How The Career & Transfer Center Supports...

Academic Advisement

• Refer students – The Career & Transfer Center helps students determine the right major/career based upon their interests, career goals, skills, values, and personality. The Center administers a variety of inventories and helps students research majors and career possibilities. We are a student’s best resource for job outlook, salary, and employment trends. 

• Presentations to your classes— We specialize in conducting presentations to the classes you teach and the student organizations you advise.  We cover a host of career-related topics, such as how to choose a career, resume writing, job-search strategies, and interviewing skills. In addition, we can arrange presentations by professionals who can discuss how their college majors impacted their careers. 

• Utilize our office as an assignment for your students — Examples of assignments faculty are currently making include: 

1. Registration on the Westchester Community College official on-line job board-CCN

2. Completion of the self-assessment exercises in DISCOVER, our career planning program

3. Writing cover letters and resumes

4. Attending Interview Skills workshops

5. Preparing portfolios

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Student & Alumni Employment

• We help students gain experience in their fields of interest — An internship/co-op experience or part-time employment should be an important part of a student’s overall educational experience.  Through our network of employers we can help students identify internship and cooperative education opportunities that will best serve them in their academic and professional pursuits.  

• We know employers who want to know you —We work directly with employers who often ask for the contact information of faculty members so that they can identify top students. Ideally, employers would like to develop mutually beneficial relationships with faculty, and can provide many forms of support. We can help facilitate that connection.  

• We place students who have been awarded Federal Work-Study funds (through Financial Aid) in jobs on and off campus. Through the America Reads/Counts program, students can work as tutors in elementary schools, the YMCA or community centers. Community service positions in non-profit organizations are also available.  

• We help students develop essential job-search skills — Require graduating students to write an acceptable resume and cover letter or portfolio. Invite us to your classroom or suggest attendance at our workshops for resume prep and interviewing skills. We can conduct mock interviews with students and then provide a constructive critique of their performance.   These can be accomplished with a counselor or with a web video system.

• Career fairs attract many recruiters to the campus — Career fairs provide excellent opportunities for students to meet representatives from companies in their industries of choice.  It gives them the opportunity to establish a network of contacts. We will help your students research the employers beforehand and provide tips so they are prepared to effectively engage recruiters.

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Questions? Please contact us.