Process for Managing Career Readiness

This textbook aims to help you develop your career readiness by teaching you about principles of management and then helping you to integrate what you$$ve learned in each chapter into your own career readiness journey. This activity is important because it demonstrates a step$-$by$-$step process to help you apply what you$$re learning in order to build your career readiness.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your understanding of the process for managing career readiness outlined in Figure $1\mathrm{.}5$ of your textbook.

Following are scenarios related to the process for managing career readiness. Some scenarios depict a student correctly using a step in the process, while other scenarios depict a student using a step in the process improperly. Read each scenario and EITHER select the step of the process for managing career readiness that it depicts as being used correctly OR indicate that the scenario depicts a person improperly using the process.

$1.$ Sarah wants to develop her cross$-$cultural competency, so she finds two international student events to attend in the upcoming semester to help her learn more about these cultures.

Step $1$: Identify the competencies you want to develop

$2.$ Wilder wants to be as career ready as possible, so he reads through the list of competencies in Table $1\mathrm{.}2$ of his textbook and decides to work on improving every single one of them this semester.

Step $1$: Identify the competencies you want to develop

$3.$ Imani is about to enter the job market. She combs through the list of competencies in Table $1\mathrm{.}2$ of her textbook and chooses Self$-$Awareness and Oral$/$Written Communication to work on$.$ She knows these are two important competencies to develop before submitting resumes and going on job interviews.

Step $3$: Experiment with implementing a few small steps aimed at developing your competencies

$4.$ Rick wanted to develop networking skills so he attended an event for young professionals. He didn't know one person and felt too intimidated to talk to others. In considering what went wrong, he realized it may be best