Use Your Resources Given to You

After school is complete for a Purdue student, some people just don’t know where to start to help them look at opportunities. Purdue has lots or resources available to students. In most cases most of the stuff is free. I am going to go over just a few things on campus available to students that can help them with their resumes, careers, or networking. Some of these might be obvious, and some might come as a surprise.

CCO

The CCO is the Career Center which is located in Young Hall. They can critique your resume, give mock interviews, educate you on good LinkedIn profiles, and more. They give career advice to students as well from their advisers. They can help you choose when switching majors possible. They do personality tests. They even post events on their calendar for companies that come to Purdue for career fairs or information sessions.  If I was you, I would create a “myCCO” account and post your resume on there and create a profile with your academic information on there. With your resume on file, they can distribute it to other companies.

OWL

Purdue has an online writing lab (owl) that is a wealth of information. They are located in Heavilon Hall. Besides tutoring, they also have more services. They have information for how to site papers in MLA, APA, and other types of formatting. They also have information for business writing like Memos, job-search writing, and even how to do a written or video resume. They even have a place to submit a paper for peer reviews online which might take several days, but worth the critique.

LYNDA.com

This is free for Purdue students to use.  They have lots of online tutorials and videos for a wide range of things. They have courses online which can help with anything on your computer. They have courses for all levels cover technical skills, creative techniques, business strategies, and more. They also have over three thousand videos! They just have lots of variety for instruction from design, business, and even photography. These people are experts and post valuable content.

Advisers/Enrolled College

Purdue students should not just visit their advisers just once a semester for registering for classes. They can be utilized to help a student find out what more things are available to a student. They can write you a letter of recommendation, help you with other services on campus, and even send you emails for any school information from companies coming, internships being available, to clubs that could benefit you. There are advisors that can help with study abroad questions for academic progress which is good for your resume. Advisers send newsletters; so next time you might want to read more carefully this time.

Also from your college, they have separate departments just for student’s careers. There is a Liberal Arts Career Development Office and website (http://www.cla.purdue.edu/careers/). This is strictly for sending your resume electronically to be reviewed, and as well as posting up anything and everything about careers. They have a calendar for career fairs, internship postings, and send emails for events on campus. These emails get sent to students to help raise awareness, but should definitely get taken a closer look at. Other parts of the College of Liberal Arts deals with setting up special events for alumni. They come to Purdue to help network with students and give advice. Also newsletters get sent to students with tips and advice for careers and also have a calendar posted of events.

I hope that after reading this blog post that you can try to use these resources and to not be intimated by all of this information. The faculty at Purdue love to help and get you onto the right path.