Course 320 Strategic Job Search Assignment

Potential Employment Research Assignment Worksheet

(7 Points)
Nothing can add more power to your lifethan concentrating all your
energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein
Directions:

1. Identify six (6) career targets

First, you will be using the Target Worksheet attached in Sakai Assignment to create (6)
targets focusing on the elements listed: location, industry/career field/job (function).
These may come from current interests, your Strong Interest Inventory results,
StrengthsQuest results, or other resources or experiences that align with your current
goals.

Target One

Job: Consultant
Location: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Consulting

Target Two

Job: Health and Benefits Consultant

Location: Denver, CO
Industry: Consulting

Target Three

Job: Healthcare Consultant/Analyst

Location: New York, NY
Industry: Healthcare

Target Four

Job: Associate Analyst

Location: Chicago, IL
Industry: Energy

Target Five
Job: NFL/NBA License Agent
Location: Los Angeles
Industry: Athletics

Target Six

Job: Corporate Counsel

Location: Denver, CO
Industry: Law

2. Find Job Openings Based on Your Identified Targets

Next, use the online resources demonstrated in our Resources Exploration Presentation
VoiceThreads (shared by your peers) to find six (6) actual openings that either match or align
with your options. In fact, you may shift your target slightly based on a particular opening.
Remember, our goal is to find and identify real options and current opportunities. For some
students that may include targets for full-time employment, internship opportunities, or graduate
school.

Target One
Job: Associate Consultant
Organization: Triage Consulting Group
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Description: Contact insurance companies to recover additional payments for our hospital clients,
including follow-up calls and written appeals;

Analyze and manipulate large amounts of hospital data to uncover existing underpayments;

Communicate regularly and effectively with Triages upper management;

Understand and articulate claim and contract details to interested parties to facilitate proper billing and
reimbursement;

Interact effectively with clients to perform reviews, provide recommendations, and communicate
project results;

Provide premium service to Triages clients, including reporting, site visits, and knowledge sharing;

Utilize Triage and client software platforms to manage account information and workflow;

Participate in Triages recruiting and training programs, periodic teambuilding events, and socially
responsible activities;

Work effectively on dynamic teams every day.

Source: Indeed

Target Two
Job: Health and Benefits Consulting Analyst
Organization: Mercer
Location: Denver, CO
Job Description: The purpose of this job is to support consultants in managing client accounts by
researching, analyzing, and evaluating voluntary benefits plans and

programs for employers adopting Mercer Marketplace.

Data entry and analysis - assist the consulting team in gathering, organizing, entering and analyzing data
using Excel spreadsheets to be used for various client

projects. Examples of the types of projects and responsibilities include:

Marketing efforts gather benchmarking, utilization or rate data from the vendors via a Request for
Proposal (RFP); interpret the meaning of the data and summarize

the responses from the RFP in Excel or PowerPoint format for presentation to the client

Cost projections and vendor renewal workups gather data from the client and vendors to populate
Excel spreadsheets used for developing cost projections and

evaluation of vendor renewal workups; results are used as part of client meetings

Plan design gather data from the client and current vendors needed for analyzing the impact of a
clients in-force or new plan designs; typically involves organizing

and summarizing plan design details and costs in Excel for further analysis by the team; responsibilities
also include checking data for reasonableness and follow-up

with vendors regarding missing or inaccurate data.

Source: Handshake

Target Three
Job: Economic Consulting (Healthcare Data Analyst)
Organization: FTI Consulting
Location: New York, NY
Job Description: We are looking for an individual with considerable experience in managing and
analyzing large, complex data sets used in dispute advisory work.

We have a strong preference for an individual with experience in managing and analyzing healthcare
claims data.

The Director will lead all aspects of data analysis under the supervision and direction of Managing
Directors and Senior Managing Directors.
The Director will be responsible for executing all aspects of data analysis used in our dispute advisory
work from start to finish, including the uploading and

processing of data sets, performing complex statistical and econometric analysis, and clearly
communicating results.

Source: Indeed

Target Four
Job: Associate, Renewable Development
Organization: Invenergy
Location: Chicago, IL
Job Description: The Associate, Business Development will support and assist the department with the
development of utility-scale wind energy projects throughout the central United States.

Responsibilities:

Identify development prospects, including market assessments, fatal flaw identification and initial site
reconnaissance.

Secure site control for development prospects, including negotiating leases, easements and other
agreements with landowners.

Coordinate landowner communication efforts.

Take a lead role in obtaining certain local, state and/or federal permits.

Represent Invenergy LLC with customers, landowners, state and local officials and other stakeholders.

Initiate and manage generation interconnection activities.

Oversee project design.

Assist project budgeting and scheduling.

Manage tasks according to budgets and schedules, including coordinating internal and external technical
support.

Source: Ecojobs.com

Target Five
Job: NFL, CFL, NBA and/or FIBA License Agent
Organization: A&W Sports Management
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Job Description: We are looking for an in house NFL, NBA or FIBA licensed agent to bring on board.

We would prefer to have an agent who is fresh from taking their exams and obtaining their
certifications.
This agent would assist all client needs. Agent would negotiate terms and business deals for the best of
the client.

Source: Indeed

Target Six
Job: Contract Counsel
Organization: MarkWest Energy Partners LP
Location: Denver, CO
Job Description: This lawyer will have direct interaction with personnel in organization.

This position will be responsible for reviewing, commenting upon, and negotiating various types of
contracts on behalf of MarkWest, including master service

agreements, master purchase agreements, purchase orders, company terms and conditions, consulting
agreements, professional service contracts, and software

agreements.

Source: Career OneStop

3. Write a Reflection on the Exercise

Finally, reflect on this experience by considering the following questions
Which of these options seems the most important to you right now given your goals?
How well do these targets align with what you know about yourself?
What was valuable about this process? Surprising?
What do you plan to do with the information you found?

This experience was valuable from the standpoint that it made me consider what possibilities
might actually be available rather than just having a general idea of a role or industry that I wanted
to be a part of. It is easy to simply say that one wants to be in the consulting industry but once one
goes through the process of looking up specific offerings, he or she doesnt necessarily know what
opportunities are available and in which fields and which skills are needed from job to job.
Personally, I believe I have an interest in healthcare and consulting and ideally I would be able to
pair each of those industries in one job. Upon researching opportunities I came to realize that while
there are many opportunities available along these lines, the duties and responsibilities vary greatly
by company. Upon reviewing my list of targets, I have come to realize that I think the option that is
most important to me right now is the healthcare consulting job with Triage in San Francisco,
California. The duties most closely relate to daily tasks I am interested in and when consulting my
Strong Interest Inventory results this held up as well which I think is an important coincidence. As a
whole, I think my list reflects the fact that I have a good but general idea of what I want to do
professionally, whether it is consulting in the healthcare industry or in the environmental sphere or
even working in law with a concentration in one of those areas as well. I also think it was valuable to
see my primary targets laid out in one space and visualize where my interests truly lie, both in
location, job duties, and job titles, but overall I wasnt necessarily surprised by how my target lists
turned out because I felt like I did have a good grasp of my interests to begin with. Finally, now that I
have this information conveniently consolidated, I plan to further research opportunities and
continue to discover similar opportunities to find the one that interests me above all else. I think I
have a good direction after compiling this list and am confident that I will remain engaged and
optimistic in the search process.