About Career Services
Career Services helps students & alumni navigate a world of opportunities.
Explore: First, learn about your own values, skills, interests and personality, and explore the many occupations that exist in the world of work.
Experience: Next, gain experience (through internships, volunteerism, leadership roles and part-time jobs) to "test the fit" of different occupations and develop marketable skills that employers seek.
Engage: Effectively search for a job or apply to graduate or professional school by setting target goals, researching opportunities and marketing yourself. Learn resume writing, interviewing, networking, etiquette and more. Make the transition to the world after Southwestern!
We teach career-management skills (e.g. resume writing, interviewing, job search strategies), provide opportunities to explore a variety of occupations and help students and alumni make connections to employers, graduate and professional schools and other resources. Students and alumni can access these services through visits to our office and by attending our programs.
Career Services News
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Use your technology or writing skills, work in a lab, even wait tables! US News & World Report tells you why these roles and a few others make the list of best jobs for college students. -
According to data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2009 Student Survey, grads with internship experience earned full-time jobs upon graduation at a rate nearly 10 percentage points highter than those graduates with no internship experience, the October 28, 2009, edition of the NACE Spotlight e-newsletter reports. -
For creative jobs, is a standard resume enough to market your skills? Get advice from this Minneapolis Workplace Examiner article. -
Physician assistant, intelligence analyst, CPA, HR manager, college professor: CNNMoney.com gives overview, pros and cons, earnings, growth and quality of life information about these jobs and many more. -
On October 21, 2009, Career Services hosted the 15th annual Etiquette Dinner, featuring Diane Gottsman, nationally recognized etiquette expert and owner of The Protocol School of Texas, and a free, four-course meal. Students learned critical dining and networking skills they will use their whole professional lifes. The Williamson County Sun also reported on the event.
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Southwestern Success Stories
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interned at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik at the Universitaet Giessen in Germany doing theoretical physics. -
A business and Spanish graduate, Gabe works as a Technical Support Engineer for Lifesize Communications in Austin. Previously Gabe interned as a Marketing Communications Intern at Freescale Semiconductor and a Marketing Intern at Simon Property Group’s Wolf Ranch Town Center. -
Austin worked as a wilderness medicine intern for the Cornell University Outdoor Education program in Ithaca, NY. Austin is majoring in biology. -
Cory employs his 2008 math degree as an actuarial analyst for USAA in San Antonio, TX. -
Amanda, a feminist studies graduate, works at the Brookside Women’s Medical Center in Westlake, TX, as a Patient Advocate.
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