Networking & Digital Footprints
This basic professional standard should be sent within 24 to 48 hours after meeting someone at a career fair or networking event.
What is a follow-up email (or thank-you note)?
This on-campus office helps students apply for prestigious awards, national scholarships, research funding, and international programs.
What is the Office of National Scholarships (ONS)?
The category of foundational courses set by the state/university that students should prioritize early before upper-level major coursework.
What are General Education (Gen Ed) requirements?
The widely-used behavioral interview framework that stands for Situation, Task, Action, and Result.
What is the S.T.A.R. method?
The iconic, signature multi-story honors facility on campus where peer mentors host check-ins, advising sessions, and study lounges.
What is the Judy Genshaft Honors College (JGHC) Building?
When selecting your LinkedIn profile picture, you should avoid cropping out someone's arm from a wedding photo and instead use a plain wall, daylight, and this framing.
What is shoulders-up (or headshot)?
High-Impact Practices (HIPs) boost student retention and engagement. Two primary examples outside of study abroad include these.
What are undergraduate research, internships, community service/volunteering, or a capstone/thesis?
When mapping out semesters on an ASP, you must check degree audit rules because some high-level major courses only run during this specific term.
What is Fall-only or Spring-only (course seasonality)?
The acronym for automated software systems companies use to scan, parse, and filter resumes based on keywords before a human sees them.
What is ATS (Applicant Tracking System)?
If you want professional business attire for a career fair or medical school interview without spending a fortune, you can borrow clothes for free from this campus resource.
What is the Suit-A-Bull closet (Career Services)?
The golden rule of follow-up says you must send a short email within 48 hours referencing one specific thing discussed, but you should avoid doing this too early.
What is asking for a job / favor / recommendation immediately?
Competitive, paid, full-time summer research programs funded by the National Science Foundation often hosted across universities.
What are REUs (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)?
The minimum number of credit hours a full-time undergraduate student must enroll in during a regular Fall or Spring semester.
What is 12 credit hours?
Something that would be better suited for a CV rather than a Resume
What is an 'objective' or 'summary'?
When emailing a professor or mentor for the first time, this is the proper title and honorific default unless they explicitly tell you otherwise.
What is Dr.?
This platform is used by many to look into candidates career history and the professionality of a candidate. This platform is usually also included on a resume.
What is LinkedIn?
The total number of approved community service hours Judy Genshaft Honors College students can count toward their experiential learning requirement.
What is 75 hours?
Besides academic credit hours, an effective ASP must account for these two non-classroom time commitments to prevent burnout.
What are wellness/personal time, jobs/work, student orgs, or experiential learning hours?
The three-part anatomy formula required for writing high-impact experience bullet points.
What is: Action Verb + Context/Scope + Quantifiable Impact/Result?
The primary campus platform students use to explore over 600 student organizations, events, and community service opportunities at USF.
What is BullsConnect?
The recommended maximum length of time your elevator pitch introduction should take when introducing yourself at a networking event or career fair.
What is 20 to 30 seconds?
The most cost-effective study abroad format at USF, where students pay standard USF tuition while attending a partner institution abroad.
What is an Exchange Program?
While tuition covers course credits, taking more than 18 credit hours in a single regular semester generally requires this official administrative permission.
What is an academic advisor overload permit (or Dean's approval)?
In a group or panel interview setting, employers are primarily assessing this interpersonal behavior over who talks the loudest.
What is active listening, peer collaboration, or teamwork/respect for others?
The core purpose of the Judy Genshaft Honors College Peer Mentor program.
What is guiding first-year honors students through academic planning, campus engagement, and community building?