Locating Employer Speakers and Contacts for your class
Presenting on career-related topics in Classes
Providing Online Resources and Job Search Sites for you to share with students
Providing ideas for your syllabus
Sharing Career checklists for students at each stage of their colleges careers
Making it easy for you to refer students to the Career Services Center
Providing tips on Writing letters of recommendation and other guidelines for faculty
Letting you know Where in the World are MU Grads?
Sharing the Faculty guide to helping students with regard to Career Development
Linking you to an Overview of Services
Employer Speakers and Contacts
We assist student organizations in identifying employers speakers, panelists or corporate presenters. These speakers are often MU Alumni. We can provide employer contacts that may lead to candidates for advisory boards, co-op and internship opportunities for your students, and fund raising prospects.
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Class Presentations
Our career counselors can make 15 - 90 minute presentations in class on a variety of career-related topics. These include:
- Writing Great Resumes and Correspondence
- Successful Networking
- Interviewing for Success
- Job Search Techniques That Work
- Dress for Successful Interviewing
- How to Make the Most of a Career Fair
- Your First Year as a Professional
- Dining Etiquette
- Graduate and Professional School Process
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Online Resources and Job Search Sites Students can search for jobs using any of our online resources. We also have this as a handout for you to give to students.
- MU Career Manager: Access online at www.marquette.edu/csc
- Internships and full-time positions
- Online resume submission for on campus interviews; searchable by employers
- Calendar to track positions and upcoming career events
- Optimal Resume: Access online https://marquette.optimalresume.com
- Create, present, and manage customizable resumes
- Create online resume marketing skills and abilities while saving significant time
- Going Global: Access online at www.marquette.edu/gateway
- Country Career Guides packed with country-specific information
- Job Postings and Internship Listings for any country in the world
- Global Key Employer Directory contains 25,000 country-specific company profiles
- InterviewStream: Access online at www.marquette.edu/csc/about/interviewstream.shtml
- Interactive interview coaching program
- Online video-based practice interviewing with feedback of non-verbal behavior
- Golden Eagle Search: Access online at www.marquette.edu/gateway
- Comprehensive web-crawler job search engine
- Search internships and jobs by skill area from over 5 million national job postings
- Vault: Access online at www.marquette.edu/gateway
- Online career library including company and career field information
- Research employers, industries, and career subjects
- Reference USA: Access online at www.marquette.edu/gateway
- Identify employers to actively pursue for positions
- Research industries/companies; executives, corporations, company descriptions
- Discover: Access online at www.marquette.edu/csc/about/DISCOVER
- Identify strengths/needs, make good career decisions, plan based on profiles
- Research-based assessments of interests, abilities, and job values
- Explore current databases of occupations, college majors, schools and training institutions, financial aid/scholarships
- MU Connect: Access online at www.marquette.edu/gateway
- Database of thousands of Marquette alumni who have volunteered to be a source of networking and career advice
- Research career fields and where alumni work
- Find alumni in a particular city, industry, or organization
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Career checklists
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Ideas for your syllabus
- Include upcoming career events on your syllabus
- Offer extra credit or alternatives to missing classes for attendance at one of our monthly diversity career events called POWER Lunch.
- Invite a panel of career professionals in to speak about career or occupational issues.
- Schedule a presentation on a variety of career-related topics.
- Create assignments or experiences that allow for the exploration of a field of study
- The development of a resume and cover letter to help students clarify career goals. Research papers on what careers result from a particular major
- Assign informational interviews or job shadowing experiences, students can connect with professionals in their fields of interest
- Allow students to attend career fairs and internship fairs
- Announce internship and full-time positions openings found on MU Career Manager
- Talk about internships and your departments options for credit for internships which provides opportunities for students to acquire professional work experience related to their academic majors or areas of career interest.
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Referring students to the Career Services Center
Departmental faculty and academic advisors are our second most frequent source of referrals for students for our services (students are our first!). We appreciate your referrals.
- Walk-in services: Suggested for first time users or students with "quick" questions, brief resume review, etc. Hours change each semester. Click here for current walk-in hours.
- Direct referral to professional staff. Individual career counseling appointments can be made by calling 414-288-7423. We are all generalists with the ability to help all students and alumni regarding career assistance. Staff profiles are available.
- Our services and resources cover a wide range of career issues including:
- helping a student identify his or her interests, skills, and values, possibly with a referral to complete an interest inventory at the Counseling Center;
- helping the student explore possible careers related to his or her major or to the student's interests, skills, and values;
- assisting with the internship search and preparation;
- teaching resume writing, cover letter writing, and interviewing skills;
- critiquing resumes and cover letters in Resume and Cover Letter Reviews and scheduled appointments;
- conducting mock interviews in 30-60-minute appointments;
- helping the student identify resources for job announcements;
- helping the student learn and conduct an effective job search including suggesting possible industries and employers related to their career goal;
- helping the student find resources that could help them to apply to graduate and professional schools
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Writing letters of recommendation and other guidelines for faculty
From NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers)
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Where in the World are MU Grads?
This helpful resource lists job titles of recent MU grads and organizations who have hired them. Your students can use this for career exploration and in pursuit of internships and full-time positions.
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MU Connect: Career Alumni Network
Invite alumni to become members of the MU Connect: career Alumni Network. Over 800 members-searchable by their undergraduate major and current field-are available to provide career information and advice.
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Career Services Website
Encourage students, employers, and faculty members to visit the Career Services website at http://www.marquette.edu/csc. We are the fifth most accessed page at marquette.edu.
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Employer Referrals
Refer employers to Career Services and encourage them to participate in on-campus interviews and career fairs, and to post internships and jobs through MU Career Manager. Employer services are online here.
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Learn more about the Career Services Center:
The Career Services Center serves students and alumni of Marquette University. Confidential services are available for faculty and staff on a case-by-case basis. For community career counseling resources click here.
