About Career Services
Career Services empowers students and alumni to 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 SU!
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 take responsibility to access these services through visits to our office and by attending our programs.
Career Services News
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Is having four jobs in six years a bad thing? Depends on how you tell the story! It’s crucial to be descriptive and look for transferable skills from each gig you have to tie them together in a coherent message. This Harvard Business Review article illustrates this issue with a great example. -
NPR reports on the ‘big data’ industry - analyzing and making sense of the massive amounts of data that firms like Facebook, Groupon and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences collect. The ‘big data’ trend is “fueling intense demand for mathematics and computing talent.” Hello, career opportunity! -
Students and graduates with disabilities can better prepare for the job search and interview process with some great tips documented by Matt Berndt of the UT College of Communication Career Services. -
Eight Southwestern students are interning while in London this semester -
SEO Mind blog offers great advice for how to capitalize on social media tool LinkedIn when seeking a job.
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Southwestern Success Stories
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Shelly, a communication studies major, interned with the Southwestern University Office of Communications in Georgetown, TX. -
Lori is pursuing a Master’s in journalism at New York University in New York, NY. A former Kemper Scholar, she graduated from Southwestern with a degree in international studies and history. -
Brantley, an accounting major, is studying accounting toward an MS at Texas A&M University in College Station. -
Alexis, a 2010 chemistry major, is pursuing a Master of Science in atmospheric and oceanic science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. -
Taylor serves as the Regional Political Director (San Antonio, Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend) for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX). Taylor earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and business and gained valuable experience in politics through internships.
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