What Do You Do With A Liberal Arts Degree? Five “Smartest” Moves to Finding Work You Love

1. Welcome! Please standby. The Experience Webinar “What Do You Do With A Liberal Arts Degree?” is scheduled to begin at 1 pm Eastern February 21, 2007

2. What Do You Do With A Liberal Arts Degree?Five “Smartest” Moves to Finding Work You Love Sheila J. Curran Fannie Mitchell Executive Director, Duke University Career Center Coauthor, Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads: Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career BusinessWeek.com columnist: Curran on Careers • Experience Web Cast • February 21, 2007

3. Why do liberal arts students choose to attend your institution?

4. What College Students Want From Their Education • 72% want professional preparation • Access to internships • Quality of careers office • Placement record with employers Eduventures* research on 6200 enrolling first year students at all SAT levels. * Eduventures is a research and consulting firm for the education industry, located in Boston, MA.

5. Assumptions • Get into good school • Work hard • Get good grades • Find high paying, prestigious job • Leap over tall buildings on the way to the top

6. Helicopter Parent Landing The dilemma for parents and students • What’s out there? • How do I get there? • What do I need to do now?

7. The Genesis of Smart Moves • Illustrate how real liberal arts grads find work they love • Stories of 23 grads • Out of school less than 15 years • 19 different schools • All made smart career moves – and a few dumb ones, too

8. The Big “C” Question Career? ??

9. Introducing Sheila Curran • BA, Russian and Persian; PGCE, Education; SPHR (Human Resources) • Early jobs: Assembly line worker, file clerk, cruise ship assistant, receptionist, program coordinator • Real jobs: director-level positions in training and development, employment, employer relations, benefits, organizational development • Current and previous job: career director • Employers: Duke University, Brown University, Gallaudet University, University of Michigan

10. Goals of Webinar • Highlight career issues facing liberal arts students • Discuss career assumptions and realities • Identify learning from interviews with liberal arts grads • Suggest plan of action for working with liberal arts students

11. Who Was Cara Storm? • University of Pennsylvania ‘89 • Psychology • Early experiences: • DJ and Station Manager at college radio station

12. Cara’s Bio • Passion: Creative Expression • Early Work Experience: • WBCN Radio • KISS 108 • Isabella Stewart Museum • Founder and Principal of Marketing by Storm

13. Who Was Ray Eddy? • Duke University ‘92, Math and Econ • Early work experience: • IBM

14. Ray Eddy: Beyond IBM • Duke University ‘92, MAT ‘94 • Math and Econ • Hewitt Associates • Teaching • Resident Advising • Coaching Marching Bands

15. Ray Eddy: Now • Passion: Performing stunts, coaching, teaching kids • President, Superior Marching Band Enterprises • Stunt Actor: Indiana Jones at Disney-MGM Studios

16. Cara, Ray and Smart Moves • Listen to others • Learn out of classroom • Make career corrections • NETWORK! • Identify fall-back positions • Demonstrate energy and talents even in low level positions • Identify skills you want to build in a new position • Don’t be afraid of failure • Build a safety net by identifying clients before starting a business

17. The Five Smartest Moves • Figure out who you are and where you want to go • Get experience • Build social and networking relationships • Identify and fill your competence gap • Find your hook

18. The Five Smartest Moves SMARTEST MOVE #1 Discover who you are and where you want to go SMARTEST MOVE #2 Get experience

19. The Five Smartest Moves SMARTEST MOVE #3 Build Social and Networking Relationships SMARTEST MOVE #4 Identify Your Competence Gaps SMARTEST MOVE #5 Find Your Hook

20. Challenges for Counselors • Major doesn’t equal career • Myriad options • Impossible to be knowledgeable about every field • On-campus recruiters may not be interested in many liberal arts majors

21. What to Do? • Educate students and parents about career realities even before matriculation • Find opportunities to show relationship between education and career • Facilitate exploration • Informational interviewing • Alumni/parent career advisors • Apprenticeships/Internships • Real-world programming, e.g., Career Week • TELL STORIES

22. Carrie’s Story Moral: • Where you start will probably not be where you end • Only you can decide who you are and where you want to go “If a man shall begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts. But if he shall content himself to begin with doubts, he shall end with certainties” -- Sir Francis Bacon

23. Key Takeaways For Your Students & Alumni • Download this presentation from the Experience University Resources channel so you can use it with your students and alumni and share the 5 smartest moves • Engage your alumni to share their stories to open up possibilities for students (or buy Sheila’s book if you want to use the featured alumni as examples) • Encourage students and alumni to get as much exposure to new areas – internships, job shadows, info interviews, job fairs etc.

24. Smart Moves for Liberal Arts GradsBook To Order -- “Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads: Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career” www.smartmovesbook.com Also available through Amazon.com or at your local bookstore. Questions? Email Sheila Curran at sheila.smartmoves@gmail.com

25. Experience Resources For Your Students and Alumni • New Content • Job Shadow • Manage Your Career (for Alumni) • New Content Partners • SalesTrax (sales channel) • Careerbuilder (alumni channel)

26. New Exclusive Experiences • Video Interview with CEO • Application deadline Feb 25th • Special Experience slot to attend and blog about the 2-day job fair • Application deadline Feb 25th

27. Professional Development Series • March 27, 2007 --“Finding the Best-Fit Job for Students and Alumni” • Susan Strayer, SPHR, is a human resource professional and a career development expert, who has worked in both corporate recruiting and in career services (Johns Hopkins University). • She is the author of The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit For Finding Your Perfect Career. • Tell Us What You Think ! • Evaluation survey will be emailed to participants • Ongoing topic submission on University Resource Channel

28. Q & A Session If you would like to ask a question, please press *1 on your telephone keypad.

29. Thanks for Participating! Sheila Curran Duke University sheila.smartmoves@gmail.com Experience, Inc. support@experience.com 800-583-7741