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Session Topics
#1 - Are You Ready for College?
#2 – What is it You Want?
#3 – Being A Professional-
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#4 – Personal and Professional
Well-Being
#5– The Career Portfolio Starter
#6– Getting What You Want,
Not What You Get
#7– Managing Money
#8– Learning the School Systems
#9– Risk or Reward… Activities,
Friends, Parties, & Getting
Involved
Introduction College Boot Camp - Instructor’s Manual
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 Risk factors for college dropout
 How college works, laundry, health, money, building
support systems.
 Overview of the College Boot Camp
 Are you ready to be on your own?
 Visualizing life during and after college
 Identifying target jobs and defining career paths
 Setting goals
 Introduce a Visioning Board project
 Career To-Do list
 What does it mean to be a professional?
 Professionalism survey
 The basics of knowledge, skills & abilities (KSAs)
 How classes transfer knowledge to skills
 Reading a syllabus to identify skills
 How well-being impacts your personal life and
professional career
 Purpose, Social, Financial, Community and Physical Well-
Being
 Overview of career portfolios
 How career portfolios are used to organize skills
 Building your skill lists
 Collecting work samples during college
 Choosing a major
 Skills needed for a target job
 Gap analysis – skills I have vs. skills I need.
 Managing money in college
 Identify your spending habits
 Creating a college budget
 Student services
 Health services
 Academic counseling
 Financial aid
 Registrar’s office
 Housing & Recreation
 Choosing clubs and activities
 Making friends
 Finding mentors
 Staying safe
 Balancing social and academic life
 Transferable skills
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