Career Planning
Career Planning Tips
Parents' Guide to Career Planning—General information on the career
selection and development process, plus tips on how parents can help.
Download this career guide presentation with helpful resources:
- Career Guide (Flash file; fast download
- recommended for all types of connections - particularly dial-up)
- Career Guide (1.5 MB PDF)
The College of Liberal Arts answers parents'
frequently asked questions about CLA majors and career planning.
Employment and Career Resources
The Career
Services Web site provides links to on- and off-campus
job postings as well as to career planning resources.
Some specific links related to career planning include the following:
Student Job Postings
Check out the current listings for Twin Cities
student positions from the University's Office
of Human Resources.
Career
Services Offices
Most colleges and professional schools on campus
have their own career
planning office.
Job
Fairs and Campus Career Events
Check here for a list of career
fairs on campus.
Career
Development Program
University
Counseling & Consulting Services
provides individual career testing and counseling to help students
focus on their job skills and interests.
Research
Opportunities for Undergraduates
The Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program gives undergraduate students
and faculty members the opportunity to work together on research,
scholarly, or creative activities.
Hire
a University Graduate
Contact college
career offices to promote your job openings to University
of Minnesota graduates.
Career
and Community Learning Center
The Career
and Community Learning Center offers opportunities for internships,
jobs, volunteer experiences, and service learning courses.
The MnCareers Parent Guide has
information and activities to help parents, guardians and mentors
of young people understand the changing
worlds of education and work. The guide assists parents in taking
an active role in their child's career exploration, the career development
process and understand the realities of today's labor market.
The U.S. Department of Labor has developed The
Occupational Outlook Handbook to describe the training
and education for various careers, what workers do on the job, working
conditions, earnings, and expected job prospects in the future.
Career
Development Opportunities for Parents
Parents who are assessing their own careers can find assistance through
the Career and Lifework Center at the University of Minnesota.
Past
Articles of Interest
Career planning: A parent's guide—Winter 2007
Embracing 'happenstance' in the career planning process—Winter 2007
GoldPASS to opportunities—Spring 2006
A new tool to aid in job, internship, and volunteer opportunity searches.
A guide to career planning services at the U—Spring 2006
Career planning through the
college years—Fall 2003
A year-by-year breakdown for
career planning including resources to help choose
a career.
A timeline for career planning—Winter 2003
Career planning and preparation is a four-year process. Students should be examining
career options as first- and second-year students, and fine-tuning their career
plans as juniors and seniors.
Resources for parents' careers,
too—Winter 2003
The University of Minnesota Career and Lifework Center (CLC), open to the public,
serves adults in life-work transitions.
New center for health
careers—Winter 2003
Current and prospective undergraduates interested in careers in the health professions
have a new resource this year—the Health
Careers Center.
Parents' guide to University
career services—Winter 2003
When it comes to career planning, students start out at different points.
University workshop dispels myths, breaks
career
selection process down to its parts—Spring 2000
Some of the myths that students believe about choosing a career can cause high
anxiety, said Jennifer Engler of University Counseling & Consulting Services
(UCCS). |
