From the first day on campus, you’ll start thinking about where you want to go in life, and the Career Center will help you every step of the way.
   Whether you're seeking information on internships, graduate schools, or a future career, or you are looking for ways to improve your skills, start with Hollins' Career Center.

Services

Career Guidance and Counseling

The director will meet individually with students regarding career questions and concerns. Any issue related to career planning is appropriate, and all conferences are confidential. Walk-in appointments are available Monday-Thursday, 2-4 p.m. Other times are available as needed.

Career and Vocational Assessment

Self understanding is the foundation of good career decisions. The Career Center offers two assessments which provide a student the self knowledge for personal and career growth:

• Strong Interest and Skills Confidence Inventory explores the relationship between interests, skills, and career/educational planning. The Strong customizes information on personal styles in work, learning, leadership and risk taking, and provides steps a student can take to identify and evaluate career and educational options.
  
  
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator*: explores the diverse ways that people prefer to direct their attention, process information, make decisions, and adopt varied life/work styles.
  

Seminars/Workshops

Programs are sponsored by the Center on career and life skills: resume/letter writing and review, job search strategies, summer jobs, interviewing, personal presentation, effective communication, resources for electronic job and internship search and on-line application, networking, budgeting, federal employment, and graduate school. Mock interviews are conducted and video equipment is available for students who wish to view and critique their interviewing skills.

Career Center Library

The Center's library houses the following kinds of information and resources (written and video formats). Most materials are available for overnight or weekend loan by students.

• General and specific handbooks on occupations
  
• Self-assessment and career development books
  
• Graduate and professional school catalogs and directories
  
• Graduate school test information and aids
  
• Employment and job search information
  
• Directories of employers
  
• Data on U.S. cities and cost of living indices
  
• Internship materials and directories
  
• Financial aid sources/applications
  

Career Advising Network (CAN)

Many alumnae/i and friends have volunteered to advise students in exploring career fields and making professional contacts for internships and job opportunities. CAN helps students locate alumnae/i working in specific career fields in specific geographical areas. Forms for obtaining names of alumnae/i are located in the Center.

Internships / Experiential Learning

Supervised work experience through internships is an especially valuable way of finding out more about yourself and the world of work. The CC holds orientations in the fall to explain the Short Term Internship program and to update students about the most current opportunities. Additional information about summer and semester internships, volunteer activities, travel, and weekend experiences is also available in the CC Library and on the CC site at my.hollins.edu.

The women's colleges and universities have collaborated to establish a nationwide database of internship opportunities to be shared by students of these institutions. This database is located on the MonsterTRAK Career Center.

Challenge Job and Internship Fair

Challenge Job and Internship Fair is an award-winning career fair designed to bring juniors, seniors and recent graduates together with representatives from various companies and agencies. It is an effective way for employers to meet and recruit students from 8 prestigious Virginia colleges/universities. CHALLENGE is held in Lynchburg, Virginia exclusively for the benefit of the students from the colleges in the Challenge Consortium.

Career Premiere

Career Premiere is a recruiting event that links students from diverse curriculum in higher education institutions in enough numbers to create a critical mass of potential employees that it is becomes cost effective for employers to travel to Southwest Virginia for the purpose of meeting and interviewing high quality students for both internships and full time employment opportunities. Career Premiere is held each February in Salem, Virginia.

Career 15

Career 15 is a unique resource of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC) that connects students and graduates of 15 private Virginia colleges with top-tier corporations looking for interns and employees through a web-based database and the annual C2C Job Fair in Richmond, Virginia.

Campus Interviews

Campus interviews give you the opportunity to meet recruiters, practice your interview skills, and perhaps secure an offer of employment. While many employers prefer to interview at job fairs and larger universities because of reduced travel budgets, Hollins continues to attract a variety of employers who are interested in applicants with a liberal arts education and skill set.

Graduate and Professional School Search

The Career Center Library houses catalogues and recruiting literature for programs in the arts and sciences, law, MBA studies and medicine. The CC site on my.hollins.edu provides web sites that will link students to efficient ways to search for graduate and professional schools and sources of financial aid.

Credentials Files

A credentials file is a permanent record of information in a central location for use in applying to graduate/professional school or securing employment. Letters of recommendation, a resume, citations of recognition and a co-curricular portfolio provide a solid overview of who you are and what you have done in college. Upon your request, it is sent to prospective employers and graduate schools. Guidelines and forms for setting up a credentials file are available in the Career Center.

Employment Opportunities

In addition to job fairs and on-campus interviews job seekers are encouraged to log into HUCareers on Erecruiting to research internships, full-time, part-time, temporary, summer, and local employment opportunities in both the public and private sectors.

Short Term Orientation for First Year and Transfer Students

During January Short Term many first-year and transfer students are invited to attend an orientation program which encourages self awareness, career and academic planning, and an introduction to the services provided by the Career Center. Students will develop a better understanding of the liberal arts and how this degree transfers to the work place.

Drake Beam Morin

Drake Beam Morin, provides free and fee-based career management and transition services, networking opportunities, and professional seminars. To enroll, go to www.dbmcareerservices.com and click New User button located on left bar; enter key - hollins 00190, proceed with personal registration.

Special Events

Since people are the best source for career information or finding a job, the Career Center invites employers, alumnae, and guest speakers to campus for lectures, information sessions, and lunch discussions with students throughout the year.

*Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and MBTI are registered trademarks of Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.

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CONTACT
(540) 362-6364
cdc@hollins.edu