a job search and how to best utilize your time.
• Learn how to search for a job, including identifying key words to use and how to read job postings.
• Evaluate company culture to determine if an internship or job is the right fit.
• Identify which job boards to use.
• Apply what you’ve learned by finding three relevant job postings.

Activities

1. Job search strategy discussion board activity
2. Company culture discussion board activity
3. Job search practice activity

Timing

• Total: 45 minutes
  • Content: 10 minutes
  • Activity 1: 5 minutes
  • Activity 2: 15 minutes
  • Activity 3: 15 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the types of documents needed for a job search, including resume, cover letter, portfolio and others.
• Learn how to format and tailor a resume and cover letter to a specific position and learn how to write strong bullet points.
• Revise your resume using an online resume editing tool.

Activities

1. Resume bullet point activity
2. Resume revision activity

Timing

• Total: 50 minutes
  • Content: 20 minutes
  • Activity 1: 10 minutes
  • Activity 2: 20 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Understand that career and major exploration is a process and requires you to expand your self-awareness and awareness of the world of work.
• Recognize that there are many paths to careers which can include but aren’t limited to your major.
• Identify ways to explore your major and/or career interests.

Activities

1. Major guessing game
2. Myth buster activity
3. Career exploration activity

Timing

• Total: 35 minutes
  • Content: 17 minutes
  • Activity 1: 8 minutes
  • Activity 2: 2 minutes
  • Activity 3: 8 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Understand what a personal brand is and how to create it.
• Learn how to create a successful online profile.
• Write a profile summary that can be used on LinkedIn or Handshake, and complete your Handshake profile.

Activities

1. Share your LinkedIn profile summary activity
2. Complete your Handshake profile

Timing

• Total: 55 minutes
  • Content: 20 minutes
  • Activity 1: 15 minutes
  • Activity 2: 20 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Learn how to prepare for a variety of modalities of interviews, including virtual, phone, video and in-person interviews.
• Understand how to prepare for and answer different types of interview questions, including behavioral, case study and technical interview questions.
• Identify what questions to ask in an interview and how to word them in an appropriate and professional manner.
• Complete a practice interview using the interview preparation tool and a self-assessment of your responses.

Activities

1. Behavioral story grid activity
2. Asking better questions intervier practice

Timing

• Total: 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Content: 40 minutes
  • Activity 1: 25 minutes
  • Activity 2: 10 minutes
  • Activity 3: 30 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Learn how to complete informational interviews in order to build connections and grow your network.
• Identify the people who are already in your network and how you can grow and maintain your network.
• Create an elevator pitch and provide constructive feedback on your peers’ elevator pitches.

Activities

1. Make a list of your connections
2. Elevator pitch activity

Timing

• Total: 50 minutes
  • Content: 20 minutes
  • Activity 1: 15 minutes
  • Activity 2: 15 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the skills you have now.
• Learn about the skills you’ll need to develop.
• Find ways to build these skills through experiences at CU Boulder.
• Learn how to highlight your skills effectively at every stage of your job search.

Activities

1. Skills inventory discussion activity
2. Skills gap analysis
3. Next steps short answer assignment

Timing

• Total: 1 hour, 25 minutes
  • Content: 50 minutes
  • Activity 1: 10 minutes
  • Activity 2: 20 minutes
  • Activity 3: 5 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how professional experiences can help shape your future career prospects.
• Identify the different types of professional experiences and where to find them.
• Select 2-3 professional experiences that interest you, or reflect on previous professional experience to help build your marketable skills.

Activities

1. Group discussion activity
2. “What opportunity is right for you?” quiz

Timing

• Total: 55 minutes
  • Content: 20 minutes
  • Activity 1: 5 minutes
  • Activity 2: 30 minutes

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the benefits of attending a career fair and what to expect.
• Prepare for attending a career fair by updating your resume, researching companies of interest, and outlining questions to ask employers.
• Create an elevator pitch and provide constructive feedback on your peers’ elevator pitches.

Activity

1. Elevator pitch

Timing

• Total: 30 minutes
  • ​Content: 15 minutes
  • Activity 1: 15 minutes