Career Services — Services For Graduate Students

The Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education helps graduate students define their career goals and provides support and resources to develop an successful, independent and proactive job search.

We assist students at all Suffolk University Campuses.

Individual Advising/Phone Appointments

Meet with a counselor, either in person or by phone. Our Associate Director for graduate services will help you create an effective resume, develop successful interviewing techniques, devise networking strategies and identify job search resources. As part of the process, you may wish to do a career assessment test. Our battery of career-assessment tests includes the Campbell Interests and Skills Survey, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and CareerLeader, a web-based self-assessment for graduate business students. Please contact Michele Rapp, mrapp@suffolk.edu, if you are interested in Career Leader or any other advising or counseling services or assessments. Please note, due to demand, we generally can not accomodate same day appointments.

Cooperative Education/Internships

Full-time graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate in cooperative education or internship placements as a way to further their skills, clarify goals, and build their resumes. Graduate students are eligible for Co-op upon enrollment in their degree program.

Job Search and Recruiting Services

We can help you get the most out of valuable resources including Monstertrak, eRecruiting, the Recruiting Employers Program and Job Fairs.

Workshops

See Events.

Executive Speaker Series

Leaders from the public and private sectors make special presentations a many of our events.

Alumni Career Advisory Network

We maintain a list of more than 500 College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School alumni in the Career Resource Library. Many are available to discuss their careers, act as a networking resources, or provide information and career advice. ACAN advisors represent a broad range of occupations and industries.

If you would like to access the network, alumni, graduate students, seniors and juniors can go to http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/SUF/  and register as a new user.  First and second year students should talk to the staff at Career Services for access to the network.

Career Services now works with Optimal Resume to offer you a helpful resume writing tool.  If you are starting from scratch, doing a major revision of your resume, or wish to try an entirely new format for your resume, Optimal Resume may be the resource you need!  It will take you step by step through the resume writing process, and also allow you to create both hard copy (word and pdf) and web versions of your resume.  To use Optimal Resume, click here.  Once on the Optimal Resume website, register as a "new user" by using the access code: madrid

Career Search

Career Search is an online database that allows you to compile a list of employers in your area of interest.  This allows you to identify and research both for profit and non-profit employers you wish to contact for jobs.   For example, if you are interested in working in advertising, you can specify such things as the geographic area you wish to work in, or the size of the employer you wish to target, and Career Search will provide a comprehensive list of employers who meet your criteria along with contact names and information, and other pertinent facts.  To use Career Search, please call Career Services at 617-573-8480 and we will give you the necessary referral key for accessing the system.

Career Resource Library

This exclusive Suffolk resource contains books, guides and other tools to assist with career assessment and job searching.

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