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I'm confident that I'm going to get a job relatively fast. It's just how much effort
I put in.
I want to be an elementary school teacher, hopefully, like second grade.
I just came to see this journal, a very important journal to find a job.
I'm really not sure what career paths, or what jobs, or what internships are out there.
This mission of Career Services is actually to empower students and alumni to build bridges
to their future careers. So we use that metaphor to help get the idea that we'll do everything
we can to get people from where they are now in the college setting to where they need
to be in terms of career.
My name is Amanda Cheyney. I'm a first-generation college student. I'm a junior. I just transferred
from a community college. One of our professors in the basic management classes suggested
to come to Career Services so that we could start thinking about internships or jobs.
I'm just like a blank slate right now.
The Career Services career resource room is our combination library, computer lab and
physical job-posting space.
We have several assessments. The students answer all sorts of general questions. There
are not right or wrong answers. They are questions to gauge the student's strengths and interests.
And then, our career counselors interpret the results of those assessments with the
student in terms of the types of industries, the types of jobs that people with similar
strengths and interests tend to go into and be happy with.
My job here is to counsel students. Students come in who are freshmen through seniors and
also alumni. So I help them with whatever their job development stages are. Just to
help them to get more knowledge about their field, find out what it is they're really
wanting to do, and then help them to be successful.
You will find students are nervous. They come in to talk to a counselor. It's just so important
to just try and make them feel at ease, just to let them know that we really are their
advocates. We really care about our students and want to make sure that we give them all
of the information that they need to help them to be successful.
Now, what it is that they're going to be doing, what type of a major that they can get into,
where does that lead them as far as graduate school is concerned, and also as far as a
job is concerned.