Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Tennessee
Four-Year
Plan
The first year of a career plan in University of Tennessee is
that you have to take a career assessment, like a strong
interest and Type Focus in engineering. Then youll go to get
to meet your career counselor for the interest of the kind of
engineering career option. Then youll get to talk about and
enroll in exploring majors and career options. Then youll
explore your interest by speaking with a professional in a
variety of occupation types in engineering. Also get to
discover other UT resources including advising, offices, the
counseling center, the student center, and tutorial services.
Then you register with Hire-A-Vol to take advantage of a part
time job, inter ship in the area your interested in with. Then
youll start planning a involvement in the campus activities,
student organizations, research, leader ship, services
progams, and study. In the second year we have to meet
with the Center for Career Development professionals to
formulate a bunch of goals in your career. The conduct owe
resume writing through involvement on the campus and
work-related experiences including, volunteering, part-time
jobs, and interships. Then youll have to visit the office by a
peer career advisior. Than you get to update your Hire-A-vol
profile and create yourself a LinedIn account; manage your
social media presence professionaly. Then establishrelationships
withthefacultyinamajorofinterestforworkandgraduateschool
recommendations.
AttendtheCenterforrCareerDevelopmentsworkshops,networkingevents,
panelsandjobfairsplantoattendSophomoreBootCampinJanuary
MaintainahighGPAtocompeteforpositionsandgraduateschool.In your
third year of the career plan youll scheduleanappointmentwith
yourCollegeConsulatetoassessyourgoalsandtoContinuetobuildyour
personalbrandandupdateyourresume.ThenyoullutilizeHireAVoland
yournetworktosecureaninternship,researchexperienceorother
opportunityrelatedtoyourgoal attendjobaffairsthroughouttheyear(many
employersvisitcampusinthefalltosecuresummerinterns).Then Seek
leadershippositionsincocurricularactivities.
Thenparticipateincareerrelatedstudentprofessionalassociations.
ThenScheduleandpracticeainterviewtodevelopyourprofessional
communicationskillsEnrollinoneoftheCenterforCareer
Developmentsjobsearchstrategiescourses(Forpotentialgraduate
students).UtilizetheCenterforCareerDevelopmentsgraduate
schoolresourcesandworkshopstoresearchschoolsandprograms;set
deadlinesforrequiredstepsandAttendtheCenterforCareer
Developmentseventstostrengthenjobsearchskills.Onyourfourth
yearlastandfinalyearyouscheduleanappointmentwithyour
CollegeConsulatetostrategizepostgraduateplansresearch
companies,opportunitiesandjobfairsatthebeginningoffalla
semester.ThenutilizeHireAVOLtoidentifypositionsanddevelop
targetedresumesandcoverletters.
Takeanadvantageofoncampusrecruitingopportunities.Thenyouenrollin
oneoftheCenterforCareerDevelopmentsjobsearchstrategiescourses
.Continuetonetworkandconductinformationalinterviewswith
professionalsinyourfield(Forpotentialgraduatestudents).Haveyour
personalstatementcritiqued,meetrequireddeadlinesforgraduateschool,
andcreateabackupplanCompletethefirstdestinationsurveytoshareyour
success.
Inaddition,theCIPresultedintherevision,archiveoradoptionof
approximately360courses.Competenciesrelatedtoemerging
technologies,renewablesourcesofenergyandreduced
consumptionofenergywereincorporated.StudentLearning
Outcomes(SLOs)wereaddedtoprogramcorecoursestoaid.
Degree programs must contain a minimum of 15 semester
hours including at least one course from each of
the following areas: humanities/
fine arts, social/behavioral sciences, and natural
sciences/mathematics.
Degree programs must contain a minimum of 6 semester
hours of communications. Diploma programs must contain a
minimum of 6 semester hours of general education; 3
semester hours must
be in communications. General education is