2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog

The Career Development and Placement Center

The Career Development and Placement Center provides guidance and preparation to full-time and part-time students who have matriculated toward a degree from freshman year until graduation four years later and throughout their lives as alumni. Career Development programs and services include:

  • Major in Success program assists students in gaining self-knowledge, selecting a major, and researching compatible career options;
  • Career testing including the CareerBeam, a self-directed career planning system, the Strong Interest Inventory, and the Myers-Briggs Type Personality Indicator (MBTI);
  • Assistance finding paid and unpaid internships for which students may be able to earn academic credit;
  • One-on-one career counseling for career-related issues;
  • Help finding part-time and summer employment;
  • Résumé writing and interviewing skills workshops;
  • Career panel discussions, networking and etiquette events, employer on-campus interviewing, and job fairs;
  • Online job postings—the office maintains an online job bank and job search management website exclusively for Sacred Heart University students;
  • Guidance in conducting a senior-year job search for a full-time position after graduation; and
  • Planning for and researching graduate school options.

The Career Development and Placement Center is located in the Linda E. McMahon Commons building and can be reached by phone at 203-371-7975 or via e-mail at careerdev@sacredheart.edu.