Who Are You?

Career Services

Life... a series of steps.

Congratulations!  You are a Senior!! This section is designed to give you a quick review of what you should possibly be thinking about during your senior year and related Career Services resources.

Assumptions: You have declared a major, considered how your interests, skills and values relate to career fields and have a least begun to narrow down your career choices. If this is inaccurate (ie. I still don't know what I want to do with my life"), consider visiting the other modules created for underclassman.

 

Goal 1: Continue to obtain additional internship or volunteer experience to expand resume

Activities:

  • Work with Experienced-Based Education or the Community Services office to research and secure opportunities
  • Attend Fall Career & Internship Fair to discuss opportunities with employers

 

Goal 2: Summarize and analyze all of your experiences in the past four years

Activities:

  • Attend a combo workshop and learn about resume and cover letter writing
  • Build a high quality resume and cover letter that could be used as basis of more tailored cover letters later on in the job search
  • Have documents critiques by Career Services staff

 

Goal 3: Learn about and engage in the Job Search process

Activities:

  • Network with professionals
  • Explore the Alumni Sharing Knowledge program (ASK) to network with OSU alums
  • Further network with professionals through attendance at local association meetings and related listserves
  • Attend Career Services and campus wide alumni programs
  • Summarize the skills you have, show how they related to a career field and prove you have them through examples
  • Join the Career Services listserv to receive resource reviews, vacancies, program and event details and much more
  • Familiarize yourself with our resume lab and printing procedures
  • Participate in on-campus recruiting visits and resume referral programs
  • Participate in off-campus job fairs, such as Careers 2001
  • Join the Senior Registration program designed to get your resumes to hiring employers fast
  • Explore our job vacancies and other online sources of jobs
  • Research employers through our career library in our office
  • Consider having letters of reference submitted and held for you the Career Services office
  • Develop an employer prospect list with contact names and addresses from organizations you are interested in pursuing

 

Goal 3: If you will be attending graduate school

Activities:

  • Read the "Graduate School Handout" in our office or on our web site
  • If applicable, register and take graduate school entrance exams and complete applications
  • Explore sources of funding
  • Secure letters of recommendation
  • Finalize list of graduate school to which to apply
  • Follow up on all applications and keep a record of the status of each