FINDING A JOB
Connecting with people and staying in touch for mutual benefit.
What is networking?
A brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience.
What is a resume?
A period of paid or unpaid work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time.
What is an internship?
This refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals.
What is personality type?
This spot on campus offers in-person coaching and online resources to help students broaden the perspective of their career choices and to understand the value of their education in relation to employment.
What is career services?
A conversation between a job applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether the applicant should be hired.
What is an interview?
This federal program provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses.
What is work study?
This is a widely-used personality inventory, or test, employed in vocational, educational, and psychotherapy settings to evaluate personality type.
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
Demographics, cultural trends, and new technologies all play a role in these.
What are career trends?
This local network of public and private partners who work together to effectively respond to answer work-related questions are a great resource when looking for work.
What is WorkSource Oregon?
A written document submitted with a job application explaining the applicant's credentials and interest in the open position.
What is a cover letter?
Looking up average salaries, educational requirements, and future demand are all examples of this.
What is career research?
Capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent.
This was the most popular major by number of graduates in 2013.
What is the business major?
If you are interested in working for the American government, you should look for jobs here.
What is usajobs.gov?
These are important to include in your resume and cover letter and include industry-specific skills, job titles, certifications, education, and industry jargon.
What are key words?
During this short term experience, a person observes someone doing their job in order to learn more about a career.
What is a job shadow?
Some of these include working with a team, reading comprehension, writing, problem solving, planning, and time management.
What are transferable skills?
A free online database that contains hundreds of occupational definitions to help students, job seekers, and businesses to understand today's world of work.
What is O*NET?
Organization seeking to further a particular profession. For certain kinds of jobs, this is a primary way to find out about job openings.
What are professional associations?
These are considered to be outdated. Definitely don’t include one on your resume!
This program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation.
What is the Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program?
A system that classifies jobs into job categories based on the theory that people and work environments can be loosely classified into six different groups.
Graduates in this major see the greatest average salary increase after obtaining a graduate degree.
What are health and medical preparatory programs?