e-news archive
Friday, October 10, 2008
in this issue...
- Topic of the Week: Choosing a Major
- Jobs & Internships! New This Week
- Ask Dot
- Featured Website
- Career Resource: DISCOVER
- Alumni Highlight: Biology & German
- Employer Spotlight: Brady Corporation
- Calendar of Career Events
SPRING CAREER COURSES!
The Career Services Center offers two eight-week sessions focusing on career planning or job search. Read former student testimonials here.
ARSC 050 (primarily freshmen and sophomores)
Tuesdays 3:00-5:05 p.m.
Career Planning and Decision Making : As career planning is an important step toward academic success and job satisfaction, this course is designed to help you assess your interests, skills, values, personality characteristics, investigate career possibilities, and learn how to use a wide variety of resources in your career search. Students will participate in self-discovery activities and learn about sound career decision making strategies as well as the world of work. The course stresses the value of liberal arts education and places an emphasis on exploring Arts and Sciences academic majors.
ARSC 051 (primarily juniors and seniors)
Wednesdays 3:00-5:05 p.m.
Job Search Strategies for Arts & Science: This course section is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of planning and organizing job search strategies. Emphasis is placed on identification of individual goals, assessment of talents, exploration of career options, analysis of the job market, effective use of job search materials (cover letters, resumes) and tools (interviewing, career fairs, networking), and management of career direction. The course stresses the value of the arts and sciences degree in the labor market and develops job search skills that will be useful throughout lifelong career management.
Questions about this course may be directed to Laura Kestner.
POWER Lunch:
Professionals Who Were First-Generation College Students
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Alumni Memorial Union Room 157
The POWER Lunch series provides the opportunity to network with professionals in various career fields, hear real stories and experiences from experts representing diverse cultures, and enjoy free lunch.
Each month we focus on various career fields plus diverse cultural, social, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Topics covered will include career information specific to each professional’s area of expertise and a focus on real experiences including stories of challenge and success.
All students, faculty, and staff are welcome!
More information may be found at www.mu.edu/csc/students/powerlunch
Click on the link below to check out the schedule for
ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWING
Don't forget to register on MU Career Manager!
Reminder: If you have previously created an account on MU Career Manager, please consider updating it with your current year in school and resume!
Stop by Career Services walk-in hours Monday-Friday from 12-2pm for additional assistance!
Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events
and career-related workshops.
Are you unsure that your major is the right one for you and/or your career goals? If so, you’re not alone. And the good news is the Career Services Center is here to offer assistance and provide resources that will help you clarify your career goals.
A good career decision can only be made when you become aware of your personal style, identify your interest and skill areas, and acknowledge your work values. Without these pieces of the puzzle, a career decision is not grounded or based on criteria which matters to you.
The first step in the career development process is self-assessment. Taking part in self-assessment will not only help in choosing a major, but will also help in finding a variety of careers that will be a good fit based on your interests (what you enjoy doing), skills (what you are good at) and values (what is important to you in a job).
If you are unsure of your major, which typically is the case during freshman or sophomore year, visit the Counseling Center to obtain in-person assistance with self-assessment. Or, if you have a major but are still in need of clarification of your career goals, which typically happens during junior or senior year, the Career Services Center staff can help you in this process by offering various career assessments for you to complete.
Once you have developed a profile of what you are looking for in a career or major and created a list of potential majors and careers that are a good match, you are ready to embark on the second step in the career development process, occupational research.
The Career Services Center has a number of resources available to assist you with your research.
•Become familiar with majors offered at Marquette University.
• Talk with faculty, advisors, and students in academic departments you are
considering.
• Log on to DISCOVER, a computerized career guidance program to research
occupations.
• National links to Occupational Information with trends for a variety of career
fields.
• Speak with people in the career fields you are exploring. This process is called
informational interviewing. You may also consider job shadowing professionals
in careers that interest you. MU Connect: Career Alumni Network has
Marquette University Alumni interested in connecting with you.
• Join and become active in student organizations related to your major and
career interests.
• Enroll in different academic courses in majors you are considering; find
part-time work, summer jobs, engage in volunteer activities and
service learning to test out your career/major choices and gain related work
experience.
• Obtain an internship.
• Visit the Career Services Center's Kimberly Clark Career library that contains
numerous resources to help you research majors and careers of interest.
• Visit the Career Services Center website to view additional occupational
research websites.
• Contact Laura Kestner to register for a career planning course.
If you have additional questions regarding choosing a major or career, please call the Career Services Center, 414-288-7423.
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Looking to gain career-related experience with an internship? Ready to start your job search? View internships and jobs posted recently for Marquette University students. To see even more internships and full-time jobs, register with MU Career Manager.
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Dear Dot,
I really do not like the classes I am taking for my major. I think I want to switch out of my degree program but I have no idea what exactly I want to do with my life. Can you help?
Gavin O.
Read Dot's advice
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www.sportscareers.com
SPORTS CAREERS was founded as a career resource clearinghouse providing individuals and organizations with information, education, and opportunities for finding both employment and employees. SPORTS CAREERS also hosts virtual job fairs and sports careers coaching clinics. The site is also linked to the Sports and Entertainment Human Resource Forum.
Check it out TODAY!
DISCOVER is a comprehensive on-line career planning program tha will help you make important decisions about your future. DISCOVER allows students to understand their interests, skills and work values as well as identify and research majors and career areas that might be a good fit. In addition, DISCOVER provides current, reliable, in-depth occupational information and how to prepare for a successful career; addresses the skills employers seek; and helps individuals develop their own educational and career plans.
A user ID is required in order to access DISCOVER. You may contact either office listed below for a user ID.
Career Services Center
Counseling Center
Click here to learn more about DISCOVER!
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Marc Ballbach, Biology & German, 1994.
Learn more about the success and career path of this Marquette Graduate.
Contact Tina Lowry at mballbach@gmail.com.
Are you interested in contacting other alumni for career advice?
Check out MU Connect: Career Alumni Network.
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Brady Corporation's core capabilities in manufacturing, precision engineering and materials expertise make it a leading supplier to the Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) market and to the Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) market.
At Brady, commitment to exceptional performance drives our business decisions every day. We design our products to perform in ways that others simply can't. Our people perform in ways that regularly exceed expectations. And our focus and discipline as a company has led to solid, long-term performance for our shareholders. In short, when performance matters most, Brady is the right choice.
| We offer both internship and regular full-time opportunities for current students and new college graduates in a variety of disciplines. If you are a high performing individual looking for a challenging opportunity to develop your career, consider a career with us! |
We offer opportunities in the following areas:
- Sales & Marketing
- Engineering R&D
- Finance
- Information Technology
- Human Resources
- Manufacturing Operations
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For more information, please visit: http://www.bradycorp.com.
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Emerson National Hunger Fellowship Information Session
Monday, October 27th 7:00 p.m.
Career Services Center
All majors welcome!
Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges (WFIC) will be hosting a ‘Student Networking Capstone Event’ on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 as a new addition to our Insurance Education Initiative. Our organization is working to introduce talented students to all of the exciting career opportunities that exist for them within the insurance industry here in Wisconsin.
Students are invited to attend a buffet-style dinner and Milwaukee Admirals hockey game completely free of charge.
The evening begins at 5:30pm at Buck Bradley’s located in downtown Milwaukee followed by the game at 7:05pm.
Over 30 different professionals from such areas as Risk Management, IT, Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, PR will be attending as well to network & mingle with students. This is a great opportunity for students to network in a comfortable, relaxed and fun environment – FOR FREE!
Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events
and career-related workshops.
Upcoming Career Fairs
This calendar includes upcoming Marquette career fairs,
off-site career fairs, and e-fairs.
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