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What Opportunities, When: A Framework for Professional Development. Heather Macdonald College of William and Mary. What Opportunities, When: A Framework for Professional Development. jjj. What are possibilities?. What can Faculty/Departments Do Regarding Student Career Development?.
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What Opportunities, When: A Framework for Professional Development Heather Macdonald College of William and Mary
What Opportunities, When: A Framework for Professional Development jjj What are possibilities?
What can Faculty/Departments Do Regarding Student Career Development? • Provide information about jobs/careers • Encourage exploration of options • Provide experiences that develop skills, knowledge, attitudes (throughout program) • Support job search
What Can Faculty Do?First-year students • Provide information about jobs/careers • What are possibilities? • Photos and stories of geoscientists • Examples of “practical applications” • Job prospects (Dallas Rhodes/GSU) • Making connections options (e.g., K-12 teaching, Rowan Lockwood, W&M) • Encourage exploration of options • Informational interviews
What Can Faculty Do? Geoscience Majors • Provide information about jobs/careers • List of possibilities • Career brochures, web resources • Alumni newsletter • Career panels (recent alumni) • Seminar speakers (range of careers) Top Ten Reasons to Become an Earth Science Teacher Talking with students about job in a state survey
What can Faculty Do? Geoscience Majors • Encourage exploration of options • Research • REUs and internships • Externships/Shadowing programs • E-introductions of students & alumni • Informational interviews • Provide experiences that develop skills, knowledge, attitudes • Skills across the curriculum (field, math, research, communication, … • Independent research • Opportunities to teach - undergrad TA, local outreach programs
What can Faculty Do?Geoscience Majors • Support job search • Departmental sessions and handout on graduate school • Networking (face-to-face and electronic) – students and alumni • Distribute job announcements on student list serv • Review resumes • Mock interviews/discuss interview strategies • “Elevator” talks re student research • Be supportive of student choices
What can Faculty/Depts Do?An Example: Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: Resources for Grad Students & Post-docsserc.carleton.edu/careerprep • Provide information about jobs/careers • Career path assignment • Encourage exploration of options • Provide experiences that develop skills, knowledge, attitudes • Support job search
Professional Traits • What professional traits do we want students to develop • How can we help them develop those traits?
Provide Range of Opportunities • leadership • teaching • and more… Show you Care Art Meets Science (in the Geology Library)
From E. Gercke Background: I’m here in Antarctica monitoring some USGS stream gauges. Yes that’s right- being able to measure discharge properly will get you a job, so listen up in Hydrology. Pic: one of our stream gauges before the stream in the background has thawed out