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Admission is free.</p> <p>The posters are part of the Career Discovery Seminar course led by the <a href="https://iccweb.ucdavis.edu/">Internship and Career Center</a> and the Career Discovery Fellows, graduate-student mentors in the CDG Program. </p> <p>As part of the CDG Seminar, the students explored careers and then each created an informative poster. They will explain their choice of careers at the poster session. The public will vote on their favorite posters, with the top two vote-getters each receiving a $100 gift certificate.</p> <p>CDG gives incoming freshmen an opportunity to explore careers, learn strategies for selecting a major and gain lifelong skills in successful career development, said entomologist <a href="/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=ullman">Diane Ullman</a>, associate dean of undergraduate programs, <a href="http://www.aes.ucdavis.edu/">College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences</a> (CAES), and professor and former chair, Department of Entomology. </p> <p>“Students have been tremendously enthusiastic in their response to the CDG Program,” Ullman said. “Last year, we served 180 students, this year we have just over one third of our first year students (nearly 360) participating. We are delighted to present possibly the largest poster session featuring work completed exclusively by freshmen in the history of our campus.”</p> <p>Dave Rizzo, who directs <a href="http://sas.ucdavis.edu/">Science and Society</a>, an interdepartmental teaching program administered by CAES (it offers campuswide students the opportunity to discover the connections linking the social, biological, and physical sciences with societal issues and cultural discourses), said he is very pleased with the outcome of the program and the changes made in the second year of the program. “We believe this program will help students choose a major and get a head start on career development,” he said.</p> <p>Internship and Career Center project managers Janice Morand and Marcie Kirk-Holland conduct the annual CDG seminars. Graduate students trained as Career Discovery Fellows lead the discussion sections and mentor the first-year students throughout the year. </p> <p>CDG students are essentially involved in a process of career/life planning, Kirk-Holland said. “Most of us spend a significant number of our waking hours at work,” she said. “In career development, we find that when people know and understand their skills, interests, values, personality preferences as well as the labor market and how to look for jobs and internships that suit their unique desires and abilities, they achieve greater career satisfaction.”</p> <p>In the lectures, students learn more about themselves using assessments such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator">Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.</a> In the discussion sections, students hear from guest speakers, take field trips and participate in “career speed dating” sessions with people excelling in a wide range of careers. </p> <p>For more information, e-mail <a href="mailto:dmrizzo@ucdavis.edu">David Rizzo, </a><a href="mailto:deullman@ucdavis.edu">Diane Ullman</a> or <a href="mailto:jxmorand@ucdavis.edu.">Janice Morand. </a></p> <br> <hr> <p><a href="index.html">Back to News</a></p> <p>--<a href="mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu">Kathy Keatley Garvey</a><br> Communications specialist<br> UC Davis Department of Entomology <br> (530) 754-6894</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table>  <cfinclude template="../footer.html"> <cfinclude template="../footer2.html"> </BODY> </HTML>