The Career Services Offices offers full-time, part-time, co-op and internship job postings, resume critiques, mock interviews, employment and life skills assistance, and on-campus job fairs.
In addition, as career counselors, we provide individual analysis in understanding and expressing yourself in career activities. We provide personality and interest inventories that assist in assessing and clarifying the best options for career achievement, focusing on your strengths in order to obtain a career/life balance.
In short, our staff can help you discover your unique personal strengths and how you can use them to determine the best career suited to your personality and interests.
The following information was adapted from the NACE website:
Internships, Co-ops, Practicums, and Externships: What's the Difference?
Student work and observation experiences go by a number of different names including internships, co-ops, practicums, and externships. Sometimes it's hard to tell what an experience should be called—definitions can vary among schools and employers. Following are some general definitions:
Internships
Internships are typically one-time work or service experiences related to a student's major or career goal. The internship plan generally involves a student working in a professional setting under the supervision and monitoring of practicing professionals.
Internships can be paid or unpaid, and the student may or may not receive academic credit for performing the internship.
Cooperative Education
Cooperative education provides students with multiple periods of work in which the work is related to the student's major or career goal. The typical program plan is for a student to alternate terms of full-time classroom study with terms of full-time, discipline-related employment. Since program participation involves multiple work terms, the typical participant will work three or four work terms, thus gaining a year or more of career-related work experience before graduation.
Virtually all co-op positions are paid, and the vast majority involves some form of academic credit.
Practicums
A practicum is generally a one-time work or service experience done by a student as part of an academic class. Some practicums offer pay, but many don't. Almost all are done for academic credit.
