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Welcome SU Parents to Winter Orientation 2012!

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"Opening Doors to Your Student's Career"

10:20-11:00 am
GUC Computer Lab

Quiz:

  • Test your career knowledge-Click here for quiz
  • Click here to view some of the student dangers for your son/daughter

Services we provide:

What We Did This Past Year

The highlights of the 2009-2010 academic year are listed below. The number of students we serve, services we offer and partnerships we forge continue to increase every year. The overall numbers tell some of the story:

  • Conducted 120 classroom presentations
  • Held 2,012 individual student appointments, 300 more than last yearStudent and parents.
  • Reviewed via email over 500 resumes uploaded in eRecruiting.  Critiqued an additional 1000 resumes in face-to-face meetings with students.
  • Hosted 5 Job Fairs, partnering with UMES and the Respiratory Therapy Department
  • Communicate 1,000 job and internship alerts via email to students. Began texting weekly to students who requested this service.
  • 42 employers conducted 394 on-campus interviews, 30 employers held Information Sessions or hosted information tables on-campus.
  • Hosted our first "SKYPE" interviews
  • Conducted the First Destination Survey: Every year as students pick up their caps and gowns we set up several computers in the Bookstore for them to complete  an online survey that lets us know where they are going after graduation…their “first destination”. Highlights of the data are summarized.
  • Over 1,000 students signed up to receive weekly text messages from the Career Services Office
  • 36 Workshops, reaching over 600 students (and over 200 parents)

From First Destination Survey (Early May)

  • Student and parents.Click here for May 2011 results

Advancements in the Office:

  • Implemented new app
  • Created new nightly upload system for eRecruiting
  • Supervised 4 practicum students and 1 interns
  • Utilized Career Services Facebook, LinkedIn, Blog, Podcasts and Twitter accounts to reach students
  • Implemented new Mentor database for over 800 mentors

 

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