What Can WE do for YOU?

Faculty . . . Staff . . . Community

Faculty

When instructors create active learning experiences linking today’s classroom assignments with tomorrow’s marketplace, students find learning more relevant, rewarding and practical. In addition, integrating career information and workplace skills into the academic experience helps students make a more successful transition from college to the workplace.

Listed below are ideas for creating career assignments around your course content. Which ones would you be willing to try?

• Require students to complete an assignment that includes a visit to your campus career center.
• Include an informational interview assignment in your syllabus.
• Assign your students the Know How Skills Online Lesson and have them turn in the KHS worksheet for credit.
• Invite Sharon Easton to your class to answer career questions, customize a presentation to suit your needs or provide/interpret a self-assessment activity.
• Schedule a tour of our Career Resource Library.
• Give students extra credit for researching a local company related to your discipline.
• Invite a human resource officer from a local business to speak to your class about employer's new hire expectations.
• Conduct a lesson where students draft and practice an elevator speech in class.
• Visit this CLASS (Classroom Learning Activities for Student Success) for career related activities in the fields of Art, Science, English, Social Science and Math.
• Sign up and use On the QT activities with your students.

If this has been helpful or if you've been able to utilize any of these tools and resources with your class, please let us know.

Instructors: Check out additional classroom activities at OCCareers.com

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Staff

We can provide individual or small group presentations for:

• résumé writing resources and interview preparation materials
• staff team building and improvement of work relationships
• help in identifying interpersonal preferences.

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Community

The Career Counselors are available to make presentations to your place of business or organization. Presentation topics might include

• résumé preparation and interviewing techniques
• career development
• team building
• improvement of work relationships
• help in identifying leadership and interpersonal preferences.

Please call the Career Planning Center at (714) 484-7120 for further information.

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