Josie Smith is for new freshman, transfer students should look at Mary Jones.
Freshman
Josie Smith declares Accounting as her major at the end of her freshman year. She is currently a Novice in the PRO program and does not want to just be a Candidate when she graduates. She wants the Grand Master badge! And she wants to be on the leaderboard which means that she has to get at least 1500 points. Josie wants to start working on the points as soon as fall semester starts.
Sophomore
In the fall, Josie gets started by creating her portfolio. She submits the portfolio and gets 50 points to get her started, which she can see on the PRO Dashboard. The Dashboard, which is private and unique to Josie, also allows her to compare her progress with other students and track her professional development progress toward graduation.
Josie is not satisfied with just having 50 points, so she also signs up for a career fair in the fall. She knows she is only a sophomore, but it is never too early to start participating in activities or trying to get an internship! Plus, the career fair gets her another 50 points.
Meanwhile, Josie has also signed up to be part of a student organization. The student organization holds weekly meetings and workshops where students can earn PRO points. Josie ends up attending five workshops during the fall semester and earns 50 points.
The Spring semester rolls around, and Josie decides to take a look at the calendar. She sees an interesting event that is happening in a few days on campus about launching her own website, so she signs up. Since it is preapproved, she can register immediately. After the event, Josie remembers that in the PRO orientation session, the administrators emphasized that all points must be requested within three months, so she quickly logs in to PRO and clicks on Manage points to request points for her participation. As part of this process, she also uploads supporting documentation (nametag from the event). In a few days, she checks the PRO Dashboard, and sees that she has earned 25 points for attending a professional development event.
Spring semester also brings about a big event at her school, the annual Awards Reception. Since Josie knows how important it is to engage with others, she signs up for the event. After the reception, she receives another 25 points. While Josie did not attend any more student organization workshops this semester, she was still an active member which means she has a portfolio, she attended at least 7 speaker series meetings, 1 social event and 2 community service events so that gets her 50 points. That brings her up to 200 points for sophomore year!
Moreover, as a result of attending the career fair earlier, Josie was able to secure an internship at Pfizer during the summer. Upon completion of the summer internship (which was more than 8 weeks), Josie submits her request for professional achievement points. She attaches the offer letter to the request and in a few days receives 400 points for completing the internship.
Junior
Junior year rolls around and Josie is even more involved in the student organization. She is an active member, both in the spring and the fall semesters, and she attended 5 workshops in the spring (150 points). She also attends another career fair (50 points) and the annual Awards Reception (25 points) again this year. Josie was a volunteer at the career fair this year and received 25 points for assisting with a department event.
Josie and a team of other students entered into an annual challenge that the university holds in the fall and received 50 points for participating. She also attended a professional development event off campus and got it preapproved beforehand. She earned 25 points for that. Josie was also invited to meet with an Executive in Residence during the spring semester and received 25 points. She is now up to 1050 points at the end of her junior year.
Josie wants to have some University swag so she visits the PRO Store to redeem some of her Reward points. She knows that redeeming reward points will not affect her PRO points at all, the two are separate. She decides to get a water bottle and a lapel pin to wear at the events in the fall.
Senior
At the beginning of the senior year, Josie is feeling good about her level of professional development, but she wants that Grand Master Badge, so she stays engaged. Josie is involved with the student organization this year again. She is an active member, both in the spring and the fall semesters, attends five workshops and is also a student organization committee member (165 points). She also attends the career fair (50 points) even though she has a full time offer from Pfizer. You never know when you will want to change jobs. She reports Pfizer full time job offer and receives 100 points for submitting the offer letter.
She also attends the annual Awards Reception (25 points) again this year and a small group meeting with industry. Josie was also a volunteer at a departmental sponsored symposium and received 25 points for assisting with a department event. She also participated in a class project (which was preapproved by the instructor) and received 50 points.
Josie and her team enter the annual university challenge again and this time they win receiving the prize! Winning a competition also qualifies her to earn an additional 100 points. They also enter into the National competition, and though they did not win this competition, she still receives 50 points for participating. This brings Josie up to 1615 and she has the Grand Master badge on her portfolio now!
Since it is time to graduate, Josie wants to redeem the rest of her Rewards points so she visits the PRO Store and cashes the points in for some cool stuff!
