Office of career services
ON THIS PAGE WE WILL PROVIDE SOME OF OUR SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WE HAVE USED THE OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES AND HOW YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE THEIR SERVICES. YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT THEIR WEB SITE.
- Amber Sollman (2007)- The Career Services Center has a variety of general job-search opportunities. They frequently provide student workshops concerning grad-school, internships, and job searches, which I would imagine fairly useful. Personally, my kno
wledge concerning real world post-undergraduate opportunities is not all that extensive and even a basic introduction to general search methods would at least provide some direction for further self driven search. Overall, I focused on the texts made available at Career Services Center. A small section covers careers in the sciences, only a handful of which address geography. The ones that do address geography seem either outdated or biased towards GIS or urban planning. However, a separate section is designated to NPO's and two volumes of 'Non-profit Section and National Directory of Private Social Agencies' for the year 2006 are available.
- Jason Young (2007)- I went to a talk about finding graduate schools, which was put on by the Career Services Center. It was a generic presentation for any type of graduate or professional school, but I found it very useful for me. It helped me start to think about the application process, such as the GRE, writing a resume, etc. They also explained what types of services the Career Center could offer during the application process (mock interviews, reviewing my
resume, etc.).-- Career Services offers students many excellent opportunities and it is useful to register on their website so that they send you e-mail notifications about these opportunities. In particular I found that their workshops were helpful and attended one about applying to graduate schools. Although this was a general workshop for all types of graduate schools (and not just pertinent to geographers), they offered many helpful suggestions. For example they gave advice about taking the GRE test, explained their mock interview and resume review programs, and more. They also spent a large amount of time answering questions from the audience. I highly advise that anyone preparing for life after Miami register with Career Services so that they are aware of upcoming events.