Career Resource Center
Helping you plan your path forward
The Center for Career Connections is a free resource to students that offers professional training events, provides free professional headshots, and gives helpful tips on finding and keeping a job.
Our Three Key Offerings
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We help you find and secure experiential learning opportunities that are relevant to your major and will pique your curiosity, offering meaningful feedback and clues to your long-term career options.
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We help you network with employers to find valuable internships directly related to your field of study.
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Now you are making some strong career connections—this is the time when your final career launch happens. It’s here that invaluable finessing and fine-tuning will strengthen your ability to candidate for the perfect job after graduation.
Choosing a Major
Choosing a major may be one of the most important choices you can make while in college, but it doesn’t have to be difficult! With some prayer and informed exploration, we believe that God and His Spirit will direct you toward what you are meant to be studying.
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The Holy Spirit reveals the will of the Father to His people. Be consistent with your prayer life. Ask and listen and trust what He reveals to you.
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Part of God’s revelation is in how He crafted you. Your college major isn’t going to stray too far from your natural interests, passions, and talents. God made you the way He did for a good reason. Take time to reflect upon this.
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Has God placed a desire or natural care in your heart for someone? The nation of Africa? Kids in the inner city? At-risk teens? Christian young people? This may be an aspect of helping you determine the right major in college.
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Is there something that you recognize about society today that you know is not right? Something in the world? Among the body of believers?
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Let the Center for Career Connections help you. We offer assessment instruments and appointments to prospective students to assist with determining a college major. We’ll help to bring clarification, but ultimately the answer rests with you hearing from God.
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Avoid choosing a major merely because you presume it “guarantees” you a secure job after graduation. If you are not inspired or motivated by the field you are studying, you are in the wrong major.
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Avoid choosing a major merely because you want to please others. Ultimately, you have to live for many years with the outcome of your choice. Make it a God-inspired one.
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Avoid choosing a major based solely on a published list of any kind (i.e., best careers for the future, top money-making majors, etc.). When you do this, there are many other factors that you’ve failed to consider.
Internships
An internship experience is formative and foundational to your emerging expertise. Classroom concepts suddenly become real tools of the trade. Internships are a great way to confirm that you are on the right career path.
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Then we say the internship worked perfectly! The second role of an internship is to weed out the roles, tasks, and positions that are not right for you. Many employers hire interns as the new full-time, entry-level employee, which affords both of you a trial period and a chance to single out exceptional candidates for full-time and even leadership roles.
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Around 60% of interns receive job offers from their host companies. Employers often prefer hiring candidates with internship experience.
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Internships also provide an opportunity to build career-ready competencies. These include teamwork, communication, problem-solving, global and intercultural fluency, and many more. Candidates with these qualities have a noted advantage in their future career.
Additional Resources:
Have questions? We're happy to help.
Email:
Denise Terry | denise.terry@grace.edu
Phone:
(574) 372-5100, ext. 6101.