How to Maximize Benefits from College Campus Career Center
by Quintessential Careers
Tips for Best Using Services of Career Services Office
One of the first pieces of advice we offer college freshmen is this: Go find the location of your campus career services office and start taking advantage of all the services they offer.
This article covers the highlights of the many benefits college students can gain from using the services of the career professionals in their college or university career services office.
What can you gain from using your campus career center? Keep reading!
How to Maximize Benefits from College Campus Career Center
Career Assessment Majors Minors
Feeling lost about your career path? Don’t know what major or minors might be best for you?
Most career services offices provide a plethora offerings to assist you — from self-assessment tests to one-on-one consulting to libraries and databases of information on careers.
Resume Development Assistance
Need a resume (and you should) but don’t know where to start? Have a resume but want an honest critique about how it can be improved?
Use the career professionals at your career services office to assist you in all aspects of resume development and refinement.
Interviewing Assistance
For many college students interviews for internships and jobs are a major point of stress — and sometimes weakness.
Many career services offices offer students the opportunity to conduct practice ("mock") interviews — often with an option to be videotaped — so that you can hone your skills and overcome interview deficiencies.
Career Fairs
Most colleges and universities host — or are involved with — local and regional career fairs. These events in which recruiters gather for the sole purpose of interviewing college students are great for learning about job and internship opportunities.
Your career services office is usually deeply involved in these events — from the planning to recruiting of employers. Some offices also offer career fair boot camps to help get students ready for the events.
Internships Jobs Networking
While it is not the job of the career services office to get you a job or internship the tools and resources they provide should give you everything you need to succeed.
Meeting with the career services office staff will help you uncover job leads develop and strengthen your network of contacts and give you the confidence to achieve your goals.
Final Thoughts on Using Your College Career Services Office
Many of the college career services professionals we talk to lament that vast numbers of students never use their services — even though everything they offer is paid for through tuition.
There is simply NO excuse for not visiting your campus career services office — early and often — during your college career!
Key College Career Services Resources
Find lots more tips and expert advice about your college career services office on our sister site. The link will open a new browser window: Quintessential Careers: It’s Never Too Early — or Too Late — to Visit Your College Career Office.
This article was written exclusively for MyCareerBlast.com by Dr. Randall S. Hansen. Dr. Hansen is founder and publisher of Quintessential Careers one of the oldest and most comprehensive career development sites on the Web. He is also CEO of EmpoweringSites.com a collection of empowering Website designed to help empower people to live better lives… and includes sites such as MyCollegeSuccessStory.com and
