These are credentials that you earn to help supplement your experience and education. They come in many forms and always have an organizations that sets standards that you need to meet in order to earn their endorsement. They are a great way to add to your experience. Examples include Wilderness First Responder, Firefighting Red Card, First Aid, Grant Writing.
What is Certifications?
100
Clip art, fancy fonts, and profile pictures.
What not to include on your resume?
100
Crocs, jeans with holes, jeans without holes, t shirts, stained shirts, clothes that aren't ironed, etc.
What is clothes that aren't appropriate for an interview?
100
This person is in charge of assigning your internship grade.
What is a faculty sponsor?
100
REU is the acronym for this National Science Foundation funded program that is usually 10 weeks long, pays for travel, food and housing, and provides a $4,000 stipend.
What is Research Experiences for undergraduates?
200
Community service, coursework, certifications, skills,
What are things that can help build your resume?
200
20 Seconds
What is the average amount of time an employer spends looking at a resume?
200
This is the Career Resource Center's brand new online jobs database where students can search for jobs, find information on resume writing, research professional development articles, build a resume, find internships, and connect with alumni.
What is CCN or Career Central Network?
200
This is the professional staff person in charge of the internship program.
Who is Nicole Collins in the CRC?
200
This is the college that Unity has a 4 + 1 program with. You can apply to the program your junior year and take two courses during your senior year that will transfer in. This will allow you to get a Master's Degree within one year of graduating from Unity.
What is Husson University?
300
A useful online national job database system that students can explore potential income, skills, qualifications, job growth, etc in their chosen fields. They can also complete an interest profiler that will help them figure out where their professional interests are.
What is Onet Online?
300
These are words that may be picked up in a preliminary scan of your resume. In many cases your resume will not advance further if there aren't enough of them listed. You can find these words on job announcements, Onet Online, and the website of the company advertising the position.
What are key words?
300
October to January
What is a good time of year to begin searching for jobs for the following summer?
300
60 hours of work site experience
What is the number of hours allotted for each internship credit? Ex. 1 credit = 60 hours, 2 credits =120 hours, 3 credits = 180 hours.
300
This is how soon a student should meet with the CRC if they are planning on studying abroad.
What is 6 to 12 months before the planned semester away?
400
A federal program that will allow your student loans to be "forgiven" after 10 years of repayment if you work in the fields of public service. This includes non-profit organizations and public agencies.
What is the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program?
400
Clean, Clear, Typo Free, Organized, Relevant to the position you are applying, Reviewed/Edited, Printed on high quality paper, etc.
What is what a resume should look like?
400
This is the number one website for finding a Federal job.
Volunteer programs, job shadowing, summer jobs in your field, formal internship programs, research experiences, helping family friends, etc.
What is possibilities for internships?
400
Experiences students can earn credit for that involve field work, seminars, qualified instructors and accredited programs.
What is an Academic Field Experience?
500
Talking points you can use if students aren't sure they are in the right major but are too far along in their program to transfer into another.
What is the value of a liberals arts's education?
500
Your name, contact information, past work experience, and education.
What are things that need to be on your resume in reverse chronological order?
500
This is the College's second largest event, and the largest event of it's kind in New England.
What is the Unity College Annual Environmental Career Fair?
500
This is brand new event for 2013 allowing internships to do their public presentation at the UCCPA. It will be held on December 5th and all first year students should be encouraged to attend.
What is the internship showcase?
500
Great ways students can get involved in research or their fields while on campus.
What are the Bear Study, HEMS research project, community based learning, volunteering, the animal room, the farm, internships, student government, etc.