{"id":1767,"date":"2016-04-28T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T00:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2016-04-28T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T00:19:15","slug":"working-your-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/working-your-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Your Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1769\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1769 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Students kayaking in Lake Champlain\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2016\/04\/209147-39.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dreading those summer \u201c<em>What are you going to do with your life<\/em>?\u201d conversations with relatives and friends? \u00a0Here\u2019s your answer: \u201cI\u2019ve got a plan and I\u2019m working it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/?Page=4yearplan.html\">4 Year Plan for Career Success<\/a> is just that\u2014a well-defined road map of action steps for your four years at UVM to help you engage in experiences to explore your interests and build the skills to be successful in your chosen work.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a self-managed plan, so you can move at your own pace and check off the steps along the way. There are even samples for students in various majors.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The major areas the 4 Year Plan for Career Success addresses are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> Year- EXPLORE: What are your strengths and interests?<\/li>\n<li>2<sup>nd<\/sup> Year- EXPERIENCE What experiences could help you evaluate a career interest?<\/li>\n<li>3<sup>rd<\/sup> Year- FOCUS: What strengths would you want an employer to know about you? Does your resume tell that story?<\/li>\n<li>4<sup>th<\/sup> Year- ACHIEVE: What is the strategy and timeline for your job search?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Summer is the perfect time to identify alumni who are working in positions of interest and set up an informational interview, or even a one-day job shadowing. Use your summer job to develop your skills with Excel or to build knowledge of patient care. Reflect on how you will articulate the skills obtained in that summer position on a resume or in an interview. Do an internship. \u00a0Develop a LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>The Career Center is open all summer and we\u2019re happy to talk with you about some of your options for taking action on your 4 Year Plan for Career Success.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the last word in the 4 Year Plan for Career Success\u2014 it\u2019s success. Use your summer to dive in and move forward towards your own vision of success.<\/p>\n<p><em>~Mary Beth<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreading those summer \u201cWhat are you going to do with your life?\u201d conversations with relatives and friends? \u00a0Here\u2019s your answer: \u201cI\u2019ve got a plan and I\u2019m working it!\u201d The 4 Year Plan for Career Success is just that\u2014a well-defined road map of action steps for your four years at UVM to help you engage in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/working-your-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working Your Plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127021,129271,46458,129430,129667,6901,1],"tags":[138804,138807,138806,116804,131420,132056,53474,603,138813,138814,46457,138816,569,528],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-exploration","category-helpful-resources","category-internships","category-interviewing","category-job-searching","category-networking","category-uncategorized","tag-4-year-plan","tag-4-year-plan-for-career-success","tag-4yp","tag-advice","tag-career","tag-career-path","tag-experience","tag-how-to","tag-internships","tag-interviewing","tag-jobs","tag-networking","tag-photos","tag-tips","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"career","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/author\/career\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}