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Assessment Workbook: by Daniel Botero

This document provides guidance to help students assess their career interests and priorities, develop a career vision and target list of companies, and create an action plan to achieve their career goals. It includes self-assessment questions about passions and strengths, an exercise to establish a life vision, ranking career priorities, identifying top industries and target companies, networking strategies, and a checklist of steps to take such as internships, career fairs, and applying for jobs. The overall goal is to help students master college and land their dream job.

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Assessment Workbook: by Daniel Botero

This document provides guidance to help students assess their career interests and priorities, develop a career vision and target list of companies, and create an action plan to achieve their career goals. It includes self-assessment questions about passions and strengths, an exercise to establish a life vision, ranking career priorities, identifying top industries and target companies, networking strategies, and a checklist of steps to take such as internships, career fairs, and applying for jobs. The overall goal is to help students master college and land their dream job.

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ASSESSMENT WORKBOOK 

BY DANIEL BOTERO
MasteringCollegeToCareer.Com
SELF ASSESSMENT
Answer the questions below to get a better idea of where
your passions and strengths intersect.

What are you passionate about? What are you naturally good at?

Dream Job
DREAM
JOB

What jobs encompass both what you're passionate


about and what you're naturally good at?

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ESTABLISH YOUR LIFE VISION
Answer the questions below to gain clarity on what your ideal life would
look like and figure out how you can make it happen.

If you made $150k regardless of your job, what career


would you choose?

If you won $1M today but had to work the next week,
what would you choose to do?

Based on your responses to the last two questions, can


you think backwards and figure out how you could get
there in your career? Think of the steps that you would
need to take in order to make your ideal life a reality.

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CAREER PRIORITIES
Rank each of the following items in order of
importance with #1 being the most important to #10
being the least important.

Experience

Compensation

Company Culture

Company Mission

Growth Potential

Industry

Work Life Balance

PTO/Benefits

Location

Personal Development

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CAREER VISION
Start to narrow down your options by choosing your top
industries and companies that you would like to work for.

What are your top 3 industries that you may want to work in?
Keep your previous responses in mind and do some additional
research on your own in order to best answer this question.

1.

2.

3.

Choose 10 companies that will make up your Target


List. These should be companies that you would like to
work for based on your responses above and your
research. The companies on your target list can (and
probably will) change over time so don't stress too
much about your choices.

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

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FINDING THE ANSWERS
Now it's time to find the answers to your open book test and figure out
how you can land your dream job! I like to call this the 10-5-1 activity.

Connect with 5 individuals in each of your top 10 companies on


HOW TO LAND YOUR DREAM JOB
HOSTED BY DANIEL BOTERO

LinkedIn. Once you've connected with these people, have a


conversation with at least 1 person per company. 10-5-1! The goal
is to network and to figure out what each company is looking for
in their ideal candidates from people that already work there. Use
the space below to document who you speak to and any important
information you may learn.

Based on your conversations with these people


working for the companies on your Target List, what
skills should you focus on building in order to be seen
as the ideal candidate?

1.

2.

3.

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MASTERING COLLEGE TO CAREER
CHECKLIST 
Now that you've identified your Target List and you've identified what skills to focus on, use
this check list as a guide to help you master college and land your dream job.

Subscribe to the Mastering College Podcast NOTES

Network
Create a LinkedIn account
Join at least 2 student organizations
Hold at least 1 leadership position
Get involved with non profit organizations
Sit in the front in class
Attend office hours at least 2x each semester
Find at least 3 mentors
Create a resume
Visit career services
Have resume reviewed
Practice interviewing
Identify your top 10 companies & do research
Stay up to date with current industry trends
Meet with your Employer Relations Advisor
Ask for letters of recommendation
Order business cards
Buy stationary/thank you cards
Attend the career fair every semester
Complete internships & externships
Apply for jobs 1 year before graduation
Send handwritten thank you cards/emails
Land your dream job!

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CONGRATULATIONS
ON COMPLETING
THIS WORKBOOK!
THE REALITY IS THAT NOT MANY STUDENTS
TAKE THE TIME TO PLAN FOR THEIR FUTURE.

Like I told you before, my goal is to help students land their dream job.
Because I know that you're serious about your future, I would like to set
up a FREE strategy call with you.

In this call, we will quickly go over your WORKBOOK and create YOUR
COLLEGE ROADMAP.

To claim your FREE strategy call, email me at


[email protected] using the subject "Strategy Call."

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