Career Planning Class Evaluations-Fall 2006
Evaluation Scale:
1. Poor
2. Below Average
3. Average
Questions:
1) The overall value of the class was:
2) The assignments were:
4. Above Average
5. Superior
4.64
3.85
3) The course content was: 4.57
4) What could be added or taken away from the course content to make it better?
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Maybe more help with the actual job search or internship search
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Less student presentations and more employer presentations and
individual research might be helpful
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Combine the Mentor and e-Recruiting projects since presentations take so
long to get through the whole class
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More points: it is actually somewhat hard to do all that well with only 140
points
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Take away all of the presentations-it is too many
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The extensive Mentor and e-Recruiting project could be taken away. I
don’t think its necessary to do PowerPoint and paper
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Add more job search/research, info. about grad school
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Less emphasis on the presentations. Didn’t get much out of watching
everyone present
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The presentations could be taken away and replaced w/ more info. on
interviewing and grad schools
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Spending more time on graduate school and the best ways to search for a
job (besides e-Recruiting)
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Combine some of the PowerPoint topics or eliminate one of the
PowerPoint presentations. More time for contacting mentors would be
helpful because many mentors were on vacation and/or swamped with
work
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Maybe less smaller presentations, and have one final project in the end in
order to save more time
5) Do you think the participatory events were worthwhile?
Yes: 13
No: 1
6) The Mentor Network Project was: 2.57
7) How could the Mentor Network Project be improved?
- Have mentors on the network who have valid email addresses and more
available in Salisbury specifically or other regions
- Requirements should be less
- Combine with e-Recruiting
- More time to communicate/contact mentors
- Nothing it was great!!!
- If the mentor network online was updated so people whose emails were wrong
were eliminated it would save a lot of time and effort
- The elimination of old and invalid email addresses from the network and not to
have our grade on responses because most people were unreliable
- It was very helpful to get feedback from people who were already in the field
I’m interested in
- Spend more time using the info. from the mentors, instead of doing individual
presentations
- No tokens!
- Possibly an extra week to contact mentors because many I contacted were on
vacation or just coming back from/leaving for vacation
- Start contacting in the beginning of the class—have the whole semester to
receive feedback
8) The Job Fair Assignment was: 4.07
9) How could the Job Fair Assignment be improved?
- Maybe a makeup project because the Job Fair doesn’t appeal to all
majors or fields
- Have students talk to as many employers as possible with time restraints
in mind (other classes)
- Spend time in class researching the specific employers
- Contacting 5 employers was hard for people who had class during the
time of the Job Fair. Good project though.
- I thought it was a good assignment but the Job Fair needs a more well
rounded group of employers
- Nothing. I learned so many new things
- Didn’t think it should be
- More preparation
- Have a larger variety of employers. There were a lot of Accounting,
Nursing, and Social Work employers
10) The guest speakers were: 4.14
11) The binder was helpful to organize my information and will it be something I
can utilize in the future?
Yes: 12
No: 2
12) Do you think freshman and sophomores should be included in this class?
Yes: 2
No: 12
13) The course location was: 4.42
14) The evaluations used in this class to determine grades were: 4.14
15) Would you prefer a more structured evaluation process such as more
advanced testing?
Yes: 0
16) Do you feel the book helped?
No: 14
Yes: 4
No: 10
17) The most beneficial area of the class was:
Top three: Resume and Cover Letter, Mentor Project
18) The teacher’s enthusiasm was: 4.85
19) The teacher’s preparation was: 4.71
20) The teacher’s punctuality was: 4.85
21) The teacher’s explanation of course content was: 4.85
22) The teacher’s availability to students was: 4.85
23) Would you recommend this class?
Yes: 14
No: 0
24) What ways could the class be improved?
- More time for presenting projects and in class work. This could help
class be slightly more structured
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Spend less time on presenting the projects. Spend more time on the job
search
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I didn’t find the book necessary during the class periods but I intend on
keeping the book for future reference in the future of my career
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Less presentations and more time spent on job searches
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Focus more on searching for internships and jobs
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By having less PowerPoint’s and reflections paper
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Less drastic punishment for absences (lose 5% instead of 10% for every
absence after 2)
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Other ways to search for jobs- either assignments or just have a class
period devoted to job searches
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Use the groups more
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The class could be improved by more group interaction/presentations and
less individual PowerPoint’s
25) Comments/ Suggestions
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Very useful class for the future!
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This class was extremely helpful and I would highly recommend having
more than one class per semester
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Spending so much time on resumes was very helpful for me
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Great class, extremely helpful, learned a lot, great teacher!
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I gained a lot of insight and helpful information!
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Do more job searches and less PowerPoint’s
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Very good class!
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Overall an excellent class, I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot
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Very helpful and useful course, I feel much more prepared