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Student Resources

Learn about career options, create a resume or portfolio, practice for an interview, or apply for jobs or internships.

Learn About Yourself and Your Career Options

Learn more about yourself, career options and career development resources to maximize your career and professional development while at Poole.

Our M120 Professional Development and Career Planning course is designed to give students the tools necessary to help launch their careers. This one-credit hour course geared towards sophomores and juniors will walk you through essential employment strategies and teach you the competencies needed to conduct a successful 21st-century job search.

Jumpstart your career development by first learning more about yourself – interests, strengths, skills, values, and personality.  Meet with a career coach to discuss the results before selecting a major or concentration.

  • Focus 2 – learn about how your values, interests, competencies, and personality fit into NC State majors and your future career
  • Find My Interests – the Interest Finder at NCcareers.org measures interests in and provides definitions for each of the six Holland RIASEC types.  A helpful assessment to understand more about how personal interests align with careers.
  • 16 Personalities
  • O*Net Interest Profiler
  • Skills Matcher

Understanding career options is an important part of individual career development and lifelong career happiness.  Broaden your understanding of careers and the skills and abilities needed for each.

  • Information Interviewing. One of the best ways to get real, meaningful career information is to hear it from someone who does it as their job.  Meet with a career coach to discuss information interviewing and how to get started.
  • What Can I Do With This Major is a best-in-class resource to explore academic majors and possible career paths for each major.  Learn more about common career areas, types of employers, strategies to move forward in the career, and additional resources.  As always, talk with your career coach to discuss what you have learned.
  • NCcareers is North Carolina’s central online resource for students, parents, educators, job seekers, and career counselors looking for high-quality job and career information. Job seekers can identify their skills/interests; explore occupations and local job/employer needs; identify education and training opportunities and prepare to enter/re-enter the job market.
  • CareerOneStop is the primary career, training, and job search website offered by the U.S. Department of Labor. The website serves job seekers, businesses, students, and career advisors with a variety of free online tools, information and resources.

Create Your Professional Profile

Start to create the documents and professional profile you need to effectively market yourself to employers.

The Career Resources Guide is a comprehensive resource packed with easy-to-read information on career preparation topics such as writing resumes and cover letters, interviewing, networking, interview preparation, making the most of a career fair, dining etiquette, and more.  We call it our career prep playbook.  Use the contents sections below for guidance.

The Poole College of Management Resume, Cover Letter & Reference Page Style Guide is our preferred resource for creating your professional documents. The guide will teach you how to successfully market your skills and qualifications to employers and help you design a resume and cover letter that will land you interviews. It will also instruct you how and when to submit your references to an employer. Within the guide, you will find an overview of how to construct your resume, cover letter, and reference page, samples of each, easy-to-edit examples, and a full list of power verbs to assist you in describing your accomplishments.

In today’s job-search culture, a LinkedIn profile is an essential part of your online brand. You can also use LinkedIn to find jobs, maintain contact with past employers, co-workers, fellow classmates, and networking contacts.  After you build your profile, let a Poole career coach review it to offer feedback.  Use the LinkedIn profile checklist for college students to get started.

Practice Interviews

Before engaging with employers or going on that first important interview, practice articulating your knowledge, skills and abilities.

Schedule a practice interview with a Poole career coach using Navigate to practice for any interview that you have. Tell us about the interview – employer, job responsibilities, stated qualifications – so that we can tailor the practice questions.

Apply for Jobs and Internships

Once you have learned about yourself and career options, created your documents and professional profile, and practiced your interpersonal skills, it’s time to search and apply for internship and job opportunities.

ePACK is the campus-wide career information management system to begin your search for jobs and internships. Browse for hundreds of national and international job postings for all campus majors and concentration areas. Create a profile, upload your resume, and set up a job search agent. Students will also use ePACK to apply for campus interviews and RSVP for campus career events.

CareerShift is an easy to use online tool to organize and conduct a targeted job search.  Search and store job postings, compile lists of companies and contacts, upload company targeted resumes and correspondence, and more. Access CareerShift through clicking “Resources” on the top right-hand side of your ePACK home page.

Interested in working abroad? GoinGlobal is an online database containing country-specific career and employment information, company profiles for key international employers, and thousands of international internship and job listings. International students at NC State will find the list of US companies who have employed individuals on an H-1B visa in the past 12 months helpful.  Access GoinGlobal through clicking “Resources” on the top right-hand side of your ePACK home page.

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