Career Services Center

Services Available for Current Students

When you make an appointment or attend an event, Career Services can assist you with every point of your career journey including:

• • Exploration: Exploring Careers, Exploring Nevada State Majors
  • Application Material Review: Resumes/CV, Cover Letters, Reference Pages
  • Interviewing Skills: Best Interview Practices, Mock/Simulation Interviews with Real-Time Feedback
  • Job Searching: Where to find positions (Handshake & LinkedIn), on-campus job search
  • Networking: Creating LinkedIn account, understanding how to network
  • Reviewing/Negotiating Jobs: Reviewing benefits packages, negotiating salary/perks
  • General Career Finances: Understanding how to budget with your salary/income, understanding your loan payments with your salary/income (for specific questions on paying back student loans, please speak to the Financial Aid Office)
  • Hands-On Learning: Searching & Applying for Internships & Volunteer roles
  • Grad / Pre-Professional School: Reviewing and comparing programs, understanding program prerequisites, how to get letters of recommendation
  • …and more! Just let us know what we can help you with.

Student Responsibilities

When utilizing CSC services and attending events hosted by CSC, students are expected to:

1. 1. Understand that career advising is reciprocal; you get out what you put in.
   2. Understand that Career Advisors cannot make decisions for you. They can provide guidance on career-related choices, but it is ultimately up to you to make decisions regarding your career journey.
   3. Understand that Career Advisors are not here to “make” any materials for you. They provide instruction and guidance on how to construct resumes, cover letters, reference pages, and more utilizing best practices, but you are required to create these documents yourself. Asking a Career Advisor to “write your resume for you” is plagiarism.

Services Available for Nevada State Alumni

Alumni of Nevada State have access to the Career Services Center for life! We can support you with many aspects of your career journey. Here are the current services we offer to alumni:

• Exploration: Exploring careers, exploring a career change
• Application Material Review: Resumes/CV, cover letters, references
• Interviewing Skills: Best interview practices, mock/simulation interviews with real-time feedback
• Job Searching: Where to find positions (Handshake & LinkedIn)
• General Career Finances: Understanding how to budget with your salary/income
• Reviewing/Negotiating Jobs: Reviewing benefits packages, negotiating salary/perks
• Grad / Pre-Professional School: Reviewing and comparing programs, understanding program prerequisites, how to get letters of recommendation

Alumni also have access to attend large-scale events hosted by Career Services including our annual Grad School Fair (Fall) and Career Fair (Spring).

Alumni Responsibilities

When utilizing CSC services and attending events hosted by CSC, alumni are expected to:

1. 1. Understand that career advising is reciprocal; you get out what you put in.
   2. Understand that Career Advisors cannot make decisions for you. They can provide guidance on career-related choices, but it is ultimately up to you to make decisions regarding your career journey.
   3. Understand that Career Advisors are not here to “make” any materials for you. They provide instruction and guidance on how to construct resumes, cover letters, reference pages, and more utilizing best practices, but you are required to create these documents yourself. Asking a Career Advisor to “write your resume for you” is plagiarism.

On Demand Resources

For on-demand resources on resumes, cover letters, internships, job searching, grad school and more, you can navigate to our Outlook Sharepoint site. From there, you can view, download and save resources to your own device!

The Career Services Center understands, acknowledges and celebrates that different identities, and the intersections of those identities, will impact the way you navigate and view your career and your career development journey. To support the diverse needs of our current students and alumni, we have compiled identity-based resources that will help you not only navigate your career journey, but also make informed decisions about life after college.

• Undocumented Students
• Justice – Impacted Students (Students Affected by Criminal Justice System)
• First – Generation Students
• Students with Disabilities
• LGBTQIA2+ Students
• More identity-based resources coming AY 23 – 24.

If you have any questions about any of these resources, would like to explore these resources further, or have further questions about your career journey, please contact our office or make an appointment. We are more than happy to help!

Events

To learn more about Career Services events, go to Scorpion Central, Nevada State’s student engagement platform. To see which employers will be available on-campus to network and recruit in our Roger’s Student Center, please go to our Employer Tabling schedule.

Employer and Community Partners

Welcome! Nevada State’s Career Services Center looks forward to assisting you in connecting with students, developing branding efforts, and recruiting on campus. There are a variety of ways to help your organization stand out and gain the attention of our students. If you are interested in connecting with Nevada State students, please read our Nevada State Recruiting Guidelines.

All guidelines are subject to change at Nevada State Career Services Center’s discretion. Privileges for recruiting at Nevada State may be revoked at any time if the Career Services Center feels that any illegal or inappropriate actions are taken from an organization or if an organization no longer follows our recruiting guidelines.

Benefits of engaging with students through Career Services:

• Increase visibility of job/internship opportunities
• Build long-term brand awareness
• Connect with eager individuals looking to showcase their talents
• Build student and faculty/staff campus networks
• Recruit individuals with fresh knowledge and skills

Engagement Opportunities

Please contact the Career Services Center for more information on how to connect with our students.

• Get Featured in CSC’s Monthly Newsletter to Students

• Get Featured on CSC’s Social Media Pages

• Giving to Nevada State Foundation Scholarships

About Career Services

Presentations & Workshops

The Career Services team is available to come to your class or program to discuss career-related topics. Please complete our Presentation/Workshop Request Form and let us know in the comment section any additional details that will help us tailor the presentation/workshop to your needs.

Presentation or Workshop requests from Career Services must be made at minimum 2 weeks in advance. Any requests not made 2 weeks in advance cannot be guaranteed.

Course Assignments

The Career Services team is available to support faculty and instructors in creating course assignments that help students gain knowledge and build skills towards their future career. We can provide resources and expertise to ensure your career-related assignments are relevant, meaningful and based in current workforce knowledge and trends. Some assignments we have supported faculty with creating include but are not limited to:

• Custom industry interview questions for interview practice via Big Interview 
• Conducting informational interviews (where to find industry professionals, what to ask, how to reflect on the experience)
• Creating and practicing “elevator” pitches

Please contact our office at career@nevadastate.edu or (702) 992-2611 to discuss course assignments.

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