Need a job? Career center may help

The Career Services Center offers a career development program that can help prepare students entering the work force.

The program, which includes individual career counseling and computer-based career testing, is available to help students match their abilities, interests and aptitudes with a career path.

According to the center's director, Sue Wright, career planning advice is offered to all students, not just graduating seniors.

"Here at the center, we serve students from the time they enter as freshmen until their graduation and beyond," she said. "For those incoming students who are undecided about what to major in, one of our trained career counselors will give them a career test. We will then interpret the test and offer the appropriate advice."

Wright said she understands students often have to work while in school and the Career Center can help them find a job or an internship. One way the center helps students find part-time, temporary and full-time positions is by organizing six job fairs during the school year. The first job fair will be Sept. 20 in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center.

At a job fair, employers come to campus to talk to students and graduates about their companies or organizations.

Participants for the first fair, such as Amazon.com and King's Daughters Medical Center, may be screening for formal interviewees or seeking applicants for immediate openings.

"We don't find jobs for students," Wright said. "We do, however, help students learn how to write résumés, how to interview, how to network.

"If they are going to relocate to another area, we'll try to find Marshall alumni that might be able to open some doors for them. What we do is help students learn how to find a job," Wright said.

More information about the Career Services Center can be obtained by calling 696-2370 or sending e-mail to career- services@marshall.edu.