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23749 9/13/05 7:00 AM Page 1 Chi Sigma Iota EXEMPLAR © Promoting Excellence in Counseling Fall, 2005 Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International Vol. 20 No. 3 Networking for Career Development Jonathan Orr Alpha Eta Chapter Navigating my relatively short The following brief pointers Next just find a professional and counseling journey as a student should get you off on a good start a polite way to let that person and now a new counselor educator, to applying the art and science of know about your motivation, one core maxim has shown itself professional networking. interests, and abilities. time and again as crucial to my ● Networking is a reciprocal rela- ● You are already part of many successful future in the counseling tionship so expect to take out networks on a daily basis. profession – the power is in the only as much as you invest. Think about the last time you relationship. We are accustomed to Information is the commerce in a wanted to try a new restaurant, hearing that maxim applied to pro- networking relationship and it is product, or service in your com- fessional practice settings where exchanged using the honor sys- munity. How many friends did you the relationship occurs between tem of leave-one-take-one. You ask for a recommendation? This client and counselor, but it also provide information for yourself is one example of using a net- applies to professional develop- and your network (leave-one) and work to acquire specialized infor- ment and career opportunities. they provide information for you mation to meet a need. Profes- A particularly valuable profes- (take-one). sional networking works the sional relationship is one estab- ● Networking is completely ethi- same way. lished through networking: the cre- cal as an established and This introduction is only the ation of relationships based on the essential aspect of conducting beginning. Now visit the Career exchange of information that is business.Any local Chamber of Links page on the Chi Sigma Iota mutually beneficial to all parties in Commerce will confirm that they website (in the Members Only sec- a network. A properly built and sponsor events and networking tion) for more networking tips, implemented professional network groups that specifically cater to pointers, and employment search has the potential to deliver jobs to business people. Similar groups opportunities. an individual before that person and events offer great ways to even sends out a resume and can promote your new counseling be the most powerful job-seeking practice, market yourself as a In This Issue tool when utilized effectively. The potential employee, or advance Networking for Career Development .......................1 trick, of course, is establishing and your professional career in other Leadership from CSI Family Members ....................2 maintaining a successful profes- ways. Membership and Chapter Activity............................3 sional network, and just like coun- ● In networking, who you know An Invitation to Participate.......................................4 seling, a viable network is built on matters as much as what you mutual gain and trust. The highest know. If information is the com- Become a Fellow or Intern ......................................4 personal and professional integrity merce of networking, then it Thriving Instead of Just Surviving ...........................5 is required. stands to reason that you need to Advocating for the Counseling Profession...............6 have some information that is of Reflections from a Practicum Student .....................7 value to the particular people in Slate of Officers .......................................................8 Moving or Renewing the network. Learn who is in your Student Insights.....................................................11 Your Membership? network, what their needs are, Faculty Advisor Highlight .......................................13 Go to and what added value you might Chapter Happenings..............................................14 www.csi-net.org bring in the way of knowledge, energy, or other forms of support. Technology Corner ................................................16 23749 9/13/05 7:00 AM Page 2 PAGE 2 CHI SIGMA IOTA FALL, 2005 2005-2006 CSI LEADERSHIP Leadership from CSI Family Members DIRECTORY Richard Hazler President: Richard Hazler CSI President Pennsylvania State University 327 CEDAR Building Meetings Provide University Park, PA 16802-3110 [email protected] Connections President-elect: Effective families come together at Cynthia J. Osborn home daily and as new family mem- Kent State University 310 White Hall bers arrive, they need to spend P.O. Box 5190 increasing time together. CSI mem- Kent, OH 44242-0001 bers similarly need to maintain regu- [email protected] lar contact and particularly early in Past-president the school year when so many new Nancy Sherman 306 Westlake Hall and returning people need to be Bradley University aware of changes, encourage each Peoria, IL 61625 other, and advance personal and [email protected] group goals. Also like families, not all Secretary Kathy Evans meetings will deal with the most Dept. of Educational Psychology Richard Hazler scholarly or essential organizational Wardlaw 266 One aspect that parenting and issues. Many times they are arranged University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29020 involvement in Chi Sigma Iota have in to effectively provide the comfort and [email protected] common is that each requires effective support of collegiality and friendship Treasurer leadership that encourages and so greatly needed in stressful student Carla Bradley adapts to the changing abilities, and professional lives. Then there are Western Michigan University needs, and interests of those involved. other times when family chores, deal- Dept. of Coun. Ed.& Coun. Psyc. 3102 Sangren Hall An infant is totally dependent on par- ing with serious issues, or learning Kalamazoo, MI 49008-3899 ent energies and decisions, but as the needs to be the focus. Effective lead- [email protected] child grows, control of actions, beliefs, ers realize the need to balance social Executive Director and decisions must be increasingly and work dimensions, arrange for Tom Sweeney shared with this emerging adult. This CSI Headquarters them to occur, and encourage leader- P.O. Box 35448 evolving situation requires parental ship by those whose particular skills Greensboro, NC 27425-5448 understanding, flexibility, persistence, or knowledge best match the needs (336) 841-8180 [email protected] and encouragement in order to pro- of specific situations. mote mutual benefits for the child, par- Administrative Assistant Leaders Are Not Best at Kelley Rowland ents, and the family. CSI Headquarters The example of parent and family Everything P.O. Box 35448 evolution is comparable to what must Some members are more socially Greensboro, NC 27425-5448 (336) 841-8180 take place in organizations like CSI to able, others have a knowledge base maximize growth and maintain essen- Interns that is critical in certain situations, Lea Flowers tial values by adapting in creative and some will be good organizers, and Jason King timely ways. Changing abilities, others will be good at carrying out Web Administrator desires, and motivations of members specific tasks. The most effective Jane Myers must be continually recognized, leaders don’t try to do it all them- COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS encouraged, and supported by formal selves. They are the ones who know Membership Committee leaders. Those leaders who accom- members well enough to encourage Brian Rodgers plish wide-ranging and creative suc- specific people to utilize their best Gary Williams By-laws Committee cesses are the ones that will reach abilities in the situations where they John R. Clubreth well beyond their own skills and goals will be most effective. They recognize Theodore P. Remley to promote leadership from the great- and support what less experienced Awards Committee Susan Adams est number of colleagues. These are members can do and then give regu- Julie Stephan the actions that expand organization lar encouragement and increasing Chapter Development Committee potentials while developing future pro- Holly Hartwig Moorhead responsibility as they grow. Nancy Forth fessional leaders at the same time. Advocacy Committee This model is the heart that continually Leaders Embrace Mistakes Jill D. Onedera Susan Paez pumps vitality into CSI at both interna- When the object is to develop CSI Home Page tional and chapter levels. leadership in as many people as pos- www.csi-net.org (continued on page 10) 23749 9/13/05 7:00 AM Page 3 FALL, 2005 CHI SIGMA IOTA PAGE 3 Update from Headquarters Membership and Chapter Activity © Thomas J. Sweeney CSI Executive Director easy to use and this likely helps Chi Sigma Iota chapters remain active. Exemplar The CSI Exemplar is distributed Awards Nominations Now three times a year to all CSI mem- If your chapter does not have an bers and is the main communication awards program, please check out service informing members of cur- rent events within the Society and the CSI awards training materials and within the counseling profession. Its ceremony script to carry out a first content represents enthusiasm for class awards program. Our slogan is academic and professional excel- “to promote excellence in the profes- lence in counseling. sion of counseling.” What better way to do this than by recognizing excel- Deadlines: lence at the university chapter level? Issue Deadline