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Student Affairs Vice Chancellor, Dr. Johnetta Cross Brazell, and students.

Thank you for your interest in learning more about the Career Center.

University of Arkansas students learn about the Career Center through you! We appreciate your personal referral of students to our Center and we look forward to working with you.

"The Career Development Center has some awesome programs! From day 1, the students can get help with selecting a major through testing and counseling. As freshmen, students can enroll in the Professional Development Institute that will help them learn how to present themselves professionally to get the great job offers they want. As sophomores and juniors, the CDC helps them find co-ops and internships in their majors. As seniors, these professionals help our students find that job that they have dreamed about. The Career Development Center is one of the most important resources to all students on campus."

Carol Gattis
Director - Recruitment, Retention & Minority Affairs and Engineering Honors Program
Associate Professor
College of Engineering, U of A

"I am continually impressed by all of the services that the Career Development Center offers to the campus community. It is important to reach out to students early in their academic journey and that is exactly what they do - from career interest tests, to assisting students with resumes and interviewing skills to helping them land a job - they have a game plan for students at every year level."

Melinda L. Smith
Director, Advising Center
School of Architecture, U of A

Career Development - It's What We Do!

Opportunities to Collaborate with the Career Development Center

We Speak - To your class, that is. You pick a career-planning subject or choose from our many presentations.
Get involved in Career Fairs - Come to the fairs to meet the recruiters representing your teaching area and encourage your students to attend.
Assign Career-Related Projects - We can give you ideas for a number of career-related assignments for your class.
Send Students our way for career counseling, resume and interview skills assistance, job search tips, help in deciding a major, etc.
Let us introduce your students to Mock Interviews with local employers.
Have you mentioned eRecruiting to your students? This is the UA's job search software that allows students to apply for jobs on-line.
Announce our workshops to your students.

We Speak!

We welcome the opportunity to come into your class to offer instruction on various career topics. We can give a quick overview of our services or we can plan an entire class presentation. If you plan to cancel a class, call us. We may be able to do a presentation and take attendance for you instead! Topics can include:

Career Fair Overview & "How to Work a Fair"
Career Planning Process
Skills Employers are Looking for
Writing Resumes and Cover Letters
Self-assessments (Strong Interest Inventory, Myers-Briggs, TypeFocus or Discover)
Job Search Techniques
Interviewing
Choosing a Major
E-resumes/E-job search
To arrange for a presentation, contact Angela Williams at 575-3360 or angelaw@uark.edu.

Career Fairs

Over 100 recruiters come to our campus every fall and spring semester for the Career Fairs. This is a great time for students to network with potential employers, find out about co-ops and internships, or full-time employment. Faculty members can also make contacts at the fairs with recruiters that represent your teaching area. Contacts you make often enjoy getting involved in your classroom! For Career Fair information, contact Beckye Clark at 575-7379 or raclark@uark.edu.

Career-Related Projects

Here are some ideas for classroom projects that link classroom teaching to career readiness:

Ask your students to attend one of our events (we can ask them to sign in)
Make an assignment for your students to take a personality preference or interest assessment
Have your students create a resume
Ask your students to research careers related to their major

Contact Angela Williams at 575-3360 or angelaw@uark.edu.

Send Students Our Way!

We love referrals and have several full-time counselors that spend one-on-one time with students in these convenient locations: Union 607, Business Building 117 and Bell 3159. We help students with personality & interest profiles, deciding a major, career planning, and interviewing skills. Call 575-2805 to make an appointment.

Mock Interviews

If you want to schedule mock interviews for your students with employers from your field, use our interview rooms. There is no charge for faculty to reserve our interview rooms. Mock interviews are a great way to practice communication skills before the real interview! If you want us to help arrange a mock interview, please contact Angela Williams at 575-3360 or angelaw@uark.edu.

eRecruiting

Tell your students about eRecruiting on-line job searches at http://erecruiting.uark.edu. It's free and easy to use. Students can upload their resume and apply for local, regional, national, full-time, part-time and co-op employment from the comfort of their home computer. We offer classroom or one-on-one training on the use of eRecruiting. We can also walk you through the steps by phone. Contact us at 575-2805.

Announce Our Workshops

We can put you on an e-mail list to notify you of monthly workshops so that you can alert your students. Workshop topics are varied but can include: Careers in ("You pick the field"); Internships/Cooperative Education; Networking; Applying to Graduate/Professional School; and How to Get a Federal Job. To be added to an e-mail list, please contact Cedric Kenner at 575-3360 or ckenner@uark.edu.