Seniors stressing out about landing those elusive first jobs can ease some of their worries this week with Career Services.
Career Services is hosting the Career Prep Workshop to assist fourth through seventh-year students in creating resumés, improving interviewing skills and getting internships. The sessions started Monday and will continue through Friday.
The workshop is held in B-2 Coates Hall.
To sign up for the Career Prep Workshop, students must reserve a seat online at the Career Services Web site. The Career Services site can be accessed through the University home page.
Students also must be members of TigerTRAK, a job-finding service provided by Career Services. Sign-ups for TigerTRAK also can be done at the Career Services Web site.
Mary Belleau, Career Services associate director, sent a broadcast e-mail inviting the upperclassmen to the workshops.
In the e-mail, Belleau said the workshops are a way for students to get their careers “on track” by learning “how to market yourself, perfect a cover letter and interview for graduate or professional school.”
Christin Deville, an ISDS senior, attended Monday’s session and said she liked the way the two-hour course blended aspects from several different areas of job searches.
Belleau’s broadcast e-mail said this week’s workshop is a combination of five separate one-hour workshops.
“It was all really helpful,” Deville said. “They told you how to dress, the kind of questions to ask [in an interview] and how to write a resume.”
Jesse Labello, a physics senior who also attended the workshop, said he benefitted most from learning how to utilize Career Services.
“The best thing was learning how to start searching for a job with them,” he said.