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Programs
Let the Career Center customize one of their many programs to your class or organization's unique needs. You may request a particular program or encourage your group to sign-up for pre-planned Career Center programs through the PDI. Please call the Career Center or download the Program Request Form to schedule at least two weeks in advance.
Career Center Tour
- Why is it important to utilize the Career Center throughout your time at Truman and not just your senior year?
- What information is available on the Career Center's website?
- What resources does the Career Center offer to
assist you in learning more about potential career fields?
Answers to these questions can be found in the Career Center. This interactive program provides students with a basic understanding of the services and resources of the Career Center.
Target Audience: First-year students
Location: Career Center
Length: 50 minutes
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Major and Career Decisions
Are you tired of people asking you what you are majoring in and what you want to be when you grow up? This introductory program can help you move closer to deciding on a major, identifying what you can do with that major, and developing steps to begin exploring careers and majors. Learn how to interest, personality, and values play a role in the decisions you make, and the procedures for taking the personality (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and interest (Strong Interest Inventory) instruments.
Target Audience: Students who are unsure about their major, what they can do with their major, or what other majors might fit their interests, skills, personality, and values
Location: Career Center
Length: 50 minutes
Self-Assessment Testing
The Career Center offers the Strong Interest Inventory (SII), and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a personality assessment, both of which can be extremely helpful in finding career fulfillment. To participate in the testing, stop by the Career Center during drop-in hours to meet briefly with a full-time staff member, who will make sure that the instruments will benefit you. The price of $35 includes administration of both instruments, full-color reports, a two-hour interpretation session, and a one-hour individual follow-up session.
Target Audience: Students who are deciding on a major and/or career path
Location: Career Center
Length: One hour to take the instruments; interpretation sessions are two hours
Note: Interpretation sessions are scheduled in the evenings throughout the semester. See the Career's Center home page for drop-in hours.
Skills Card Game
This guided activity helps you determine what skills you both like and are good at. Discover your "motivated skills" as well as your "burnout skills" by utilizing a card sorting game.
Target Audience: Students who are deciding on a major and/or career path
Location: Career Center or other classroom
Length: 50 minutes
Values Auction
This fun activity utilizes an auction framework to help you determine what values are most important to you, and how to make sure those values are in harmony with your career choice.
Target Audience: Students who are deciding on a major and/or career path
Location: Career Center or other classroom
Length: 50 minutes
Introduction to Internships
- Why should I consider interning?
- How do I find out about internship opportunities?
- How do I apply for internships?
- What can I do to make myself competitive for an internship?
- What should I expect from an internship experience?
Learn the answers to these questions and become better equipped to find a truly valuable internship by using the Career Center's resources.
Target Audience: Students who hope to obtain an internship
Location: Career Center or any classroom equipped with projector, computer and Internet access
Length: 50 minutes
Beginner Résumés & Cover
Letters
- Do I have to include every job I've ever had?
- How long should my résumé be?
- What should I include in my cover letter?
People don't get a great job just because they have a great résumé, but many individuals have missed out on great opportunities because they presented a weak résumé. You will learn basic résumé and cover letter "do's" and "don'ts," as well as how to highlight your education, work experience, and accomplishments.
Target Audience: Student's who haven't begun the résumé writing process
Location: Preferred site is a computer lab so that session can be interactive; can also be done in a classroom
Length: 90 minute workshop in a computer lab (will leave with drafts); 50 minute program in a classroom
Advanced Résumés and Cover Letters
Your résumé and cover letter require multiple drafts to be the best marketing tools for your internship, employment or graduate school applications. Learn advanced formatting techniques and content suggestions as well as how to tailor your materials to specific fields of interest by highlighting your best attributes.
Target Audience: Student's who have a draft of a résumé and cover letter
Location: Preferred site is a computer lab so that session can be interactive; can also be done in a classroom
Length: 90 minute workshop in a computer lab (will leave with polished documents); 50 minute program in a classroom
Note: Bring electronic drafts of résumé and cover letter
Ace the Interview (Job Search or Graduate School)
- Tell me about a time when you managed multiple projects successfully.
- Share with me a time you failed. How did you react?
- Are you married? Do you have children?
Learn how to deal with behavioral-based, difficult, and illegal questions during this interactive session. You will be given the opportunity to actually practice answering interview questions, as well as develop questions to ask the employer or graduate school and effective follow-up strategies.
Target Audience: Students who will soon be engaging in the interview process
Location: Career Center or any classroom equipped with projector, computer and Internet access
Length: 90 minutes
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Statistic: 92% of employers surveyed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers report that they are influenced by the appearance of a job candidate. See examples of professional attire appropriate for interviewing; as time permits, the three levels of business casual dress are also covered.
Target Audience: Students who will soon be engaging in the interview process
Location: Career Center or any classroom equipped with projector, computer and Internet access
Length: 50 minutes - two hours
Etiquette Dinner
They're taking me to dinner as part of my job interview
- Does it matter what I order?
- Which glass is mine?
- What is this fork for?
Many highly qualified candidates have lost the opportunity for their dream job because of a "dining debacle." Receive instruction throughout a four-course meal as you learn how to navigate the myriad silverware, glasses, and courses that may be a part of the interview process.
Target Audience: All students
Location: SUB
Length: two hours
Cost:
$16 per person, due when registering
Visit the PDI website for the next etiquette dinner:
Cocktails, Conferences & Meetings
This hands-on program will help you:
- Develop self-presentation skills, including rules of introduction, self-introduction, and exchanging business cards
- Learn how to hold food and drink and still manage to shake hands
- Mingle in social/business settings
Target Audience: Upper class students
Location: SUB
Length: 90 minutes
Cost: $5 per person, due when registering
NOTE: Due to the activities in this program, it requires a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 40 participants.
Job Search
Find out what you need to do to conduct a successful job search. This program introduces the concept of professional networking utilizing traditional forms such as personal contacts, professional associations and networking events. You will also learn how to maximize social networking and maintain a professional on-line identity. Learn about helpful job search sites which can help you uncover employment leads. Finally, develop a realistic job search strategy and timeline.
Target Audience: Second, third & fourth year students interested in navigating the job market
Location: Career Center or any classroom equipped with projector, computer and Internet access
Length: 50 minutes
Success Seminar
Designed to be tailored to each group's unique needs, this program can include an introduction to any combination of the topics below:
- Résumés and cover letters
- Interviewing
- Professional dress
- Etiquette
- Internships
- Articulating transferable skills
Target Audience: Second, third & fourth year students
Location: Career Center or any classroom equipped with projector, computer and Internet access
Length: 50 minutes
Graduate School Success
- What universities offer graduate programs in my discipline?
- What steps do I need to take to apply to graduate programs, and what is the timeline for those steps?
- What financial aid options exist for graduate study?
:earn about the most useful tools to research and apply to graduate/professional school.
Target Audience: Upper class students planning to attend graduate/professional school
Location: Career Center or any classroom equipped with projector, computer and Internet access
Length: 90 minutes
Personal Statement Workshop
The statement of purpose is a key component of most graduate school application packets. Develop a strategy for writing this important document, and what services the Career Center offers to assist you.
Target Audience: Upper class students planning to attend graduate/professional school
Location: Preferred site is a computer lab so that session can be interactive; can also be done in a classroom
Length: 90 minute workshop in a computer lab (will leave with drafts); 50 minute program in a classroom