Friday, December 1, 2006
in this issue...
- Choosing a Major
- Internships! New this Week
- Ask Dot
- Career Resource: DISCOVER
- Alumni Highlight: High School Teacher
- Employer Spotlight: Rockwell Automation
- Calendar of Career Events
- Work for Career Services
- Upcoming Peace Corps Events at Marquette
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, typically a freshman or sophomore, visit the Counseling Center to obtain in-person assistance with self-assessment; if you have a major but are still in need of clarification of your career goals, typically a junior or senior, 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.
• Learn where MU graduates get jobs, by major through the Job Titles Project.
• 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.
If you have additional questions regarding choosing a major or career, please call the Career Services Center at 414-288-7423.
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No college student should be graduating without career-related experience. Be sure to gain skills through internships and co-ops related to your career goal or major. View internships posted recently for Marquette University students. To see even more internships plus full-time jobs, register with MU CareerTRAK.
Work for Career Services!
Career Intern
Attention Marquette Sophomores and Juniors! The Career Services Center has a great opportunity for you to join our team as a Career Intern. In this position, you will serve as the front line for students seeking resume and career services assistance during daily walk-in hours. This includes resume and cover letter review, orientation to services and MU CareerTRAK, outreach presentations to student groups, and marketing. To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to julia.rodrigues@marquette.edu. DEADLINE: Friday, December 8.
For more details on these exciting opportunities and how to apply, please log on to MU CareerTRAK or Job Connection.
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Dear Dot,
I am feeling a lot of pressure to declare a major, but I have no idea where to start in making this decision—please HELP!
Garrett G.
Read Dot's advice
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DISCOVER provides guidance and information to help people make important career and educational decisions. Log-on to DISCOVER and choose which section best addresses your needs or start at the beginning. If you want to…
Learn more about yourself:
Take all of the inventories (interests, abilities, and values)
Find occupations that fit you:
Take all of the inventories (interests, abilities, and values)
Select occupations that match suggested career areas
Find occupations you like and read about them
Learn what occupations fit best with your major:
Select occupations by major
You may also select occupations by characteristics or how you scored on your inventories
Conduct occupational research:
Select occupations and learn about Work Tasks, Related Occupations, Training Qualities, Salary & Outlook, Likes/Dislikes, Info Bites, and Where to Find More Information
Explore further education:
Select graduate and professional programs based on career goals
Choose by criteria, location, etc.
Instructions for accessing DISCOVER:
Please contact our office at 288-7423 to obtain a user ID in order to access DISCOVER. Once you have your user ID go to http://www.act.org/discover/login.
If this is your first use of DISCOVER…
• Enter your user ID (obtained through career services)
• Leave the password box blank
• Click Submit
• You will be asked to select a password
If you have used DISCOVER before...
• Enter your user ID and password
• Click Submit
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Robert Chesney, Master of Arts in English Literature, May 1973, High School English Teacher.
Learn more about the success and career path of this Marquette Graduate.
Contact Robert Chesney at chez@core.com.
Are you interested in contacting other alumni for career advice?
Check out MU Connect: Career Alumni Network.
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Rockwell Automation is a leading industrial automation company striving to be the most valued global provider of power, control and information solutions. Backed by leading brands like Allen-Bradley, Reliance Electric, Dodge, and Rockwell Software, their mission is to help companies in virtually every industry cut costs, streamline productivity and speed time to market. Now, as an independent company, they're uniquely focused on dedicating people, technology, financial resources, and manufacturing expertise to add value for their customers.
Today’s factories are automated in all aspects of production – and that means that with Rockwell Automation, you have limitless career possibilities and the opportunity to impact customers in every industry, around the world. As the world continues to move from the industrial age into the information age, there is a great need for bridges between the two. We provide those bridges, offering "smart" automation devices that bring together industrial machines with information technology for more efficient, flexible, less expensive, and higher quality manufacturing and processing. Whether it’s bottling beer, or assembling a new BMW Roadster, automation helps increase production by making parts of the operation automatic.
Ask anyone who works at Rockwell Automation what they like most, and they’ll usually say 'the people' — they are passionate about striving for excellence and finding ways to positively affect the business.
For more information please visit: http://www.rockwellautomation.com/careers/
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Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events and career-related workshops.
Upcoming Peace Corps Events at Marquette!
AIDS Resource Center of WI & Peace Corps: Making a Difference
Learn more about getting involved in your community or a community abroad! ARCW and Peace Corps representatives will be speaking about their respective organizations and also answer your questions!
Location: AMU 254
Date: Thursday, December 7
Time: 6pm – 7:30pm
45th Anniversary Slide Show & Information Session
Come join us at this information session to find out more about the application process and hear about a former volunteer’s experience; there will be time at the end of the presentation for your questions.
Location: Career Services Center—Holthusen Hall, First Floor
Date: Friday, December 8
Time: 5pm – 6pm
Questions? Contact Ryan Kattner at 800-424-8580 (option 1, ext. 1483) or rkattner@peacecorps.gov
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