How to Enhance Professional Development Endeavors

Step 1: Choose a Topic Choose a topic that can help you enhance your professional development endeavors; one that inspires, fascinates, and speaks to you. To make this assignment relevant, approach it from your current role or a position you are hoping to fill in the future. Decide on a topic of interest from any of the following:  career exploration strategies,  career satisfaction,  career exploration strategies,  career transitions,  conducting interviews,  cover letters,  career portfolio,  dress for success,  ethics and the interview process,  how to conduct an interview,  interview anxiety,  interview follow-up strategies,  interview questions,  interview types,  interviewing skills for job seekers,  leadership development,  mentoring,  networking,  nonverbal communication in interviews,  personal branding,  professional development for the self-employed,  rejecting job applicants,  resignation strategies,  resumes,  salary negotiation, or  other topic approved by your professor. Step 2: Choose a Source Find a credible source that provides useful information about your topic of interest. You will explain how the information from your source can be used to enhance your own professional development endeavors. Your source can include any of the following (minimum of one source required):  CSU Online Library article,  a resource or link found on the CSU Career Services Department website, or  course textbook chapters 15 and 16 (Guffey