2008 Woodie Awards
Resources available for career search
Lindsay Panzica
Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: FUSE
Originally published: 12/6/07 at 6:28 PM EST
Last update: 12/6/07 at 6:26 PM EST
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College can seem like a full-time job.
Between the hours spent in class and the hours that you spend studying and doing homework outside of class, many college students are constantly putting in some serious time.
Then, after years of hard work and what feels like endless days and nights of studying, the next thing you know it's graduation time and you are ushered off into the "real world."
Yet, while your career as a college student may be over, your career as a professional is just beginning.
Now the only thing you have to do is find your new full time job.
As many people will tell you, looking for a job can be just as hard, if not harder, than actually finding one.
"There is the expression- finding a job is a full time job," Sally Urban, senior counselor for the career development center, said.
According to Urban and Carolyn Delcore, director of the career development center, one of the main problems for most students is that they are uncertain about what they want and are unaware of the many options available to them.
Urban stated that in many cases, students make assumptions about the type of job they are supposed to have based on their major. For example, education majors assume that they have to work in a school, or nursing majors assume that they have to work in a hospital.
At the career development center, they offer personality assessments in order to help point students in the right direction and help them decide which career path in their chosen major is best for them.
"Two basic questions in choosing a career are knowing what you want, and knowing where you want to go," Delcore said. "If you don't know where you are going, you won't know when you get there."
Once a student does narrow down the type of job they want, and the type of environment they want to work in, the next step is getting out there and actually finding that job. According to Delcore and Urban, national statistics show that it generally takes nearly six to nine months to find a full time professional job. Therefore, it is important that students begin the job search well before graduation arrives.
Between the hours spent in class and the hours that you spend studying and doing homework outside of class, many college students are constantly putting in some serious time.
Then, after years of hard work and what feels like endless days and nights of studying, the next thing you know it's graduation time and you are ushered off into the "real world."
Yet, while your career as a college student may be over, your career as a professional is just beginning.
Now the only thing you have to do is find your new full time job.
As many people will tell you, looking for a job can be just as hard, if not harder, than actually finding one.
"There is the expression- finding a job is a full time job," Sally Urban, senior counselor for the career development center, said.
According to Urban and Carolyn Delcore, director of the career development center, one of the main problems for most students is that they are uncertain about what they want and are unaware of the many options available to them.
Urban stated that in many cases, students make assumptions about the type of job they are supposed to have based on their major. For example, education majors assume that they have to work in a school, or nursing majors assume that they have to work in a hospital.
At the career development center, they offer personality assessments in order to help point students in the right direction and help them decide which career path in their chosen major is best for them.
"Two basic questions in choosing a career are knowing what you want, and knowing where you want to go," Delcore said. "If you don't know where you are going, you won't know when you get there."
Once a student does narrow down the type of job they want, and the type of environment they want to work in, the next step is getting out there and actually finding that job. According to Delcore and Urban, national statistics show that it generally takes nearly six to nine months to find a full time professional job. Therefore, it is important that students begin the job search well before graduation arrives.
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