Partnering for Career Success

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Partnering for Career Success
To be happy for life, love your work
- Chinese proverb
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Working Together We Help Students Succeed

• Student Initiative
• Faculty Participation
• Academic Counselor Referrals
• Career Services
• Career/Job Success

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Did You Know?

• Average job in America lasts 3.6 years
• Average student can expect 9-13 job changes in
  his/her lifetime
• 7 of 10 Americans say they would change jobs
  tomorrow if they could because lots of us choose
  careers nearly at random

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We Can HelpOur Mission Is Student Success!

• We seek to assist students in the development of
  career plans and job search skills that can be
  used throughout their careers.

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CAREER SERVICES ROLE
We assist students with all steps in career
planning process by providing

• Career Counseling
• Career Workshops
• Career Fairs
• Career Assessments
• Career Experiences
• Career Library

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Tell Your Story

• Insert a picture/testimonial/statistics to help
  tell your career centers story
• Appeal to the emotions/ appeal to the intellect
• Build your case

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CAREER PLANNING PROCESS
Six Step Process

• Self-assessment
• Explore the work world
• Make decisions set goals
• Plan appropriate education
• Obtain career experience
• Conduct a job search
• How Can We Help You?

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FACULTY ROLE
Instructors can help students in the career
planning process by including

• Career center assignments
• Inviting career staff to class
• Connecting course content to career skills

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To Help Faculty

• We do in-class presentations.
• We assist students who come to the career center
  with career assignments.
• We have ideas to help you create assignments to
  link your course content and careers.

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ACADEMIC COUNSELORS ROLE
Counselors can help students in the career
planning process by

• Referring students to career services
• Recommending research to connect academic majors
  and careers
• Suggesting career experiences to extend academic
  background

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To Help Academic Counselors

• We have a simple referral process.
• We provide electronic follow-up for all student
  referrals.
• We offer career experiences, like internships, to
  help extend transfer students portfolio.

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STUDENT ROLE
Students must have the initiative to begin the
career process by

• Identifying their values, interests, strengths
• Developing marketable skills
• Participating in career experiences
• Employing campus career resources

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To Help Students

• We offer Career Assessments.
• We provide Career Counseling.
• We hold interesting Career Workshops.
• We connect students with employers to gain Career
  Experiences.
• We have an extensive Career Library.

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Working Together Assures Greater Student Success

• Growing requires change, and is feared because
  it involves the unknown. When people come to
  know more of their resources and potential they
  become less afraid of stepping into the future.
• Jean Haldane, Center for Dependable Strengths

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Next Step

• Insert information on what you want your audience
  to do next

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Campus Career Services

• Contact
• Location
• Phone
• Email
• Website

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Working Together
We cannot always build the future for our youth,
but we can build our youth for the
future.  -Franklin D. Roosevelt