The McCook-Crain Building, at the corner of Southwestern Blvd. and University Ave., houses Career Services
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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Austin Business Journal reports on ranking of cities by number of jobs created in 2008, with Austin coming in as 10th. -
Think you just need to post your resume online and wait for a call? Check Craigslist and you’re set? Think again. Learn about innovative ideas to propel your job search in a tough market from Career Builder.com. -
Career Services Director Roger Young offers students and alumni tips for searching for jobs in a competitive market. -
Lahaie earned the ninth straight win of the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators (TASPA) Education Scholarship for Southwestern University for 2008. -
Office of Career Services is following-up with recent graduates to offer help and guidance in job searches and graduate school applications.
Southwestern Success Stories
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graduated from Southwestern University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management. She currently works as Project Manager for Accenture, and oversees program and project management for medium to large sized projects under the Technology Organization of the Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership. -
earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Southwestern in 1993 and now works as a Senior Engineer for Samsung Austin Semiconductor. -
senior communication studies major, earned the Cooperative Education & Internship Association (CEIA) National Intern of the Year 2008 award. Caitlin worked in Direct Marketing at National Instruments in Austin, where she expanded and maintained the direct marketing intranet site that improved corporate communication -
senior business and political science major, earned high praise from Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain’s senior staff as a result of his work as an advance representative for McCain and Vice President Dick Cheney. Taylor connected with his work through a political consulting internship he secured by networking with a fraternity brother. -
interned with the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange in Washington, DC.
