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The Quintessential Careers Career Journaling Tutorial... Graduate Studies

 

Career Journal for Job-Seekers Considering Graduate School

 

Graduate School Module 6: You as a Product... Career Positioning

 

This assignment comes back around to one of the fundamental points of the concept of the marketing career journal -- you as a product -- and gets you to start thinking strategically about your key advantages over other job-seekers.

 

Read: Building Your Brand: Tactics for Successful Career Branding and A Dozen Things You Must Know About Communicating Your Career Brand.

 

Read: Steps for Developing a Positioning Strategy.

 

Develop: A career positioning strategy for yourself.

 

Read: Three Levels of Product.

 

Discuss: Your three levels in terms of attractiveness to graduate programs, making sure you know what makes you an attractive product to those graduate programs.

 

Read: Unique Selling Proposition (USP).

 

Draft: Your USP -- or what you want to be your USP -- and a career branding statement for after grad school.

 

Finalize: Your list of potential graduate schools.

 

 

 

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