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• University of Navarra Day Planner for first-year students
• Social and Cultural Activities
• Psychoprofessional evaluations
• Open elective course: "Formation in professional skills"
• Professional internships
• Active job search, and strategies for planning your professional career
DAY PLANNER

Objectives:
- Provide the information necessary for a rapid integration into the University.
- Provide strategies for good time management.
- Ideas for improving your study methods and exam preparation.

Ideas for advising appointments:
- Use the questionnaire concerning study methods which appears in the Agenda: comment on it with the advisor; make a plan for those issues where your needs are different.
- Activities and methods which exist at the University for integrating into college life.
- Practical questions on how to take better advantage of classes.
- Discover areas of professional interest.
- Learn to use the library.

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Social activities, according to the interests of the student. These may be complemented by the development of personal skills.

PSYCHOPROFESSIONAL EVALUATIONS

Professional orientation is a particularly important aspect of advising. It is one of the topics most requested by students, due to the expectations and uncertainties that are caused by the process of integration into the working world. The University of Navarra has developed, through its Career Services Office, several useful tools for helping students to make this integration easier.

Objective: Help students to think about, design and develop their own plan for professional formation, keeping in mind that the characteristics of the working world require a professional preparation based on both academic formation and personal abilities. Among the latter, professional skills and capacities are especially important, as well as the ethical and cultural attitudes that form one's personal way of living

Each student may review the results of these tests with their personal advisor. These tests are not meant to place limitations on what the student may choose to study or where to work, but rather are intended to be an instrument that will aid him or her in establishing concrete plans of action for personal development.

COURSE ON "FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS"

Objective: Train university students in the skills which are most highly valued by businesses. In "Formation in Professional Skills," online training is combined with traditional in-person teaching. Online training guarantees flexibility and independence for the student in his or her study of the course, in doing the homework assigned, and in participation in the forums. With the in-person sessions, the student is taught the skills and attitudes which constitute the competences that need to be developed. The course is taught by means of concrete cases and situations which the student may encounter in his or her first years of professional life.

Advising: by means of the appointments with his or her advisor, the student can form an overall unity out of the contents learned in the course, as well as the habits which he or she has been able to acquire, in order to develop and improve the skills studied in the course.

PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS

Objectives: Make contact with the working world, discover the skills and capacities that are necessary, reflect on the professional profile that will be needed, and establish a personal plan of development.

Advising appointments:
- Desire to perform internships: motives, place, objectives which the student wishes to attain.
- If the students have not taken the psychoprofessional evaluations, they may perform them as a starting point for self-understanding.
- Evaluation of the internships (September through October)
Turning in the internship report (of the student, and of the internship supervisor)
Commentary of the report during advising appointment(s)
Signing the report on the part of the advisor
Possible development of training plan with the advisor

ACTIVE JOB SEARCH AND STRATEGIES FOR PLANNING ONE'S PROFESSIONAL CAREER

The Office of Career Services (OSP) has various services available to students, in order to aid them in the development and planning of their professional futures.

Academic advising may integrate the orientation provided by the OSP, taking into account the knowledge and evolution of the student over the course of his or her degree program

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