What Career Services Are Offered to Your Student?

The Career Center provides comprehensive services to current students and alumni. Our goal is to help students make a successful transition from education to the world of work.

Services provided include:
Career Advising 
Choosing a Major and Minor
What Can I do With my Major?
On-campus Student Job Listings 
Internships Assistance
Career Positions after Graduation
On-Campus Corporate Recruiting
Career Resource Library
Online Database of Employers & Job Openings  (meredithbrooke-endicott)
Graduate School Information & Assistance
Job Fairs
Network of Alumni Mentors
Resume Reviews on a walk-in basis
Career Planning Class

Below is a summary of CS activities for 2007-08:
Conducted 131 classroom presentations
Meet individually with 1254 student appointments of 30 or more minutes.
Hundreds of students attended a total of 5 Job Fairs:
  • Fall General Job and Internship Fair-78 employers attended
  • Spring General Job and Internship Fair-Over 100 employers attended
  • SU/UMES Education Job Fair-First ever-50+ employers participated
  • Summer Job Fair-40 employers participated-NEW this year
  • Health Care Job Fair-42 employers participated
Over 50 employers recruited on-campus, conducting over 500 Interviews on-campus
Job Alerts emailed to seniors-509
Internship Alerts emailed to Juniors-327
On-Campus and Summer Jobs Posted-307

WORKSHOPS:
How to Interview, Successful Students Stories- 30 Student attendees (NEW)
Federal Job Resumes-25 Student attendees
Resume Workshop-25 Student attendees
The GAP Year-20 Student attendees (NEW)
Salary Workshop-31 Student attendees (NEW)
eRecruiting Workshop-10 Student attendees
Working for the FBI-70 Student attendees
How to Approach a Job Fair- 73 Student Attendees

Other Presentations for Specialized student populations included:
• Preparing for Advisement and Program Planning-ALL Freshmen Orientation classes
• Orientation to parents in the Summer- 10 sessions
• Resume Writing-AmeriCorps Attendees
• Leadership Workshop-Greek Life participants
• Resume Writing-2 Residence halls
• Summer Job Opportuntiies-60 Football players

Service Within the University:
Member, Advisory Board of the SU Writing Center
Co-Chair, Fiscal Advisory Committee (elected)
Chair, Student Affairs Marketing Committee
Participant, Salisbury Saturdays
Member, IT Forum Committee
Steering Committee, NCUR
Faculty Advisor, Best Buddies (recipient of a state award for “Most Improved Chapter")
Member, Human Resources Search Committee
Chair, Disability Coordinators Search Committee (Search #1)
Presenter, Multi-Cultural Leadership Conference and Summit
Participant, Rountable Discussion for Admissions
Co-Facilitator, PMP Goal Setting Workshops (2)
Participant, Graduate Program Review
Member, Student Affairs Assessment Committee
Supervisor/Hosting Depatment-4 Interns
Moderator-Undergraduate Student Research Conference

Services Outside the University:
3 appearances on PAC 14 and several on the local TV stations
Members, SLAC (Selective Liberal Arts Colleges/Career Services), meeting quarterly
Member, Middlestates Review Committee
Presenter, MAEE Conference
Co-Presenter, PDS Conference
Co-Author, Article in Novice Notes, KDP publication. “Polishing the Apple”
Presenter, Career Fairs at Fruitland Intermediate, Pocomoke Intermediate Schools, Parkside and Bennett High Schools

Assessment Activities:
First Destination-an online survey taken by 900 graduating students of 2008
Updated First Destination-re-surveyed 2007 respondents to determine “where they were now”.
Faculty Satisfaction Survey (online)