Career Center helps students meet goals
By Ernie Toliver
Special to the
Summer Forty-Niner
The Career Development
Center, on the second floor of Brotman Hall, is open to all Cal State Long
Beach students with a valid student identification card.
"The Career Development
Center helps students research information on majors and careers to find
out which is right for them," said Carol Brown-Elston, a career counselor.
Many resources are
available for students to take advantage of at the center. "Students go
through a process and we focus on that process," Brown-Elston said.
She said many students
are unclear about the career prospects out there for a particular field.
"We have information
about all of the career fields for each of the majors here on campus,"
Brown-Elston said. "However, if they want information about course requirements,
students should go to the Academic Advising Center and the department."
Many employers require
experience when it comes to hiring someone, she said, and one way the center
can help is through internships.
"We offer internships
for students who want to get valuable experience in a particular career
field,î Brown-Elston said. Internships help make students more marketable
to employers.î
Vocational assessments
are also offered through the center.
"We ask students
why they have chosen a particular career or major. Based on their answer,
we can help them decide whether it is the right one for them," Brown-Elston
said.
The center offers
career-planning workshops, which provides information about career and
life planning. It deals with the career-planning process, self-assessment
and career-exploration strategies, according to the centerís Web site.
Career-placement
workshops are offered to aid students in resume writing, job search techniques,
mock interviewing, job searching on the World Wide Web and using e-mail,
according the centerís web site.
Every semester, hundreds
of employers visit the campus to interview students for career opportunities.
Information is available at the start of each semester. The center receives
more than 13,000 job listings each year, according to the centerís Web
site.
The career resource
room is a reading room next to the reception area, which contains a collection
of career and employer information. The material includes specific
career booklets, labor market reports, government and business literature,
job search information and current job vacancy notices.
The online job listings,
through the centerís home page, give students access to Jobtrak, a computerized
job listing service on the World Wide Web.
If students are seeking
part-time work on campus, the center has a 24-hour phone line, which provides
recorded information on jobs available and is updated daily.
Job binders featuring
complete descriptions of all posted positions are available for review
in the Resource Library in the Career Development Center.
The Career Development
Center, along with Disabled Student Services and the State Department of
Rehabilitation also provides a service called the Work Ability IV, which
provides career development and job placement assistance for students with
disabilities. |
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