Office of Career Success & Experiential Learning

Services provided

• Individual career counseling to help you identify your interests, skills, learning & decision-making styles, personality traits and values.
• Internship and cooperative education opportunities that provide a chance for you to gain experience in a field, make valuable contacts and become a more marketable candidate when you’re ready for a full-time job in your career.
• Workshops conducted throughout the academic year on such topics as figuring out your career path or exploring internships and cooperative education.
• FOCUS, an online self assessment that will help you select a major and career path.
• Tools to assist you with resume writing, job interviews and job searches so you are able to land your dream job.
• Research on career options, employment trends, earnings and educational requirements.

CAREER COACHING & Counseling

RVCC offers individual career counseling and assessment services to currently enrolled matriculated students--those planning to obtain a degree at the College--and to alumni. Career counseling can assist individuals in making informed choices about career and educational plans. A Career Counselor can help identify interests, skills and values and relate them to appropriate occupational goals. Also, the career development professionals assist with all aspects of career preparation and are here to help students to become job and internship ready! Email the Office of Career Success & Experiential Learning to learn more: careerservices@raritanval.edu or drop by the College Center building, Room C120.    
 

Employment Process

The Office of Career Success & Experiential Learning office also assists individuals with preparing for the job search process. Workshops are offered each semester on resume development, effective interviewing skills, internships, job search and success tips, networking and social media, and more. In addition, our office maintains an online database of job and internship postings.

• Students discover jobs and internships
• Employers join the online database of job and internship postings