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What to Expect from Your College Career Center |
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Peter Vogt
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It doesn't
take much digging to find negative comments about
college career centers, such as "the career center sucks
at my school" or "my career center is worthless," on the
Career Planning for College Students message board.
These sentiments often reflect a fundamental disconnect
between students' expectations and their career-center
staff's many limitations.
Just what can you reasonably expect from your school's
career center and its staff? That question is best
answered by beginning with what you cannot expect,
followed by what's reasonable.
Expect Job-Hunting Help, Not Placement
Some students think their career center will get them a
job; in other words, place them. But career centers
aren't placement agencies, and their staff counselors
aren't recruiters.
More realistically, your career center will help you
develop the skills and contacts necessary to get a job.
"We offer on-campus interviews, career days, e-fairs,
information sessions, job postings, resume databases,
open houses and special events," says Richard White,
career center director for New Jersey-based Rutgers
University. "We're trying to build connections between
as many students and employers as we possibly can."
Expect to Be Shown, Not Told
It's unreasonable to expect that your career center will
tell you what major or career to pursue. How could
anyone, let alone a relative stranger like a campus
career counselor, talk with you for a short time and tag
you with your perfect major or career? More
realistically, your career center will teach you how to
explore majors and careers that might be a good fit for
you. The professionals at your school's career center
should have both the resources and personal expertise
that will help you explore majors and careers
thoroughly. The career center should also have data on
the jobs landed by past graduates in various majors from
your school.
You may also think your career center will have lists
and quick answers to address every conceivable career
question you might have. You may want a list of, say,
all the companies in the area that are hiring. But how
could any campus career center develop such a list?
Similarly, how can your campus career counselors be
expected to know the answer to any career question?
More realistically, your career center will help you
find answers. The staff should be willing and able to
show you various ways to reSearch your specific
questions and concerns. Your career center should be "a
place where caring people will help [students] navigate
the seemingly unlimited career and job Search resources
out there," says Marianna Savoca, director of the career
center at Stony Brook University in New York.
Expect that the Staff Has Limits
You may think your career center can and will make your
emergency a priority. However, the staff's time and
resources may be limited. For example, a colleague of
mine is the sole member of her school's career center
staff. It's simply impossible for her to drop everything
she's doing to see a student who stops by. So she asks
students to make an appointment to see her. Recently, a
student kept dropping in. My colleague kept politely
asking him to make an appointment, which he never did.
His incredibly unfair response: He complained to his
department's administrative assistant, who in turn
complained to my colleague.
More realistically, your career center will be
respectful and genuinely willing to help you. Most
campus career counselors are in their profession because
they truly enjoy helping college students with important
career issues. Once in a while, you'll run into a
counselor who is indifferent, incompetent, insensitive
or all three. Ask to see a different counselor before
you write off the entire office as worthless.
The people at your school's career center aren't miracle
workers. They don't read minds, and they aren't your
personal job Search agents. And they don't have bags
full of internship and job opportunities in their
offices just waiting to be handed out.
But if you'll "at least show up by your junior year,
make some plans and get some help, the career center can
make your next transition a successful one," says Jerry
Houser, director of the Career Development Center at the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in
Pasadena, California. |
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This article originally appeared on Monster.com. |
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