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Career and Internship Center
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The Career and Internship Center is an integral
part of Bradford's Practical Liberal Arts curriculum. The Center is where
students explore their future role in the world of work. They could be
a first year student looking for a summer job; a sophomore exploring an
off-campus study program in Washington, DC, New York City or London; a
student writing their resume; a junior trying to decide where to do an
internship; a senior researching the job market; or an adult learner reentering
the work world.
Bradford's Career and Internship Center
and its staff of professional career counselors and job placement specialists
are available to help students understand how to use their liberal arts
education in the global market place. .
Alumni Career Contacts
The Career and Internship Center maintains
an extensive data base of its alumni and their career paths. Students
can arrange to meet or speak with alumnus whose work experience and background
are of particular interest.
The Bradford Planner Program
The Bradford Planner is a personalized
and computerized program designed to help students organize and plan their
skills and experiences in a way that will make them viable candidates
to potential employers and competitive candidates for admission to graduate
schools. It will also give students a brief assessment of their co-curricular
involvement to assist them in being intentional about other opportunities
to choose from in the future.
The Planner is divided into two sections:
the Skills Inventory and the Bradford Planner Transcript.
- The Skills Inventory enables students to determine the range of abilities developed in 8 skill areas: communication/interpersonal skills, creativity, information technology, leadership, multicultural experiences, and organizational, professional and personal development.
- The Bradford Planner Transcript enables students to document the
variety, depth, and length of their co-curricular involvement in a number
of campus activities, jobs, and summer experiences.
Career Counseling
All Bradford students are eligible for private career counseling. Students may also choose at that time to complete a variety of interest and vocational surveys that would assist them in deciding on a particular major or minor. Additional career related software is also available in the Career Resource Room.Career Related Workshops
Workshops for students are held throughout the academic year or by private appointment. Topics include resume and cover letter writing, interviewing techniques, time management, and a variety of current topics. Videotaped mock interviews can also be arranged. Friday Work-Site Series
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Graduate School Information
Information on graduate and professional schools
is maintained in the Career and Internship Center's Library to assist
students intending to continue their higher education. Students can use
Discover - a computer database- to research schools and financial aid
application requirements for every graduate school in the United States.
The Career Center also provides individual graduate school counseling.
Internet Job Research Room
An extensive collection of resources such
as CD-ROM's, books, videos, directories, periodicals and resource files
are available in the Internet Job Research Room to support a student's career
research efforts. In addition, online job-search databases are available
to students to retrieve employment leads; research companies, and uses electronic
resume services.Internship Program
All students are encouraged to participate in one or more of our Internship Program options as part of their Bradford Liberal Arts education. The Internship Program is an experiential educational program. The student intern contracts with an organization to provide specific outcomes/services, which meet the student's learning goals as well as the needs of the organization.Using the actual work as the foundation, the students actively engage in their own educational and professional growth through self-conscious reflection and analysis. Interns gain a clearer focus on their career and educational objectives, and a renewed commitment to their academic success. In addition to actual required onsite hours, students attend a bi-weekly seminar series and are required to complete significant course work in order to receive academic credit.
Bradford College now offers three, six, or nine credit internship options to students. A student may combine these options for a maximum of 12 credit hours. Student must be a second semester sophomore, junior or senior and have a 2.00 cumulative GPA to participate in the internship program.
Off-Campus Study
Bradford College actively encourages off-campus study programs as a means of further enriching students' educational experience. Affiliations with a variety of programs allow Bradford students to earn Bradford credit while studying at another location, in the United States or abroad. In some instances, financial aid awarded by Bradford College can be applied to these programs.
Study Abroad
Foreign study or internships during the summer or a semester in the junior year can provide students with the invaluable experience of life in another culture and, in many instances, the opportunity to improve their knowledge of a second or third language.
Online Employer Database
The Career and Internship Center offers a wide collection of job opportunities on the Internet and also through Bradford's network. In addition to the plethora of easy to use, comprehensive sites are opportunities for online informational interviewing, resume referrals, guidelines for writing resumes, cover letters and acknowledgment notes.
Student Employment
The majority of Bradford College students
receive Federal Work-Study awards and are employed an average of 10 hours
each week on campus or at an off-campus non-profit agency or organization.
The Work-Study Program at Bradford has been uniquely designed to allow students
to participate in an interest survey and skill identification workshop prior
to a screening and interview process. The Career and Internship Center also sponsors "Hot Jobs," an in-house telephone service of on and off campus part-time jobs. Other part-time positions are listed on the Bradford network and in the Career Resource Library.
