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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The Partnership for Public Service (with which Southwestern University is a partner institution) and American University’s School of Public Affairs recently released the 2009 edition of Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. -
CNN.com and CareerBuilder.com offer sage advice on retaining a good reputation on the job by avoiding common pitfalls - always good practice and especially important in this tight labor market. -
Get valuable tips from CNN.com article about health insurance as part of an employment offer (or not) and how to get it. -
Employers nationwide still plan to hire tens of thousands of new college graduates, despite the current economic situation. To see the results of CollegeGrad.com’s survey of employer hiring needs resulting in the list of top employers, click here. -
CNNMoney reports on recent changes to federal student loan repayment options, including the opportunity to earn loan forgiveness by working in public service (government or non-profit) jobs.
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Southwestern Success Stories
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interned with the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange in Washington, DC. -
Theatre grad Kristal continues to develop her craft working as a stage manager at SRO Associates in Hershey, PA. -
Sacred Music major Philip Smith begins his career as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Georgetown, TX. -
is the Medical Director for the Emergency Department at the Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas. -
Delilah, an English major and theatre minor, begins the Master of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale University School of Drama in New Haven, CT, in Fall 2009.
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