{"id":7218,"date":"2021-10-26T05:07:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T22:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T02:46:38","slug":"looking-for-a-job-let-career-services-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/looking-for-a-job-let-career-services-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Job? Let Career Services Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Story by Duncan McIntyre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Pete Ramirez<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most stressful aspects of college is figuring out what to do after you\u2019re finished. From communications to STEM, students often wonder where their feet will lead them in today\u2019s constantly shifting career landscape. Then they\u2019ve got to think about\u00a0resum\u00e9s, interviews, cover letters \u2013 where to begin? Searching for a job can be overwhelming but fear not, Austin Community College\u2019s Career Services has you covered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here for [the students],\u201d said ACC\u2019s Career Resources Director, Trish Welch. During the week of October 24 through 29, Career Services is hosting Career Ready Week which is a full week of events to assist students with anything they might be having trouble with. From deciding on a major to dealing with anxiety in the job search, Career Ready Week has resources and events built specifically to help students succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a job fair; we have hundreds of employers who are excited to hire students, we have so many employers who have remote work and sign-on bonuses,\u201d said Welch. Employers will be giving presentations and, for students actively looking for work, the job fair has full-time jobs, part-time jobs and internships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a session that examines the recent trend of working from home called Remote Control. \u201cIt\u2019s how to find remote work. A lot of students are interested in remote work, but there are also hidden dangers,\u201d said Welch. \u201cWe want to help you navigate that process.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make students more presentable to potential employers, there are sessions that help them look at their social media presence and credit reports. \u201cSome jobs do pull your credit report,\u201d said Welch. \u201cIt\u2019s important to know what\u2019s on your credit report, what your credit score is and how that may impact future employment.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career Services has a variety of tools available year-round as well. Edgar Medina is the supervisor of the first-of-its-kind kind Career and Transfer Center at ACC\u2019s Highland campus. Medina said they offer, \u201ccareer exploration, career guidance, job search, job readiness, resume reviews, interview preparation and mock interviews.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program also has counselors who can administer career assessments and help students decide on majors. For even more fine-tuning, there are specialists who work with students to research labor market information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re looking for even more help on your post-academic path, Career Services also offers the Strategies for Today\u2019s jobs class. It is a 4-week intensive course that walks Riverbats through the job search process from start to finish. Katie McClendon is the Supervisory Coach for the class. She said the class is there to, \u201cIdentify a target job, prepare materials, build a network, negotiate a salary, be ready to interview and also to think a little about their career progression and development,\u201d said Katie McClendon, supervisory coach of the class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instructors for Strategies for Today\u2019s jobs are well-versed in the Austin job market and specific industries that students seek employment in. They also provide one-on-one coaching to make career obstacles more manageable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paige Swanton and Cristian Ortiz are two students who utilized Career Services to further their educational and career aspirations. Ortiz first enrolled at ACC in 2016. He took one class at a time until he decided to challenge himself academically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ortiz became a career scholar, which is a scholarship for students who are pursuing a career straight out of school. After receiving the scholarship, he decided to focus on his career and future.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ortiz was given an opportunity to work with other career scholars on a job agency and has since pioneered a student-led peer-to-peer employment agency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swanton\u00a0connected with Ortiz as a fellow career scholar. She learned about a job opportunity through a career scholar discord chat and now works for ACC as a tele-recruiter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swanton has high praise for Career Services and recommends them to other students. \u201cEverybody helps, if you need something they have someone for you,\u201d Swanton said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Riverbats looking towards the future, Cristian added, \u201cNone of us are perfect, and most of us have a lot of time to perfect ourselves. If you are worried like I was, we have time \u2013 it\u2019s just a matter of building those skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Career Ready Week, the Strategies for Today\u2019s jobs class or anything related to finding a job, visit the Career Services website here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Story by Duncan McIntyre Edited by Pete Ramirez One of the most stressful aspects of college is figuring out what to do after you\u2019re finished. From communications to STEM, students often wonder where their feet will lead them in today\u2019s constantly shifting career landscape. Then they\u2019ve got to think about\u00a0resum\u00e9s, interviews, cover letters \u2013 where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4103,"featured_media":7219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,6,12],"tags":[1086,38,100,1226,1225,1224,1049,1229,1198,1228,329,1223,1230,1231,1227],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-career","category-news","tag-career","tag-acc","tag-austin-community-college","tag-career-ready-week","tag-career-services","tag-careers","tag-college","tag-cristian-ortiz","tag-duncan-mcintyre","tag-edgar-medina","tag-job","tag-jobs","tag-paige-swanton","tag-strategies-for-todays-jobs","tag-trish-welch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}