Majors and Careers

Today’s economy is NOT ______________.

• global

• stable

• innovative

• without boundaries

To give yourself the best chance at avoiding a negative employment situation, it’s important to ______________.

• adapt your skills to the job market that exists

• select a career that offers a high income

• major in liberal arts

• consider your lifelong education complete after graduation

Who primarily controls your career development?

• Your instructors

• Your academic advisors

• Your current employer

• You

The value of social networks and the tendencies that arise from these networks to do things for each other is known as ______________.

• free market economy

• the business cycle

• social capital

• economic growth

What is a prerequisite?

• A basic core course you must take before you can enroll in an upper-level class

• A course you must take in conjunction with another course during the same term

• A course outside your major that you take because you have an interest in the topic

• A course that lasts for only half of a term rather than a full term

When selecting your classes, you should ______________.

• try to schedule them all into a one- or two-day period each week

• load up on hard classes in your first term to get them out of the way

• wait as long as possible to register in case any new courses are created

• find out when they meet so that none of your classes overlap

If you feel that you are having problems with your academic adviser, you should ____________.

• keep attending meetings with your academic adviser

• request to be assigned to a different adviser

• stop attending meeting with your academic adviser

• reduce the number of meetings with your academic adviser

When should you use your campus career services?

• After you graduate

• When you are ready to look for part-time work

• When you are ready to look for full-time work

• Throughout your entire educational experience

For career planning, values generally refer to the ______________.

• types of education and training you need to obtain the job you want

• things you feel most strongly about

• ability to be flexible when making decisions that affect your career

• methods by which you seek out potential employment opportunities

Which of these is an example of a personal skill?

• Designing websites

• Providing customer service

• Organizing work spaces

• Teamwork