{"id":362,"date":"2020-01-29T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/first\/?p=362"},"modified":"2021-09-07T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:58:27","slug":"professional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/2020\/01\/29\/professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They are three key steps to developing your professional\npersona in college. These three steps are Understand and Admit your weakness, Research,\nRead and be aware. Finally diversify your experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lone way to create both individually\nand efficiently as a college student is to first understand what needs to be established\nin the first place. Self-reflection is so vital in all our lives, but\nespecially during your college years. Taking proprietorship of what you don\u2019t\ndo well and trying to improve is just as important, if not more important than knowing\nwhat you are good at. College is the time to enhance and develop and that will\nonly occur if you have goals set on what abilities you want to improve. If you\nhave never finished a transferable skills survey before, I inspire you to give\nit a shot, as this can really show you where you need more development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of us gave people we have seemed\nup to in our lives. For those of us who have been in the personnel for a good\nwhile, we possibly have had mentors and leaders that we have seemed up to along\nthe way. One way you can take title of your own development is to compete with\nthe people that you look up to. By being mindful of your situations and\nunderstanding what precisely has drawn you to specific people, you can realize\nwhat skills you need to be able to platform to someday be in that situation of\nleadership. This only transpires through reading, exploring, and being purposeful\nwith your learning. Having excellent job specific skills are essential, but you\nneed to have the indefinable qualities that companies are looking for to\nultimately reach your career goals. To grow in your education, you must first\nidentify the abilities you want to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no better way to take benefit\nof your own education than by spreading your experiences while in school. Think\nabout it. The more interested you are and the more encounters you have, the\nbetter your prospects of finding out what your true enthusiasm is. For example,\nI work with a lot of student people and many of them end up shifting their\nmajor because they love what they do within their student job. I implore all\nstudents to diversify your experiences by getting involved in student\norganizations, volunteering, and being employed while a student. At the very\nleast, a diversified resume with a lot of experiences looks pretty good to an\nemployer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professional development is key to you getting an internship\nor landing a job while you in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are three key steps to developing your professional persona in college. These three steps are Understand and Admit your weakness, Research, Read and be aware. Finally diversify your experience. The lone way to create both individually and efficiently as a college student is to first understand what needs to be established in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14959,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}