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Happenings in CHS Undergraduate Career Fair
On April 6th, over 280 University of Scranton students attended the Career Expo to speak with over 105 employers. As a current intern at the Center for Career Development, it was great to see students taking the first step towards pursuing future internships, jobs, and graduate studies by attending the Career Expo. Besides practicing interviewing skills and business etiquette, counseling and human services majors were exposed to just how far our degree can take us. From Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) to All Hands and Hearts Smart Response natural disaster relief agency, and from the Delaware Department of Correction to Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services (DATS), the counseling and human services degree is one of those special majors where the knowledge we learn in class, our communitybased learning experiences, and our internships can be utilized in a wide variety of agencies and organizations. For those that do not know what to do with their counseling and human services degree, the Career Expo is a perfect introduction to the broad scope of our field. Even as a staff member at the Career Expo, I found the planning aspect behind it to be an extremely rich experience for me as a future professional school counselor because I will be participating in the career development of students every day throughout my future career. I spoke with other counseling and human services interns at the Center for Career Development who said that seeing how applicable our degree is to a number of agencies at the Career Expo helped them to see how far their degree can go and decide what experiences they would like to pursue either as a future internship or a future job. The Career Expo was a fantastic success, opening doors wide open for counseling and human services students to explore what they can do, and want to do, with their degrees. By: Gina Spohr
Pictured above: Faculty and student interns of the Center for Career Development at the Undergraduate Career Fair
