235 Schine Student Center
Phone: (315) 443-3616
Fax: (315) 443-2805
Web site: http://students.syr.edu/careerservices/

Director: Michael Cahill
Assoc. Director, Information Resources and Services: Chuck Reutlinger
Assoc. Director, Campus and Employer Engagement: TBA
Asst. Director, Recruitment Services: Debi Walker
Asst. Director, Graduate Student Career Services: Rosanne Ecker

Mission: To educate students and alumni about the career development, planning, and implementation process. To support students/alumni in the exploration, identification, pusuit, and integration of personal and professional career goals. To connect students and alumni directly to employment and continuing education opportunities. To teach students and alumni effective career navigation strategies, skills, and techniques. To inform constituents about career options, job market trends, and work place paradigms.

Populations served: All Syracuse students and alumni

Services/Programs:

Recruitment Services. On-campus recruiting during the fall and spring semesters (approx 250+ employers). Resume referrals and exchanges year-round. Sponsorship and collaboration on career fairs, graduate school days, internship events, off-campus interviewing consortia. Training and coordination relative to online, campuswide OrangeLink system.
Internship Services. Coordination of internship development, publicity, faculty liaisons, and applications process.
Consultation on career decision-making, job searching, further education options. Drop-in and one hour appointments. Career assessment: Choices Planner, Strong Interest Inventory, World of Work Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and others. Resume and letter critiquing. Simulated interviews. Job and internship search advising. Graduate school advising.
Career resources/publications. Industry overviews, directories, how-to books, on-line job listings, internship directories, and career literature. The Connection: Brief articles on job market trends, field profiles, SUccess Stories, advice, and info on career events. Career Guide, 30+ page guide to services and search skills and strategies.
Web site. Services of the Center, career and job market news online, Calendar of Events, link to OrangeLink, hot links to numerous career exploration sites, numerous self-help sections on job search skills and strategies.
Workshops. Resumes/ Cover Letters/ Employment Correspondence/ Interviewing Skills/ Mock Interviews (video taped one-on-one with a career consultant).
Outreach Programming. Presentations to student organizations and classrooms to inform students about services.
Credentials Services. Forwarding and maintenance service for files containing recommendations, personal statements, and other supporting documentation for graduate school or employment applications.