Career Services Office
This office serves students and alumni in all aspects of their career management.
What is the Career Services Office?
Listed at the top of the document, this information relates to a candidate's name, address, email, and phone number.
What is the Contact Information Section?
This document serves to introduce you and your resume to an employer.
What is a Cover Letter?
These types of questions typically ask about the candidate's behavior in past situations that are similar to the ones required in the role for which the employer is hiring?
What are behavioral interview questions?
This technology allows students to book appointments with Career Services staff, search for jobs or internships, pose questions to other students, and network with employers.
What is Handshake?
This individual oversees the office's advising and counseling efforts and works with students as they prepare for internships or early career opportunities.
Who is Sandra Buatti-Ramos (Internship and Career Advisor)?
This section of the resume typically details a candidate's technical competencies with technology, software, or languages.
What is the Skills/Technical Skills section of the resume?
In this section of the Cover Letter, candidates should express their interest in the position, explain how they learned about the opportunity, and provide a summary of their qualifications and why they would be an excellent fit for the opening.
What is the first paragraph?
This interview method is helpful in responding to competency or behavioral questions because it helps candidates describe the situation, task, action, and result of a specific career or academic circumstance
What is the STAR method?
This program allows students to apply for short-term project based assignments while broadening their professional experience, earning income, and building references.
What is the Parker Dewey Micro-Internship program?
This individual is oversees the office's employer relations efforts and works with alumni.
Who is Maria Alfonso (Director of Career Services)?
This section of the resume typically details a candidate's paid or unpaid work-related experiences in a specific area of expertise.
What is the Industry Experience section of the resume?
In this section of the Cover Letter, candidates should discuss their qualifications and relevant achievements while using specific examples.
What is the second paragraph?
This cloud-based technology allows students and alumni to practice interviewing remotely, 24/hrs a day for free with use of their Vaughn email account.
What is Big Interview?
These events feature employer recruitment presentations on current and future job openings.
What are employer visits/On-campus recruiting (OCR) events?
This individual works with students to develop their resumes.
Who is Bryan Arais?
This section of the resume is typically listed first, following a Summary of Qualifications.
What is the Education section of a resume?
This section of the Cover Letter should contain a closing, a call to action, and a statement of gratitude for consideration.
What is the closing or third paragraph?
These types of questions help employers evaluate a candidate's problem solving and creativity skills and typically involve questions like "How many tennis balls can fit inside a Boeing 737-800?"
What are brainteaser questions?
These are on-campus opportunities run by Career Services through which students can build a wide variety of skills and knowledge relevant to their current and long-term career management.
What are Career Services workshops?
This individual is the Assistant Vice President of Career Services.
Who is Philip Meade?
This section of the resume details an important core career competency that employers are looking for in job candidates. It explains how candidates have leveraged the strengths of others to achieve common goals, and used interpersonal skills to coach and develop others.
What is the Leadership section of a resume?
In this format of the Cover Letter, a candidate is not required to include a header, date, or the employer's contact information.
What is an email?
These types of questions attempt to align a candidate's past behavior with the skills required for position and typically involve asking a candidate to give specific examples.
What are Competency questions?
These events feature fun, competitive activities through which students can get to know staff, learn about service offerings, and participate in career development.
What are Career Game Nights?