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Events Calendar
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ALL AREA PARENTS & STUDENTS INVITED:
"Critical Steps to Successful College Major and Career Planning"
10/1 DePaul University, Naperville Campus
10/3 Wheaton Library
10/10 St. Charles Library
OTHER EVENTS:
9/18 Career Resource Center, Lake Forest
9/25 Neuqua Valley HS, Naperville
10/3 Waubonsie Valley HS, Aurora
10/30 Plainfield South & North HS
11/1 Joliet Junior College
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For Our Clients & Their Families
"SPREAD THE WORD!" REFERRAL PROGRAM CONTINUES
Our strongest referrals come from word-of-mouth advertising.
Last spring we announced a pilot of our new referral program. We asked our clients and their families to "Spread the Word," telling their friends about how our career planning process can instill direction, motivation and confidence.
The pilot has been successful, and so we are continuing the "Spread the Word" Referral Program. Call us today for your
$25 savings certificates. And talk, talk, talk!
And to our students - Are you looking to earn some extra spending money? Tell your friends about your Career Vision experience and give them a certificate. For each friend that comes in for testing, you will receive a $25 Visa gift card.
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CAREER VISION IN THE NEWS
See the latest here
Wall Street Journal
City Woman Chicago
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Career Vision
800 Roosevelt Road
Suite E-200
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
toll free: 800.469.8378
local: 630.469.6270
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September 20, 2007
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The Internship Advantage
Think of an internship as a "test drive."
Whether at the state Broadcasters Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, AT&T or a university medical center, organizations offer opportunities for students of all ages to test drive and gain experience in their desired career fields through internships.
These on-the-job learning experiences enhance students' chances for early career success. They are especially valuable when they are intentionally chosen because they align with careers that students have identified as good matches for them. Internships offer a realistic work preview and provide practical, supervised learning experience. How the opportunities are structured varies by industry and organization. More general internships may offer rotations through different departments and company functions; others, a more focused project or assignment. In fact, today it is common for students to have had several internship experiences.
Each internship enables students the opportunity to:
- Build a network of contacts within a career field or industry
- Provide insights and feedback on what it takes to be successful in the field
- Offer a realistic preview and a means to compare top career choices
- Achieve a competitive advantage in the interviewing process
- Try out a new city
The current range of internship possibilities is exciting. Learn more...
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The Four A's for Today's Lifestyles
In past centuries, mastery of the three R's - readin', 'riting, and 'rithmetic - was commonly viewed as essential to effective learning and communication. However, the nurturing and building of the "Four A's" have also become essential to developing skills relevant to thriving in the 21st Century. This is true for both students and adults as they share concerns about finding ways to balance life's demands while keeping pace with challenging daily schedules.
What are the Four A's?
1. Attitude is how we present ourselves to the world.
Developing the skills to share our sometimes conflicting opinions in a respectful tone and pleasant manner contributes to a more balanced environment and easier interactions with others. Our choices about how to present ourselves will impact every situation we encounter and everyone we meet.
2. Attention is what we focus on.
What we attend to establishes our priorities. We can easily feel overwhelmed if our attention is constantly challenged by competing priorities (e.g., family relationships and caregiving, financial and physical well-being, professional development, work or school performance and relationships, and community). Learning to focus our attention on defined priorities in different areas of our lives is now an essential skill.
The third and fourth "A's"...
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Help Us Educate More Parents
Does your high school have a Career Vision Partnership to educate parents on the importance of early college and career planning? Call us to find out more.
Call us if you would like to host a free Career Literacy program for your parent group.
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Thank you for your interest in Career Vision
Career Vision helps individuals identify college majors and careers that best fit their natural talents and lead to success and happiness more quickly. We are part of the Ball Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to helping individuals discover and develop their potential since 1975.
If you know of a parent who has a high school or college student unsure of their college or career direction, or someone who is looking to make a change to a more satisfying career, please forward this newsletter to them or have them call us. It would be our privilege to assist them. Gift certificates are available.
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If you are interested in reprinting a "Visions" article in your newsletter or posting it on your school or organization website, please contact us.
We'd like to hear from you! What do you like best about the newsletter? What types of articles are not as useful to you? What subject would you like to see covered? Reply via email .
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