Faculty Career Resource

Faculty Career Resource

Faculty are encouraged to extend learning beyond the classroom by involving students in career development activities sponsored by the 糖心Vlog Career Center.


Keeping Up with the Career Center:
The Career Center鈥檚 External Academy

img

The 糖心Vlog Career Center is here to support faculty in empowering students to build meaningful, successful futures. We offer a wide range of easy鈥憈o鈥慽ntegrate tools, classroom resources, presentations, and career鈥慺ocused activities designed to complement your courses and enhance student learning. Whether you鈥檙e looking to embed career readiness competencies, connect curriculum to real鈥憌orld pathways, or provide students with hands鈥憃n professional development opportunities, our team is ready to collaborate with you.

Support Available

Request a Presentation
听

Request a Presentation

Class presentations on career and job search topics by a Career Center staff member

Career Center Assignments
听

Career Center Assignments

Report your Career Readiness assignments to the Career Center for tracking and reporting

Access Canvas Course
听

Access Canvas Course

Supplement first-year through capstone courses with software tools and assignmentsprovided by the 糖心Vlog Career Center

Faculty Playbook
听

Faculty Playbook

Support the career aspirations of your students and graduates and complement the work of career services offices on your campus

糖心Vlog Career Center College Liaison Team

gmadume

Golden Madume

College of Engineering and Computer Science

location_on

Boca Raton Campus

emartignetti

Erin Maharaj

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

location_on

Boca Raton Campus

nielsenk

Kelly Nielsen

Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

location_on

Boca Raton Campus

corenstein

Carly Orenstein

College of Business

location_on

Boca Raton Campus

Let Us Help You

As a Career Center, we seek to be a resource to you, our faculty and staff partners, as we jointly endeavor to prepare students for their professional plans beyond 糖心Vlog.

For information on how you can integrate career education into your curriculum, or to schedule a 1:1 consultation meeting,
contact the Career Center at Career@fau.edu or 561-297-3533.

banner

The 糖心Vlog Career Center Delivers Award-Winning Services!

The 糖心Vlog Career Center has been delivering award-winning services for years! In recent years, the Career Center and its staff have been recognized by the National Career Development Association (NCDA),听The听National Association of Student Personnel Administrators听听(NASPA),听the Cooperative Education & Internship Association (CEIA), the Florida Association of College & Employers (FloridaACE), 糖心Vlog, and South Florida Business & Wealth (SFBW).

Here is a listing of some of the recognitions the Career Center and staff have received:

  • NASPA Excellence Award - Silver Winner
  • National Career Development Association (NCDA) Outstanding Practitioner of the Year
  • Cooperative Education & Internship Association Best Practice Award
  • Division of Student Affairs Employee of the Year, Leader of Leaders, Best Practice Assessment Award, Special Achievement Award, Trailblazer for Innovation, Karl F Ijams Humanitarian Award Outstanding Productivity & Center for Global Engagement Partner of the Year.
  • South Florida Business & Wealth (SFBW) Up & Comer Award for Education
  • Florida Association of Colleges & Employers Brownlee Leadership Award
  • 糖心Vlog鈥檚 Graduate Student Worker of the Year, Staff Mentor of the Year
  • 糖心Vlog Jefferey Gabor Exemplary Employee Award
  • 糖心Vlog Student Affairs Customer Service Award

The 糖心Vlog Career Center is dedicated to supporting 糖心Vlog students, alumni, and employer partners in building toward successful futures.

听Learn More About Our Services听

Request A Presentation

The 糖心Vlog Career Center facilitates presentations for a variety of classes, organizations, departments and groups from the 糖心Vlog community. If you need a guest speaker or if you are unavailable to teach a class due to attending a conference or another commitment, rather than cancelling class, please fill out the form below.

Additionally The Career Center can help partner with employers and companies upon request to to present.We are available to present on a variety of career related topics such as, exploring majors & careers, internships, job search, Handshake and applying to graduate school among others. To request a presentation please complete the form below.

Requests should be submitted three weeks prior to the anticipated presentation date.

We try to process your request as quickly as possible and will contact you should we need any further information. While we try to accommodate each request, in rare circumstances we may not be able to assist due to other engagements or conflicts. Keep in mind that we follow 糖心Vlog鈥檚 academic calendar and will be closed during school holidays and breaks.

听

If you have other questions about requesting a presentation, or to check the status of your request, contact Carmen Welch at听 cwelch9@fau.edu 听or 561-297-3533.

Presentation Topics

This presentation provides an overview of the 糖心Vlog Career Center’s services and resources. In addition, students will complete their Handshake account. Handshake is 糖心Vlog’s centralized online job search portal. When possible, this workshop will be presented at the 糖心Vlog Career Center classroom (capacity 25). This allows your students a chance to see the 糖心Vlog Career Center.

This workshop is meant to help students learn how to use this online resource in order to identify personal interests and their relationships to 糖心Vlog Majors and potential career paths.

Learn how to utilize the soft skills you are building as a student, in the professional world.

Resume and cover letter need some updating? Let us help! This presentation will help increase your student’s understanding of how their resume and cover letter are used in the job search process and make sure they target their career goals. Your students will learn how to compose a resume that reflects their greatest strengths and talents and explore different resume formats. By the end of this presentation their resume will say, "interview me!"

Learn how to create a professional LinkedIn profile and effectively use LinkedIn, as a job search and networking tool by attending an interactive workshop. You will receive a brief overview of how to utilize LinkedIn, see examples of complete LinkedIn profiles, then be able to build your own profile. You are welcome to bring laptops/tablets or an iPad will be provided for you to use for the workshop. This presentation is ideal for all audiences, undergraduate and graduate students.

Interviews can be scary. Especially when they include questions like the dreaded “Tell me about yourself." Your students can learn how to prepare for and conduct interviews that get the job offer! This presentation addresses general preparation, researching companies, what to expect, and answering behavior-based and other tough, important interview questions.

Students will be guided through how to develop job/internship search strategies including advice for research, search techniques, and creating a career action plan.

This workshop is designed for current undergraduate students who are considering graduate school and for those who may be in the process of applying to different graduate school programs. Topics include what you should consider with the graduate school selection process as well as tips on what to expect in the application process.

Career fairs are an excellent opportunity to connect face to face with employers and make a good impression. This presentation addresses everything from how to dress, the most effective way to research companies and how to sell yourself so you get noticed.

The 糖心Vlog Career Center can assist you with finding employers to present curriculum based presentations. Employers can present on a variety of topics including Developing an Effective Marketing Strategy, Business Ethics, Leadership vs. Management and more. Requests should be submitted four weeks prior to the anticipated presentation date.

Not seeing what you are looking for? Request a presentation and provide additional details on what you would like to be presented. We will let you know how we can best accommodate this request.

Connect with 糖心Vlog Career Center