Check Out Your College's Career Center Before You Graduate

Go to your college's career center. If you don't know where it is then find out. Some majors may have their own career center so make sure you are going to the right one for your major. Career centers will help you get ready to present yourself in the job market.

Important things to get out of your career center is help with making a resume. You may already know how to make one but career centers may know a few things more than you. For instance, my business career center helped explain how to build resumes and what employers look for or what the computer may look for. Resumes that are submitted electronically can be sifted by a computer which basically picks resumes based on the information you provide and what it's looking for. My career center helped to give students the best shot at getting their resume passed the computer phase if one were applying for a major corporation that electronically received applications.

Career centers will help you with the interview process. They'll guide you in what to wear and most importantly what to say in an interview. The career center I went to coached me on a variety of questions and the different ways I could answer them. One of the most important things I took out of it is to be prepared for the interview. Interviewers look for a variety of things and you want to know what to tell them and how to tell them.

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