First Year: Explore
- Visit the Career Center (Ground Floor, Alumni Hall)
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Make an appointment to talk about your career goals
- Register with FOCUS to identify your personal strengths, needs, preferences, and skills related to career options
- Join a student club or organization to build interpersonal skills and make new contacts
- Attend at least one workshop or career-related program offered through the residence halls or the Career Center. See our calendar.
Sophomore Year: Experiment
- Write a resume to have critiqued by Career Center staff
- Use FOCUS online career guidance program to help you plan career steps this year
- Register with College Central (www.collegecentral.com/mansfield), Mansfield University’s online job database and begin searching the available jobs in your interested field.
- Take a leadership position with a student club or organization
- Get involved with community service
- Collect examples of work you do (projects, papers, presentations)
- Try to job shadow a professional working in the career that interests you, or conduct an informational interview with that professional
- Attend three (or more) events sponsored by the Career Center
- Work closely with your advisor to identify elective courses to take to complement your career goals
Junior Year: Experience
- Refine your resume and learn how to write a cover letter
- Serve an internship, externship or an apprenticeship ( www.collegecentral.com/mansfield)
- Manage a major project hosted by your student club/organization
- Join a professional organization affiliated with your career interests
- Attend career and job fairs hosted by State System schools ( calendar)
- Thinking about graduate school starts here—Learn about graduate school entrance exams and use the graduate school guides in the Career Center Resource Room
Senior Year: Action
- Write specialized resumes and cover letters
- Participate in a mock interview
- Sign up for on-campus recruiting
- Attend job fairs
- Ask references for letters of recommendation
