The Career Development Center facilitates Ten Strategies for Success to help students and alumni implement their next career phase in a thorough and organized way. The ten steps of the career planning process are:

Research Your Choices (steps 1-4)

1. Decision Making and Goal Setting
2. Career Assessment
3. Exploring My Occupational Choices (matching my attributes with occupations) and Making Professional Choices (salary, place of work, style of work)
4. Researching Career Opportunities

Maximize Your Strengths (steps 5-10)

5. Marketing Oneself: Creating a Map of Previous Activities and Education
6. Networking Strategies
7. Creating the Best Cover Letter
8. Creating the Best Résumé
9. Creating a Portfolio
10. Interviewing Skills

We offer these services:

• a two-week course in career strategies for graduating students
• a one-week workshop for professionals enrolled in our master’s degree program in computer science
• individual career development by appointment

Consciousness-Based Career Planning

In our Consciousness-Based approach to career planning, you use your own creativity and inner, self-referral consciousness to move through the steps of progress and achieve both inner and outer success.

The career planning process starts with self-knowledge. You gain Self-knowledge, in the deepest sense, when you experience your own pure consciousness, unbounded awareness. This experience comes effortlessly and naturally through the Transcendental Meditation technique. Since pure consciousness is also the home of all the Laws of Nature, when you experience this field deep within yourself, you culture the ability to act in accord with Natural Law. This in turn ensures that your actions are of maximum benefit to yourself and those around you.

This gives you the ideal foundation for moving forward in your career and your life — for maximum professional success and personal fulfillment. With the help of the ten strategies for success, you can design a career path that is fulfilling on every level.