Career Services

Career Services

This office offers an exceptional variety of services to students planning their careers, seeking employment, or considering advanced study. Students are urged to begin consulting with the staff early in their collegiate careers.

Statement of Purpose
The Office of Career Services of the University of the South exists to further the University’s aim of providing a liberal arts education that develops the whole person. The Office of Career Services encourages students to take responsibility for career-related choices and to understand that career planning and development occur not only during their undergraduate years, but also throughout a lifetime. Our goal is to teach students to use self exploration, career exploration, and target job searches — tools that can be used long after they leave the Mountain.

The Office of Career Services seeks to help all who come to the University to develop accurate perceptions of themselves in the context of their career choices, to establish career-related goals, and to gain valuable experiences to reach their goals. To accomplish its purpose, the Office of Career Services provides opportunities and resources to assist in discerning and reflecting upon their interests, values, gifts and talents; evaluating experiences; exploring graduate school opportunities; researching careers; networking; job shadowing; locating and securing internships and other significant, short-term work experiences; conducting job searches; writing resumes and business correspondence; and developing interviewing skills and work-place etiquette.

Services and Programs Available
Internships

• Opportunities and funding for over 150 paid internships created especially for Sewanee students
• $325,000 in stipends for Summer 2008 awarded from 21 endowed funds.

Personal Attention

• Assessment Tools (Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, Strong Interest Inventory, and StrengthsQuest)
• Drop-In Hours (Monday and Tuesday 2–5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m.–Noon) for counseling, resume and cover letter reviews, and networking advice
• Individual Appointments with a career counselor
• Quick Questions at McClurg (OCS staff member available at McClurg during lunch on Tuesdays)
• Mock Interviews

 Recruiting

• Campus visits by employers and graduate and professional schools
• Participation in the Nashville area College-to-Career Fair

Resources

• TigerNet (software program that includes the ability to view job postings and arrange interview schedules, a searchable calendar of Career Services events, and industry guides among other features.)
• Sewanee Gateway (the University’s on-line community for alumni provides opportunities for networking)
• City Networking Program (Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, and Washington, D.C. currently; other cities to be added in future years)
• Graduate and Professional School Testing and Information
• OCS Library (searchable through duPont Library’s Gabriel)
• On-line information accessible through www.sewanee.edu/CareerServices
• Printed information and materials available in OCS

Speakers, Panels and Workshops Special Events

• Beyond the Gates: Preparing for Life and Work after Sewanee (a weekend for juniors and seniors held just prior to the beginning of the second semester, January 9-10, 2008; the program consists of speakers, panels, workshops, and mock interview opportunities)
• Student-Alumni Networking Luncheons, including 2008 Homecoming luncheon
• Networking Excursions for sophomores, juniors and seniors during Fall Break  (Luncheons to be held for students to meet alumni on October 16–17, 2008 in Charlotte, New York, and Washington, D.C.)