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Career Center

Director: Steve Koppi
Location: SAC, Room 2247
Department website: http://careercenter.gallaudet.edu/

The Career Center offers students cooperative education, internship, and job search advising. It also maintains contact with hundreds of employers for recruiting and career education of students and alumni. Employers visit the campus annually to conduct information sessions and on-campus recruiting, and to participate in classes, workshops, and career fairs. Through the internship program, students can acquire work experience related to their major studies and career goals. Through job search advising, students learn how to look for a job and are guided in seeking part-time, summer, and full-time employment.

Both the internship and job search programs offer students guidance with career exploration, job search techniques, networking, preparing resumes and/or federal job applications, developing portfolios, interviewing, working with interpreters, and understanding accommodation strategies. The emphasis is on empowering students to pursue and achieve career goals in the business and professional world. Among the resources available to students and alumni through the Career Center is an extensive Career Library.

The internship program places students in private industry, government agencies, social service organizations, and educational institutions. Working with our staff, students can arrange placement locally, nationally, and internationally. With staff guidance, students learn how to research and develop their own placements. Examples of placement sites include premier university research centers, the White House, federal agencies and research facilities, congressional offices, hospitals, public and private schools, and deafness-related educational and social organizations. Many students participate in more than one placement, supplementing their academic studies with valuable hands-on experience. Students may earn up to 12 academic credits for their internship placements.

The Career Center collaborates with academic departments and employers to help students achieve internship requirements for select majors. The Career Center sponsors or cosponsors a variety of career-related seminars, conferences, classes, and programs throughout the year. A career fair, an on-campus student employment fair, and a graduate school fair are often among those offered. The center also provides graduate school admission testing (Miller Analogies Test and Graduate Record Examination).

Career Library
Career Library Specialist: Deb Barron
Location: SAC, Room 2221

The Career Library is the center of student activity for Academic Advising and Career Center. It contains in-depth information on Gallaudet majors and an extensive collection of career-related books, catalogs and directories, employer files and graduate school information, and other materials. A computer network offers resume and federal job application software, computerized guidance programs, and disk-based and online employment databases, including access to the World Wide Web (WWW). The Career Center home page provides links to approximately 50 major job search resources. Through a link to JobTrak, students can learn about local and national internship opportunities and part-time campus employment. Current job vacancies for all fields and employment sectors are filed in the Career Library Job Bank. The Career Library is staffed by career library assistants (highly trained student paraprofessionals).