Services for Students & Alumni
For Students
Our mission is to collaborate with fellow educators and community members to provide a transformative blend of liberal arts, experiential, and career education that is so well integrated, empowering, and responsive to student needs that it emboldens them to pursue pathways to personal, professional, and community engagement that might otherwise have remained hidden or unattainable. Our promise to students who join us in this effort is that they will launch meaningful careers before they graduate.
Students are encouraged to seek our assistance with the following:
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Assessing interests, values, and skills relating to academic and career interests.
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Choosing majors and minors, and making career-related decisions.
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Researching and exploring occupations, professions, industries, and employers.
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Researching and applying to graduate programs.
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Obtaining Work-Study jobs, internships, part-time work, summer jobs, and full-time career positions
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Preparing for interviews.
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Completing résumés, cover letters, and job applications.
Career Counseling
Career counseling takes lots of forms and can attend to a variety of needs and interests, from short- to long-term. Whatever your career-related need, working with students and alumni individually is our chief focus. Please help us to define and pursue an approach to career planning that works for you.
Work Opportunities
Part-time and temporary jobs, summer jobs, internships, full-time career positions, and Work-Study jobs are all posted at www.careercenterjobs.org, which was created by our Career Development Center here at Pacific University and is shared with other liberal arts colleges in Oregon.
Volunteer and Service-Learning Opportunities
Students seeking work and volunteer experience that will help them explore and prepare for specific careers should contact June Dressler. Students wishing to identify non-Work-Study community service and service-learning opportunities not necessarily connected to their career aspirations, but just out of the desire to get involved and make a difference should also seek assistance from the Humanitarian Center.
Workshops and Programs
See the Events Calendar for current upcoming workshops and programs. Below are several downloadable handouts from previous programs.
- Assessing Your Skills and Interests to a Career (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Career Exploration (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Four Year Calendar (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Ideas for Liberal Arts Majors Thinking about Careers (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Identifying and Researching Employers (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Writing Résumés and Cover Letters (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Desktop Publishing Skills (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Using Informational Interviews in Your Job Search (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Effective Interviewing Skills (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Graduate School Research (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Preparing to apply to Graduate School (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Writing a Personal Statement for Graduate or Professional School Applications (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Preparing for the Graduate School Interview (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Job Fairs: Fall, Spring and Summer (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Marketing, Sales, and Career Development (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Marketing Your Major Skills (download handout - Adobe PDF)
- Tell Me About Yourself (download handout - Adobe PDF)
(See events calendar for complete list.)
Career Resource Center
Open year around Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Handouts and publications on graduate school, majors, careers, job search, and résumés and cover letters.
- Books, periodicals, and reference materials.
- PCs, Internet, printer, typewriter.
- Phone, free faxes, TV/VCR.
- Résumé paper.
Professional Development
In order to encourage and enable professional development among students, the Career Development Center administers a fund capable of providing up to $250 to at least seven Pacific University College of Arts & Sciences undergraduates to support 1) professional association student membership dues, 2) conference registration fees, and/or 3) certification or professional training fees. Professional development workshops are also offered as paid trainings throughout the year to Work-Study students. (See events calendar for specific trainings)
