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Hello, I'm Rusty Anderson. I'm the Director of Career Services here at the
University of Southern Mississippi and I would invite you to utilize our services
and my job today as I understand it, is to let you know all the resources that are
available both on campus and online. We are a comprehensive career services office
that help students decide on choice of a major academic planning
how to find jobs, we also teach and coach resumes
cover letters, how to interview and I would invite all of you online students
to feel free to send in your resumes and cover letters for critique and
to contact us via the telephone for any questions or via email at rusty.anderson@usm.edu
We have an assortment of online programs available for you to assist you in
the exploration of majors and to seek employment and I want to highlight just
a couple of those for you very very quickly. One is Focus, it's an online career
guidance program. You will need to email me rusty.anderson@usm.edu to
get the user code
and it will be made available free to you but Focus is an online career
guidance program where you can do some assessment, you can
identify your interest areas you can also identify career paths that might be of
interest to you as well as academic majors, it might be appropriate. So if you're
still undecided about what it is you want to do
at Southern Miss as far as a major or perhaps what you want to do with your
major, as far as your career path, Focus is a very very good resource tool to
use and then perhaps follow-up call with a counselor
in our office could help you made some final decisions.
We have optimal will resume, which is a resume writing software package.
We do encourage students not to use Microsoft Word template because they're
too generic and they're too common among the job seekers, so we have
optimal resume that you can use by using your eagles.usm.edu address
and that gives you free access and you can create multiple
resumes in the system. There's a download button or a submit button where
you can send it to career services and one of our counselors are professional
staff will evaluate that resume and give you feedback hopefully
within 48 hours of your submission.
We would encourage you to use optimal resume, you can also use Eagle Employment
and Eagle Employment is an online job posting
system where we post all of our full-time and part-time jobs
and you can post your resume. We have over 22,000 resume referrals last year from our
system so it's connecting you with employers without you
having them necessarily come to campus and employers can find you. Another source
that you'll find is Career Shift. Career Shift is an online system that pulls
from newspapers, magazines, company websites,
third-party recruiter websites, and you'll be able to login using an account again if
you can contact me at rusty.anderson@usm.edu and ask for the career shift account, I
will make them available to you and you can access that.
But if you would do a key word search and career shift,
it'll pull from all of those resources and you'll be able to start identifying
careers that you can begin submitting your resume to.
There's also Perfect Interview in which you can login to Perfect Interview
and watch sample interview so that you can begin to develop skills
and what a professional job interview looks like.
Now all of these resources are available on the Career Services website and that
website is www.usm.edu/cs
for career services or you can type in career-services- usm.edu/career-services.
I would invite you to take advantage of all of our services and resources
and as the opportunity permits, if you are in the Hattiesburg area, just set
up a meeting with someone on our staff and have a conversation about your
career path and your academic plans. I wish you much luck and I hope you'll let
me know how I can be an assistance to you. Thank you.