Are you a student preparing a career? Here you have some professional tips that will help you in your journey.
10 Professional Tips For Students
For students taking their first steps into the working world can be overwhelming. Saginaw Valley State University’s Career Services website offers tips for students on a variety of career topics. These include tips for undergraduate students, tips for university students, tips for college students and tips for students remote learning.
Do you need help in your career? Read these professional tips.
The tips in this article include jobs with tips for college students, job interview tips for students, tips to students for motivation and tips for students to be successful in general.
TIPS LIST
1. When networking, you want to focus your efforts. In particular seek out companies that have job openings that have not been publicized, are expanding, are accumulating new orders or where you have the opportunity to solve a problem.
2. In networking there are three types of contacts. Level 1 are people that you know such as family and professors. Level 2 are people who are acquaintances of people in Level 1. Level 3 are acquaintances of people in Level 2. For students who are nervous about approaching strangers, this strategic approach can help them easy their way into networking and motivate them to build their contacts.
3. Social media is a good way to stay in contact with companies that interest you. For example, by “liking” a company on Facebook, you can stay up to date on what is going on that that company.
4. An ePortfolio is good a way to show potential employers your accomplishments, as well as you communication and technical skills.
5. While comical voicemail messages can be fun, it’s important that your voicemail message is professional and appropriate if a potential employer calls.
6. Beyond anticipating what questions you might be asked, you should video yourself doing a practice interview. While it can be uncomfortable watching a video of oneself, it will help you recognize things like nervous twitches.
7. Practice driving to the interview’s location ahead of time. Even with GPS or services like mapquest.com, it is good to familiarize yourself with the route.
8. For answering interview questions and in particular questions where you need to give an example of your own work experience, SVSU recommends the STAR Guide. Situation is where example takes place. Task is details about the problem or challenged you faced. Action is not only what you did but also what you considered but didn’t do and why. Results is analyzing the outcome of the action you took and whether or not you would take the same action again.
9. SVSU also recommends sending a follow up letter after an interview formatted with one-inch margins on the sides and top. Because this step is often forgotten by interviewees, it can help you stand out from the pack.
10. Although salary negotiations are common in job interviews, SVSU recommends not bring it up during an interview. Instead, wait if the Hiring Manager conducting the interview insists on discussing it. If you are asked for a number, give a salary range.
For more information visit https://www.svsu.edu/careerservices/forstudents/professionaltips/
