College Student Services - Career Services

We align a students academic strenghts with interests to provide the student a list of potential college majors and potential careers.  We work with our students on their professional profiles, resumes and interviews.  We teach students about emotional intelligence and how to success in an interview.  We work with students to find  internships and research opportunties.  Often the process of using Career Services and the tools provided by Career Services can be daunting for students when complied on top of their academic responsibilities.  We work one-on-one with students at their convience to achieve these goals. We customize a plan to a student's needs.

Internships:

College interships are difficult to achieve.  There are typically hundreds and hundreds of appliations for one positon.  A candidate's application needs to be stellar inorder to even be selected for an interview in the applicatant process.

We work with students on a one-to-one basis to help them achieve their goals. We help students with the internship application process by providing the following services:

• Customiziing their resume 
• Updating Linkedin Profiles by adding expereince, enhancing connections, gaining skill endorsements, and achieving skill assessments
• We look for opportunities to enhance none university knowlege that hiring managers are looking for in candidates.  Including project management knowledge, SDLC methodologies, etc.
• We work with students to create their own personal website (when applicable)
• We help students navaigate job searching tools such as Handshake, Indeed, LinkedIn, The Ladders, etc.
• We throughly prepare students for the interview process. We discuss key elements of the interview.  We discuss non-verbal cues in the interview. We prepare students for behavioral and situational interviews by providing numerous examples and criteque responses. We discuss how to respond to the 'Unexpected question'. We discuss the competencies that hiring managers are looking for and how a student needs to address them in their interview. We provide students with a list of questions that they should ask an employer and teach them how to close the interview for success.  And lastly we discuss what to do AFTER the interview.  How to realistical evalute the positive and negative aspects of the interview and how to engage with your interviewer after the process.

Research opportunites are no longer just for STEM majors!  Research can help students decide their path after graduation - pursuing Graduate School which tends to be more research focused or going into Industry.

Students need to know who to reach out to inquiry about potential research opportunities.  We work with students to find those opportunities at their college or through other means. We teach the students what skills to highlight on their research inquiries.

Students need to evaluate how much time they can commit to a lab or study prior to pursuing research.  They also need to know the time commitments expected if they accept the position.

Being published is typically high on a student's wish list when selecting research opportunities.  Many universities offer grants for students to conduct their own research.  Many students do not even know what type of research they are interested in conducting.  We work with students to help them gain exposure to enivroments which will eventually foster the pursuit of their own research.