Making Career Connections

An Early Start Makes Career Planning a Breeze

University and college is a place to explore your interests and test-drive possible career options while learning valuable skills. If school prepares you for a great career, then how do you make the transition from successful student to successful graduate?

The keys to a successful career are an early start and learning from every opportunity. Starting a part-time or summer job may not seem like much more than earning a little extra cash in your spare time, but the earning power is just a start; you are building skills, gaining references, and accumulating that all-important work experience that employers look for in likely candidates.

Taking every opportunity to learn about yourself and get a second opinion is where university career services offers the most benefit. Nipissing University offers programs for work study around your classes, community service learning, to learn skills in the workplace, and Career Transitions for both students and graduates, a service devoted to helping students with questions and concerns they may have related to their future career. The Career Education Centre provides career counseling, employment opportunities, resume clinics, mentorship programs, job fairs, and the list goes on.

Biidaaban: Community Service Learning is a program based on applying what you learn in class to the working world; making connections from class to career gives you an edge over traditional classroom learning by offering practical experience to answer the age-old question students have been asking since high school algebra: so why are we learning this anyway?

There is always someone in your corner at Nipissing to help you get the most out of your student experience, take it from our current students’ experience. Explore your options as a student, and see why you belong at Nipissing University.