One-On-One Assistance to Students

Annual Report 2001-02 Career Services Executive Summary

The MISSION of Career Services is to empower students to identify and maximize the connection between what they learn and how they make a living. We offer services to facilitate self-assessment, skill identification, career exploration, decision-making, career preparation and graduate school selection. Partnering with faculty, staff, alumni and employers we seek to guide students toward productive and satisfying work.

Highlighted above are the four main constituencies of Career Services and listed below are some main accomplishments:

A new initiative was instituted in October to Alert targeted students about job openings and internship opportunities. Emailed Alerts were sent concerning 415 Jobs and 101 Internships. According to an online student survey this was a most popular service.

We held almost 2,000 appointments with individual students. By far the most used one-on-one session was for resume reviews yet 320 appointments dealt with students exploring career options. Perdue and Fulton students tend to be the bigger users of appointments in Career Services.

Career Services conducted 118 programs. The vast majority of these workshops were at the behest of faculty for an in-class presentation, spread evenly throughout the four schools, while the remainder of the programs were for student clubs and orientation.

In conjunction with the Henson School, a weeklong series of Workshops on Graduate School Admissions culminated in a Graduate School Fair-the first such offering. Later in the year, a separate and new GRE workshop was developed and delivered to very high participation and evaluation.

Credential files still tend to be used heavily by Education students and 270 new files were opened and 686 mailed out to employers at the students request.

Contracts processed for students to work on-campus totaled 2,137 while almost 3,000 referral cards were given to students while they searched for posted on-campus jobs.

Job Fairs occupy a concerted effort and there were four such fairs organized this year: In the Fall, the Virtual Job Fair was held in conjunction with eight other Selective Liberal Arts colleges and “Meet the Firms” Job Fair, designed with accounting students, serviced that population. In the Spring semester, the General Job Fair and the Education Job Fair were both held with record-breaking numbers of employers and students participating.

Employer Outreach was a main thrust of the office this year with the goal of increasing both the quantity and quality of our employers. To both gather new employer contacts and offer new opportunities for students, buses to several Job Fairs were sponsored: Georgetown Job Fair, Hershey Education Job Fair, Non-Profit Job Fair. Trips to companies and career speakers, such as a representative from the FBI, were also arranged and all were very well subscribed by students. We garnered almost 100 new employers from these and other initiatives. We continue to communicate to almost 1,000 “old” employers with 49 employers interviewing 390 students on-campus and over 200 employers coming to campus for various Job Fairs. Employers evaluating their on-campus experience found both our students and services top notch.