Toppel Career Center
The University of Miami Career Center was named after.
What is Patricia & Harold Toppel?
True or False: You are allowed to do homework at your workstation.
What is FALSE?
Next step after you receive an email from a professional staffer at Toppel who is NOT your boss.
What is open the Email and respond appropriately?
The time should you arrive for work.
What is 5 minutes before your shift starts? Being on time means being early.
The name of the free professional clothing rental service for UM students.
What is Sebastian's Closet?
You should have your resume uploaded on this platform.
What is Handshake? Where you can search and apply for internships, search and apply for full time jobs, RSVP for events, sign up for interviews, upload resumes, cover letters and more.
After including the recipient email address, the next step you MUST include in a work email.
What is the subject line? This should be descriptive and relatively short. Avoid subject lines that are all in caps, all lower case, those that include URLs and exclamation points which tend to look like spam to the recipient.
Sneakers, flip-flops, and sandals are appropriate footwear for work at Toppel.
What is no? At Toppel those are not appropriate footwear choices.
Which employer events that Toppel hosts that allows you to do the following: Speak with multiple employers to learn more about career paths, look for full-time jobs or internship opportunities and build a professional network that may enhance your employment opportunities.
What are career fairs and meet-ups?
The weekday you should submit the hours you worked at Toppel on Workday.
What is Wednesday?
True or false: Using emojis in work emails is acceptable.
What is false? According to a study published in social psychological and personality science, emojis actually make workers appear less competent. Additionally, an office team survey found the 39 percent of senior managers think it's unprofessional to include emojis in work communications.
True or False: I should leave my uniform at Toppel between shifts.
What is False? If you must leave your uniform at work, please make sure to launder the items weekly.
One population of students that Toppel does NOT serve.
What is MBA, Medical, Law, Exchange Students and Alumni over 3 years out? This is because they have other departments on campus to serve them; however Toppel does serve online MBA students.
True or False: All Student interns will be responsible for working 1-2 evening shifts per semester (M-Th) from 5pm-8pm.
What is TRUE?
The last thing you should do to an email before you send it.
What is proofread?
The best practice when asking for time off.
What is two weeks (request time in writing)? If you have to call out sick please let your supervisor know ASAP & if possible try to find a substitute.
Name 5 (out of 20) Toppel Career Center Core Values.
What is PASSIONATE, ALWAYS LEARNING, QUIRKY, IMAGINATIVE, PLAY/WORK, ENERGETIC, COLLABORATION, FEARLESS, HIGH-ACHIEVING, FOCUS, HUSTLE, RISK-TAKING, ADAPTABLE, PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE, CREATIVITY, EMBRACE CHAOS, ENGAGING, MOTIVATED, BOLD MOVES, TOPPEL HEARTS?
You are working a four hour shift, how long are you legally required to take a break.
What is 30 minutes? (Clock out of workday for this break) Food is not to be eaten at your respective workstation.
You've graduated and you are working at your first post-grad job and you are going on vacation or otherwise unavailable, this is what you do about your email.
What is create an out of office reply? Which would include OOO in the subject line, how long you'll be unavailable and an alternate person to contact if it's urgent.
3 characteristics of personal hygiene that contribute to professionalism in the work environment.
What is wear clean clothes when coming to work, brushing your teeth before coming to work, utilizing deodorant, grooming your hair?