Seniors - Fourth Year Students
Here are learning activities that you must do as a Senior to positively position
yourself for launching your career:
- Polish your
resume.
Come into our office in GUC 133
anytime to get your resume reviewed. Review the
skills and abilities employers covet. Reflect those skills and abilities in your resume.
- If you have not done so, secure an Internship. Read the
Internship Alerts that are sent to your school Email account.
- Begin your Job Search. It takes the average college graduate about 4-6 months to find a job. Follow these
job search pointers.
Read the Job Alerts
sent to your school Email account.
- Access the internet to secure
job leads.
- Collect references for jobs
or graduate school applications.
- Enroll in
the
Personal
Career Planning Class
(GENL-110) for 2
credits. This is a
job/internship class for juniors
and seniors.
- Sign-up for
on-campus job interviews.
- Attend
Job Fairs on-campus to hunt
for jobs.
- Complete your profile on
eRecruiting and upload your
resume onto this SU employer
database so employers can access
your resume.
- Attend a workshop on
interviewing skills.
Schedule an
appointment with the Career
Services
Staff for a mock interview
to gain experience in job
interviewing.
- Network with SU Alumni who
have volunteered to be a career
resource for you by using the
SU Mentor program.
- Planning on going to
graduate school?
Become involved in
undergraduate student research to increase your chances of
acceptance. Take the
required graduate school
entrance test. By
December, select and apply to
your chosen graduate schools.
- Expand your involvement in clubs
and activities on-campus.
Rise to a leadership position.
- Think about
studying abroad in the month
of January of your senior year.
- Be careful what is in cyper
space. Students often,
inadvertently, hurt their future
careers.
Dangers lurk-Beware!
Know them before it is too late.
- Not sure what to do.
Consider the
Gap Year, a year after
graduation where you do some of
those things you meant to
do-like travel, study abroad and
an internship- but never got
around to OR do a Gap year
because your just not sure what
you want to do yet.
- The time to begin is NOW.
Career Services stands ready
to help you. Come into our
office in GUC 133
anytime.
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