Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Career strategies during spring break

I know, I know.  There are many things you are thinking of doing during spring break.  Resting.  Sleeping.  Working.  Spending time thinking about your career is probably not on the list.  With that in mind, let’s explore a few ways to fine tune your career goals while keeping a festive, fun mood during spring break.  Shall we?
  • Do a status check.  What has been working so far?  Are you happy with your grades? Are you all set with your internship? Job prospects?  What is not working?  What is overwhelming you?  What is the one thing you would like to accomplish by the end of the semester that is not happening right now?
  • Include “career/job time” in your schedule. Review your current school schedule and purposely set time aside to focus on any job/career related activities.  Play around with different days and times.  For example, if you have no classes scheduled on a particular day, you could make that day a job/career day.  Or you could schedule one to two hour chunks of time on different days.
  • Decide what to do during job/career time.  Make a list of all the pending career-related items you want to accomplish by the end of the semester.  Prioritize them and assign them an estimated time of completion.  These will be the tasks to do during your career/job scheduled time.
Spring break is a great time to brainstorm on ways to make changes while having a much needed down time from studying.  Have a happy and fun break….wherever you are!

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