About Career Services

At Career Services you can:  Explore your career options!   Get Experience!    Achieve Your Goals.

Career Services helps students to:

• Explore career options and majors
• Seek co-ops and internships to get career related expereince
• Seek permanent employment at graduation
• Plan for graduate or professional school
• For graduate students: academic and industry job search

Career Advising:

• Walk-In Advising: Monday – Friday, 12 PM – 3:00 PM
• Individual Appointments can be scheduled by calling 231-6241

For Undecided Students:

• Guide to Undergraduate Majors at Virginia Tech (www.career.vt.edu/GTM)
• Departmental Career Advisors (www.career.vt.edu/scripts/GTM2001/DeptCA.asp)
• Exploring Careers Class – UNIV 2004 (www.career.vt.edu/MajorCareerExploration/Course.html)

For Students Seeking Jobs, Internships and Co-ops:

• Hokies4Hire and the On-Campus Interviewing Program  (www.career.vt.edu/H4H-OCI/H4HIndex.html)
• Job Listings websites  (www.career.vt.edu/WebSites/General.htm)
• Job Listings in the Career Resource Center (posted in notebooks by major)
• Getting career-related experience (www.career.vt.edu/Experience.html)
• CareerSearch – database directory with industries searchable by geographic location or keywords(www.career.vt.edu/JOBSEARC/carsearch.htm)
• Going Global online database for the international job search as well as major U.S. Cities (www.career.vt.edu/GoingGlobal.htm)
• Mock Interview Program – practice interviews that can be recorded and played back (www.career.vt.edu/JOBSEARC/Interview/MockInterview.htm)

For students seeking Graduate or Professional School:

• Pre-Professional Advisors (www.career.vt.edu/GRADSCH/PreProfAdv.html?college=29)

Additional helpful information:

• Post Graduation Report – where to VT grads go?  Employment or Grad School, salary data, and how they found jobs (www.career.vt.edu/PostGraduationSurveyReport/PostGrad.html)
• VT CareerLink – alumni networking resource (www.career.vt.edu/VTCL)
• Career Services e-Newsletters – students can subscribe to newsletters by college and/or academic level (www.career.vt.edu/CareerNews)

Work and Learn in Career Services:

• Become a Career Associate (www.career.vt.edu/WorkLearn/CareerAssociatesProgram.html)
• Become a Career Services Intern  (www.career.vt.edu/WorkLearn/InternProgram.html)

 

Career Services
Smith Career Center
Office Hours:  M-F 8 AM – 5 PM; Walk-in Advising Noon- 3 PM
Located at the corner of Washington & West Campus Drive
(540) 231-6241     www.career.vt.edu