Career Exploration
This campus office helps students explore careers, internships, and job opportunities.
What is the Career Center
This document summarizes your education, experience, skills, and accomplishments.
What is a resume?
This is often formed within the first few minutes of meeting an employer.
What is a first impression?
Building professional relationships to learn about opportunities and careers.
What is networking?
Skills such as communication, teamwork, and leadership fall into this category.
What are soft skills?
The process of learning about different occupations and determining which careers match your interests and skills
What is career exploration
Employers often spend less than a minute reviewing this document before deciding whether to continue reading.
What is a resume?
"Tell me about yourself" is an example of this type of interview question.
What is an open-ended interview question?
This professional social media platform is commonly used to connect with employers and professionals.
What is LinkedIn?
Employers consistently rank this skill as one of the most important in the workplace.
What is comminication?
These opportunities provide hands on experience and help students build professional skills before graduation.
What are internships?
These words strengthen resumes by emphasizing accomplishments and responsibilities.
What are action verbs?
This interview strategy stands for Situation, Task, Action, and Result.
What is the STAR Method?
A brief 30-second introduction that highlights who you are, your interests, and your goals.
What is an elevator pitch?
This goal-setting framework consists of Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.
What are SMART Goals?
Name two ways students can explore potential career paths.
What are career assessments, job shadowing, informational interviews, career fairs, or networking events?
Which statement is stronger?
A. Worked with students.
B. Mentored 15 first-year students throughout the semester.
What is B?
Name one thing students should do before an interview.
What is researching the company, practicing questions, preparing professional attire, or arriving early?
Name two places where students can network.
What are career fairs, workshops, conferences, volunteer events, student organizations, internships, or faculty office hours?
Name one way students can develop leadership skills while in college.
What are student organizations, mentoring, volunteering, campus employment, or leading projects?
True or False: Your major strictly determines your future career, and changing directions is uncommon
Name two common resume mistakes.
What are spelling errors, grammatical errors, poor formatting, including irrelevant information, or unprofessional email addresses?
Name one question you should ask the interviewer at the end of an interview.
What does success look like in this role?
What are the next steps in the hiring process?
What do you enjoy about working here?
True or False: Networking is only helpful when you are actively searching for a job.
What is False?
Name three qualities employers commonly look for in job candidates.
What are communication, teamwork, leadership, adaptability, professionalism, critical thinking, time management, or problem-solving skills?