SCPD Workshops
LEVEL I
Career Learning Assessment: Provides a report on your unique profile of interests, abilities and motivations.
Mission, Vision, Values: Intended to align your vision of your future with your personal attributes and value system to help you make better career choices.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team: One of two teamwork oriented workshops to help you be more effective in a team environment by identifying five things that contribute to team dysfunction.
Myers Briggs or Team Profiles: The second teamwork oriented workshop to help you be more effective in a team environment through an understanding of how individual psychological profiles affect team interaction.
Conflict Management: Intended to help you learn how to resolve conflict to achieve more favorable outcomes.
LEVEL II
Goal Setting: Tips on how to set realistic goals and manage your life towards achieving those goals.
Time Management: Tips on how to make time for your classes and your work, and still have time for a personal life.
Financial Planning: Not business planning, but personal financial basics and strategies for saving, investing, accumulating wealth and the appropriate use of debt.
Ethics in the Workplace: A look at the types of ethical challenges you will encounter in the workplace and tips on how to establish and manage to your own ethical bottom line.
Communication Etiquette/Effective Listening: Instruction on the right way and wrong way of the various modes of electronic communication in the business world and tips on how effective listening can dramatically improve communication.
LEVEL II PASSPORT APPROVED
The following workshops offered by the Career Development Center and ABSOC are Passport Approved.
How to Work a Job Fair: Tips on how to make the most of a job fair through pre-planning, effective execution and post fair follow-up.
Elevator Pitch: How to sell yourself in sixty seconds or less.
Business Etiquette: How to dress, act and look the part in the corporate world, including instruction on dining etiquette.
Students must complete a minimum of three Level II workshops plus an elective and a community service activity. Passport Approved workshops offered by the Career Development Center and ABSOC count towards the minimum.
LEVEL III
CMP Introduction: An introduction to the Corporate Mentoring Program including how students benefit from having a mentor and the requirements to get in. This workshop is mandatory for all SCPD students.
Leadership in the Workplace: What is leadership and as an entry level employee how can you demonstrate your leadership skills?
Negotiating Skills: Life is a negotiation and nowhere is this truer than when negotiating a job offer or a salary increase.
Behavior Based Interviewing Skills: Instruction on how to be well prepared for interviews, including what employers ask and why, and how to prepare for your internship or job interview.
Effective Networking: This workshop teaches you how to build and maintain a professional network.
Social Networking: How social networks are used in a business environment and how employers use them to screen prospective employees.
LEVEL III PASSPORT APPROVED
The following workshop offered by the Career Development Center and ABSOC are Passport Approved.
Resume Writing: Instruction on how to write a resume that will improve your chances of getting the job that you want.
Students must complete a minimum of three Level III workshops plus an elective and a community service activity. Passport Approved workshops offered by the Career Development Center and ABSOC count towards the minimum.
LEVEL IV
Effective Strategies for a Job Search: Students need a strategy for landing the job that they want. Find out what strategies work and what strategies do not work.
Web Based Job Search (eRecruiting): Tips on effective internet based job search and software that can give you access to internships and jobs, help you upload a resume for critique, help you apply for a job and more.
Evaluating a Job Offer: Learn the tools necessary to evaluate a job offer with confidence and why it is not just about salary.
So You Want to Start a Business: Not a workshop on entrepreneurialism, but a guide to the practical considerations of starting any business.
Students must complete a minimum of three Level IV workshops plus an elective and a community service activity.
Vision
The CBA is a community where creative minds meet, collaborative spirits flourish, and educational and scholarly contributions thrive.
Mission
Our mission is to graduate highly valued, ethical business professionals prepared to excel in a dynamic global business environment.
Core Values
Engage, execute, and excel embody our approach to achieving our mission.
