The Career Library houses invaluable, up-to-date occupational materials that provides students with information about careers and employment. Students can access the Internet in the Career Library for career and job search planning purposes.
Job Search Action Plan:
Include tabs:
One Identify potential jobs Connect your major to careers: Link Occupational
Two Create your marketing materials:
Resume template: Link
Cover letter template: Link
Linked in checklist: Link
Three Start applying for jobs online. Within 24 hours of the posting Monster Indeed Simply hired Career Link: https://regiscollegecsm.symplicity.com/ (Sign in; do not create ab account. As a student you already have an account. Use the passwords you use to access moodle.)
Four Start reaching out to your contacts: ask for IDEAS and SUGGESTIONS only.
Five Prepare for interviews. Practice, practice, practice.
Interview prep checklist: Link
Interview FAQ: Link
Six Expand your networking to include networking meetings as well as nonprofessional contacts Networking tool: Link Seven reevaluate your progress. Make any necessary changes Eight Reach the finish line or repeat the above steps.
Your resume is a key marketing tool, and a major piece in your toolkit. Your resume puts a spotlight on your personal brand and promotes you as an ideal candidate to potential employers. The goal in writing a resume is to make yourself attractive to potential employers, securing you the opportunity to interview with the organization.
Format
The most effective format for your resume depends on what you have done and what you are trying to accomplish.
Chronological-
This type of format very clearly displays your work history and is the most commonly used. In a
chronological format, your most recent work experience is listed first. Job titles and employers
are emphasized in order to show a progressive job history. In addition, your responsibilities,
skills and accomplishments are described in detail.
Functional-
This format allows you to focus on relevant skills rather than recent positions. In a functional
format, the skills and accomplishments you've learned from previous employment and experiences
(i.e., classroom and/or volunteer) are highlighted and divided into three or more categories
based on a common, skill-based theme.
Resume Design Tips
The design of your resume is a big factor in the reader's experience and comprehension. You can labor over word choice and accomplishments to include, but unless you have considered the design of your resume, you risk the reader skipping over the most important content.
Scan-Ability—
Your goal for the resume is to make it easy for the reader to scan VERY quickly for the most
relevant and important experience and skills. Use formatting—boldface, type scale, strategic use
of white space—to make key information easy to find.
Formatting and Visual “Chunking”—
Use ALLCAPS, bold, italics or underline to create emphasis and access points for the reader.
Create visual chunking with white space between blocks of information—keep those blocks short!
Two short blocks are better—more inviting to read—than one long one.
Information Architecture—
Information architecture refers to a hierarchy of information or text achieved by a combination
of sequence, scale and boldness of your information. By selecting what text appears first,
horizontally or vertically, you're telling the reader what information is more important.
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A career fair, also called job fair or recruitment fair, is a recruiting event (either virtual or in-person) during which employers and recruiters meet with job seekers in order to discuss job opportunities.
Your career development is a lifelong process that, whether you know it or not, actually started when you were born! There are a number of factors that influence your career development, including your interests, abilities, values, personality, background, and circumstances. Career Counseling is a process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career, educational, and life decisions. Career development is more than just deciding on a major and what job you want to get when you graduate. It really is a lifelong process, meaning that throughout your life you will change, situations will change, and you will continually have to make career and life decisions. The goal of Career Counseling is to not only help you make the decisions you need to make now, but to give you the knowledge and skills you need to make future career and life decisions.
Your Career Counselor WILL:
Your Career Counselor WON'T:
Since career development is a lifelong process, Career Counseling can be appropriate for anyone, including freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and even alumni. The earlier you get started making intentional decisions about your future, however, the better prepared you will be! We recommend that all freshmen come in and visit with a Career Counselor.
Below are some examples of concerns that bring students to Career Counseling:
Exploring Career and Major Options
The Career Services staff member assisting you holds a masters degree and has expertise in career development theory, counseling techniques, administration and interpretation of assessments, and career information resources. Career Counselors have masters degrees in Counseling or Career Counseling.
Your job search/ career attainment process is also a critical aspect of your career development, and therefore, Job Search Advising and Career Counseling are intertwined. Your Career Counselor is also fully trained to assist with all aspects of your job search.
Campus recruitment is a hiring method in which companies recruit students for internships at a university or college. This recruitment technique allows companies to create a talent pipeline for the future, allowing organizations to identify and develop young talent.
Career development is the process of planning, pursuing, and achieving your professional goals. Whether you want to land your dream job, advance your career, or switch to a new field, you can find courses that help prepare you to succeed.