MGMT

1. Module 7: Competencies
Team Members: Shelby Peters, Yasmin Donker, Todra Bellamy, Savannah Fox

2. Career Development

3. What is Career Development?
“it is the lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in
order to move toward a personal determined and evolving preferred future.”

4. The Work Life Task: Adler’s Influence on Career
Counseling and Development
 Career development is very important to an individual during his/her course of life
 In order to understand the centrality of work life in an individual, three problems need to be
considered:
• Occupation of an individual
• The social environment
• The individual’s love for the job
 Holland theorized several types of individuals:
• Realistic
• Investigative
• Artistic
• Social
• enterprising
• conventional
 Bluestein came up with a new perspective on the career development for the public policy

5. What do these five things have in
common?
• Completing job applications
• Resume writing
• Cover-letter writing
• Interviewing skills
• Negotiating skills
 Many students feel a lack of
confidence when it comes to
essential job seeking skills such as
these five things

6. Integrating Online Career-Development Skills in a
Management Course: Findings of Increased Career
Confidence and Adult Development
 College education has been under scrutiny for the effectiveness of preparing
students for work in the real world
 This course was taken by sixty-five business students
 Professors missed the important aspect of teaching life skills such as the career
development skills listed above
 Introduced an online course called Career Steps so to better prepare students
 Findings showed that Career Steps and courses could improve students’
understanding and confidence in career development topics
 Colleges and universities are encouraged to implement career development
courses into their programs to better prepare students for work in the real world

7. This study concentrated on 2-year entrants
who became scientists in:
 Science
 Technology
 Engineering
 Mathematics (STEM) fields
 Compared their individual and
professional characteristics monetary
compensation during a 10-year
period to those of scientists who
entered college in the 4-year sector.

8. Community College Scientists and Salary Gap:
Navigating Socioeconomic and Academic Stratification
in the U.S. Higher Education System
 It is nearly an expectation in most cases for teens to immediately attend a four-year
university after graduating from high school
 A quarter of teens right out of high school do not immediately go straight into a 4-
year university
 Many start off at a community college and
 Working at a much more eased pace towards their higher education
 On average, university students are taking five years, not four to complete their
education due to several factors such as
• changing majors
• inability to register for required courses
• credits lost in transferring
• not taking enough credits per semester
• financial difficulties
 This also affects their will in attaining their higher education

9. More than four decades of research on community colleges
have indicated that students who begin in these institutions
realize lower levels of educational attainment than initial 4-year
entrants

10. In your opinion what would you choose a
four year or two year college?