Faculty
Your Career Center—Get to Know Us
The mutual goal of both faculty and the career center is student success. By working together, faculty and career services can ensure the transition from student to a member of the work force is as seamless as possible. Think of the path our students take to their professional career as a camping trip. Faculty do an outstanding job of "filling the students' backpacks" with the knowledge and practical skills they need to thrive once they reach their destination. At the Career Center, we provide the maps and compasses, and serve as guides for students conducting their career exploration. How can we help you? Following are some of the services we offer:
- We help students find the right fit
We help students determine the right career for their interests, career goals, skills, values, and personality. During their academic careers, students return to career services to develop essential job-search skills. We are a student's best resource for job outlook, salary, and employment trend information.
- We know employers who want to know you
At the career center, we work directly with employers, who often ask for the contact information of faculty members who could help them to identify top students. Ideally, employers would like to develop mutually beneficial relationships with faculty, and can provide many forms of support. We can help facilitate that connection.
- Our career fair and consortium events attract many recruiters to
one event
Our career fairs and our joint consortium events (21 Iowa colleges make up the Iowa Private College Career Consortium) provide excellent opportunities for students to meet representatives from the companies in their industries of choice, establish a network of contacts, and interview for jobs. We help students research the employers beforehand and provide tips so they are prepared to effectively engage recruiters.
- We help students create winning résumés and master the job interview
We believe that one’s résumé and cover letter are a reflection of one’s best work and are critical marketing tools necessary to get an interview. Workshops on job search tools and strategies, along with a series covering all aspects of graduate/professional school selection and application, are offered.
- We'll bring the information to your class
We specialize in conducting presentations to the classes you teach and the student organizations you advise about a host of career-related topics, such as resume writing, job-search strategies, and interviewing skills. In addition, we can arrange presentations by professionals (many of them alumni), who can relate their experiences and how their major has helped them in their careers. We also can help out in a pinch: If you need to or are considering canceling a class, just contact us and we can schedule a presentation instead.
- We assist in identifying quality experiential education opportunities
Experiential education is such an important part of your students' overall educational experience. Just ask any employer. Through our network of employers, we can help your students identify internship and cooperative education opportunities that will best serve them in their academic and professional pursuits.
These are just some of the services we offer. Please call the career center to determine how, together, we can achieve student success. We look forward to working with you.
