Counseling 17, Thursdays—Course Outline
Please note that I will go over the details of each session as we approach them so that you know what to do.
Week
1
Session Theme
Be prepared With
Intro to course
February 23
What’s involved in this
course?
2
March 1
What are my interest
patterns? Personality
style? Reading style?
3
March 8
Why is personal
assessment important for
career satisfaction? What
are my preferred work
settings? What’s in the
text?
4
March 15
Where am I in my career
journey? How do my
opinions about careers
affect my choices? What
can I learn from others on
this path?
5
March 22
How does my sense of self
Meet in D101:
Take assessments
Bring to class:
The text
Bring your receipt
Bring your lifeline
Homework
assigned
1.Lifeline assignment
2.Purchase
text/workbook
3.Purchase career
inventories & bring
receipt
4.Join C17-Thursdays
Facebook group
Read all of Chapter one.
Be prepared to take are quiz on it.
Complete: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and page
275. For 1.5, write at least five
sentences in review of the article.
Notes
Onet website:
www.onetonline.org
Ch. 1 quiz, reviewing
the text, taking another
career inventory to
learn about your career
interest patterns
Bring to class:
Text with the assigned work done.
A written summary of the article you
found for 1.5 in order to discuss it in
class.
Write a reflection on your SDS results
as assigned.
List occupations related to your SDS
results from booklet. Find more on
ONET and add them to your list.
Write a summary of a career related
article as assigned.
Ch. 1, Stages of career
dev., ch. 1 activities,
occupational status,
guest speaker, rubric
Bring to class:
Write a reflection on your SDS results
as assigned.
List occupations related to your SDS
results from booklet. Find more on
ONET and add them to your list.
Write a summary of a career related
article as assigned.
Read Chapter two. Be prepared to
make a short presentation on the
positive thought paragraph that most
appeals to you. Complete 2.1,2.3
(fantasy careers part), 2.4,2.7. Page
276.
Ch. 2 , Discovering
Bring to class: Text.
Have read Chapter two. Complete
2.1, 2.3 (fantasy careers part), 2.4,
Read Chapter Three
your personal power
for creating goals and
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login with the username "3csn"
and the password "success."
Show your portal site.
impact my beliefs about
my future, my ability to
carry out my plans, and
my ability to keep a job?
What is my EQ? Can I
improve it?
6
March 29
What are my core
values and do they align
with my possible career
choices?
7
April 5
What are the results of my
MBTI? How does that
impact possible career
choices?
8
April 12
What’s in the Career
Center and how can I use
the center to do my
research as well as look
for work while going to
school?
April 19
9
making them happen.
2.7, page 276.
Ch.3, Quiz,
Exploring your Core
Values and
understanding how
they influence career
choice
Bring to class:
Text with the assigned work done.
Be ready to discuss Chapter 3.
First part of Ch. 4,
Quiz,learning about
your
MBTI, guest speaker
Bring to class:
Text with the assigned work done.
Ready to discuss the first part of
chapter 4.
Career Center
Visit in L103
Bring to class:
Text
MBTI journal
Two occupation information reports
from ONET and CaCareerZone.
Take notes on the presentation.
Record your results after researching a
career using two sources in the career
center. Bring to class after spring
break.
Bring to class:
Complete 4.10 and 5.1, the
experiography, on separate sheets of
paper. Read and summarize a career
article from the web.
Complete 277 and 278. Read Chapter
Spring Break
Review your Strong
3.4, 3.5, Journal assignment. True
Values. Based on your true actions, do
the exercise your options, page 52.
Complete page 276 for Ch. 3. Post a
video of your first draft of a mission
statement on FB or write it. Read
chapter 4 up to page 63.
Journal about your MBTI results. Use
onet and go to “Find Occupations.”
Look up an occupation through the
link “Browse by Career Clusters.”
Indicate the cluster and briefly write
about the occupation you researched.
Use Cacareerzone and go to “Explore
Job Families.” Search through the
clusters, select one and review an
occupational description. Have the
links at the lab site. Remind them that
we meet in the career center after
spring break.
April 26
What are the results of my
Strong Interest Inventory?
What are the skills I have
and the ones I want to
learn for my possible
career choices?
interest results. Explore
and identify your skills,
understand SCANS as it
relates to the job
market. Discussion on
portfolio.
Text, career article report, and your
Experiography.
6 and be prepared for a quiz on the
main points. MAKE AN INDIVIDUAL
APPOINTMENT WITH ME TO DISCUSS
YOUR ASSESSMENTS FURTHER.
10
Quiz of Ch. 6.
Demonstration of
California Career Café
and how to find people
doing the work you are
interested in to
interview. Demo of how
to review college
catalogs. Also,
discussion of the career
research project.
How to do an
information interview.
Discussion of labor
market trends and
changes in the
workplace. Guest
speaker on how to be
smart about money.
Bring text to class:
To check for 5.9., page 277 and 278.
Begin the work of completing 5
different career research
assignments. The first two are due
May 10th.
One of the five career research
assignments are due next week.
Collect the upper division
requirements of two majors from the
catalogs of two universities, indicating
which courses look interesting to you.
Identify three different professional
associations from the Career Café
website. Complete 6.6 and page 278
for ch 6. Read chapter 7.
Bring text to class:
Text assignments done. Also, your
work on upper division major
requirements and the list of three
professional organizations related to
careers that interest you. Submit one
of the five career research
assignments.
Do an information interview and write
a report. Submit two more career
research forms. Do the Reality Test
online and write a summary of your
results. Complete 7.9 and page 279 for
ch. 7.
Exploration of different
decision making
processes, different risk
taking styles and how
they impact your career
options. We will work
on many of the
exercises in class.
How to build goals and
set an action plan.
Discussion about the
current trends in job
Bring text to class:
Also, information interview report,
and text assignments. Two more
career research forms. Results of
your Reality test and the text
assignments.
Complete 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7,
8.8, 8.10 and page 279 for ch. 8.
Submit two more career research
forms. Read chapter 9.
Bring text to class:
Text assignments and balance of
career research project.
Complete 9.4 and 9.5. Also, do page
280 for ch. 9. Read chapter 10. If you
have one, bring a copy of your resume
to class.
May 3
What is the latest
information on the world
of work that I can use to
do my career research
work? How can I use
college catalogs to make
decisions?
11
May 10
What are the current
labor market trends and
changes in the workplace
that may affect me? What
do I need to understand
about the cost of living
and career decision
making?
12
May 17
What is a sound decision
making process? What
kind of risk taker am I?
13
May 24
How to set goals. What
are the current trends in
job hunting?
14
May 31
To prepare a cover letter
and resume/portfolio?
15
June 7
How do I best prepare for
a job interview?
16
June 14
hunting.
Working on how to best
represent yourself on
paper and on video. Inclass work on the
components of a cover
letter and resume.
Activities and
discussion on how to
prepare for an
interview. Completion
of page 281 on goal
setting.
Final assignment during
class session and
submission of portfolio
Bring text to class:
Text assignments and a copy of your
resume if you have one.
Complete a first draft of a cover letter
and a resume. Read chapter 11 and
12.
Bring test to class:
Bring cover letter and resume.
Prepare your portfolio and bring to
the last day of class.
Best wishes!
Plans over the semester are subject to change based on what we complete each class session.