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When composing an email, 3 things should always be included to make the email more polished/professional.
What are Subject, Salutation, and Signature?
Sealed, certified academic record that may be required for opportunities (e.g., scholarships, internships).
What is the Official Transcript?
Strategies used to deal with stressful situations. Can be healthy/positive or unhealthy/negative.
What are Coping Skills or Coping Strategies?
A best practice at the end of an interview is to do this thing. Just be sure you don't look unprepared!
What is asking the interviewer questions?
Questions should be
• Not easily found in the position description,
online, or answered in the interview
• Related to: Position, Work environment, Skills or qualities, and/or Hiring timeline
• Limited to about 3
Document that serves as a summary of job experience & education.
What is a resume?
Based on class discussion, the 3 general categories of funding available to help students pay for college.
What are Free Money, Borrowed Money, and Earned Money?
Type of engagement that enhances academic learning, has a direct connection to curriculum, and includes experiences like internships and undergraduate research.
What is Co-curricular Engagement Activities?
Type of coping strategy where a person seeks support from others, using interpersonal relationships as a resource for managing stress.
What is Social Coping?
Type of interview questions designed to help employers get a feel for who you are and what makes you unique.
What are Traditional Questions?
The kinds of skills that should be included on a resume.
What are measurable skills?
Maintaining SAP is crucial for students to continue receiving financial aid. What does "SAP" stand for and identify two of the three key components.
What is Satisfactory Academic Progress.
1. Keep Your GPA Above 2.00
2. Complete at Least 67% of attempted credits
3. Complete degree within 150% max time
The framework for storing all information and resources that will be needed and is sued for capturing ideas.
Type of coping strategy where a person distracts themselves or distances themselves from the source of stress.
What is Avoidant Coping?
A concise and compelling introduction that summarizes who you are, what you do, and what you're looking for in a professional context.
What is an Elevator Pitch?
The order experience should be listed on a resume and/or LinkedIn.
What is reverse chronological order?
It is time to schedule Fall classes! Which 2 PSU systems/tools should students use to schedule an advising meeting and to begin exploring class options.
What are LionPATH (Schedule Builder specifically) and Starfish?
When someone starts to believe they can’t figure things out on their own, so they stop trying and wait for someone else to tell them what to do.
What is Learned Helplessness?
In Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the needs might include security of employment and health at this level.
What is the second level, Safety?
Cognitive biases where one positive or negative
trait dominates an interviewer’s perception,
causing them to overlook evidence or prejudge
candidates.
What are the Halo and Horn Effect?
The three healthy LinkedIn habits.
What are Keep, Add, Follow.
Keep profile current.
Add connections slowly.
Follow organizations.
A loan offered by the federal government where the Department of Education pays the interest while a student is enrolled in college.
What is Subsidized Loan?
What are
1. Personal Growth: Will I grow in confidence, leadership, or identity?
2. Academic Fit: Does this support my major, GPA, or
skills?
3. Career Fit: Does this build experience or connections
for my future?
4. Time: How many hours/week? What am I giving up?
The five levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
What are Physiological, Safety, Social, Self esteem, and Self-actualization?
Two methods for answering behavior interview questions. The acronym and each part.
What are CARL and STAR?
Content, Action, Results, Learnings
Situation, Task, Action, Result
This LinkedIn section may be the only part of your profile someone reads. It should highlight your passion, excitement, major, skills, experiences, and what opportunities you are seeking.
What is the Summary Section?