Starting Your Career Now
It's never too early to start exploring your career options and gaining the skills and experience you need to realize your goals. Get a leg up on the competition by taking advantage of the opportunities you have now!
Career Planning
Engaging in a career planning process is essential to making good decisions about your future. The first step--evaluate your unique skills, interests, and values. Next, explore your career options by doing some research to see what appeals to you most. Then, it is often helpful to gain some career-related experience to affirm your decision and to make yourself more marketable after you graduate. Whether you decide to pursue more education or jump straight out into the professional world, University Career Services offers numerous services to help you get a head start.
Internships
These onsite learning experiences let you confirm your career choice, network in your field, increase your marketability, and get some experience without all the pressure. University Career Services offers a number of programs that assist students in finding internship opportunities. There are internships available in a diverse array of areas; there are paid and unpaid opportunities, as well as internships that offer stipends.
Student Assistantships
Assistantships often provide the convenience of working on campus and the benefits of interacting with other members of the Georgia State community in order to explore your chosen field and make contacts within it.
Career Library
University Career Services offers an up to date Career Library with staff trained to help you access the services and information you need whether you are looking for a job or making career decisions. You will find computerized career guidance and decision making tools, subscriptions to sites about careers and employers, and books on a variety of career related topics.