Career Workshop
The goal of the career workshop is to help you develop the skills you need to achieve your career objectives. The workshop generally takes 4-8 hours to complete and is taught in four units. The first unit helps you evaluate your talents and interests, set goals, and plan to achieve those goals. The second unit helps you learn how to identify and develop the resources you need to reach your goals. It teaches you how to find employment leads, funding, and other services. An interaction unit helps you to communicate with the resources you identified. It teaches you to make powerful impressions. The final unit teaches you how to negotiate, grow in your new position, and advance in your career.
You can sign up to take this workshop through the Career Placement Office. Sign up at YCareers.
Career Management Workshop
This workshop is for juniors and seniors. We review principles of networking and self promotion taught in the career workshop. Participants explore finding graduate programs and employment that are a good fit, the application process, and negotiation. Sign up at YCareers.
Mock Interview
Upcoming interview? Trained peer-interviewers will help you prepare for fast approaching job or educational interviews. Simply supply a copy of your resume, the name of the organization you will be interviewing with, and a sample job description when you make your appointment. Peer interviewers and full-time placement advisors will be available to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and sharpen your interviewing skills. Sign up for as many interviews as you would like at the Career Placement Office.
Internships
Internships assist students in the College of Business and Communication in becoming and Employable Quality Graduate. Our students can use internships to rise to a level of excellence that distinguishes them from their competition – other college students. Experience and skills learned in an internship can create incredible opportunities for graduating students.