How Can We Help You?
Our Career Center offers a number of services to all of our students; from your First year to your last. Please take advantage of all our workshops, resources, and job search opportunities.
First Year Students:
As a First Year Student we encourage you to come in and begin your career planning. It may seem that starting during your first year is a little too early, but your graduation day will be here before you know it.
When you think of career planning what comes to mind? Many students fail to recognize that career planning is a process and that it starts long before the job search process in their final semesters.
Shippensburg University has programs and services available to assist you as you begin the process of planning for your future career. Selecting an academic major and a careeer path are major decisions. Make sure that you utilize all of the available resources so that your decision is a well informed one.
To better help you select an academic major and career path, your first years should be filled with exploration and research. First and foremost, you have the enormous task of really getting to know yourself. The Career Development Center and the Center of Education Program office can assist you in the career exploration and development process. Individual appointment, walk-in hours, and career interest inventories are available to you.
Career Exploration:
FOCUS is a self-exploration assessment test which helps analyze your Career Planning Status, Assess Your Interests & Values, Explore and Analyze Occupations Bases on Your... Education Areas of Study - Personality & Values - Leisure Activities - Skills & Personal Needs. It also allows you to search careers and keep track of the careers you choose.
Informational Interviewing provides individual sessions for obtaining information regarding a specific field or prospective occupation and assists with career planning and decision-making by talking with professionals.
PACES Seminar:
If you are entering as an undeclared student, it is strongly recommended that you enroll in the PACES Seminar. In addition to providing students with valuable information about resources, this seminar is designed to assist students in exploring their values and beliefs as they relate to their personal, academic, and career goals. This is a non-credit seminar that meets for one hour weekly.
The Career Library:
The Career Library offers information on career options, job search issues, directories of national employers and organiztional profiles, annual reports, internet access, and recruitment literature to provide valuable backfroung information.
Reference Files:
The Career Center can assist you with maintaining your letters of reference which can be sent to prospective employers upon request.
Job Search/Resume/Interview Workshops:
Workshops are designed to help you learn the important infomration that are essential to getting an interview. They teach you what should be included inside your cover letter and resume along with making you aware of the basic structure of a professional job interview.
Mock Interviews:
After you attended both the Resume & Interview workshops you may participate in a videotaped "mock" interview in order to help you practice the skills learned in the seminars, and before going to that first real interview. Call to schedule a private "mock interview."
On-Campus Recruitment through College Central Network:
OCR is a free online serice for Shippensburg University students and alumni. After registering, you may post your resume for employers to view, sign-up for on-campus interviews, and track resume submissions and view employers who have reviewed your resume.
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