Student Life

Career Services

202 Pryzbyla Center

Phone: 202-319-5623

Fax: 202-319-4480

Web: http://careers.cua.edu

E-mail: careers@cua.edu

Director, Alan P. Goodman, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Kathryn O. Marshall, M.A.
Assistant Director, Virginia C. Marbella, M.Ed .
Student Employment Coordinator, Amanda S. Jones, M.S.
Employer Relations Coordinator, Ghillian Porter-Smith, B.A.
Administrative Assistant, Michele P. Gibbs

Mission Statement

The Office of Career Services assists students and alumni in all aspects of career planning and career development. In fulfilling this charge, Career Services subscribes to the mission statement of the Division of Student Life. To accomplish its mission, Career Services strives to ensure that all graduates will achieve or have access to the following:

• Heightened awareness of potential career opportunities.
• Greater understanding of the world of work and transitional issues.
• Fuller awareness of personal attributes, values, interests and skills and how they
  relate to career options.
  
• Deeper appreciation for the role and process of career planning both during and
  throughout one's life.
  
• Greater command of effective career decision-making and job acquisition skills.
• Current employment information about organizations reflective of the occupational interests of CUA students.
• Programs that link them to employers for the purpose of securing pre-professional and professional experience.

Services

Career Services aids individuals interested in exploring career options, part-time jobs and internships, and assists them with strategies for attaining such ends. The office also serves as the pre-law information resource center for the university. This is supplemented by an extensive resource library, which includes a student area for computerized job exploration.

The following services and programs, for which detailed descriptions are available at the Career Services website, are accessible to all current part-time and full-time students:

CARDINAL CONNECTION: part-time and summer jobs, work-study positions (for students receiving federal work-study awards), internships and full-time job listings.

• Job fairs, i.e. Campus Employment Fair (first week of fall semester), Fall and Spring Career Fairs (October and March, respectively), Mid-Year Job Fair (first week of Spring Semester) and Engineering Career Fair (February).
• Credential File Service: simplifies the process of getting references sent to graduate schools and employers (provided through outside contractor)
• Career counseling to identify career and related academic interests, and how one's major can be utilized in the world of work: key resources are the, Focus online interest assessment and career information tool, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Self-Directed Search career interest inventory.
• On-Campus Recruiting Program providing students with opportunities to interview for full-time jobs and internships.
• Employer Information Sessions through which students learn about opportunities with organizations seeking employees and interns.
• Résumé, curriculum vitae (CV) and cover letter critiques.
• Employer networking events connecting students with alumni and other professionals from the world of work that assist students in developing career plans and develop confidence in engaging with professionals.
• Interview preparation, including practice ("mock") interviews.
• Job search coaching, i.e. discussing job preferences, strategies for identifying and approaching employers, networking and special sources of assistance.
• Pre-Law Advising (non-Arts and Sciences students onlyGraduate School Decision-Making assistance, discussing whether attending graduate or professional school is desirable given one's career goals and other life plans; assistance with application process, timetable and identifying financial aid sources. (Decisions about "best programs" should be discussed with faculty).