career services: explore. experience. achieve. welcome class of 2015

Career Services: Explore. Experience. Achieve.Career Services: Explore. Experience. Achieve.

www.career.vt.edu

Welcome Class of 2015

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Aspirations for Student Learning and Career Services …Aspirations for Student Learning and Career Services …

Explore. Experience. Achieve.www.career.vt.edu

• Commit to unwavering CURIOSITY

• Pursue SELF-UNDERSTANDING and INTEGRITY

• Practice CIVILITY

• Prepare for a life of COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP

• Embrace UT PROSIM as a way of life

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Career Development ModelCareer Development Model

Gaining Experience and Developing Job Search Skills

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Career Exploration Explore

Self-UnderstandingCuriosity Experience

CivilityCourageous Leadership

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One-on-One appointments can be made to assist you in every step of your Career Development Process

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Self-Understanding …Self-Understanding …1. Self Assessment

• A realistic appraisal of yourself and the starting point for career planning.

• Online and paper career assessments are available to help you narrow down your major and career options, specific to your personality, skills, interests, and values.

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Curiosity …Curiosity …2. Career Research

• This takes time and dedication, as you gather information about academic options and career fields that compliment your self-assessment results.

• Career Resource Center contains hard copy resources (most available for overnight and weekend checkout) covering all areas of the career development process.

• Career Services Website has multiple links that provide further information on majors and career options.

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3. Decision Making

• Takes place after you have become familiar with your personality, skills, interests, and values, and once your research is completed.

• Career Services offers a 3 credit course, “Exploring Careers: Making Decisions and Plans”, which teaches students different methods for researching and making decisions on major and/or career options.

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4. Goal Setting and Action Plans

• Define your career goal(s) and set a realistic action plan with steps and deadlines to meet your goal(s).

• Career Services can assist you in making and setting S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) goals, both short and long term, through one-on-one appointments with one of our advisors.

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What is Experiential Education?What is Experiential Education?


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Integrating Work & Learning

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Career Related Experience …Career Related Experience …


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What does “career related experience”

mean to you?

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Here are some choices you have for gaining experience …Here are some choices you have for gaining experience …


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• Internship (paid/unpaid, academic credit/no credit)• Cooperative Education (Co-op)• Summer Job/Part-time employment• Externship (Job Shadowing)• Volunteer Work (www.engage.vt.edu)• Study/Work Abroad• Research• Student Service Learning• Field Study

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Why Gaining Experience is Important…Why Gaining Experience is Important…


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• 97.5% of employers factor candidate experience in hiring

• 76.6% of employers prefer to hire candidates with relevant work experience

• Of the 90% of Virginia Tech graduates who had career related experience 57% wished they had gained more

• Look ahead and begin exploring opportunities now

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Be Curious …Be Curious …


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• Explore your possibilities• Career Paths

• Organizations

• Various Majors, Minors, and Concentrations

• Ask questions of people within your career interests

• Learn why people enjoy what they do

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Experiential Education allows you to…

•Learn about yourself• Strengths and weaknesses

• Work environment preferences

• Values and what is important to you

•Reflect on your experiences and how they fit into your career aspirations

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What is the Cooperative Education/Internship Program? What is the Cooperative Education/Internship Program?


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• A formal academic program which integrates classroom learning with a full-time work experience

• Participating students maintain full-time enrollment status with Virginia Tech and receive official recognition on their transcript

• Students may begin working the summer following their freshman year

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Here are some interesting companies where Hokies have gotten experience in the past …Here are some interesting companies where Hokies have gotten experience in the past …


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Want to learn more?Want to learn more?


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• Visit us at Career Services

• Talk to a Co-op/Internship Advisor in Career Services

• Attend a Co-op/Internship Orientation session this Fall

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How Do You Achieve Your Future Goals? – START EARLY …How Do You Achieve Your Future Goals? – START EARLY …


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• Perform to the best of your ability in all your classes

• Pursue organizational leadership on campus

• Gain career-related experience

• Have a strong sense of what you want to do OR at least a strong sense of what you don’t!

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Post Graduation Plans and Preparing for Courageous Leadership …Post Graduation Plans and Preparing for Courageous Leadership …


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• Achieving your post-graduation goals can be easy:

• Early and frequent contact with Career Services

• Familiarize yourself with our services and resources to help you reach your goals

• Learn the tools for pursuing employment and/or graduate school

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Employment Tools …Employment Tools …• Hokies4Hire Database

• On-Campus Interviews

• Mock Interviews including InterviewStream

• CareerShift

• Going Global

• Career Fair Information

• Hokie Nation Network

Where the jobs are!

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• United States Air Force

• United States Navy

• United States Army

• Northrop Grumman

• Accenture

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Top Employers of Virginia Tech Graduates: VT = Tied #3Top Employers of Virginia Tech Graduates: VT = Tied #3

Source: Virginia Tech Post-Graduation Report, 2009-10

• IBM

• CGI

• Freddie Mac

• Lockheed Martin

• Tied - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Teach for America

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Embrace UT PROSIM as a Way of Life …Embrace UT PROSIM as a Way of Life …

• Peace Corps

• Teach for America

• AmeriCorps

• Missionary Work

• Campus Crusades for Christ

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Graduate School Prep Tools …Graduate School Prep Tools …


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• Graduate admissions test prep seminars and GRE Test Drives

• Graduate program directories such as Petersons Guides with program profiles

• Personal statement examples and critiques

• Extensive online resources

• Departmental Career Advisors

• Office of Health Professions Advising (OHPA)

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CAREER SERVICESSmith Career Center

Corner of Washington Street & West Campus Drive

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Hokies4Hire

“Where the jobs are!”

First Friday of Classes 10 AM – 3 PM

Things you want to do … Things you want to do …


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career services: explore. experience. achieve. welcome class of 2015

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