2001 - 2002
Undergraduate Catalog
Student Affairs
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- Guide to Special Services
Career Resource Center
Career Days
Career Resource Library
The World Wide Web
The Career Resource Center, in the J. Wayne Reitz Union, provides career planning, cooperative education/ internship work experience opportunities and employment assistance to all students and alumni.
The center helps students develop and explore career plans, acquire career-related work experiences and develop personal strategies that ensure employment.
The center's services focus upon the student, from freshmen exploring careers to graduate students seeking employment. Students can use the center at any point in their college careers. Services are free and include counseling for students seeking career planning, career changes, work experience and job search campaigns.
SIGI+, a computerized career exploration and occupational information system, helps match career interests with occupations and provides each student a personal printout for review. Other computer-assisted career guidance programs also are available.
A Career Workshop Program offers 80 different seminar sessions on 17 topics each semester. Sessions are 50 minutes long and are taught in the CRC's career development laboratory. Topics include career planning, cooperative education, job search correspondence, resume preparation, interview techniques and overseas jobs.
The Cooperative Education and Internship programs enable students to gain professional work experience related to classroom education. They also provide a source of income and enable students to become more competitive for the job market.
Hundreds of recruiters visit the CRC each semester and conduct over 12,000 on-campus job interviews. The center uses a web based resumé referral and interview management database, GatorTrak©. Students who wish to participate in the on-campus interview program-whether for full-time, co-op or internship positions-must first come to the CRC, where they are granted entry into the system from any web accessible computer. Once into the system, students complete the demographic information, enter or upload resumé, and send the data to the CRC for inclusion in its database. The information can (and should) be updated as often as required. Once the information is in the CRC system, the student is registered with the center and may participate in on-campus interviews. The center uses this information to provide referrals directly to employers who have requested candidates prior to on-campus interviews.
Career Days: The center sponsors a number of these events each semester. Career Showcase offers all students an opportunity to discuss career and employment opportunities with hundreds of national corporations.
Career Resource Library: Contains information to help students make career choices: facts on several thousand employers, employer contact lists, directories for business, industry, education and government, lists of American firms operating overseas and reference material and information on graduate and special studies programs such as fellowships, assistantships and other resource materials.
Research data is available on job trends, outlook and economic forecasts, labor market statistics, manpower bulletins for various career fields, special directories and publications rating most employers. More than 250 slide/tape, video and audio programs provide career choices, employer information, job search and interview techniques.
A Credentials Repository and Referral Service is available to students and alumni. Copies of credentials are sent upon request to potential employers. In addition, the center refers qualified persons on file to interested employers requesting candidates to fill job vacancies.
The World Wide Web: The Career Resource Center and its list of jobs and career information can be accessed at www.crc.ufl.edu. The text of the Gator Career Guide is also available. For those in the immediate job market, there are direct links to such job posting services as JOBTRAK, Career Web, Job Bank USA, Monster Jobs on the Web and Yahoo! Career Mart.