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The Gloria Siebens Freund Career Services Center at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake and staff members at each location offer students assistance with their job search. The Storm Lake campus offers a wide variety of services, including special career days and on-campus recruiting programs, all of which are open to BVU's Professional & Online Studies students. In addition, staff members are knowledgeable about regional opportunities and are available to students as a resource for career planning and locating job opportunities.
BVU Career Services is pleased to be in partnership with College Central Network to provide comprehensive web-based job search services to our students and alumni. On this network, employers who want to hire BVU students can post jobs, review your resume, and more easily connect with you for full-time and part-time opportunities, along with internships.
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How to find a Job
Before starting your job search, watch this narrated Power Point presenatation for advice and helpful resources. Make sure your computer speaker is turned on.
Career Services Handbook for Graduate and Professional Studies
This comprehensive job search handbook contains information on resume preparation, cover letters, interviewing, the job search process and graduate school information.
Get linked to Linkedin
Linkedin is the world's largest online professional network, and it holds the potential to connect you to professional organizations you're interested in, let's you search for jobs that may not be advertised anywhere else, join groups with common career interests, and helps you exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a broader network of professionals. View the Linkedin video for students and new grads, then create your profile.
Internships
The internship for academic credit at BVU is a hands-on, practical learning experience in which you will apply classroom knowledge in a professional setting. Visit these web pages to learn how to locate an internship in your field and the steps to take before, during and after your internship experience.
FOCUS is a self-guided career guidance program that can help you discover and explore career paths that match your personal attributes, map out your education and career plans, and narrow down your options. FOCUS has a large database of occupational information that includes job duties, required skills and educational level, future outlook, and salary.
The top three sections for receiving useful feedback are: Interests and Work Values, Education and Training, and Your Personality and Life Values. To get started, request the keycode from careerservices@bvu.edu. You will then create your own user name and password and can use the site as often as you wish.
Published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years. Use the search function in the upper right hand corner to search for comprehensive information on any U.S. occupation.
A decision to attend graduate school involves a great deal of thought and advanced planning. Above all, be sure you know why you want to go. Make sure your interests are clearly defined. Then start to research the schools that offer the course of study you want. Talk to the faculty in your field; they will be networked with some graduate faculty and can give you a lot of insights into the whole graduate school experience. You may wish to wait until you've acquired some experience in the working world; that's also a good decision. Graduate admission committees often value the real world experiences you bring to their graduate program.
For more information visit BVU Career Services
Additional Career Guidance
Call us at 712.749.2440 or e-mail careerservices@bvu.edu for your job search and career related questions and advice.