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Professional Development Resource
Assignment
Step 1: Choose a Topic
Choose a topic that can help you enhance your professional development
endeavors; one that inspires, fascinates, and
speaks to you. To make this assignment relevant, approach it from your current
role or a position you are hoping to fill in
the future. Decide on a topic of interest from any of the following:
career exploration strategies,·
career satisfaction,·
career exploration strategies,·
career transitions,·
conducting interviews,·
cover letters,·
career portfolio,·
dress for success,·
ethics and the interview process,·
how to conduct an interview,·
interview anxiety,·
interview follow-up strategies,·
interview questions,·
interview types,·
interviewing skills for job seekers,·
leadership development,·
mentoring,·
networking,·
nonverbal communication in interviews,·
personal branding,·
professional development for the
self-employed,·
rejecting job applicants,·
resignation strategies,·
resumes,·
salary negotiation, or·
other topic approved by your professor.·
Step 2: Choose a Source
Find a credible source that provides useful information about your topic of
interest. You will explain how the information
from your source can be used to enhance your own professional development
endeavors.
Your source can include any of the following (minimum of one source required):
CSU Online Library article,·
a resource or link found on the CSU
Career Services Department website, or·
course textbook chapters 15 and 16
(Guffey· & Loewy, 2015).
Sources must be referenced in APA style and paraphrased and/or quoted content
from the source should be cited using
APA style citations.
CSU Online Library articles can be
accessed from the Student Portal by selecting Learning Resources, then·
clicking on CSU Online Library. Choose a database such as Business Source
Complete, and search for an article
by typing in relevant search terms for your chosen topic.
CSU Career Services Department can be
accessed from the Student Portal by choosing the Learning Resources·
link, then selecting Career Services.
Step 3: Analysis & Organization
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Explain how information/concepts from your source can enhance your development
as a professional.
Paragraph 1: describe your current role
or a position you want to obtain in the future, and discuss why the topic is·
relevant to you.
Paragraph(s) 2+: explain how content
from· your source is relevant to you and can enhance your professional
development efforts.
Here are some questions to consider to get you started:
What information from your source can be
used to enhance your professional development endeavors?·
How can you apply what you learned from
your source?·
Why is information in this source
important to your career success or professional development efforts?·
What have you learned about yourself
from this source?·
Are there any points you agree or
disagree with? Why?·
Final Paragraph: Summarize your main ideas and end with strong closing
statement.
