I wanted to give you a snapshot of the personal development class that my coworker Hannah Hall and I have been teaching on Fridays. So far the class has included personality and spiritual gifts tests, 20 minute speeches on who they are, time management seminars, interview tips, and this assignment.
Their final assignment for this semester is a research paper on 3-5 vocations of their choosing and includes interviewing people in those fields, finding out what average salaries are, and what job paths and degrees are common to their career of choice. Our goal through assigning this is to help give students direction on what they will be wanting to do after graduating out program so that they will spend less time in undeclared majors or floating between majors and careers because they don't know what they want or didn't realize what they were getting into. Feel free to read through this rubric to get a feel for the assignment!
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This is awesome! Everybody should go through a process like this before college. It would prevent so much wasted time, money and effort. I can only imagine how empowering this course was for the students.
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