Services to Faculty/Staff

As a BSC faculty or staff member, you may be interested in the following services:

Class presentations - The professional staff of the center accepts invitations from faculty and staff members to present workshops or to speak to their classes on career, employment and graduate school related topics. To request a class presentation, please complete a Workshop Request Form or submit using the online request.

Support for academic advisement - The center assists students who need information about their career options and help in clarifying their goals for a career or major. Faculty and staff members can refer both "committed" and "uncommitted" students for this assistance, which is provided through:

• Individual career counseling and testing
  
• DISCOVER, a computer-assisted career guidance program
  
• Career information events, sometimes co-sponsored by an academic department and/or its related student organization
  
• Career information and graduate school libraries
  

Employment - The CDC helps students and alumni find employment by teaching them job search skills, by communicating job openings to them, and by making thier resumes available to employing organizations.

Faculty and staff members who want to get students started in their job searches can refer them to the CDC or arrange for a "Little Things That Make a Big Difference" job search workshop to be presented in thier class. This is an orientation to the CDC during which a career counselor explains strategies for uncovering the hidden job market and how to use the center's services for help in finding professional employment. Services include:

• Workshops - Resume, Cover Letter, Interviewing, and Job Searching
  
• Resume and Cover Letter critique service
  
• Mock interview videotape sessions
  
• Employment library
  
• Online Resource for Career Advancement (ORCA)
  Job listings (full-time, part-time, summer, volunteer & internships)
  Resume Referral Service

  On-Campus Recruitment

  Job/Career Fairs

  Reference File Service

  Computer Lab (for resume/cover letter writing and using the Internet)

  Mentor Program

Graduate School - The CDC staff support the faculty/staff with helping juniors and seniors apply to graduate and professional schools. Information on scholarships, fellowships and writing personal statements is also maintained in the center. A graduate school fair is held during the Fall semester. Faculty members who want to get students started on the graduate school selection process may refer them to the center.

Handouts - The center maintains a supply of handouts written by our staff for use as quick self-help tools by students who are career planning or job searching. The handouts consist of advice and strategies on job searching, applying to graduate school, and descriptions of various CDC services. Faculty and staff members may request multiple copies of handouts for use in advisement, curricular support, and recruitment activities.

Volunteer and Service-Learning Center (VSLC) - Service-Learning is a form of experiential education that links learning in the classroom with activities that students participate in to address the needs of the community. The VSLC, housed in the CDC, is supported by a Learn & Serve grant awarded to BSC from the Corporation for National & Community Service. The VSLC staff assist faculty in developing ways of integrating community service into existing courses and/or creating new service-learning based courses. There is also a Community Service Faculty Fellows Program that provides support for faculty wishing to institute service-learning.

Staff:	Director	Stephanie Zuckerman-Aviles
	Associate Director	Lisa August
	Senior Career Counselor	Phillip Auman
	Senior Career Counselor	Jessie Lombardo
	Student Employment Coordinator/Career Counselor	Lynn Rogers
	Volunteer & Service-Learning Coordinator	Laura Hill Rao
	Graduate Assistants	Felicia Stanley Terry Kirby
	Secretaries	Cathi Couell Lynne Terrana
	Volunteer & Service-Learning Staff	Susannah White Pat Dunlop Josephine Zagarella Meghan Harmon Marchon Hamilton

HELPFUL LINKS - The CDC will post helfpul faculty and/or staff links here.

• Sample Faculty Reference Letter

Updated: 02/2007