General Information
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Support Career-Building Experience
Provide Career-Building Experience
 Get Information and Assistance
The Career Network offers assistance not only for a job search, but information, guidance and opportunities for building a good foundation of career development for your student. A primary way this occurs is through career advising. Each college at WMU has a career advisor and support staff assigned to facilitate career choices for students. This is achieved through career assessment, exploring options, getting experience and job search activities. A career advisor can guide a student through these important steps.
You can view more information about career advising services by visiting the Career Advising link.
Support Career-Building Experience
- Facilitate attendance at newcomer events for the best start
- Since all students may use internet capabilities and open e-mail accounts, promote communication with home by getting on line yourself, if you have access to a computer
- Because it's fairly common to have difficulty choosing a major, or to change majors, urge involvement in campus exploratory activities, which can mean earlier exposure to critical clues and save time and costs of late decision making
- Encourage your student to think creatively when seeking a Summer job where functional skills can be developed, even though it may mean their being away from home or receiving a little less pay
- Be a sounding board for trying out career ideas and identifying abilities and personal characteristics
- Think seriously about incorporating a study abroad experience into an academic plan--financial assistance may be available
- Brainstorm internship ideas - where, when and how
- Remind your student to pick up a Job Search Manual before beginning a job search
- Offer to play the role of the employer in a practice interview
- Be aware of BroncoJOBS and the employment avenues it opens for the tiny investment of 10 minutes of time to register
- Realize that Career and Student Employment Services offers assistance not only for a job search, but information, guidance and opportunities for building a richer background
Provide Career-Building Experience
Some parents are in positions to employ their own children in professional and perhaps career-related jobs. Most parents cannot, but could consider hiring or urging their own employers to hire WMU students. On-campus recruiting, job postings, career fairs, internships, and Summer jobs are excellent hiring opportunities. Less concrete but equally valuable is the role of a Career Ally--inviting informational interviews, job shadowing, speaking to student groups, conducting practice interviews. See Employer Services to investigate or pursue these university-supportive and experience-affirming options.
Student Employment
Student Employment
Summer Employment
BroncoJobs
Student Employment
When students have attained a good sense of handling academic responsibilities at the college level, and/or out of economic necessity or to implement financial aid awards (work study award), on and off-campus part-time jobs can become useful career exploration venues. On campus, work opportunities are offered to fully enrolled students and limited to a maximum of 30 hours per week (with an average of 12-15 hours per week). Students retain more of their earnings because no social security deductions are taken for campus employment. Jobs are posted daily on our Internet site, BroncoJOBS. All campus departments can be contacted for job inquiries by accessing dept websites for contact information. Along with BroncoJOBS; students should contact employers directly through networking, want ads, and other job posting publications. See Part-Time and Summer Jobs under Career Exploration for some thoughts on how these jobs contribute to education.
Summer Employment
Time between academic years means a welcome break in routine and an infusion of cash into bank accounts for college expenses. It can also be a means to develop much needed skills, networking and resume building in preparation for life after graduation..
BroncoJOBS
Our web-based employment service, designed exclusively for WMU students and graduates, is available to all students of WMU without charge. Users are required to register (through the web) and then have the system available worldwide 24 hours a day with any Internet connection. Entering freshmen and returning students may use the system as soon as they attend orientation, students could find and apply for a campus or local jobs. Some campus and local employers will start looking for Fall (September) student employees as early as April many post as needed year round. Viewing full-time job listings can provide ideas for career exploration and for setting goals, and for eventual employment opportunities. Upper level students and recent graduates are invited to enter resumes to take full advantage of on-campus recruiting interviews and resume referral services.
Below is from link in paragraph 1 above, part time and summer jobs
Part-time and Summer Employment
Many employers post positions for college students on BroncoJOBS. Part-time jobs can provide excellent training grounds for developing your organizational, communication, management, teaching, supervisory, promotional and other employability skills.
- Part-time jobs are posted daily on BroncoJOBS and most jobs are within driving distance of campus. Many can be reached by public transportation. A public transportion schedule (http://www.kalamazoocity.org/portal/metro.php) is available in resident halls and most buildings on campus.
WMU students have a jump on the primary summer job market because they can begin work early in the season. Employability skills can also be developed or enhanced through your summer job. Start your summer job search early (December holiday break is not too early, must start search by March).
- Summer job notices begin to appear on BroncoJOBS after the December holiday break. Many summer job postings can be found on the lobby bulletin board inside 1334 Ellsworth Hall. Many jobs are related to the resort, parks, and summer camp and hospitality industries. They range, however, to environmental education centers, city parks and planning, school systems, and other major-related locations in business and industry.
- Meet with a Career Advisor to discuss ways to explore career paths and locations that may allow you to build major-related skills. Check Meet Our Staff to get acquainted with the Career Advisors availability for your college.
For information on how to apply for summer and Part-time positions, see Student Employment Application Process
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