Devry Coll148 ALL Week Discussion Latest 2015 November

Devry COLL148 Week 1 Discussion DQ 1 Latest 2015 November

Staying Motivated and Confident in College (graded)

Motivation and confidence are key factors to success professionally, academically, and personally. Motivation and confidence can change your life! To post to this discussion, first complete the Week 1: Discovering Your Power checklist. Then post any insights about your self-beliefs. What positive attitudes do you think are needed to be successful?

Please keep the results of this checklist—you will need them again later in the course.

Remember: This is a discussion! So please respond to others with feedback, encouragement, or advice

DQ2

The Career Planning Process (graded)

Keeping the end in mind—graduating and finding a job in your chosen career.

Next week, we will be exploring DeVry University's Career Services. Career Services offers a step-by-step process to help you prepare for your future—a job in your field of study. Working on these career-related activities will help you develop the skills, credentials, and experience you need to meet your career goals upon graduation. It's the Career Ready Plan.

For this discussion, first click here and study the four stages of career planning:

Prepare;

Explore;

Develop; and

Launch.

In each of those stages, there are many actions listed to move you towards your career. To get full credit for this discussion below, review the Career Ready Plan and for your first post, you must list

two to three actions in each of these stages that you will complete; and

comments on why you want to take those actions or any questions you have about those actions.

This discussion is not about what people should do. It's about what you will do or what you want to learn more about. So please use the words "I" and "me"! For your second and third posts, comment on others' ideas. If you find any links for these activities, please post them.

DEvry COLL148 Week 2 Discussion DQ 1 Latest 2015 November

Career Services and Time Management

The two resources that I plan to use are HireDeVry and My Network. I plan on using HireDeVry so that I can better market myself toward the job that I am trying to get. This means improving my resume, doing mock interviews, attending seminars and job fairs. I think that this would be very important to me because once I know how to correctly write a resume or speak properly at an interview I would be more likely to get the position than someone with less experience. My Network would be a great help by letting me know what jobs are available based on my profile. With the many options provided to me I have choices to see what position would be the best fit for me and my future

Career Services Dorian Herrod Email this Author 10/30/2015 4:09:17 PM

After reviewing the My Compass services I see that I will be making great friends with the Jobs that interest me section because I'm very eager to start working in my field as soon as I possibly can. I already see positions I would like to apply for. Even tho I'm ready to start applying for better jobs I know I have to take care of the school process first which will take me to my career planning section of my career services knowing that the first thing I need to take care of is setting up my short term goals to eventually preparing me for a career in the electronic tech field.

DQ 2

Discussion Question #2 - Time Management Professor Menck Email this Author 10/30/2015 4:53:39 PM

Managing your time is based on identifying what you need to do, estimating the time it takes to do it, and then scheduling that task in a planner.

However, things do go wrong! Here are two common issues:

not sticking to your plan and then procrastinating; and

friends, family, employers, and coworkers asking you to do things that you had not planned.

Please address one or both of these things: How do you minimize procrastination? How do you say no to others' requests?

Devry Coll148 Week 3 Discussion Latest 2015 November

What Employers Are Looking For

Values are what you consider to be most important in life. The textbook says, "Individuals often discover that the reason they are dissatisfied with their current job is that it incorporates few of their values and interests." (p. 37)

Read the case study in the textbook at the top of page 41 titled, "Real Stories: Meet Maria." In your first post, discuss one or more of the following questions:

1. Do you think Maria was unhappy with her job because it didn't satisfy her values, her interests, or both? Why?
2. Why do you think Maria had problems with decision making?

Devry Coll148 Week 4 Discussion Latest 2015 November

Finanes

To help you with your financial success, DeVry University offers a variety of self-service resources. These self-service resources are put in place to support you throughout your educational career as well as to help you make responsible financial decisions that will help you complete your program. For this discussion and for the quiz this week, please review the following videos on the "My Financial Future Videos" page: Financial Resources Student Portal My Financial Future Also, please become familiar with the My Financial Future website, which provides tools and resources to help you plan with such things as paying for college, using credit cards, understanding credit scores, and buying homes. It's a great site for you to learn what is needed to be financially literate. Specifically, please go first to the home page http://myfinancialfuture.devry.edu and then review the pages in the All About Money and Real World Money tabs. Based on your review of the presentation and the My Financial Future website, how can your financial decisions impact your ability to complete your program of study?

Devry Coll148 Week 5 Discussion Latest 2015 November

DQ 1

APA Formatting

Whenever you write a paper or a presentation, or post to a discussion online, you will often refer to content that is not common knowledge nor your own experience. It is essential that you give credit to the source by using proper citations. At DeVry University, we use the APA format. In this discussion, you will learn why and how we use APA.

First listen to the 10-minute presentation on APA located atSuccessUin the Hub.

For this discussion, let's first focus on the advantages of using APA in your document. Why should we do this?

DQ 2

Creative Confidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16p9YRF0l-g

Watch the video in the above link. It's about 12 minutes.

What is creative confidence?

What are some ways that people lose confidence in their creative thinking abilities?
How can you gain that confidence back?

Can you think of a time when you had to solve a problem and be creative in the process? Did you succeed? If you could go back, would you solve the problem differently?

Devry Coll148 Week 6 Discussion Latest 2015 November

DQ1

Academic and Work Ethics (graded)

Consider these quotes:

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." --Confucius

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." --Indira Gandhi

"What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient." --Bodie Thoene

Which quotes most resonate with you and why? What would you do if you observed someone doing the wrong thing? (e.g., instead of submitting his or her own work, a student submits a paper purchased on the Internet)

DQ 2

Professional Image—Online and In Person (graded)

As part of the hiring process, many employers will search online to see what they can learn about you. What can you do to make sure you have the best reputation online? (Hint: Search for "online presence" or "personal branding online.").

Devry Coll148 Week 7 Discussion Latest 2015 November

Money and Career

Throughout your academic and professional life, you will need to make decisions. Some decisions are easy; some are not. It's important to understand your style of decision making and if you need to consider other styles.

For this discussion, first read about the eight types of styles listed on page 144 in our textbook. Then answer the following questions.

1. Which of these approaches to decision making do I use the most? The least?
2. Which would I like to use more often?
3. Which would I like to avoid? Why?