Integrating Career Development Techniques Into The Business School Curriculum: Tools For Better Preparing Our Graduates For Successful Careers

Abstract

With shortening semesters, longer textbooks, and new information and business techniques being published, business school faculty face a constant pressure to find the time to teach all the hard skills our disciplines require. At the same time, our graduates need certain career development skills to succeed. This paper proposes an inventory of career development techniques, the Career Development Inventory (CDI), that business school faculty could incorporate into their classes to help students develop, evaluate, and achieve their career goals. These exercises have time requirements that range from 10 minutes of class time to projects completed by the students outside of class, thus offering business school faculty a wide range of options.