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Preparing Our Workforce: Hosting Career Discussions
American Geosciences Institute
Course Number
AGI019-
Classes Start
Estimated Effort
2.5 hours-
Classes End
About This Course
Welcome to the POW Training Course. Thank you for your participation! We're glad you have decided to make an important contribution to the health of the geoscience discipline by talking with students about careers in our profession. This course is designed to provide you with access to well-tested tools that will aid you in discussing career opportunities in the geosciences. In particular, we encourage you to consider using some of the more non-traditional approaches, which you will work through in this course. Our assessments have shown our materials and methods to be effective at engaging the broad range of students you are likely to meet.
Course Format & Objectives
This course will take about 2.5 hours to complete. There are three main sections to the course:
- Thinking Outside the Box: Examining all types of geoscience careers
- Workforce trends: Looking at the past to understand the future
- Networking: The key to landing that geoscience career
Additionally, each of these main sections have two sets of objectives:
- Course Objectives are goals which we are striving to achieve during this course.
- POW Initiative Presentation Objectives are the goals which we're aiming to achieve during the actual discussions with students and faculty.
Obtaining Continuing Education Units
If your course grade is at least 70%, you may apply for 0.25 CEU credit. There is an administrative fee for the issuance of the CEU, and you can view the fee structure here. You can check your final grade by clicking on the Progress menu item in the course navigation menu at the top of the page.
Requirements
There are no previous requirements to take this course.
Course Staff
American Geosciences Institute staff serve as the facilitators for this course. If you have questions at any time during this course, you can email your questions to learning@americangeosciences.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to take this course all at one time to pass it?
No, in fact that's the advantage of offering asynchronous online courses. You can go through the course at your own pace, pause when you wish, save your progress, and resume the course when it’s convenient for you to do so.
Do I have to pay a registration fee for the course?
There is no registration fee for the course. You may view the entire course, and complete all the assessments, assignments, and exams at no cost.
Are Continuing Education Units available for this course?
If you would like to receive credit for the course and obtain CEUs, you will need to pass the course with a minimum of a 70%, fill out a form to register for the CEUs, and pay an administrative fee. The administrative fee for CEUs varies for each course. Please see details in the “How to Obtain CEUs” section at the end of each course.