1) The document provides advice for students getting ready for their careers, including weighing options, job shadowing, internships, researching careers and education paths, dressing professionally, and developing skills like time management, active listening, and communication. 2) Specific tips include job shadowing to explore careers firsthand, using internships to build skills and connections, thoroughly researching careers and universities, cleaning social media to make a good impression on employers, and practicing interview skills. 3) Developing self-management, active listening, and communication with professionals in the field are also emphasized as important career skills.

1. Getting Ready for Your Career
Hope, Audrey, Daniel, Bryanna, Vinayak, Aundreya
Team 2

2. Weighing Your
Options
- Before making a decision on
what career decision is very
important that you weigh
your options. There are many
different factors that go into
choosing the right career, such
as the work environment,
hours, salary, pace, etc. Being
patient in this process is key in
making the right decision.

3. Job Shadowing
- Job shadowing is when someone
who is wanting to learn more
about a certain career field or job,
follows someone in that area for a
day on the job to get a sense of the
environment, daily tasks, and a
first hand experience on what the
job is demands are. This can be
very helpful for a person to see if
the job is one that they wish to
pursue in the future,

4. Internships
- Internships are a great way to learn
about a specific career. There are
many different types of of
internships and each have their own
advantages and disadvantages.
Internships in general are very good
for improving one’s chances of
getting a job. Some benefits include,
resume builders, develop
professional skills, and having
people to refer you to other
employers can be very helpful.

5. Approaching Social
Media
- Social media connects the
world. Anyone can see
anything put out on social
media. Facebook, Twitter, and
Instagram are the most popular
social media sites, they are the
ones future employers will look
at the most.

6. Cleaning Social Media - Employers can already see
everything put out on social
media. Social media can be a
make- or - break when it
comes to hiring. Make sure to
clean out any sensitive photos
or videos on your social
media, so you will make a
good first impression on
future employers.

7. Maintaining Social
Media
- Make sure your social media
pages are continuously kept
clean and look professional.
Employers make their first
impression off of your social
media page, so keep it neat
and clean.

8. Do Your Research - Choosing a career for yourself
can be stressful. To ensure
you pick the best job suited
for you looking at
compatibility, requirements,
salary can make the decision
easier and less stressful

9. Know Your Career - Along with doing your proper
research, make sure you know
all you can learn about your
career. This is something you
could be doing for the rest of
your life so knowing what all
your career entails is very
important.

10. Getting the Correct
Education
- Once you’ve figured out what
career will be best for you
finding the best path for your
education to your career.
Knowing how long you have
to go and where would be best
for you is very important.

11. Research Once you figure out what major you want to
go farther in you should research what school
that benefit you and your future career
1. School visit
2. School rank
3. School requirements
4. Ask upper class about they personal
experience
5. Check out different programs or see if
they have any for your major that can
help

12. Education Once you find the school that you think is
going to be best for you and your future
career. Look into they education and see how
good they education is and if you can get help
in that University. Also look up the school
history to see if the education have grew over
the years or went down.

13. Why it’s important Research: the systematic
investigation into and study of
materials and sources in order to
establish facts and new conclusion
When you research:
● You will know what the
university is about
● What they have to offer
● Can you afford to go
● Activities & organizations
● Location
● WILL YOU BE HAPPY THERE

14. Dressing for Success
Do wear
● Pants that fit at waist
● Loafers with dress pants or khakis
● Matching belt and shoes
● Cover or avoid tattoos

15. Interview Success ● Know what you are working with
● Start with a structure
● Practice Practice Practice
● Ace the Delivery

16. - As the old saying goes:
“Perception is reality.” Think
about the image you want to
project during your interview and
then choose an outfit that will
create a positive perception and is
appropriate, given the time of year,
your geographic location, and the
job/company/industry.
Dressing for Interview
Success

17. Improve
Self-Management Skills
- Being able to manage yourself
and your time is very
important because in a lot of
field’s, you are going to need
to be able to use your time
wisely because you’re going to
have a heavy workload that’s
going to have to be done at a
certain time, you will need to
be able manage more than one
thing at a time.

18. Practicing Active
Listening
- Being able to listen when
being spoken to is a huge skill
that we should all already
know how to do but in
careers, youre going to have to
be able to retain information
and tell it back in a lot of
careers. If you can have a
conversation and respond
intellectually for a long period
of time, you have successfully
used that skill.

19. Communicating with
Teachers in the Field
- Gaining knowledge from
individuals in the field of your
major can be really useful
because if you have any
questions about what to
expect. They are always open
to answer because they want
students to know what it
takes.

20. Works Cited:
https://www.careers.govt.nz/plan-your-career/make-a-career-decision/how-to-make-a-career-decision/
https://work.chron.com/career-research-important-4221.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-j-carter/how-college-students-can-_2_b_3948927.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2014/01/27/8-tips-to-dress-for-interview-success/