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Career Services will help you:
- Assess your strengths
- Consider appropriate career options
- Set a individual plan of action
- Take action
- Succeed
Finding the right career choice starts during your first year at VMI. There are a myriad of tasks to accomplish during your four years at VMI to make you competitive in today's job market. Use the following checklist to prepare for YOUR FUTURE.
Four-Year Plan for cadets The four-year plan is designed for the VMI cadet so you can make the most of your four years as you prepare for your life’s career. It provides you with benchmarks for planning your undergraduate career and for sharing your achievements with your advisor, professors, friends, parents, and prospective employers or graduate school admissions committees. The plan will help you assess your accomplishments – and determine what your next steps should be. In other words, the Four-Year Plan is intended to provide a roadmap for maximizing opportunities in your curricular and co-curricular life as a cadet at VMI.
On-Post Recruiting Program
KeydetConnect is a web-based management tool for scheduling on-Post job interviews, managing presentations and collecting electronic resumes for distribution to employers. Cadets can upload cover letters and resumes, request interviews, and conduct searches for employment oportunities by keywords. For more information see the KeydetConnect Guide.
Online Career Information
Career Search is an employer database with contact information and direct links to over 4 million employers. Cadets can search by industry group, geographic region, individual cities, company size, and key words. For more information, see the Career Search Users Guide.
Internships.com is the largest internship listing in the world (approx. 9,000 listings, 7,200 organizations/companies). It contains internships from companies large and small, local and international, and exposes cadets to opportunities you wouldn't find anywhere else. The Internships.com site allows cadets to maintain an internship account to track applications and, ultimately, internship projects once you are employed. For more information, see the Internships.com Guide.
FOCUS 2 is an online, self-guided program which identifies your work values, skills, personality preferences, and natural strengths to help you make decisions about your future career goals. For more information, see the FOCUS 2 Users Guide.
Sigi 3 educational and career planning software integrates self-assessment and career information to help facilitate effective career decision making. Follow the Sigi 3 link to create a username and password. For more information, see the SIGI 3 Users Guide.
VAULT career information center has a wide array of on-line career information guides regarding numerous topics including resumes, interviews and job search advice. Also available are organizational profiles for over 4,000 potential employers in various industries and a searchable list of specific employment opportunities. To sign in: click on VAULT above and use your VMI username and password to sign in. For more information, see the Vault Users Guide.
