1. Welcome Graduate Students! Career Center Overview
Presented by: Carolina Solorzano

2. Agenda Resources & Programs to Help with Your Job Search Career Center
Website
SpartaJobs (powered by Handshake)
GoinGlobal
Career Advising Resources
Workshops/ Events/ Programming

3. SJSU Career Center CAREER CENTER LOCATION
Administration building (ADM)
Room Main Entrance
Room Accessible Entrance
Upstairs on second floor

4. SJSU Career Center website
Resumes
Banner/ Upcoming Events
Grad Student Programming Calendar
Sparta Jobs

5. SJSU Online Resources

6. Resume Examples Resume Sample RESUME versus Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Resume is a brief overview of your education, skills and experiences
CV is a detailed list of all your education and work experiences
Resume Sample

7. Sparta Jobs What’s SpartaJobs? SJSU’s Job & Internship database
Your key resource to jobs, employers, career center services, events, program info sessions and job fairs.
SJSU’s Job & Internship database
1000’s of postings for full-time, part-time, internship, seasonal, volunteer and on-campus jobs
Create your SpartaJobs profile
Fill out to as close to 100% as possible
Questions???
Video Tutorials
Career Center website
If you still need some help brainstorming skills, review these checklists and highlight any skills that you’ve used and would like to add to your resume.
It’s important to know what your future employer finds valuable and you can see the most updated list of Top Skills Employers Want through NACE (click on hyper link) to access this resource
The University is dedicated to helping you develop skills that are marketable and well-rounded, SJSU has a list of University Learning Goals that you obtain through your college education. Click on Top Skills SJSU students develop to see these University Learning Goals
Whether you realize it or not, you actually have skills that are transferable to various types of jobs and industries, any customer service, retail, part time or on-campus jobs will have you use transferable skills: such as communication skills, teamwork, leadership & initiative. Review the last link to see further examples of these types of skills.

8. Sparta Jobs
If you still need some help brainstorming skills, review these checklists and highlight any skills that you’ve used and would like to add to your resume.
It’s important to know what your future employer finds valuable and you can see the most updated list of Top Skills Employers Want through NACE (click on hyper link) to access this resource
The University is dedicated to helping you develop skills that are marketable and well-rounded, SJSU has a list of University Learning Goals that you obtain through your college education. Click on Top Skills SJSU students develop to see these University Learning Goals
Whether you realize it or not, you actually have skills that are transferable to various types of jobs and industries, any customer service, retail, part time or on-campus jobs will have you use transferable skills: such as communication skills, teamwork, leadership & initiative. Review the last link to see further examples of these types of skills.

9. Sparta Jobs
If you still need some help brainstorming skills, review these checklists and highlight any skills that you’ve used and would like to add to your resume.
It’s important to know what your future employer finds valuable and you can see the most updated list of Top Skills Employers Want through NACE (click on hyper link) to access this resource
The University is dedicated to helping you develop skills that are marketable and well-rounded, SJSU has a list of University Learning Goals that you obtain through your college education. Click on Top Skills SJSU students develop to see these University Learning Goals
Whether you realize it or not, you actually have skills that are transferable to various types of jobs and industries, any customer service, retail, part time or on-campus jobs will have you use transferable skills: such as communication skills, teamwork, leadership & initiative. Review the last link to see further examples of these types of skills.

10. International Resource
GOINGLOBAL
Create a global career plan
Identify employers that have sponsored H1B
Research Country & Career guides
Access Job / Internship database
Research Employer Directories
Training resources
GoinGlobal
If you still need some help brainstorming skills, review these checklists and highlight any skills that you’ve used and would like to add to your resume.
It’s important to know what your future employer finds valuable and you can see the most updated list of Top Skills Employers Want through NACE (click on hyper link) to access this resource
The University is dedicated to helping you develop skills that are marketable and well-rounded, SJSU has a list of University Learning Goals that you obtain through your college education. Click on Top Skills SJSU students develop to see these University Learning Goals
Whether you realize it or not, you actually have skills that are transferable to various types of jobs and industries, any customer service, retail, part time or on-campus jobs will have you use transferable skills: such as communication skills, teamwork, leadership & initiative. Review the last link to see further examples of these types of skills.

11. Career Coaching Graduate / Mater’s Resume Group Advising
Select Wednesdays in ADM 201 from 3:45-5:00pm
2/1, 2/8, 3/15, 3/22, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3
Virtual Career Chat
Fridays Webex Platform from 2:00-3:00pm
(by going to our webpage and clicking on the yellow
Career Advising button to direct you to the WebEx links)
Drop – In Hours*
Monday- Thursday
Check calendar for hours/locations
*Undergraduate students receive priority
Action items to do prior to career advising sessions
Watch Resume video 101
Check out sample resumes
Review cover letter resources
Create draft of resume and / or cover letter
Bring hard copy of resume
**Come prepared to maximize time
Now that you have some examples you can add them to your resume. We call these examples, accomplishment statements.
According to the employers and recruiters that we’ve worked with, the most common mistakes on a resume
Are:
Grammar/Spelling errors
Resume is not targeted to a specific job or field
And that Candidates Listed responsibilities rather than accomplishments that demonstrate the use of specific skills
And when we work with students, they often state that the hardest part of writing their resume is developing strong content to describe what they’ve done.
As you can see in this example, accomplishment statements are the bullet point phrases that show how you’ve contributed on a project, job or internship.

12. Career Prep Workshops/Webinars
Workshop*: Interview with Confidence
Thursday March 2:30-3:30pm (ADM 201)
Workshop*: Launching Your Seasonal/Summer Job Search
Tuesday April 1:30 & 2:30pm (ADM 201)
Workshop*: Networking
Thursday April 3:00-4:00pm (ADM 201)
Webinar: Acing the Technical Resume
Tuesday February 12:00-1:00pm (WebEx)
Webinar: Succeeding at the Job Fair
Tuesday February 12:00-1:00pm (WebEx)
Webinar: Seasonal/Summer Employment
Tuesday April 12:00-1:00pm (WebEx)
WORKSHOPS*
Workshops have limited seating
First come, first served basis
Bring your SJSU Tower ID Card
WEBINARS
Go to
and click on the grey Webinars button to direct you to the WebEx links.
Now that you have some examples you can add them to your resume. We call these examples, accomplishment statements.
According to the employers and recruiters that we’ve worked with, the most common mistakes on a resume
Are:
Grammar/Spelling errors
Resume is not targeted to a specific job or field
And that Candidates Listed responsibilities rather than accomplishments that demonstrate the use of specific skills
And when we work with students, they often state that the hardest part of writing their resume is developing strong content to describe what they’ve done.
As you can see in this example, accomplishment statements are the bullet point phrases that show how you’ve contributed on a project, job or internship.

13. Employer Connections INFO SESSIONS / TECH TALKS / JOB FAIRS
Employers share information about their companies and opportunities
Attend to gain valuable information to be more competitive when talking to employers and applying for jobs
Look for dates on career center calendar
Advertised in SpartaJobs weekly enotes
Now that you have some examples you can add them to your resume. We call these examples, accomplishment statements.
According to the employers and recruiters that we’ve worked with, the most common mistakes on a resume
Are:
Grammar/Spelling errors
Resume is not targeted to a specific job or field
And that Candidates Listed responsibilities rather than accomplishments that demonstrate the use of specific skills
And when we work with students, they often state that the hardest part of writing their resume is developing strong content to describe what they’ve done.
As you can see in this example, accomplishment statements are the bullet point phrases that show how you’ve contributed on a project, job or internship.

14. WELCOME TO SJSU! www.sjsu.edu/careercenter careerhelp@sjsu.edu
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facebook.com/careercenter
twitter.com/SJSUCareerCntr
Now that you have some examples you can add them to your resume. We call these examples, accomplishment statements.
According to the employers and recruiters that we’ve worked with, the most common mistakes on a resume
Are:
Grammar/Spelling errors
Resume is not targeted to a specific job or field
And that Candidates Listed responsibilities rather than accomplishments that demonstrate the use of specific skills
And when we work with students, they often state that the hardest part of writing their resume is developing strong content to describe what they’ve done.
As you can see in this example, accomplishment statements are the bullet point phrases that show how you’ve contributed on a project, job or internship.