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The University
of Maine Career Center, a department within the Division of Student
Affairs, serves all students and fee-paying alumni of the University
of Maine. Through its services and programs, the Center promotes
effective career planning skills, teaches job search strategies,
and facilitates contacts between University of Maine students and
alumni and employers. The Career Center offers assistance to students
as they explore their academic interests and the relationship between
majors and career opportunities. Assistance with job-seeking skills,
full-time employment, and graduate/professional school options is
provided through various program offerings. The Career Center also
coordinates the Experiential Education program,
providing work/learning opportunities in conjunction with over 50
academic departments.
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Individual
Counseling, Workshops, Special Programs Services
Staff members provide
individual counseling to help students explore career
options, set career goals, and devise strategies for reaching these goals.
Counselors are actively
involved in outreach programming in residence halls,
academic classes, and organizations on campus. The Career
Library located in the Career Center, contains extensive written and
audio-visual materials on careers, employers, and graduate schools.
Special events
are sponsored by the Career Center on an on-going basis. These programs
are designed to help students make connections with employers, either
for career information or for employment assistance. An example of such
programs are the UMaine Career Fair, an annual fair with over 150 companies
attending.
Employers from a variety
of regional and national firms conduct interviews on campus for graduating
students. A number of organizations also interview underclass students
on campus for summer or cooperative education positions. In addition,
the Center collects and publishes information regarding job openings for
graduates. Students are also encouraged to develop their own personalized
job search, and assistance is provided through individual counseling and
group workshops such as Resume Writing
and Interviewing Techniques.
Career Planning Services
Counseling
& Advising
The professional
staff of the Career Center is ready to assist you with any issues related
to your career planning. For example, if you need help in identifying
your skills and abilities, defining your career goals, or understanding
the relationship between academic majors and careers, you are invited
to schedule a career counseling appointment with one of our counselors
by calling 581-1359.
Career
Inventories
The Career
Center offers students the opportunity to take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI) and the Self-Directed Search (SDS) to help assess preferences and
personality type and their relationship to careers. A career counselor
is available by appointment to help you interpret your results. To make
arrangements to take the MBTI and/or SDS, schedule a 1/2 hour intake appointment
by calling 581-1359.
Career
Resource Library
This library
contains a multitude of resources to help you with your career development.
Resources available include self-assessment instruments, career information,
internship directories, employer directories, the Maine
Mentor Program, job hunting guides, educational directories and many
career-related videotapes.
Computer
Work Stations
Computers
in the Career Library offer a number of easy
to use computer programs for students. FOCUS provide students
with the opportunity to identify and research appropriate careers. These
interactive programs help you explore your interests and skills, relating
them to career options. In addition, the Career
Center has ten networked computer stations that allows students to access
the Internet.
Maine
Mentor Program
This program
is designed to give students and alumni interested in learning about particular
careers access to alumni in a variety of career areas. Those who participate
in this program will gain firsthand information about careers by visiting
alumni at their work sites, by telephone, or by e-mail and interviewing
them about their careers. Students may search for appropriate mentors
by searching mentor profiles on our web site through the Maine
Mentor Database. Complete contact information is available from the
program coordinator, Paul
Gagnon.
Internship
and Co-op Program
The Career Center offers
a full array of internships (summer or academic year) and cooperative
education positions. Gaining experience that is related to your major
and/or career goals is a direct result of participation in these programs.
Job Search/Graduate School Services
Workshop
Series
On-going
workshops include Resume Writing, Effective
Cover Letters, and Interviewing Techniques. Specialized workshops include
Finding An Internship, Making the Most of a
Job Fair and our Academic Majors and Careers series, designed for students
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Resume/Cover
Letter Critique Service
A current typed resume
or cover letter may be submitted to a staff member for a personalized
critique during scheduled time periods. You may schedule a resume review
in person or by calling 581-1359.
Mock
Interviews
This practice interview
between you and a staff member uses videotape equipment to simulate an
interview and replay it for a critique. It is an excellent way to deal
with "first interview jitters". You may schedule a mock interview at any
time by calling 581-1359.
Full-time,
Co-op and Internship Listings
Job listings
for UMaine students and graduates are received directly from employers
and they are posted in eRecruiting
accessed from our web site. Other job listings are found in directories
or subscriptions housed in the Career Library. Students can also access
national and international job openings using Internet-connected computers
in our Career Library. These listings are linked to our web site.
On-Campus
Interviews
Over 100
employers visit the campus each year to conduct preliminary job interviews.
If you are a student within one year of graduation and have registered
with the Center, you are invited to sign up for appropriate interviews.
Graduate
School Assistance
The Career
Library contains applications for various exams (LSAT, MCAT, GRE,
GMAT), graduate school directories and information on specific graduate
schools throughout the country. The video "Applying to Graduate School"
is available for viewing in the Career Library.
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