Student Services

Do all of these:

□  Activate your account in Handshake, ETSU’s online career database, and discover the types of employers interested in hiring ETSU graduates.

□  Join an ETSU student organization related to a personal or career interest.

□  Declare your major, if you didn’t choose one when you entered ETSU.

□  Write a list of job-relevant knowledge, skills and abilities you gained this year.

Do at least two of these:

□   Take the Focus2 career assessment and discuss the results with a UCS staff member. (Access code: bucs)

□   Visit a UCS job fair and get a feel for what it's like.

□   Interview a faculty member or senior student about your major or one you might be interested in.

□   Meet with a program advisor to learn what you should do now to be ready to apply to graduate or professional school when you graduate. (If that’s your plan.)

□   Visit O*Net online and read about familiar occupations and unfamiliar occupations.

Do all of these:

□   Create a resume and upload it to Handshake.

□   Join a committee in an ETSU student organization and keep a list of things you help accomplish.

□   Write a list of job-relevant knowledge, skills and abilities you gained this year.

Do at least two of these:

□   Attend a UCS job fair and ask at least two employers what their company or organization does.

□   Plan a study-away-from-campus experience for your junior year (working with your advisor).

□   Participate in job shadowing, career treks, site visits, or service-learning.

Do all of these:

□   Update your resume in Handshake.

□   Plan an internship, clinical placement, teaching residency, or similar experience for your senior year.

□   Assume a leadership role in an ETSU or community organization related to your post-graduation goals. Keep a list of things you help the organization accomplish.

□   Write a list of job-relevant knowledge, skills and abilities you gained this year.

Do at least two of these:

□  Write your post-graduation goals and send them to your faculty mentor and your academic advisor.

□   Meet with your faculty mentor, academic advisor or a UCS staff member to discuss your goals.

□   Ask your advisor when to apply to graduate or professional school. (If that’s your plan.)

□   Attend a UCS job fair and apply for internships.

Do all of these:

□   Complete an internship, clinical placement, teaching residency, or similar experience.

□  Update your resume in Handshake (and, if you wish, have a UCS staff member review it).

□   Create a LinkedIn profile.

□   Use Handshake to identify jobs to apply for (if that’s your plan).

□   Write a list of job-relevant knowledge, skills and abilities you gained this year.

Do at least two of these:

□   Visit UCS to develop a search strategy for the job you want.

□   Attend a UCS job fair and submit your resume to at least five employers.

□   Attend a UCS workshop.

□  Visit UCS to practice your interview skills.

□   Apply to graduate or professional school when your advisor indicated. (If that’s your plan).