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OSU Career Services
8 Kerr Administration Building
737-4085
Are you exploring your options for a major or degree? Deciding what career options are right for you? Trying to polish your resume and interview skills? Looking for a job? Career Services can help! Our staff is passionate about helping students grow via self-exploration of values and interests, career exploration and preparation, and the job and graduate school search process.
Upcoming Events
Here's a list of our upcoming events for Spring 2007:
The University-Wide Career Fair will be held Wednesday, April 25th, at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Wear your business-profesional attire and bring lots of copies of your resume -- here you can explore your future career options and speak with representatives from a wide range of companies and organizations regarding internships or full-time employment.
Spring Term Career Week will feature workshops to help you prepare for the Career Fair and engage further in the career exploration process:
- Major in Success: Learn proactive approaches to career planning and professional development, and learn how to develop skills employers are looking for. Monday, April 23, 12 pm, Career Services
- How to be Career Fair Fabulous: Heard about how career fairs are a great opportunity, but aren't quite sure why, or what you're supposed to do once you're there? This workshop will provide tips on how to stand out to employers and have a successful career fair experience. Monday, April 23, 3 pm, Career Services
- Ready, Aim, Hired!: Learn effective strategies and tips for identifying, targeting, and obtaining great jobs and internships. Monday, April 23, 5 pm, Career Services
- Getting to "You're Hired": It's make or break time -- the interview. Learn effective before, during, and after interview strategies. Tuesday, April 24, 12 pm, Career Services
- Resumes: Tips from Employers: Network and learn resume do's and don'ts from the employer perspective via an employer panel. Tuesday, April 24, 5 pm, Career Services
- M.O.C (Making Outstanding Connections): Need to practice your interviewing skills? Guest employers conduct mock interviews with students to help them practice. Call to schedule a M.O.C. appointment at 737-0519.
One-on One Assistance in Career Services
Career Counseling
Career Services' Career Counselors are available to help you explore a number of issues related to career and personal success. Students often arrange an appointment to meet with a career counselor to discuss topics such as:
- potential majors of interest
- careers to explore
- how to decide on a major or career
- how to maximize one's chances of success in a career
- what sort of job opportunities are available with a particular major
- finding internships
- searching for jobs
If you'd like to schedule an appointment with a career counselor, please contact Career Services at 737-4085. Appointments are available throughout the work week, as well as 5-7 pm on Wednesday evenings during the school year.
Please keep in mind that career counseling appointments can often fill up quickly, especially right before or after the Career Fairs each term.
Drop-Ins
Drop-in appointments are available Monday through Wednesday and Friday from 1:00-4:00pm in Career Services. The Career Services Office is located in Room 8 (basement level) of Kerr Administration Building.
Thursday drop-ins are from 1:00-4:00pm in the Collaborative Learning Center on the main floor of Valley Library.
During the school year, Career Services also hosts evening drop-ins from 5:00-7:00 pm in Room 8 of the Kerr Administration Building.
Drop-in appointments are approximately 15 minutes long and can cover a variety of topics. You may bring in rough drafts of resumes or cover letters to review with Career Services staff, as well as stop in with a quick question about the job search process, interview-appropriate clothing, etc.
If you have questions or issues that will take more than 15 minutes to discuss thoroughly (for example, guidance choosing a career, or an in-depth discussion of job or internship opportunities), we encourage you to make an hour-long appointment with a Career Counselor so that we can serve you more effectively. To schedule an appoinment, please call 541-737-4085.
Mock Interviews
Are you preparing for a job interview? Career Counselors can serve as a great resource to practice your skills and gain useful feedback. During a mock interview, a Career Counselor will act as an employer/hiring committee and ask you job interview questions as if you were actually in an interview. Afterwards, you and the Career Counselor can go over the questions and your answers together and develop ways for you to improve your interview skills.
To give you the most helpful mock interview possible, please provide a copy of your resume (and a description of the job to which you are applying, if you have one) to Career Services at least 24 hours before your appointment. If you wish, a Career Counselor can also videotape the mock interview so you can review the tape together.
Call Career Services at 737-4085 to schedule a mock interview.
For more information on the job interview process, please visit the Interviewing BeavR Wiki page
Career Services Tools to Find a Job or Internship
Career Fairs
OSU Career Services hosts Career Fairs every term with over 100 employers from a variety of job sectors. Many of these employers offer not only post-graduate employment; they also have internship opportunities available.
For more detailed information on Career Fair dates, what to expect at a Career Fair, and how to prepare for one, please visit the Career Fairs page.
Beaver Recruiting
Beaver Recruiting is a great web-based resource for on- or off-campus jobs and information about employers visiting campus. are encouraged to visit Career Services’ Beaver Recruiting website. Through the Beaver Recruiting website, you may browse up-to-date information about job postings and employers visiting OSU to interview students. Additionally, Beaver Recruiting offers the ability for you to create your own personal account. Individual Beaver Recruiting accounts are now FREE to students thanks to a grant received by Career Services for 2006-2007.
Beaver Recruiting offers you the ability to create a flexible and customized job search tool of your own. Freshman through Alumni use this resource to find everything from student employment to full-time jobs; detailed sort features on the site allow you to specify whether you are seeking a work-study job, a part-time off-campus job, or a full-time post-graduate job. A personal account allows you to upload documents such as your resume, cover letters, unofficial transcripts, or writing samples that can be submitted to employers who come to campus to interview. You can even allow employers in the Beaver Recruiting system to access your resume and other documents and invite you to apply for a position. Many employers come to Career Services to interview job candidates or give presentations about their career opportunities; Beaver Recruiting lists who's coming to campus and when. On-campus recruiting efforts publicized through Beaver Recruiting can save you trips to Portland, Seattle, etc., to interview for a job while you're still juggling In addition, you have the option to create saved searches for employment, and to direct the Beaver Recruiting website to send you an email anytime a new job is posted that meets your search criteria. You don’t have to search for new job postings over and over -- Beaver Recruiting does it for you!
There are some distinct advantages to using the Beaver Recruiting system versus other web-based job search engines. Beaver Recruiting job postings are more closely screened than are job postings in large public job search sites; you don't have to sift through postings for get-rich-quick-schemes or other scams to find legitimate career opportunities. Additionally, many of the employers who post to Beaver Recruiting are specifically seeking to recruit OSU students and graduates, which gives you an advantage in the job search. But Beaver Recruiting doesn't list positions just from employers who are OSU-affiliated: posted positions are available from all over the country from employers connected to other colleges and universities, so you won't be limited to job postings in just Corvallis or Oregon.
To create your own Beaver Recruiting account, visit the Beaver Recruiting website for instructions on how to create your free account.
All students, staff, and alumni are also able to browse the Beaver Recruiting website by using “benny” and “beaver” as the username and password, without having to create an account.
Career Education
Workshops
Networking and Dining Etiquette
Other Student Services Programs in Career Services
National Student Exchange
Please visit the National Student Exchange page
Peace Corps
Please visit the Peace Corps page.
