WORK EXPERIENCE COURSES
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WRKEX 97 (General Work Experience)
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WEOC 99i (Internship)
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CI 51 (Volunteer - Community Engagement)
Get units for working! Work Experience courses can help the working student acquire desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness all while earning college units at their job site. Below is a table that shows the difference between the two types of Work Experience courses.
ENROLL IN WORK EXPERIENCE
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DETERMINE YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE COURSE
You must currently have a job with a licensed business in order to take a Work Experience course.
DO YOU NEED HELP FINDING A JOB?
Are you hoping to take work experience but you don't currently have a job? We can help!
- Check out SRJC's Online Job Board: Handshake
- Set up an appointment with our staff. Contact us.
- You can get units for volunteering as well, check out Community Engagement course.
- FIGURE OUT HOW MANY UNITS YOU ARE TAKING THE COURSE FOR
For Work Experience courses, the amount of hours worked determines the number of units you may enroll in. Use the tables below to determine how many units you can take!
NOTES ABOUT COURSE/UNITS
- Work Experience courses are variable unit courses and can be taken multiple times for a maximum of 16.00 units while attending SRJC (in combination with units accumulated from Internship courses you had taken).
- Work Experience units apply toward an Associate's Degree (AA/AS) from any California Community College (CCC) and are transferable to any California State University (CSU).
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS Units of Work Experience
Average Hours Worked
Per Week*
Total Semester Hours1.00 5 hours 75 hours 2.00 10 hours 150 hours 3.00 15 hours 225 hours 4.00 20 hours 300 hours 5.00 25 hours 375 hours 6.00 30 hours 450 hours SUMMER SESSION Units of Work Experience PAID
Average Hours Worked
Per Week*PAID
Total Semester Hours1.00 9.5 hours 75 hours 2.00 19 hours 150 hours 3.00 28 hours 225 hours 4.00 37.5 hours 300 hours 5.00 47 hours 375 hours *This average is based on the weeks classes are in session. Hours accumulated before classes begin can be counted, thereby reducing the average weekly hours required to meet the minimum total hours for the semester.
- REGISTER FOR THE COURSE
REGISTER FOR THE COURSE
Once you know how many units you are going to take (and your add code if applicable), register through your student portal. Choose the appropriate course using the A through Z tree view and select the corresponding section number. During the registration process, look for the link to the Employment Information Form, which is required to complete your registration after finalizing your schedule.
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NEXT STEP ONCE YOU ARE ENROLLED
This is a hybrid course. You can begin working on assignments in Canvas. Your instructor of record is Kim Kinahan however, your primary contact for the duration of the course will be your Assigned Instructor who will be in contact with you by the 3rd week of class..
- WORK EXPERIENCE COURSE REQUIREMENTS
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
- Students must be employed by any licensed business prior to enrollment in the course.
- Enroll in a Work Experience course
- Develop 3 on-the-job learning goals with your supervisor that focus on new job-related knowledge or skills.
- Meet with your assigned Work Experience instructor at least twice during the semester in person or with the exception is zoom
- Write a 3-page report about your experience in the course.
- Resume
- Complete 1 work-related workshop or activity (offered online)
- Keep track of the total hours worked for reporting to your Assigned Instructor at your 2nd job site visit.
- WRITING WORK GOALS and ACTION WORD LIST
WORK GOAL EXPECTATIONS
Writing Work Goals
- In any job, there is a way it can be done better.
- Develop creative ways for your company to be more efficient.
- Discuss these with your supervisor.
- Communicate with your job supervisor. Be ready and willing to carry out changes he/she may have in mind to improve the fulfillment of productivity with which you are both involved.
- Have a plan for goal accomplishment and stick with it.
Brainstorm
- What job functions must be learned to prepare me for promotion to a higher job classification?
- What jobs now being handled by my supervisor could I learn and perform in a few months, freeing my supervisor for more important tasks?
- What functions or responsibilities now being accomplished by a co-worker could I learn so ·that, in the absence of the co-worker, I could fill that job for limited periods?
- How can I do my current job better? Do you have an idea that can increase your or your company's, efficiency?
- Looking two to five years down the road, what on-the-job learning must be acquired to fulfill your intermediate or long-range goals?
- Are merit-pay raises based on individual output or productivity? If so, you might consider improving your work output by a reasonable percentage during the semester.
Sample:
SMART Goal: I will earn a promotion to senior customer service representative by completing the required training modules in three months and applying for the role at the end of the next quarter.
- Specific: The goal setter has clearly set the objective to be promoted to senior customer services rep.
- Measurable: Success can be measured by training module completion, filing the application, and earning the promotion.
- Achievable: The goal setter will complete the training necessary to earn the promotion.
- Relevant: The goal setter is planning to apply for the promotion after finishing their training modules.
- Time-Based: The goal setter has set a deadline to achieve their objective at the end of the next business quarter.
ACTION WORD LIST (Possible terms to start your SMART Learning Goals)
Clerical
Communications
Creative
Critical
Financial
Human
Thinking
Resources
Arrange
Address
Adapt
Analyze
Allocate
Advise
Automate
Arbitrate
Author
Apply
Analyze
Assess
Budget
Arrange
Blend
Appraise
Appraise
Assist
Catalog
Articulate
Change
Arrange
Audit
Clarify
Calculate
Lecture
Conceive
Evaluate
Transfer
Coach
Collect
Author
Create
Assemble
Balance
Collaborate
Complete
Convince
Design
Assess
Budget
Consult
Compute
Correspond
Develop
Calculate
Calculate
Counsel
Copy
Define
Devise
Categorize
Compute
Diagnose
Define
Develop
Direct
Choose
Forecast
Educate
Dispatch
Direct
Enhance
Collect
Increase
Employ
Decrease
Draft
Establish
Compare
List
Group
Distribute
Edit
Formulate
Compose
Manage
Guide
Evaluate
Enlist
Illustrate
Construct
Market
Hire
Examine
Formulate
Improve
Create
Plan
Integrate
File
Influence
Introduce
Design
Project
Handle
Generate
Interpret
Invent
Diagram
Research
Mediate
Identify
Interview
Initiate
Estimate
Tabulate
Monitor
Inspect
Meet
Launch
Examine
Update
Motivate
Interview
Moderate
Market
Formulate
Negotiate
Monitor
Negotiate
Originate
Inspect
Recruit
Operate
Participate
Plan
Justify
Represent
Organize
Persuade
Prepare
Learn
Select
Prepare
Present
Produce
Measure
Sponsor
Process
Preside
Propose
Organize
Strengthen
Purchase
Promote
Publish
Plan
Train
Record
Publicize
Setup
Prepare
Retrieve
Recommend
Structure
Rate
Review
Recruit
Write
Revise
Separate
Represent
Score
Schedule
Sell
Select
Screen
Speak
Setup
Summarize
Translate
Solve
Survey
Write
Summarize
Systematize
Test
Transcribe
Update
Verify
Management &
Management &
Research
Teaching
Technical
Leadership
Leadership (cont.)
Administer
Propose
Arrange
Advise
Assemble
Analyze
Recommend
Automate
Clarify
Build
Approve
Reduce
Catalog
Coach
Calculate
Assign
Regulate
Categorize
Communicate
Change
Attain
Remove
Calculate
Control
Complete
Authorize
Reorganize
Classify
Design
Compute
Chair
Replace
Collect
Develop
Convert
Collaborate
Reposition
Compare
Encourage
Construct
Conduct
Reproduce
Compile
Evaluate
Design
Consolidate
Retain
Complete
Explain
Engineer
Contract
Review
Compute
Guide
Install
Control
Revise
Critique
Influence
Operate
Coordinator
Schedule
Define
Inform
Overhaul
Delegate
Simplify
Diagnose
Instruct
Modify
Develop
Strengthen
Decrease
Interpret
Program
Direct
Standardize
Distribute
Motivate
Remodel
Enact
Supervise
Evaluate
Persuade
Repair
Establish
Examine
Present
Restructure
Evaluate
Formulate
Rewrite
Service
Execute
Generate
Stimulate
Solve
Expand
Identify
Test
Sort
Guide
Inspect
Upgrade
Head
Interview
Implement
Investigate
Improve
Monitor
Incorporate
Operate
Increase
Organize
Initiate
Prepare
Institute
Process
Investigate
Record
Launch
Retrieve
Lead
Review
Maintain
Separate
Mediate
Schedule
Negotiate
Screen
Organize
Summarize
Oversee
Survey
Perform
Systematize
Prioritize
Tabulate
Plan
Update
Preside
Validate
Produce
Verify
LEARNING PROCESSES WORD LIST- Possible terms or ways to describe How you learn, change or improve your SMART Learning Goals.
Adapting classroom knowledge
Seeking information
Applying new/current skills
Seeking input
Asking
Studying
Assisting
Surveying
Attending
Using a journal or report
Demonstrating
Testing
Experiencing
Training
Follow policies and procedures
Trial and error
Gathering information or data
Updating
Increasing communication
Visiting
Increasing product knowledge
Using necessary materials
Installing
Working with co-workers
Investigating
Meeting with
Memorizing
Observing
Obtaining feedback
One-to-group-sessions
One-to-one-group-sessions
On-the job training
Operating
Organizing information or products
Planning
Reading
Receiving
Recording
Researching
Reviewing
MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION WORD LIST - Possible terms or ways of measuring or evaluation SMART Learning Goals.
Accuracy
Observation
Client/customer feedback
Participants review
Company evaluation
Product development
Compare
Project completion
Co-worker feedback
Program review
Control process
Progress report
Critique
Quiz
Cross-check
Sales receipts
Display
Supervisor review
Demonstrate
Surveying
Improved communications
Tally
Improved resource usage
Test
Improved organization
Verification
Improved time management
Written report
Increased accuracy
Increased efficiency
Increased knowledge
Increased productivity
Increased safety
Inventory checks
Invoice review
Journal
Meet standards
WORK EXPERIENCE COORDINATOR | KIM KINAHAN
DESCRIPTION
The Work Experience Coordinator is here to answer all of your questions regarding the Work Experience course. Students are expected to have a job before enrolling. The Work Experience class provides a structure to improve your employability (soft) skills, work habits, and career awareness.
SERVICES
- Determine eligibility for Work Experience
- Review class requirements
- Provide you with an add code for class if necessary
- Provide support during and after your Work Experience course
- Refer you to additional Career Hub and Student Services
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