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Career Advising By Contract

Our mission is to offer you the resources you need to manage and pursue your job search. Our resources, when combined with your management skills, job search dedication and effort, will provide you with a career development toolbox second to none. As an "intake" procedure, we want to sit down with you and develop a career development action plan within four weeks of orientation.

We are responsible for:

  • Making time to meet with each student individually.
  • Helping students customize resume and cover letters.
  • Providing information sessions and career building workshops throughout the year.
  • Providing mock interview training.
  • Facilitating networking with mentors, faculty, staff, potential employers and alumni.
  • Identifying and providing networking opportunities at conferences, alumni events, career fairs and other programs that provide students with valuable career development and professional contacts.
  • Assisting students to identify job prospects, providing introductions and acting as a reference when needed and appropriate.
  • Networking to find jobs and internships that could bridge gaps in experience and lead to full-time permanent employment.
  • Providing online resources and workshop information, job and employer related databases, and job-listing information in TartanTrak.
  • Responding to satisfaction survey results.

You are responsible for:

  • Meeting with an advisor at Heinz Career Services within a month of orientation to develop a career action plan.
  • Completing your profile and posting your resume in TartanTrak.
  • Completing a satisfaction survey following advisement sessions.
  • Visiting your course faculty members with career-related questions.
  • Utilizing the Heinz College Career Services (HCCS) resources available to you – the NaceLink Job Database, TartanTrak,and the HCCS Website.
  • Attending at least three career services workshops and information sessions related to your field of interest.
  • Polishing your networking skills and elevator speech; building your network.
  • Reading the Career Services Web site, the workshop PowerPoint presentations, weekly eClips and other suggested job-related materials.
  • Pursuing alumni mentors, faculty mentors and alumni contacts using the Alumni Mentor Program, Alumni Relations Office and other resources.
  • Reviewing, signing, and adhering to the Career Services Code of Ethics.