About Career Services
Career Services helps students & alumni 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 Southwestern!
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 access these services through visits to our office and by attending our programs.
Career Services News
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Use your technology or writing skills, work in a lab, even wait tables! US News & World Report tells you why these roles and a few others make the list of best jobs for college students. -
According to data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2009 Student Survey, grads with internship experience earned full-time jobs upon graduation at a rate nearly 10 percentage points highter than those graduates with no internship experience, the October 28, 2009, edition of the NACE Spotlight e-newsletter reports. -
For creative jobs, is a standard resume enough to market your skills? Get advice from this Minneapolis Workplace Examiner article. -
Physician assistant, intelligence analyst, CPA, HR manager, college professor: CNNMoney.com gives overview, pros and cons, earnings, growth and quality of life information about these jobs and many more. -
On October 21, 2009, Career Services hosted the 15th annual Etiquette Dinner, featuring Diane Gottsman, nationally recognized etiquette expert and owner of The Protocol School of Texas, and a free, four-course meal. Students learned critical dining and networking skills they will use their whole professional lifes. The Williamson County Sun also reported on the event.
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Southwestern Success Stories
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Double-major in psychology and political science, Robert is pursuing his law degree at South Texas College of Law in Houston, where he wants to focus in public interest law. Previously, Robert interned with the Families C.O.U.N.T. Program at the DePlechin Children’s Center in Houston, TX. -
Biology graduate Sarah Ferrero begins her medical studies toward an MD at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, after working in cardiac rehabilitation at St. David’s Georgetown Hospital, completing a medical mission trip to Bolivia and interning at the Williamson County and Cities Health District. -
Like fellow 2008 grad Amy Tanguay, Chelsea also earned a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. Chelsea graduated with a degree in English. -
Caitlin, a Phi Beta Kappa Communication Studies graduate from Austin, turned her extensive internship experience into a full-time job position as the Multimedia Coordinator for National Instruments, an Austin tech company. She completed four marketing internships at NI, plus an additional internship in London during her study abroad experience, and also earned the National Intern of the Year award from the Cooperative Education and Internship Association in 2008. -
Preston is pursuing a Master of Divinity at the Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. Preston graduated with a Communication Studies major from Southwestern.
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