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Career Planning Check List

The document provides a comprehensive career planning checklist for students, outlining key steps in exploring, preparing, engaging, and transitioning in their career journey. It emphasizes the importance of utilizing resources such as career specialists, workshops, and networking opportunities to enhance career readiness. The checklist encourages proactive involvement in internships, professional development, and maintaining connections with alumni and mentors.

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Career Planning Check List

The document provides a comprehensive career planning checklist for students, outlining key steps in exploring, preparing, engaging, and transitioning in their career journey. It emphasizes the importance of utilizing resources such as career specialists, workshops, and networking opportunities to enhance career readiness. The checklist encourages proactive involvement in internships, professional development, and maintaining connections with alumni and mentors.

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BEACON CAREERS | CAREER SERVICES AND INTERNSHIPS | WWW.CAREERS.UMB.EDU | 617.287.

5519

Your Career Planning Checklist


A career is a journey, not a destination. You simply do not arrive. It is something you work towards
both as a student and as a professional. Utilize this checklist to serve as a roadmap to make
sure you stay on track in your career planning. You can start at any point in the cycle, depending
on your specific career planning needs.

Explore Prepare
✔ Meet with a Career Specialist to get help with your ✔ Attend career workshops to learn about a variety of
career planning and management. career topics.
✔ Create a professional profile on Handshake and ✔ Understand the application process for internships
familiarize yourself with its capabilities. and jobs.
✔ Identify your career interests, values, personality and ✔ Create a résumé and cover letter and have a Career
skills by using FOCUS 2, a free online self-assessment, Specialist review them.
or Strengths Quest. ✔ Identify which of the NACE career competencies you
✔ Choose a major with the assistance of your academic possess and which you need to develop.
advisor and/or Career Specialist ✔ Develop interview skills and practice by doing a
✔ Explore career options that align with potential majors mock interview with a Career Specialist.
✔ Identify and research companies/organizations/ ✔ Create a record-keeping system for jobs, websites
industries you would like to work for. and employers of interest.
✔ Read internship/job descriptions to get ideas of ✔ Identify three professional references.
career paths. ✔ Plan for summer: think about internships, summer
✔ Learn about campus resources and get involved in employment, or volunteering.
student clubs and organizations. Perhaps take on a ✔ If considering graduate studies, prepare for
leadership role. admissions by becoming familiar with the timelines
✔ Consider volunteering, study abroad, alternative spring and requirements of various programs.
break, etc. to round out your experiences.

Engage Transition
✔ Work with a Career Specialist to learn how to
✔ Participate in experiential learning: internships,
manage job offers, negotiate salaries and how to
research, study abroad, or job opportunities in your
interpret company benefit packages.
field of interest.
✔
✔ Research what it takes to be successful on your first
Dress for success by expanding your wardrobe to
career job or speak with recent alums.
include career-appropriate clothing.
✔ Consider further education and professional
✔ Create a professional LinkedIn profile and use the site
development/training.
for networking purposes.
✔ Stay connected with UMass Boston after graduating
✔ Participate in career fairs, company information
—alumni have full access to all career services.
sessions and job shadows.
✔ Continue to educate yourself about the state of the
✔ Develop a brief and persuasive speech/pitch to spark
labor market, your industry, and employers in your
employers’ interest in you.
targeted region.
✔ Stay current on trends in your field by reading articles ✔ Pursue networking and career-related opportunities.
and joining professional groups on LinkedIn.
✔ Maintain a good relationship with past employers
✔ Expand your network by joining a professional
and professors who are serving as references.
association and attending networking events.
✔ Update your job search records: employers,
✔ Schedule informational interviews with professionals in
web-sites, and positions for which you have applied.
your field; start with UMB alumni via LinkedIn.
✔ Develop a relationship with one or more career mentors.
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Office of Career Services and Internships | Campus Center, Suite 1300 | www.careers.umb.edu | [email protected] | 617.287.5519

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