If you’re worried about what job you’re going to end up with after graduation and you toss and turn all night trying not to worry about it . there’s two things you can do: drink a glass of warm milk, or sign onto the Web and go to work.
Thanks to Saint Louis University’s Career Services department, students can pick and choose which companies they wish to interview with without even making a phone call. All students have to do is hop on the Internet.
“It’s kind of the way to go” for universities, said Kathy Day, director of Career Services. “Some schools started it last year.”
The Web site can be accessed by going to http://careers.slu.edu and clicking on the Career Connections icon. The first thing that students should do is prepare a resum?. After logging onto the Web site and registering, students should transfer the resum? data to the Web site.
Once students get onto the site, they can view various companies that will be coming to SLU in the near future for on-campus recruitment. If students wish to send their resum? to any of the companies, students should select the companies and their resum? will be posted on the site. Companies will periodically check the site for the students that have chosen their business. The employer can then pull the students’ resum?s off the site.
If a company likes a student’s resum?, a representative will either e-mail or phone the student, telling him/her to go back to the Web site and sign up for a time to interview when the company representative will be at SLU. Then, when the representative is in town, he/she and the student will finally get to meet for an interview in the Career Services department office. The department’s job is to monitor the recruitment process.
“There’s a lot more flexibility now,” Day said. “Students are going into Career Connections and choosing employers. They can go in one time and sign up for all the employers that come in a whole season.”
Day mentioned that students can still walk into the Center’s office and sign up for appointments.
Day noted that companies enjoy recruiting students from all colleges by way of the Web.
“They love the system. It’s more efficient,” Day said. “They can access it from anywhere. They don’t have to be in their office.”
But before students interview for a position that involves on-campus recruiting, they must attend a job search workshop. The workshops are held every couple of days from now until November.
