Mid-College Career sessions are designed with sophomore and junior students in mind, however, any class year is welcome to take any session within the track.
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Level Up Your Resume and Cover Letter
The Center for Career Engagement is seeking students who want to take their resume to the next level. Whether you’ve just started your resume, are transitioning from a high school resume to a professional one, have too many experiences or not enough, we want to hear from you at this session. We’ll start with a resume overview, work together to evaluate effectiveness and edit experiences, and examine experience gaps. We will also review cover letters as they can show potential employers you're the right person for the job. Help your application documents be more impressive and effective, so you land that first interview and the next and the next.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Understand the individual purposes of the resume and cover letter.
- Gain the tools to edit and update your documents as needed.
- Discover what to look for in job and internship advertisements and know how to tailor your documents accordingly.
- Learn how to follow up with potential employers and where to look for possible connections within an organization.
A Crash Course in Thinking About and Applying to Law School
Why go to law school? If you want to go, how do you get there? These two questions will animate an interactive workshop with Gettysburg College's faculty pre-law advisor Scott Boddery and current Harvard Law student Ben Pontz ’20.
After sharing some high-level thoughts about reasons to go and not to go, Boddery and Pontz will delve into the nuts and bolts of how to develop a comprehensive and personalized application strategy driven to maximize a student's chances of achieving their goals. Boddery and Pontz will remain available to students after the session to discuss their individual aspirations and plans.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Articulate the pros and cons of going to law school and what is reasonable and unreasonable to expect while there.
- Gain the tools to distinguish law schools from one another and understand how to develop a balanced list of schools to apply to, leverage for scholarship opportunities, and ultimately matriculate.
- See and hear examples of application strategies that work and that do not work, from personal statements to engagement with law school admissions offices.
Be a Better Leader: Situational Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Want to be a great leader? Focus on people over performance. How you build relationships with your team matters. What kind of leader are they expecting? As the person in charge, can you adapt your approach in a crisis or on deadline? Managing attitudes, motivating people, and reducing conflict are critical skills to master now, as a student, as you prepare to enter the workforce. Instead of putting your personality in a box, use it. In this interactive session you’ll do exercises to identify your own leadership style, and learn to recognize and lean into emotions to improve performance. Whether you’re captain of the lacrosse team or president of your fraternity, leadership styles – and skills like empathy and self-awareness – are key to getting things done.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Discover your personal leadership style.
- Explain the importance of situational leadership.
- Apply emotional intelligence as a leader.
Doing Good and Doing Well Career Meetup
The meetup will bring students together with alumni, parents, and friends of Gettysburg College in the fields of nonprofit, social good, and sustainability to facilitate knowledge sharing, career engagement, and mentoring relationships. The Center for Career Engagement (CCE) will offer prep materials in advance of the meetup focused on industry basics, as well as refining one’s professional presence and personal pitch for networking.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Trends, pathways, and issues from professionals across fields.
- Job search advice and insights from recruiting and hiring leaders.
- Initial connections with members of the Gettysburg Network for potential mentorship and future networking conversations.
Beyond Banking Career Meetup
The meetup will bring students together with alumni, parents, and friends of Gettysburg College in the fields of financial advising, internal finance, and risk/insurance to facilitate knowledge sharing, career engagement, and mentoring relationships. The Center for Career Engagement (CCE) will offer prep materials in advance of the meetup focused on industry basics, as well as refining one’s professional presence and personal pitch for networking.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Trends, pathways, and issues from professionals across fields.
- Job search advice and insights from recruiting and hiring leaders.
- Initial connections with members of the Gettysburg Network for potential mentorship and future networking conversations.
Excel Like a Pro
While most Gettysburg students have previously used Microsoft Excel, many are only scratching the surface of its capabilities. In this session, you will learn how to get the very most out of the software and learn to use it like a true pro! Participants will explore intermediate-level features and tools in Excel that can help create, process, analyze, and calculate complex business data.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Recognize and create proper spreadsheet design.
- Understand spreadsheet formulas, pivot tables, graphics, smart art, and add-ins.
- Leverage Excel as a tool to convey and organize your information and data.
Landing Page Creation and Digital Marketing
Join us for a free 90-minute workshop on landing page creation and digital marketing. You will walk away with your own fully functional landing page and a good understanding of how marketing funnels and digital marketing works. We will also show you how to find and register the perfect .com domain for your business so you will be ready to launch a great-looking landing page (website) for your business. **BONUS: Whoever designs the best landing page gets a FREE 1-year .com domain registration**
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Create your own fully functioning landing page.
- Find and register the perfect .com domain name for your business.
- Gain a greater understanding of marketing funnels and digital marketing.