LOOKING BEFORE YOU LEAP Options for After Graduation

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LOOKING BEFORE YOU LEAPOptions for After
Graduation

• Karen J. Ohland, M.S.
• ASME Trainer
• And
• Financial Administrator, Education
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Overview

• Goal
• Todays situation
• How did you get to today?
• Available options
• Alternative strategies
• Advantages disadvantages
• Cost
• What to do next
• Action items

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Goal

• To decide what to do after graduation

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• Has your goal up to this point just been to
  graduate?

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• Is it possible to run out of things to graduate
  from?

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Todays Situation

• Need to define your options
• Need to manage change
• Need to develop a plan for your life
• Need to identify a strategy

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How did you get to today?

• Made choices
• College
• College major
• Courses
• Research paper topics

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CAREER Occupation Field

• Occupation e.g. engineer, teacher
• Field Where would you like to work?
• Law firm
• Pharmaceutical company
• Government
• Power plant
• ???

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Choosing an occupation

• What do you have to offer the world?
• Physical skills
• Mental skills
• People skills
• Where do you want to use your skills?
• Do you need to learn more to use your skills
  professionally?

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Available options

• Stay in school
• Go to work for someone else
• Start your own business

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Available options

• Stay in school
• Go to work for someone else
• Start your own business
• Live off relatives

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Stay In School
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Stay In School

• Get to keep doing what you are doing
• Opportunity to learn more
• Postpone getting a job
• Focus on self
• For some, easier to stay in school than go back
  to school later
• COST

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Choices if you stay in school

• Location
• Stay in current school
• Change schools
• Type of advanced degree
• Masters
• Ph.D.
• Law School (J.D.)
• M.B.A.

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Go to Work for Somone Else
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Go to Work for Somone Else

• Real income
• Benefits (health, retirement, vacation, sick
  days)
• Security
• Real responsibilities to others
• Boss, office politics
• Geographic Location

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Choices if you go to work for someone else

• Corporation different sizes
• Government formal career paths
• Public Utility
• Non-Profit feel good mission but lower salary
• University like staying in school, but
  different
• Hospital

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Start Your Own Business
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Start Your Own Business

• Real responsibilities
• Takes time to achieve security/stability
• Own boss
• Flexible
• Large time commitment
• Opportunity for huge success
• Chance of huge failure

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Choices if you start your own business

• Type of business
• Business concept
• Solo or partners
• Market
• Who are your customers
• what is your competitive advantage
• Source of resources technology, personnel,
  financing, promotion

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What do do next

• Internal input
• Determine your personality type
• List your skills and traits
• Prioritize your preferences and interests
• Find your mission in life

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What do do next

• External input
• Research books, magazines, internet
• Informational interviews
• Networking
• Career counselor
• Find a mentor

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Determining your personality type

• Myers-Briggs
• Do What You Are by Paul Barbara Tieger
• Holland Code
• What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles

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Summary

• Goal
• Todays situation
• How did you get to today?
• Available options
• Alternative strategies
• Advantages disadvantages
• Cost
• What to do next
• Action items