Career Services Center
Career Planning Time Table

First Year
• Visit the Career Services Center for an introduction to its staff members and resources.

• Begin identifying your interests, skills and values by using a variety of assessment tools.

• Meet with the Career Services Director to discuss career options in your major. Identify your career goals.

• Seek out student club and organizations in which you have an interest.

• Attend career-related seminars and workshops.

• Visit the Career Services Center for any employment-related information, including part-time or temporary jobs, summer jobs, and internship positions.

• Create a resumé.

Sophomore Year
• Investigate career alternatives and begin to narrow career choices.

• Consider and choose academic majors/minors that combine your interest and skills with your tentative career goals. Plan your curriculum.

• Consider informational interviews, job-shadowing opportunities, and volunteer experiences in career fields that you are considering.

• If you are considering attending graduate or professional school after graduation, visit Career Services to discuss the graduate school application process and to identify graduate programs.

• If you are planning an internship program during your junior year, you need to complete a resumé. The best time to do this is the second semester of your sophomore year.

• Consider building your resumé by participating in a summer internship program. Career Services can help you find an opportunity that works for you.

Junior Year
• Apply for internship and fieldwork placements. Academic departments and Career Services work together to help you find an appropriate placement.

• Begin to plan your job search process. Visit the Career Services Center and develop your strategy. Polish your resumé. Identify the types of positions that interest you.

• If you are planning to attend graduate school, narrow your search for graduate programs. Find out application dates. Obtain catalogs. Identify graduate admission examinations that are required for your program and register for and take the examinations as early as possible.

• If you are considering service opportunities such as the Peace Corps, Mercy Corps or VISTA, visit the Career Services Center to get basic information packets and begin the application process.

• Attend the Career Fair during the spring semester.

Senior Year
• Visit the Career Services Center to plan your job search strategy.

• Register for and take graduate admissions examinations. Even if you are not planning to go immediately to graduate school, it is worthwhile to take at least one graduate school examination in your senior year.

• Use every available opportunity to develop your interviewing skills.

• Attend special workshops on resumé writing, networking, and interviewing, among others.

• Sign up for on-campus recruiting opportunities. Seniors receive notice of opportunities via e-mail or campus mail.

• Visit the Maine Recruiting Consortium Website at www.mainegrads.org and apply for positions that are of interest to you.

• Attend the Career Fairs.