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A. Gary Anderson
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Your Career Launch Starts Here

Preparing for your career is something you should be doing while you are at UCR.  How can you plan and execute your Career Launch Strategy? The simple answer is:  Explore…Prepare…Experience.

Explore your options.  Each major and concentration in business has a large number of pathways, job titles, industries, and opportunities.  Explore to identify where you best fit and plan your career launch from the job title and industry backwards!  Prepare yourself during your time at UCR School of Business by connecting with our career readiness resources at the UCR Career Development Center.  When the time is right, you will have the ability to apply and get hired for internships and for your first career position.  Experience is a crucial part of getting hired.  Employers want to hire the best.  Candidates need to be professional, skilled, knowledgeable and experienced.  Get career-ready by choosing high-impact experiences that lead to your dream job at graduation!


Your Career Launch Starts Here

UCR School of Business AGSM Career Development

 

EXPLORE

UCR School of Business AGSM Career Development

 

PREPARE

UCR School of Business AGSM Career Development

 

EXPERIENCE

Explore

 

Career Exploration

How to choose the right Job to start your career

 

Career Exploration (How to choose  the right Job to start your career)

  1. Understanding Business Careers (and Concentrations)
  2. Assessment (for choosing the right job in your major - picking your dream job) 
    1. What can I do with this major?
  3. Research  Jobs / Job Titles  (Linked In, Reviewing Job Descriptions, etc…
  4.  Informational Interviews (Building connections)
  5. SBLC Career Events                            
  6. Job Shadow Professionals
  7. Volunteer 
  8. Schedule Employer Site Visits (?) and attend recruitment events (job fairs etc)
  9. Make a choice (or a few choices for further exploration)
  10. Exploring Career Paths in Business (Alumni Success Stories with insight into struggles they overcame)
    1. Business Administration no Careers (by concentration) *include a video on each concentration (short)  with more detail for exploration to help with choosing concentrations.
    2. Actuarial Science Careers
    3. Business Analytics Careers
    4. Additional/Alternate Pathways in Business (e.g Entrepreneurship)
  11. Career Dreamer - Google AI for career exploration 

 

Career Exploration Microskills and Professional Development:

  1. Break down the microskills
  2. Excel Plus Career Readiness 
  3. Explore Grad School
  4. Why Business Grad School?
  5. When Business Grad School
  6. How do I get into Business Grad School
    1. Applying to Grad School:
    2. Entrance Exams
    3. Letters of Rec
    4. Essays
    5. CV’s
    6. Interviews
    7. Decisions
  7. Careers in Academia (for Business Majors)
    1. PhD Programs
    2. Research and teaching careers

 

2.  Prepare 

 

Preparation Activities for your Job / Internship Search (this would be the Links to Career Services)

  1. Job Search Strategies
    1. How to use AI correctly to improve job search
    2. Career Closet
  2. Building a Resume (alternative resource)
    1. ATS strategies
    2. Sample Resumes
      1. Accounting
      2. Marketing
      3. Business
    3. Tailoring documents
    4. Action verbs
  3. Writing a compelling Cover Letter
    1. ATS strategies
    2. Sample Cover Letter
  4. Setting up LinkedIn Profile
    1. LinkedIn Learning
  5. Using LinkedIn, Social and In person networking for opportunity
  6. Interviewing preparation
    1. Online Interview Resource (students can log in with UCR credentials)
  7. Professional References
  8. Post interview follow up
  9. Job search sanity (keeping yours) (Wellness)
  10. Networking
  11. Success in Academics

 

3.  Experience 

High Impact activities that prepare you for your first career role learned in and beyond the classroom:

  1. Strategies - why and how  you do this…
  2. Student Jobs / Part time jobs
    1. Job boards by industry
  3. Research 
  4. Study Abroad
  5. Student Organizations and Leadership
  6. Professional Development Activities
    1. Professional Etiquette 
  7. Internship Search
    1. Job boards by industry
  8. Case Studies and Projects
  9. Competitions
  10. Outside organizations and groups (networking, career related e.g. AAF, AMA,)
  11. Certifications and Badges

Career Center Resources: A list of CDC resources for Explore...Prepare…Experience