Advancing Your Career

Thu, Jan 29

In this session we're going to cover three topics that will repeatedly resurface throughout your professional career: Negotiation, Promotion, and Mobility. All three are personal aspects of work, yet they have drastic effects on the broader economy. Today we'll explore this relationship. 

We have two main in-class learning goals. By the end of lecture today you will: 

  1. Learn how to be assertive in your career.
  2. Develop a positive vision of success for you, your community, and the common good. 

The slides for today's lecture.

Read This:

Programmer, entrepreneur,  and blogger Haseeb Qureshi gives us Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer and offers advice on How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation 

New York Times tech reporter Natasha Singer examines entry-level workers' loss of leverage on the job market.  

Do This:

Writing Reflection 01

See the instructions posted on the assignment's page

This writing reflection is due on 2/3 at 5pm.


This Week's Dialogue Group Meeting

Find at least one hour to meet with your group to discuss the prompt of the week: How are you preparing for your job search in the technology industry?

Schedule your group meeting for next week. The new prompt is: What do meaning and purpose in a career mean to you?

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