UNILWYL 1414

Pathways to Career Success

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2020-2021 Catalog.

This course is designed to expose students to potential career paths in the fields of public policy, banking, consulting, healthcare, and tech startup. The course is centered around bi-weekly, hour-long interviews with mid-career Cornell Alumni working in these fields. Students will get the opportunity to research the field as a potential career path, identify the nature of work carried out in the field, talk with executives about their career paths, and learn skills for internship application writing and resume building in that field. Between class meetings, small groups of students will meet with the instructors for an hour to work on gathering information about the field, and then conduct informal zoom interviews with the executives to prepare a set of interview questions.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: West Campus sophomores and juniors.

Outcomes

• Develop a deep understanding of the career fields covered in the course.
• Identify career paths in these same fields.
• Develop interviewing skills.
• Develop resume writing skills.
• Develop cover letter writing skills.
• Develop interpersonal communication and networking skills.

When Offered Spring.

Comments This is a Learning Where You Live Course.

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