1. Take the GSTI Student Career Management Inventory

2. Consider self-assessment tools on-line or on paper

3. Access GSTI career resources on campus:

• Career Manager’s Office Resources
• GSTI Career-Related Websites
• First Class Email Conferences
• MIIS Library Career Collection
• MIIS Media Center 

4.  Faculty Mentor – Work with your favorite GSTI faculty member

5.  Alumni Mentor – Work with the Career Manager to ID the right alum for you

6.  Go to the necessary the Fall and Spring GSTI Career Events

7.  Interview for information with Jeff Wood, alumni and employers

8.  Develop a list of knowledges, skills and abilities (KSAs) that you are sure employers will want for the jobs that attract you

9. Determine what KSAs are missing from your resume/background

10. Develop your personal Career Management Action Plan (CMAP) to address your missing KSAs and your market penetration strategies

• Your first CMAP will be your Internship CMAP

11. Search for the internship(s), summer jobs and part-time jobs that add needed KSAs to your resume

12. After your first summer, revise your resume and CMAP

• Change your Internship CMAP to a First-Job CMAP

13.  What old and new resources will you use in your full-time job search?

14.  How will you maintain and improve your KSAs once employed? 

15.  Convert your First-Job CMAP to a Second-Job CMAP

16.  Apply the CMAP process to your avocational pursuits to get charity board of director positions, volunteer work, etc.

17.  Repeat your Research/CMAP development process for as long as you will seek promotions (internal) new employment (external) in your life and work

18.  Maintain a close relationship with GSTI faculty, staff, and alumni as well as with the MIIS alumni office

19.  Give back to the MCDM system so that GSTI/MIIS students and alumni (including you) will always have a rich vocational resource to draw from in the future

20.  Give time and money to The Monterey Institute and GSTI - enhancing GSTI enhances your degree!