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Check in with Career Services early in your CCSU experience & graduate to a great job!!

Get a jump on things...  begin to explore both your academic possibilities and your potential career choices...

• Visit the Office of Career Services Office, Room 100, Willard Hall or online at www.ccsu.edu/career.  Check out the programs and services available to you there.
• Meet with a career counselor to learn about career resources and career planning strategies.  Take a self-assessment survey or an interest inventory.
• Begin to explore your career interests and build your resume by participating in campus and community activities and organizations.
• Attend a Career Fair on campus.

Stay a step ahead...  assess your progress in and satisfaction with your choice of major...  find out about Cooperative Education (Co-op) and/or internships...  seek part time work, a summer job or a volunteer activity related to your academic and career interests...

• Check out the Resume Resource Packet online (www.ccsu.edu/career) and write your first resume.  Have it critiqued at a Resume Review Session in Career Services.
• "Orient Yourself!" (www.ccsu.edu/career) to Cooperative Education and to Internships.  Begin to plan for your participation in one of these experiences.
• Take an active role in campus and community activities and organizations related to your academic and career interests.
• "Orient Yourself!" to Part-time jobs.  Seek a position that involves work related to your career interests.  View position listings online in your Central Connections account (www.ccsu.edu/career/centralconnections.htm).

Take a big leap forward...  enroll in the Co-op Program or try an internship...  pursue a work experience that enables you to develop skills and test out your interests...  begin networking with professionals in your career field...

• Enroll in the Career Development Seminar for Co-op students or meet with your Academic Advisor or a Career Services Advisor to discuss internship plans.
• Update your resume and learn how to interview effectively for a professional position.
• Conduct Information Interviews and other networking activities with professionals in the career field(s) you find interesting.  Attend Career Fairs and Company Information Sessions to talk to potential employers.
• Participate in your first Co-op work experience or in an internship.
• Serve in leadership position(s) in a campus or community organization.

Take flight into life after CCSU...  cash in on your experiences in campus and community organizations, volunteer work, part time and summer jobs, internships, and Co-op...  take advantage of services available to graduating seniors in the Career Services Office...

• "Orient Yourself!" to Career Services and activate or update your Central Connections account.
• Complete a second (or third!) Co-op or internship experience.
• Revise, update and perfect your resume and learn how to write a cover letter.  Get these documents critiqued at a Resume Review Session.
• Consider graduate school.  Attend a Graduate School Fair.  Investigate relevant programs and meet application deadlines.
• Participate in the On-Campus Recruiting Program and Resume Referral Service.
• Attend Career Fairs.  Monitor job postings in Central Connections.  Conduct an on-line job search.  Apply for professional positions.

GET A GREAT JOB!