Welcome!
This Career Guide contains detailed information, advice from alumni, and worksheets on a variety of topics for each step of your journey – from developing your elevator pitch and networking skills, to conducting the search, and navigating the offer.
- Topics such as “Career Fair Preparation,” “Professional Documents,” and “How to Interview Using the STAR Format.”
- Resume reviews and mock interviews
Your call to action: challenge yourself to grow as a business professional, develop competitive application materials and interviewing skills, grow your professional network, and reach your ultimate potential!
I'm new to searching for a job. What is a job search going to be like?
This is the process of seeking out hiring organizations via programs or websites such as Handshake, LinkedIn, GoinGlobal, indeed.com, careerbuilder.com and more. You may be seeking companies who are hiring in a specific area such as a state or city.
For example, you might see that XYZ Company is hiring engineers in the Miami area. This is great, you want to move to Miami, but you are not an engineer. Now, you need to visit XYZ’s company website and see what other opportunities for which they are hiring. They simply have posted the engineering positions on a job board because they are having the most difficulty filling that/those positions, but that is your signal that this company is hiring, and you should explore the other opportunities.
From this moment forward, you will feel stretched every day to be your best self. This guide will help you make this transformation, but the ability to achieve career success must be driven by you.
Consider athletics teams. The coach provides a game strategy to increase the odds of capturing a win. However, this effort is only relevant if the athletes apply focus, consistency, and commitment in their training. The coach relies on their players to practice and achieve their highest potential. Whatever goals or expectations you have brought with you will require that you be “in the game” and practicing the skills that are necessary to conduct a successful job search.
This transformation will involve a broad set of experiences, and there will be times when the value may seem unclear to you. Seek to find value in every opportunity. Choose to view every experience you will have during your search (especially those that may not have clearly defined value in your mind) as a chance to learn and grow—and that is exactly what you will do.