What Opportunities When A Framework for Professional 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-docs serc. 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