Thinking outside-the-box in career building for Indian students. Presented 3x in Mumbai, India in Spring 2015.

1. Love What You Do:
Choosing the Career for You
Dr. Sandra Crenshaw
Arcadia University
19th April, 2015

2. Traditional Student Pathways
Business
Engineering
Medicine
Law

3. Emerging Trends:
“If you love what you do…”
Self Determination
Complexity of Careers in an Expanding Economy
Competitive Demands on Students Entering the Job
Market

4. The Promise

5. Schedule for Today’s Workshop
I. What Questions Should We Ask about a Future
Career?
II. How Do We Think about the Answers which Lead to
Fulfilling Careers?
III. How Do We Build Pathways to those Dream Careers?
IV. How Do U.S. Universities Help to Build those
Pathways?

6. The First Questions:

7. The First Questions:
1. In what subjects do I get good grades?

8. The First Questions:
1. In what subjects do I get good grades?
2. What do I enjoy studying?

9. The First Questions:
1. In what subjects do I get good grades?
2. What do I enjoy studying?
3. What do I enjoy doing when I’m not studying?

10. In what ways to all of these answers intersect?
A Few Examples…

11. Your Brainstorming….

12. The Next Questions:

13. The Next Questions:
1. What advantage is there in attending an Indian University to
achieve this dream career? What advantage is there in going to
the U.S.?

14. The Next Questions:
1. What advantage is there in attending an Indian University to
achieve this dream career? What advantage is there in going to
the U.S.?
2. What skills do I need to become the best (Insert Dream Job)?

15. The Next Questions:
1. What advantage is there in attending an Indian University to
achieve this dream career? What advantage is there in going to
the U.S.?
2. What skills do I need to become the best (Insert Dream Job)?
3. Where do I start?

16. The Pressures of a U.S. University…

17. Solutions to the Pressures of Studying at
a U.S. University…
J-1 Visa

18. Solutions to the Pressures of Studying at
a U.S. University…
Global Pathways Institute

19. Thank You for Coming
Dr. Sandra Crenshaw
Arcadia University
Glenside, Pennsylvania
www.arcadia.edu
215-572-2900