PATH 3300X Assignment Details – ENTR, ENVC, GLOB, MUSE, SELF

Below, you’ll see the specific assignment details from Moodle for students who need to complete the work when the Moodle is unavailable. Assignments will need to be saved and uploaded to the course Moodle when it becomes available. Not all assignments can be done ahead of time, but this can give you a head start.

PATH 330 has:

  • 1 form from your career experience (EL)
  • 2 written assignments

1.    EL Verification Form

Ask your supervisor to complete your EL Verification Form and send it back to you. You cannot complete the reflection without this form in hand. Upload the completed EL Verification Form to the Moodle.

Note: You will compare your supervisor’s evaluation on this form to the one you fill out in the Career Readiness Self-Assessment assignment. If possible, don’t look at your supervisor’s evaluation before you complete your own as you will be asked to compare the two and draw out observations.

2.    Career Readiness Self-Assessment: EL-Specific

Note that you did essentially the same process when you began your Pathway (in PATH 110). You will also do it again at the end of your Pathway (in PATH 440). This three-step process will hopefully keep these competencies fresh in your mind and help you track your growth over your Pathway and college years.

Part 1: Form – Self-Assessment

Once your EL experience is complete, but BEFORE you review the EL Verification Form your supervisor fills out, fill out a Career Readiness Self-Assessment based on your work during this EL experience. 

Upload your completed form.

Part 2: Compare, Reflect, & Set Goals

*Not currently required for any Pathway. Strongly recommended for anyone completing the assessments pieces above.

When you receive their completed form:

1 – Review and consider their feedback

2 – Compare it with your own assessment, especially noting similarities and extreme differences

3 – Use all of this information to reflect on your current career readiness and set goals for growth.

4 – Find someone – friend, professor, peer advisor in APEX, tutor, etc. – who is willing to serve as an accountability partner. Tell them your goal(s) and ask them to check in with you about your progress every month or so and at the deadline you set for the goal. Note: If you’ve asked a friend, consider offering to do the same for them if they have a goal they’re trying to meet.

Reflection Questions – Comparing the Two Assessments

  • What were areas that both of you agree are in need of growth? What are some specific steps could you take this semester to begin to grow in those areas?
  • Were there any areas where your assessment was quite different from that of your supervisor/coworker? What might be some reasons for the discrepancies? If you believe the other person might actually be right, where did your assessment come from? If you believe they are wrong, why might they have that view of your career readiness? How should these new thoughts impact your professional development goals?
  • What were areas you both agree are strengths for you? What could that mean for your career direction? What are some specific ways you can continue to build and utilize that strength area this semester?

Reflection Questions – Career Readiness Growth Goals

Considering these comparisons as well as your own observations of your strengths, growth areas, and skills crucial to your career(s) of interest…

  • What are 1-3 areas you’d like to really focus on growing? These might be the areas you chose as “focus areas” at the beginning of this project.
Within each of those focus areas:
  • What specific skill(s) would you like to improve?
  • What are specific ways to practice those skills and how can you do that this semester?
  • How could you measure your growth with those specific skills? Note: there should be actual numbers involved to make this an objective measurement.
  • What is a realistic timeline for these changes? What are incremental checkpoints you could use to track your progress?

Set SMART Goals

Finally, as you review these career readiness assessments and your reflections on them, what are 1-3 SMART goals you’d like to set to further develop your professional skills? Use this resource to help you write high quality goals that you can actually meet.

This reflection and goal setting activity is strongly recommended and can be uploaded, but it is not required. However, we recommend at least taking notes on your thoughts and goals as this will increase their quality and the likelihood that you’ll take action.

If you’d like feedback on this assignment or to review it with someone, please schedule a meeting with your Pathway Peer Advisor, the Pathways Coordinator, or your Pathway advisor. Email Pathways@wooster.edu if you don’t know who your Pathway Advisor is.

3.    EL Reflection

Once your EL experience is finished, create a reflective piece on the work you’ve done that addresses the questions below. 

Note: Please cover all bolded topics. Sub-questions, however, are only for general guidance; you don’t need to specifically cover each one.

Be sure to include specific details, examples, and stories from your EL experience to support each answer. This will allow a more effective, comprehensive reflection, more valuable feedback from Pathway team members, and a greater likelihood that you’ll recall important takeaways from this experience.

Reflection Questions  

  • What did you learn about this type of job as a possible fit for you?
    • What would you enjoy if you had a job like this?
    • What would you dislike if you had a job like this?
    • How well does it fit with your skills, interests, values, and work preferences? Consider your self-assessments from your initial Pathway reflections / PATH 110 work if you did them.
    • What other important things did you discover about yourself as a professional in this position and about this job?
    • What are your conclusions related to this job? Can you see yourself in this kind of position? If so, what do you need to do to get ready? If not, what are other similar jobs that you might prefer?
  • What did you learn about this industry and/or type of company as a possible fit for you?
    • Would you enjoy working in this industry? For a company like this? Why or why not? Indicate positives and negatives and which are most convincing to you. Consider the types of things discussed in “Work Values” on this site.
    • What other important things did you discover through this experience? Do you have any conclusions related to this industry or a company like this?
  • How does this experience relate to your academic work?
    • What were some ways you used your academic learning to be more successful in this experience?
    • Of the classes you’ve taken so far, which were relevant in preparing you for this work? How so? Consider those in your major as well as all the other courses you’ve taken (including those outside Wooster).
    • What additional courses (at Wooster and beyond) might you want to pursue to help you get ready to be a professional in your desired field?
  • What did you learn about your career readiness (NACE career competencies) from your EL Verification Form?
    • Did you discover more about your strengths and weaknesses related to the 8 competencies? If you’ve done a career readiness self-assessment previously, review it and/or try to remember your competencies in each of those 8 areas when you began college: What areas did you grow in? What specific growth did you see in your focus areas? Note: you may have completed an assessment of these competencies as Pathways has recommended them in each course. 
    • What can you learn from your supervisor’s evaluation of your career readiness (as indicated in the EL Verification Form)? How does it compare to your own assessments of your career readiness, present and past? Were there any surprises? What might explain any differences? How should you adjust your career readiness growth goals based on your supervisor’s evaluation?
    • Optional: If you’ve had other recent career experiences, consider comparing those with this EL experience.
      • What are some of the overlaps in things you enjoyed and/or disliked?
      • What were some significant differences in the ways each employer/organization operated? Which methods/styles did you prefer?
      • What are some careers that would fall into the overlap of enjoyable characteristics of all your career experiences? Consider doing some additional research to discover more of these (PathwayU, conversations with alumni or other people you know working in these fields, discussions with Pathways faculty/staff, etc.)
  • What are your next steps in your career journey? Why?
    • Consider additional career experiences, adjustments to (or a complete overhaul of) your career goals, additional training or grad school, new goals to improve career readiness, etc.

Your reflective piece can take a variety of forms, including:  

  • a written response (~750-1000 words)
  • an audio or video response (about 5 minutes) – instructions 
  • other representation as discussed with and approved by your Pathway advisor ahead of time

Upload your EL Reflection to the Moodle.

Note for ENTR students – you will need to email your completed reflection to Dr. Abramo and request a meeting to review it with him. At the conclusion of the meeting, ask him to sign your reflection (or a post-it). You will upload his signature along with your reflection

Updated 13 Jan 2026

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