Juniors: Experience

Continue to identify your personal characteristics and how they fit in with your professional field.

Start synthesizing what you’ve learned from informational interviews and all of your experiences to narrow and refine position titles in your field of interest.

Determine whether graduate or professional school is required to do the work that interests you.  Begin researching graduate or professional school.

Attend campus career-related activities (career fairs, job and internship search workshops).

Take leadership roles in clubs or student organizations. Employers who work directly with the St. Paul Campus Career Center value students with solid examples of leadership. To learn about student organizations and leadership training visit the Student Activities Office.

Apply to the College Mentor Programs so that you can gain career advice from someone in your field.

Join professional associations in your career field to meet new people and learn about possible organizations in your industry.  Find professional associations in your field by visiting the Associations Database.

Apply for internships, employers often expect students to have more than one!

Visit GoldPASS to view postings, to post your resume and subscribe to receive emails on related internships and jobs.

Update your resume and fine-tune your portfolio to use on internship interviews.

Regularly review the on campus recruiting schedule and submit resumes for positions of interest.

Study, work or intern abroad.  Visit the Learning Abroad Center for ideas.