{"id":33041,"date":"2025-01-03T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=33041"},"modified":"2025-01-03T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:03:47","slug":"career-center-mesh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/student-resources\/career-center-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of Maine Career Center, a department within the Division of Student Life<\/a>, serves all students and fee-paying alumni of the University of Maine. Through its services and programs, the Center promotes effective career planning skills, teaches job search strategies, and facilitates contacts between University of Maine students, alumni, and employers. The Career Center offers assistance to students as they explore their academic interests and the relationship between majors and career opportunities. Assistance with job-seeking skills, full-time employment, and graduate\/professional school options is provided through various program offerings. The Career Center also coordinates the Experiential Education program<\/a>, providing work\/learning opportunities in conjunction with over 50 academic departments. Students can set up appointments in advance or attend walk-in hours. You can create or log into your CareerLink account from the Career Center<\/a> website. CareerLink can be helpful for connecting with employers and finding potential internship or job opportunities. There is more information about available resources, open hours, and how to set up appointments on the Career Center<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff members provide individual counseling to help students explore career options, set career goals, and devise strategies for reaching these goals. Counselors are actively involved in outreach programming in residence halls, academic classes, and organizations on campus. The Career Library<\/a>, located in the Career Center, contains extensive written and audio-visual materials on careers, employers, and graduate schools. Please contact the Career Center at 207-581-1359 or umainecareercenter@maine.edu<\/a> for assistance. You can also reach out on Facebook (UMaine CareerCenter<\/a>), LinkedIn (University of Maine Career Center<\/a>), Twitter (UMaine Career Center<\/a>), YouTube (UMaine Career Center<\/a>), or Pinterest: UMaine Career Center<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Career Center sponsors special events on an on-going basis. These programs are designed to help students make connections with employers, either for career information or for employment assistance. An example of such a program is the UMaine Career Fair<\/a>, an annual fair with over 150 companies attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers from a variety of regional and national firms conduct interviews on campus for graduating students. A number of organizations also interview underclass students on campus for summer or cooperative education positions. In addition, the Center collects and publishes information regarding job openings for graduates. Students are also encouraged to develop their own personalized job search, and assistance is provided through individual counseling and group workshops such as Resume and Cover Letters and Interviewing Skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Maine Career Center, a department within the Division of Student Life, serves all students and fee-paying alumni of the University of Maine. Through its services and programs, the Center promotes effective career planning skills, teaches job search strategies, and facilitates contacts between University of Maine students, alumni, and employers. The Career Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"parent":33026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33044,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33041\/revisions\/33044"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}