I
need a full-time job. What should I do?
Prepare
- Read
a copy of Career Development's A Guide to Career Planning and
Job Hunting which includes more information on job hunting.
- Come
for counseling if your career
goals have changed since you entered grad. school.
- Learn
how to create your resumé.
- Learning
to interview effectively.
Identify
Advertised Openings
- Go
to our password instructions
for College Central to find positions listed exclusively for MSU
students.
- Go
to the web sites of the organizations or firms that interest you.
On-line job postings and on-line applications are becoming very
plentiful.
- Go
to the web sites of professional
associations in your field to find listings.
- Use
the Riley Guide to find sites
specific to your professional area.
- Use
our Internet Resources
to identify even more job opportunities.
- Use
the job and internship books in the Career Development library.
- Familiarize
yourself with all the job notebooks so that you can see the
wide range of positions that are listed with us. You may see
positions that appeal to you--even if they aren't exactly what
you thought you wanted.
- Use
the "job banks" that Career Development subscribes to which
list multiple positions each month in the social services, art,
environmental, recreation, communication and government areas.
- Identify
and use journals in your field of interest that post job listings.
- Use
the want ads of several newspapers.
- Attend
job fairs advertised in newspapers and through Career Development.
- Attend
our annual Career Fair.
Identify
Potential Employers
You
need not wait for a position to be advertised in order to send your
resumé and a great cover letter to companies and organizations.
To locate potential employers in your field of interest, use the following
resources and ideas:
- Through
Career Development
- Use
the National Association of Colleges and Employers' annual directories
listing employers who expect to be hiring graduate students
in different fields.
- See
who attended our last Career Fair and contact employers of interest.
- Take
advantage of Career Conversations.
- On
your own
- Network,
network, network. Create a list of everyone you know. Ask them
if they know anyone you might talk to. Do this - it works -
often better than formal ways of job hunting, since people like
to hire people they know.
- Find
a listserv, (e
mail discussion group) within your profession.
- Use
in-house postings. (Work as a temp so that you can see available
positions or get your employed friends to look at listings of
available jobs within their organizations.)
- Read
professional journals and newspapers in your field.
- Determine
trends. Find out who's leaving, who's been promoted, and
which organizations are growing. Send your resumé
to those organizations where you believe new people will
be hired.
- Write
letters asking for advice to people who have written articles
you like.
- Learn
about dining
etiquette during
an interview
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