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1. 8 Ways the
St. Lawrence College
Career Services Centre
Can Help You

2. SLC Career Centre Job Board
Where else can you find over 400 jobs focused on College students and recent College grads?
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Our powerful job searching technology
developed at St Lawrence College helps
connect jobs to job-seekers.
3000 St. Lawrence College students and
alumni are already using its capabilities.
Employers tell us they have trouble finding
future employees who have the skills they
need – we are creating youth employment
opportunities across our region and
beyond, connecting businesses with the
right candidate.

3. 2We have a 3 step process for career development
and we can help you develop that process!
Understanding Yourself
Identify your interests, values and strengths
to clarify your goals.
Explore Options
Research jobs, develop a network, begin
activities, and experiential learning
opportunities – whether summer jobs or a
placement.
Take Action
Write resumes, cover letters and
applications, interview for specific
opportunities and practice these activities
over your time at St. Lawrence College.

4. and it’s the best place on campus to help you figure out what you want to do with your life and how . 3We can act as a compass
Self -reflection and self-awareness are critical to
your journey! One of the misconceptions that
many campus career services offices must fight
every day is the notion that they’re the place to go
only when you’re about to start your job hunt.
Most career services offices also focus extensively on “career planning”
issues — helping you learn more about yourself (e.g., your interests,
skills, values, personality), what’s “out there” in the world of work, and
even how you might put certain majors to career use (in answer to the
common question, “What can I do with a diploma or a degree in
________?”).
In other words, Career Services offices can help you not
only with “how will I get there?” questions, but also with
“where am I going and why?” questions.

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We are staffed by professionals who are specifically
trained and focused on supporting you with
career-related questions.
Our campus career advisors are specifically trained
on college student development issues. In addition,
our career advisors have been in your exact shoes, so
they can give you a sense of what to expect in the
“real world” of your work life.
We have trained professionals
that understand your needs and the needs of the job market.

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They also keep up on career-related trends through their
professional reading and involvement in professional
organizations.
“Careers” are their career, and they can pass on some of
their considerable knowledge to you.
Our experts use specialized technology called Career Coach
and Analyst that show what sectors are growing, what jobs
are in demand and what kinds of salaries can be expected.
Whether you learn how to create a winning LinkedIn profile
or write a unique resume that stands out from the pack, you
will find job search resources in the Career Centre.
Career services professionals are well
informed on employment trends
The also know more about job demand and regional employers; in great part because they’re
talking with actual employers every day.

7. 6Career services professionals are very well informed
on employment trends
You will benefit from our online, self-
paced career programs. Career services
offers job and placement listings,
information on careers, information on
specific companies and organizations,
tools like Interview Stream, Career
Coach and other digital resources that
will support your journey to your
dream job: all of these resources can
help you learn more about the
employment possibilities that exist and
which ones might appeal to you.

8. 7At our Career Centre, you are more then just a face
Start managing your network today! Let’s be clear here:
It’s not a campus career advisor's job to “get you a
job.” They are an important element in the journey.
Picture yourself as a campus career advisor for a moment.
If you saw a student in your office once a week learning
about the field of, say, marketing, wouldn’t you be more
likely to refer that student to a company you know of that’s
looking for a marketing placement student or full-time
employee?
Needless to say, it doesn’t hurt for you to be in the back of a
campus career advisor's mind when he or she is
working with employers looking to fill positions or hosting
an upcoming job fair.
the more you get to know the career services staff, the better the chance a staffer will remember
you and refer you to an employer looking to fill a specific position.

9. 8This is a great place to
meet other students who share your questions
Whether you’re just beginning at SLC or
in your final semester, you’re not alone in
your career concerns. By visiting our
career services office, you’re going to
meet other students who are “in the same
boat as you!” You can support one
another by tossing around career ideas,
critiquing each other’s marketing
materials (i.e., resumes, cover letters etc.),
and perhaps even making each other
aware of companies and organizations
you know of that might be hiring college
students or recent graduates.

10. Did you know that this is a service that you’re paying for?!
Your tuition dollars help to pay for Career Services as well as all of
the equipment and resources in the career services office. In other
words, you help fund the office and everything it has and does — so
you should maximize your benefit from it.
Our campus career advisors go into their field because they
genuinely want to help people just like you. But you won’t
benefit from their passion and expertise if they don’t know who
you are. So go online today and learn more. Take advantage of
all the resources available to you and engage actively to create
your career plan. Whatever the path you choose the SLC Career
Services team is committed to helping you with this process.