Career Advising Appointments
Career Advisors Help You…
- Discover interests
- Develop skills
- Find experiences
- Establish connections
Appointment Types
- Initial major/career exploration
- Ensure you are set up to use important career resources
- Identify upcoming career exploration programs and events
- Determine how your interests and skills relate to careers
- Engage in career exploration activities or review career assessment results
- Make a plan for engaging your career ideas
- Quick reviews of existing documents
- Small revisions to an existing resume/curriculum vitae/cover letter
- Make a plan for revisions and updates
- Major overhaul or deep review of an existing document
- Or, start a resume/curriculum vita/cover letter
- Target your resume/CV to a specific job/internship/etc.
- Identify professionals working in careers you want to explore
- Review and register for networking resources (e.g., KU Mentoring+, LinkedIn)
- Draft networking messages & requests for informational interviews
- Review resources to help with internship searches
- Begin the search process for an internship or job
- Find resources for job shadowing (pre-health and pre-law)
- Make a plan for next steps
- Comprehensive planning for seeking an internship and job searches
- Determine “job targets” to focus your search
- Explore effective tools & resources to conduct a job and internship search
- Make a plan for continued, focused engagement in your search
- Discuss what happens during the typical interview process
- Find out common tips and techniques for interviewing
- Understand how to research organizations
- Practice answering and asking interview questions
- Receive real-time feedback
- Develop strategies for answering difficult questions
- Find credible salary information to assess current offer
- Practice how to navigate salary conversations
- Explore graduate school application process, timeline and resources
- Use online resources to research graduate schools & programs
- Receive help determining whether to go to grad school
- Get feedback on career narratives in admission essay/personal statement
Frequently Asked Questions
- Career Exploration & Engagement: Whether you know what job you want after graduation or you don’t know what options exist, career advisors guide you through conversations to explore your interests. You can learn about career assessments, volunteer/shadowing opportunities, internship search resources, and more.
- Graduate School Exploration & Preparation: Do you have an interest in continuing your education or have you found out your career requires a graduate degree? Career advisors meet with students to help you learn what steps are needed to apply to graduate school and receive help with the application process, such as identifying colleges offering your desired graduate program, learning about experiential components of admission requirements (e.g., shadowing hours), practicing admission interviews, and drafting a personal statement.
- Job & Internship Preparation: Are you looking for a part-time job while you’re in school or searching for a full-time position after graduation? Meet with a career advisor to get help preparing your job-search tools (e.g., resume and cover letter), tips for job searching, practice mock interviews, ways to build connections in your field through networking, and salary negotiation resources.
Note: If you need assistance declaring a major or choosing classes, schedule an appointment with your academic advisor.
Career advisors are available to meet with you virtually (Zoom or Phone) or In-Person. Head to JayhawkGPS to schedule an appointment now. See below for detailed instructions.
- Log into JayhawkGPS.
- Click “Dropin or Schedule Appointment”.
- Select Career Services for the type of appointment.
- Select the Topic under your Career Service Office.
Note: Choose the “Career Services Office” that matches your major interest.
Business major? – select “Business Career Services”
Engineering major? – select “Engineering Career Center”
All others – select “University Career Center” - Select a Date and click Find Available Time.
Note: More appointment times may be available than are represented online. If you don't see a time online that will work for you, please call 785-864-3624!
- Fill in the requested information and submit.
Note: Once you make an appointment, you will receive an email confirmation and another email that provides you with instructions for connecting with your career advisor.
Appointments can be cancelled or rescheduled through JayhawkGPS.
All undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni! Whether you know your major or are still deciding, you can use the University Career Center’s services.
Note: If you are majoring in Journalism, Business, or Engineering, your professional school also has a career center.
Any of them. All career advisors are cross trained, meaning they are knowledgeable about each appointment type and can assist any KU student.
You should meet with a career advisor as early as your first semester freshman year to start your career exploration. Then, at least once an academic year.
Check in at Room 206 Summerfield Hall and let the person at the front desk know that you want to go in the PHOG. They’ll give you brief directions from there.