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FEATURED DEPARTMENT: G EOGRAPHY CAREER A DVICE FROM K IM...2
Liberal Arts monthly
CAREER, RESUME AND JOB-RELATED ADVICE FOR THE SAVVY STUDENT OF LIBERAL ARTS
Each semester, Career Services offers many services, programs, workshops, job fairs and employer networking opportunities to help you stay on your career “A” game. Check out what’s happening this month!
Coming up in November SACUCCA CAREER CONFERENCE & FAIR Nov. 2 | 9 am – 4 pm | YMCA TriPoint San Antonio
FALL TEACHER JOB FAI R Nov. 14 | 9 - 11:30am | Strahan Coliseum
Hear from a variety of career fields about jobs, attend a networking lunch and more! Bring copies of your resume and dress professionally to hear about opportunities throughout Texas. CANDID CAREER “W HAT IN THE W ORLD CAN YOU DO?” ENTREPRENEURSHIP PANEL Nov. 7 | 4:30 –6 pm | LBJSC 5-3.1
Many representatives from school districts will be here filling their staffing needs. Interviews will be held from 12:30 pm - 4 pm, and are scheduled by the school district during browsing.
NURSING JOB FAIR Nov. 29 | 1—3pm | Round Rock Campus Join St. David's School of Nursing and Career Services for the nursing job fair.
A panel presentation featuring four Texas State alumni whose entrepreneurial spirit has impacted the local and global economies.
View all upcoming events at www.careerservices.txstate.edu.
Quick Job Tip: Develop your “elevator speech” Think of the “elevator speech” as a 30-second commercial about you. ● Use the elevator speech when talking to potential employers at job fairs or in other networking situations. ● Include your name, major, year and a snippet about your professional or educational background. ● Finish by asking about a specific job opportunity you’ve researched or for more information about the company. ● With a polished elevator speech, you can’t lose!
Department of the Month: Geography Each month, we sit down with a representative from one of the liberal arts academic departments to learn about
J OB B OARD Job & Internship Opportunities
what makes liberal arts majors great job candidates. This month, we caught up with Geography Internship Coordinator and Senior Lecturer Mark
A Note from Your Career Advisor:
Carter to ask a few ques-
Further your career exploration with informational interviewing!
perks of an geography
Informational interviewing is a conversation with someone working in your desired field. Use the informational interview often to get an on-the-ground look at your future professional life.
What is the most valuable piece of advice you’d give a student or recent graduate just beginning their job search?
tions about the career degree.
What are some popular career choices for Geography majors? Geographic Information System (GIS), which includes remote sensing, visualization, cartography, spatial modeling and quantitative methods; environmental management careers; resource management careers; and urban and regional planning. What advice would you give to new geography majors on building their resumes while still in school?
Networking. You should figure out what you want to do, then find someone in Use the informational Start by joining student that field or with that compainterview often to get an organizations. Get involved ny. After you’ve found on-the-ground look at your with Career Service by someone, do informational attending job fairs, which is interview with them. With future professional life. a good way to network with the connection from the employers. Then do informational some job shadowing interview you Follow these steps to get the most out of could have a Figure out what in the field of your your informational interview: foot in the you want to do, interest during the summer or the winter Evaluate. Explore your skills, inter- door with that then find break. And be sure to company or est, values, etc. Find out what casomeone in that get an in that field. reers you might enjoy. field or with that internship. Research. Look into the career or How can a company. company you are interviewing with. job seeker What are some skills geography majors What’s the company’s mission? “sell” his/her utilize as successful profesliberal arts degree to emWhat do they value? sionals? Find your interviewee. From your ployers? research, draft a list of Research and report writing Create a professional employers of interest. skills, quantitative static portfolio: collect all your best Make contact. Reach out to the skills and mapping skills, work and be able to show just to name a few. employer you want to interview by an employer what you can email. Be concise and polite when do. For example, Visit www.geo.txstate.edu Geographic Information asking to interview them. for more information. System students should Draft your questions. They might show a map that they have pertain to job duties, educational And be sure to view the done, a report writing samrequirements, personal experiencgeography internships ple and an example of their and jobs page under the es, etc. quantitative analysis. Student Resources tab. Interview! Show up on-time and
dressed professionally, listen carefully and ask tons of questions. Follow up. Always send a thank you email or note.
Email me at knelson@txstate.edu!
**All job & internship opportunities can be found in Jobs4Cats. You must upload a resume in order to apply for jobs using Jobs4Cats.** Register here. On-Campus Part-Time Jobs Event Staff @ Contemporary Service Corp. (San Marcos, Austin, San Antonio) Student Worker– Textbook Adoptions @ University Bookstore (San Marcos)
Part-Time Jobs Restaurant Staff @ Pluckers Wing Bar (Austin) Campaign Canvasser @ Tina Torres for State Representative Campaign (San Antonio)
Full-Time Jobs Junior ResearcherPsychophysiology @ Media Research Labs, LLC (Austin) Speech Language Pathologist @ Any Baby Can of Austin (Austin)
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