Self-Assessment #1-Career Goals Survey | PDF
What are your immediate and long term career goals, and what obstacles may be in your way. Writing them down helps you visualize your plan and frame your goals in a new way.

Self Assessment # 2 - Personal Professional Preferences | PDF
Identify professional preferences that satisfy your personal needs. Many people, when considering their professional career needs, often forget to include their personal needs—those areas that will be affected by what and where they are employed. If you want success in your professional life, you NEED and DESERVE comfort in your personal life.

Self Assessment # 3 - Job Search Checklist | PDF
This checklist is designed to assess your job search skills and strategies. The way you answer the following questions may yield some important clues to where you may be off target in your job search.

Portfolio Basics | PDF
Every student should develop a professional portfolio while at GSIPS. Your portfolio brings your work- professional and academic- together, offering a map of the path you have taken to the Institute and through the GSIPS curriculum. A portfolio is more than a collection of documents- it should be a collection of your experience, a statement of who you are and where you want to go, a reflection of the full range of your skills and knowledge.

Portfolio Presentation | PDF
This presentation covers the basics to develop your professional portfolio during your time at the Monterey Institute.

For additional information about career development at the Graduate School of International Policy Studies, please contact:

Jennifer Hambleton, Career Development Manager, GSIPS Career Services
jennifer.hambleton@miis.edu
831-647-6676