Focus Your Career
Most students entering graduate school expect to make a career or job change following graduation. However, many students are unclear about the position, company and industry in which they will be most successful.
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Can you confidently answer the following questions?
What are you selling in the job market?
Transferable skills
What are you buying in the job market?
What do you want the goals of the company to be?
What knowledge and education do you want to use on the job?
What are your personal and work values?
What do you want your salary level to be?
What do you want your responsibility level to be?
With what kind of people do you want to work?
In what kind of environment do you want to work?
In what geographical area do you want to work?
If you had trouble answering any of these questions, sign up for Focus Your Career Series
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In the Focus Your Career Series, you will complete a series of targeted exercises that enable you to develop your personal career parameters – a picture of your “ideal job.”
Career Parameters include:
A description of what you are selling in the job market.
A prioritized list of your transferable skills with:
• People
• Information and Data
• Machinery and Equipment
These will be the keys to your success and satisfaction on the job.
A description of what you are selling in the job market.
A description of your ideal work environment.
Companies that share your:
• Goals
• Personal and work values
Companies that utilize your:
• Experience
• Education
Companies that match your desired:
• Salary levels
• Responsibility levels
Companies that provide your preferred:
• Working conditions
• People environment
• Geographical locations
These will be the keys to your ability to target companies where you will thrive and do your best work.
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Completing the Ideal Job Parameters exercises qualifies you to participate in a Career Brainstorming Session with key faculty and staff members who will help you target specific positions, companies, and industries.
These personal and powerful brainstorming sessions position you to begin your in-depth career research and also form the basis of your new career network.
Don’t miss this opportunity to develop career focusing skills that will last a lifetime! This 5-session program is free to Bentley students and alumni and is unique to Bentley University and is not available at any other graduate school in the area!
Please click here for dates of the next Focus Your Career program. Registration information:
Graduate students: Go to BentleyLink to register. Click on the Events tab and find Workshops
Bentley Alumni: Go to the Alumni Events Calendar at: https://community.bentley.edu/olc/pub/BTT/geventcal/ (non-Bentley alumni can also register here for a fee)
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If you have questions about the program or to schedule an appointment with a Career Advisor, contact : Jeanne DiBona at 781-891-2164 or jdibona@bentley.edu
