October 11, 2001
Inner workings
IW: Center for Career Services
Name and title of unit head: Susan Terry, director
Location: 134 Mary Gates Hall
Number of employees: 17
Unit’s main function: To provide job search services to students and alumni. That involves connecting students and alumni with employers as well as supporting the development of efficient job search skills. Four hundred employers each year come into the office to interview students. More than 2,300 students each year meet with a career counselor in the office. About 7,000 students annually attend workshops presented by the office.
Unit’s day-to-day tasks: Duties very a great deal. Staff in the office help employers understand how best to recruit and hire on campus. They post jobs, run workshops and work with academic departments. But whatever the daily task, Terry says it’s important that the office remembers to be service oriented, especially when it comes to dealing with students. That means if a student wanders into the office but needs to be somewhere else, staff will help get the student to the right place.
Insider’s comment: “We teach students and alumni effective strategies for explaining how their college degree translates to the world of work and how to present themselves to the world of work.”
-Susan Terry
