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CDC
now offers online services
By
Clarissa Segovia
Daily Forty-Niner
The
Career Development Center (CDC) at Cal State
Long Beach is now offering services for
students on-line.
Previously
resources were only available at the Career
Development Resource Library at Brotman
Hall. That will be a thing of the past as
the center introduces The Virtual Career
Resource Library and the On-line Career
Guidance Counselor.
With
The Virtual Career Resource Library students
now have direct links to career planning
and job search tools from any computer.
Students are able to take self-assessments,
conduct internship and job searches, research
possible careers and graduate programs amongst
other services, at the click of a mouse.
The
Online Career Guidance Counselor allows
students to e-mail questions that will be
answered by one of the counselors at the
CDC. Answers are sent via-email within two
business days. Eventually, an archive of
questions and answers is also planned in
order to provide faster service.
As
part of the new focus to make CDC more student-centered
newly-appointed Director Robin Lee said
the CDC will become the premiere place to
go and the only place to go for career information
by adapting to the needs of students. Lee
says that in order to increase awareness
to students about the resources offered
at the CDC a key factor is the continuous
building of strong relationships with the
student organizations on campus so that
more students are referred.
For
the first time, the center will also have
a full-time marketing staff member who will
be responsible for not only reaching students
at the start or the end of their academic
careers but also during the critical years
in between.
With
the revamping of the program, the CDC staff
hopes to also reassess the needs of students
and become more flexible to those needs.
Robert
Wendt, a career counselor at the CDC, says
that there are basically two groups of people
that come to CDC. The first is the group
that doesn't know what they want to do for
a career, and the second is the group that
is looking to do a job search.
Although
the resources are available at the CDC accommodate
both these groups the ultimate goal of the
center Wendt says, is really to have students
receive their degree plus some experience.
To achieve this Wendt points out that internships
are a critical factor.
The
services offered at the CDC are available
to all students as well as graduates for
three months after their graduation at no
cost. Haewan Addis, a senior at CSULB, says
that the new services are "a lot more
convenient now that access to the resources
are available on-line."
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