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Career Development Process
FIRST YEAR
Focus: Exploring interests, values and skills. Expanding options, discovering possible academic concentrations.
- Identify personal values, interests, skills and needs through testing a the Counseling Center.
- Explore and participate in campus activities.
- Plan a summer work experience to investigate a career option.
SECOND YEAR
Focus: Narrowing educational and occupational options. Deciding on a major.
- Talk with faculty members about potential concentrations.
Create your own resumé.
- Meet with a career counselor about resume and career development issues.
- Enroll in CNS 102 - Career Planning or attend the Counseling Center's Life/Career Planning Groups.
- Research occupations in the Career Resource Center.
- Make contact with professionals in a given field to obtain specific career information.
- Use ACAP (Alumni Career Assistance Program) to interview alumni in fields of interest.
- Build "active" involvement with campus activities and volunteer experiences.
- Explore summer job and internship possibilities.
- Stop by the Career Fest in September.
THIRD YEAR
Focus: Setting and testing career goals and objectives. Exploring career-related work experience and/or graduate school.
- Meet with professors, academic advisors, and the Office of Career Services about graduate school.
- Review graduate school catalogs, noting deadlines and test requirements.
- Attend Graduate and Professional School Day, the Junior Meeting, and Career Fest.
- Conduct informational interviews with alumni and other professionals.
- Discuss plans with a career counselor.
- Revise and refine your resumé.
- Participate in an internship related to your career goals.
- Participate in all Career Services programs, workshops, and seminars.
- Develop a network of contacts to assist with your career plans.
- Join career-related organizations.
FOURTH YEAR
Focus: Developing strategies for finding a job or getting accepted to graduate school. Making the transition from college to your next phase of life.
- Talk with a career counselor about on- and off-campus job search strategies.
- Attend the Senior Meeting.
- Register with the Office of Career Services by attending a required registration meeting. Update resumé and sign-up for mock interviews.
- Attend Career Fest in September.
- Complete applications for graduate or professional schools, including testing.
- Conduct informational interviews with people in careers of your interest.
- Check job postings on ECHO and in the Career Resource Center.
- Attend Career Services workshops on job search strategies and interviewing.
- Attend career development events and job fairs.
- Begin on-campus job search by participating in fall and spring recruiting accessible through ECHO.
- Use the Internet to research companies, find job postings, contact others, and more.
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