About Career Services
Career Services empowers students and alumni to navigate a world of opportunities.
Explore: First, learn about your own values, skills, interests and personality, and explore the many occupations that exist in the world of work.
Experience: Next, gain experience (through internships, volunteerism, leadership roles and part-time jobs) to “test the fit” of different occupations and develop marketable skills that employers seek.
Engage: Effectively search for a job or apply to graduate or professional school by setting target goals, researching opportunities and marketing yourself. Learn resume writing, interviewing, networking, etiquette and more. Make the transition to the world after SU!
We teach career-management skills (e.g. resume writing, interviewing, job search strategies), provide opportunities to explore a variety of occupations and help students and alumni make connections to employers, graduate and professional schools and other resources. Students and alumni can take responsibility to access these services through visits to our office and by attending our programs.
Career Services News
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Harvard Business Review blog post about the importance of an ongoing, proactive and visible (e.g. online) campaign to market yourself in lieu of a short-term job search. -
Twitter, LinkedIn, job search agent, niche job boards….This helpful Harvard Business Review blog post helps you more effectively use internet job search tools. -
Is having four jobs in six years a bad thing? Depends on how you tell the story! It’s crucial to be descriptive and look for transferable skills from each gig you have to tie them together in a coherent message. This Harvard Business Review article illustrates this issue with a great example. -
NPR reports on the ‘big data’ industry - analyzing and making sense of the massive amounts of data that firms like Facebook, Groupon and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences collect. The ‘big data’ trend is “fueling intense demand for mathematics and computing talent.” Hello, career opportunity! -
Students and graduates with disabilities can better prepare for the job search and interview process with some great tips documented by Matt Berndt of the UT College of Communication Career Services.
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Southwestern Success Stories
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A psychology major, Melanie enters the Master of Social Work program at The University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2009. -
A religion graduate, Peter is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. -
Rose, a business and communication studies graduate, is studying law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. -
Mathematics and Spanish grad Sheena Gregson is a financial advisor with Edward Jones in Austin. -
Cody, an economics graduate, is studying law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas.
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