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‘Career Connection’ online and on the job

Sacramento State students now have access to job listings round-the-clock thanks to a popular free online service which has just been introduced by the Career Center.

The new service called “Career Connection,” is available at www.csus.edu/careercenter. The link from the career center’s home page not only allows off-campus employers to post job openings for students but also gives faculty and staff an opportunity to list campus jobs for students.

“Students now have greater access to all the job opportunities offered by the Career Center,” says Anna Domek, a career counselor in the Career Center who is helping oversee operation of Career Connection. “Our students have busy lives. They’re studying, they are working and they don’t always have time to come into the Career Center between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. This new service gives students access to job listing at any time.”

In the past, students had to physically come to campus to use the center’s database of job listings, which were entered into the system by Career Center personnel. Now employers are able to manage their own listings by adding new jobs and deleting ones once they are filled. All positions are screened by the Career Center before they are posted on Career Connection.

Domek says that since the service debuted in June nearly 1,100 employers from the Sacramento region and beyond have signed up to list part-time and full-time jobs as well as internships and volunteer opportunities with Career Connection, a career services management system endorsed by the National Association for College and Employers.

More than 1,400 jobs have been listed since the service began. Currently about 700 jobs, internships or volunteer opportunities are listed. Students, who can apply for jobs online, can also search for jobs in several ways, including by major or by field of interest. About 1,100 students have registered with the Career Center to use the service, Domek says.

Not only can students search for jobs, they can also post their resumes for viewing by potential employers. Domek says more than 260 have been posted to date. And the Career Center makes its resume service available to students whose resumes may need a bit of fine tuning.

Another important feature, Domek says, gives students the opportunity to network with professionals in different career fields. Sacramento area professionals, many of whom are alumni of the University, have made themselves available to students for questions such as what the average workday is like for an accountant. “We have a number of people who have volunteered to answer questions from students,” Domek said. “It is a great service for our students to have.”

Career Connection also gives students the latest information about Career Center events and other services. “This gives the Career Center a better chance of telling students some of the other services available to them. We want students to start thinking about the Career Center long before they graduate and look for that first full-time job.”

Through Career Connection, employers, including Sacramento State faculty and staff, are able to post their positions directly online, receive resume books from qualified students and register for upcoming career fairs and other events sponsored by the Career Center.

“I think we have been successful in the getting employers to sign up and students to use the service,” says Domek. “It is something that helps both students and employers.”

Domek added that alumni of Sacramento State can use the Career Connection as part of the Career Center’s fee-based services for alums.