Career Development Resources

The counselors in the Office of Career Preparation and Professional Development are here to assist you in mapping out and discovering your career goals.

The office has designed a four-year career development plan, which can be tailored to your specific career needs and provides a framework to help you gain the most from your college experience. The following resources are available to help you in your career development process.

Resources

Career Exploration Videos

What is Candid Career?

  • Thousands of career videos! Industry professionals sharing their job descriptions, backgrounds and preparation advice.
  • A fun and effective way to explore careers through short one-two minute video clips.
  • Discover career fields that you did not even know existed, and learn what it takes to get hired in that field.
  • “Get Hired” advice videos on interviewing, résumé writing, networking and many more topics to help you land that job!

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Freshman to Senior Career Roadmap

The Office of Career Preparation and Professional Development has designed a career roadmap, which can be tailored to your specific career needs and provides a framework to help you gain the most from your college experience.

Career and Life Design Roadmap

Career Planning and Assessment

An important part of career planning is self-assessment, which will help you discover how your interests and values can relate to career choice.

Using a career assessment like My Next Move or Work Values Matcher can help provide a wealth of information related to potential careers and even majors. Note: save a screenshot of your overall results in case you would like to discuss them with a career counselor. 

Exploring and reflecting on your results is a great first step, but we strongly recommend scheduling an appointment to discuss them further.

Our counselors are happy to help you discuss career exploration and planning as well as how a career can connect to your choices of majors and minors.  

Current Students: schedule an in person or virtual appointment with a career counselor.
Alumni: Email [email protected] to access your free lifetime career services.

What Can I Do With My Major

What Can I Do With This Major? is a website featuring 100 major profiles with information on common career paths, types of employers that hire in the field, and strategies to maximize opportunities. Links to professional associations, occupational outlook information, and job search resources are included.

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Career Research

These websites will help in providing you with information on the tasks, skills, education and training, salary, job outlook and resources to support you in your career research.

  • O*Net Online: Nations primary source of occupational information.
  • The Occupational Outlook Handbook: The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
  • Glassdoor: Database of company reviews by employees, interviewing information and more.
  • Indeed: Use this powerful search engine to discover jobs and organizations who employ the positions that you are looking to obtain.
  • InternQueen: Apply for jobs that match your skills and make valuable connections with professionals in your field.

Company/Job Research

Verify a company is legitimate with a simple research.

Some helpful websites include:

Jobs and Internships

Current students:
Search for Jobs and Internships on Handshake.

Alumni:
Email [email protected] to access our Job and Internship Board on Handshake.

How to Avoid Job Scams

The Office of Career Preparation and Professional Development utilizes Handshake as our online career services management system and online job board to connect students and alumni with available full-time, part-time, internship, seasonal and volunteer opportunities. While we make every attempt to research companies and positions that come to the University, we cannot always guarantee their legitimacy.

There are a few red flags we feel that is important for you to keep in mind as you are conducting your search. Click button below to see the full list of red flags, along with information on how to spot a job scam, resources to see if a company is legitimate and information on how to avoid interviewing scams.

Guide to Avoiding Job Scams

Networking

Networking is developing and maintaining relationships that are valuable in your career exploration and job search. In person or online networking can happen at any time.

To help you to develop a professional online presence, consider these helpful resources:

Some steps and questions to help you start:

Google your Name

  • What comes up?

Check your privacy settings

  • Who can see your posts?
  • Who can tag you in posts?

What are you using for profile pictures?

What can people who are not connected to you see?

What are you posting?

  • Is it a true representation of who you are?
  • Can it harm your chances of getting an opportunity?

If you are not going to engage with it or update it, then don’t use it.

Once something is posted, it never truly goes away; nothing is ever 100 percent private.

Disclaimer

St. Joseph's University Office of Career Preparation and Professional Development makes every effort to assist students and alumni in career preparation. Our office makes no recommendations or guarantees regarding positions, employers, links to outside websites and other resources available. The Office of Career Preparation and Professional Development provides these resources only as a convenience and assumes no liability for acts or omissions by third parties or for any material supplied by them. It is the responsibility of students and alumni to use great effort and caution when exploring and accepting any position, and assume all responsibility associated with these opportunities.

Students or alumni who discover any misuse or abuse of these websites are encouraged to report the matter to the Office of Career Preparation and Professional Development as soon as possible.