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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
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