Designed for first-years and sophomores, this course will:

• identify your career-related skills, interests and personality style
• acquaint you with possible career paths related to majors at Marist University
• provide you with descriptions of occupations including salaries and job outlook
• help you focus your career plans

Career Planning and Decision Making CRDV105N (1 credit)
Classroom-based

Designed for juniors and seniors this course will:

• give you job and internship search techniques
• help you prepare your resume and cover letter
• advise you on obtaining employment references
• provide information on various employers
• develop your interviewing and networking skills
• identify prospective employers in your field
• help you ease the transition from school to work

Employment Practicum CRDV100N (1 credit)
Web-based course: 3 in-class sessions

Candid Career+ is:

• Similar to YouTube, Candid Career+ is a fun and efficient way to explore careers.
• Watch videos with professionals sharing their backgrounds and job descriptions.
• Get advice on how to enter and succeed in a variety of industries.
• Search interviews by major, job title, industry, or keyword.

FOCUS 2 is:

• An online career guidance program for students and alumni.
• Take inventories on your interests, skills, work values, personality, and leisure activities.
• Look at careers based on the inventory results.
• Use the careers database to learn more about careers that interest you and are related to majors at Marist University.

Interviewing.com is:

• An online simulator that lets you see and hear yourself responding to interview questions.
• Choose from among dozens of interview question sets and record yourself answering them right in the system.

CareerShift is:

• Search, select, and store job listings from many job boards and company profiles.
• Find Marist alumni by entering "Marist University" in the Contacts section.
• Get up-to-date contact information from millions of companies.
• Record, save, and store your correspondence history records automatically.

On GoinGlobal you can:

• Access employer information for more than 190 countries and more than 450,000 employer profiles.
• Get updated career advice (employment outlook, industry trends, work permit and visa regulations, interview and cultural advice, etc.) for more than 120 domestic and international locations.
• Search NGO, nonprofit, and corporate opportunities all in one database. Search by keywords, location, annual revenue, or number of employees.

Access What Can I Do With This Major? here

• An online resource that helps users connect majors to careers.
• Browse major categories by industry and see types of employers that typically hire in the field.
• Identify strategies to maximize your career opportunities.
• Get connected to additional resources for career clusters like professional associations, the Occupational Outlook Handbook, and job posting sites.