Prepare for Your Bright Future

There’s a lot you can do to prepare for your career while still in college. Use this year-by-year checklist as a guide and be sure to stop by the Center for Career & Calling for advice, resources, and more.

Let’s Go: Career Prep Advice By Year

  • Take classes that interest you
  • Explore majors by talking to professors and upperclassmen
  • Decide what you want from college, both short- and long-term
  • Develop great study habits
  • Get to know Handshake
  • Seek academic help as needed
  • Move toward clarity about your career goals — see what work you enjoy, how your goals shift, what new careers you hear about
  • Make friends and get involved on campus
  • Use Handshake to find opportunities (career-related internships, volunteer roles, and other part-time positions)
  • Keep an eye on your GPA; you’ll be glad you did!

  • Meet with Center for Career & Calling staff to confirm your long-term goals
  • Register on Handshake
  • Attend a resume workshop
  • Create a resume draft and upload it to Handshake
  • Complete a mock job interview
  • Complete an internship
  • Attend the Belhaven Career Fair
  • Meet with your advisor to make sure you’re on track for graduation
  • Look for ways to get involved in leadership on campus
  • If you’re planning to attend graduate school, look up the required entrance test and take a practice version
  • Keep an eye on your GPA

  • Meet with Center for Career & Calling staff to set firm steps to meet your goals
  • Apply for graduation
  • Attend a resume workshop to refine your resume; upload it to Handshake
  • Complete a mock job interview
  • Attend the Belhaven Career Fair
  • Attend a Governor’s Job Fair
  • If you’re planning to attend graduate school, look up the required entrance test and take a practice version
  • Keep an eye on your GPA

Contact Us

Center for Career & Calling

Phone: 601-968-8995

Library | Main Floor
1500 Peachtree Street, Campus Box 265
Jackson, MS 39202

Fax: 601-510-5544

clangley@belhaven.edu

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Verse of the Year

God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him.

Philippians 2:13

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