The Career Development Center facilitates Ten Strategies for Success to help students and alumni who have been participating in Consciousness-Based^SM education, plan and implement their next career phase in a thorough and organized way.

We offer a two-week course in career strategies for graduating students; a six-day workshop; and individual career development by appointment.

If you would like to experience the unique style of education that is offered at the Maharishi University of Management campus, the six-day workshop is available following selected Visitor's Weekend dates. Please contact rgoodman@mum.edu for more information.

On this page, we describe the goals of the workshop, provide an outline of the workshop: the ten strategies for achieving career planning success, and list selected links to other excellent sites where further resources can be found.

Goals of this Workshop

1. Be proactive and competitive by:
• Assessing your strengths
• Designing your own career path
• Learning and using strategies for research on company and industry trends
• Defining and finding the best job openings which utilize your qualifications
2. Discover and utilize networking strategies to:
• Expand your knowledge of the hidden job market
• Extend your ability to bring your qualifications to those who can further your career, including employers, colleagues, and clients
3. Communicate your strengths to employer/colleagues/clients/funders by:
• Learning to speak about your achievements
• Writing about your qualifications
• Showing how your capabilities create solutions
4. Understand the principles and technologies of Maharishi Vedic Science that promote effortless fulfillment of your goals

Throughout this workshop we describe benefits of practice of the Transcendental Meditation^® technique and how it enhances career success. Participants in the career strategies workshop will have the opportunity to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique concurrently with the workshop for an additional fee.

Steps One – Four: Research Your Choices

1. Decision Making/Goal Setting
2. Career Assessment
3. Exploring My Occupational Choices (matching my attributes with occupations) and Making Professional Choices (place of work, style of work)
4. Researching Career Opportunities (trends, companies, industries, job openings, salaries)

Steps Five – Ten: Maximize Your Strengths

5. Marketing Oneself: Creating a Map of Previous Activities and Education
6. Networking Strategies
7. Creating the Best Cover Letter
8. Creating the Best Resume
9. Creating a Portfolio
10. Interviewing Skills

Selected Readings

Ace the IT Job Interview, by Paula Moreira. Osborne/McGraw Hill ISBN 0-07-222581-5

Getting Interviews Including Answering Internet Ads, by Kate Wendleton. The Career Press: ISBN 1-56414-444-8 (pbk)

The Career Discovery Project, by Gerald M. Sturman, Ph.D. Broadway Books: ISBN 0-385-42340-3

General Career Development Sites:

• The best all-around resource: Rileyguide
• Assessment of General Career Interests: Career Key (similar to Holland Interest Inventory): Careerkey.org
• Study Career Clusters and Career Areas to discover areas of work of interest to you: Act.org overview
• Site for defining professions: Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Employer Research: Hoovers
• Lists of Associations for Networking: Asaenet.org Online Associations
• Cover Letter How-To Site: RPI Writingcenter
• Sample Resume Site: Jobstar.org tools
• Interview Questions and Good Sample Answers: Quintcareers Interview Question Database