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"College 2 Career" - Designing Your Plan
The Career Development Center is dedicated to a College 2 Career mindset - where students are holistically supported to explore their passions, discover their purpose, and start to design their plan for life after ODU.
About Us
Vision
Ohio Dominican University’s Career Development Center strives to create and deliver impactful programs and services that encourage students and alumni to proactively engage in their unique career journey, seeing career development as an integral part of their holistic college education.
Purpose
To achieve this vision, our purpose in the Career Development Center is to support and equip students and alumni from all walks of life to explore career and academic options and to identify career goals, empowering them to take hold of, develop and shape their personal and professional journey while also providing them with applicable and beneficial skills, resources and opportunities in pursuit of those goals.
Values
- Uniqueness & Authenticity: The CDC recognizes and values that each student and alum is different in their makeup and in their personal and academic journeys, and we encourage students to be authentic to themselves and CDC staff to be authentic and honest with the students and alumni with whom we work.
- Participation & Engagement: The CDC encourages each student to be more than just a participant in their career development process, but to be the impetus for change, taking ownership and leadership of the process.
- Community & Collaboration: The CDC values the ODU community, as well as the professional community and industries with which we work, and we strive to work together with students, faculty, staff, community partners and employers to strengthen the value and impact of our services, offerings and advice.
- Growth & Learning: The CDC values a love of learning, encouraging not only students but CDC staff as well to adopt a curious and contemplative spirit, promoting an environment in which successes are celebrated and mistakes, obstacles and setbacks are not feared but viewed as stepping stones toward growth.
- Practical Experience: The CDC believes that the experiences, skills and connections students gain through Experiential Learning: internships, cooperative education, research opportunities and other practical experiences are invaluable. By combining real-world experience with classroom study, education becomes more relevant and engaging, and students are better able to make informed career decisions and are better prepared for the job market.
You can schedule an appointment with Career Development through Navigate360. Care Unit: Career Development Center – with Rachel Benway-Long
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No-Show Policy for Career Advising Appointments & Programming
We understand that unexpected academic obligations, work commitments, and illnesses
can affect your schedule. However, please inform the Career Development Center of
any change as early as possible, as there is a high demand for appointments. Your
cancellation will allow us to offer your time slot to another student. Be sure to
check your schedule carefully in order to avoid multiple appointment cancellations.
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What is Career Readiness?
Career readiness is a foundation from which to demonstrate required core competencies that broadly prepare college educated people for success in the workplace and lifelong career management.
Career + Self-Development
Proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional
learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities,
and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization.
Communication
Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with
persons inside and outside of an organization.
Critical Thinking
Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical
analysis of relevant information.
Leadership
Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational
goals.
Professionalism
Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace.
Teamwork
Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating
diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
Technology
Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks,
and accomplish goals.
Respectful Practices
Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills needed to engage respectfully
and work effectively with others.
Featured Events & Programs
Each Fall dozens of employers and recruiters come to campus for our career fair to meet and interact with students across all academic programs and majors. Students are given the opportunity to explore career opportunities, meet prospective employers and graduate school programs, and practice professionalism in conversations. The Career Fair is a great opportunity for productive interactions between students and recruiters and is often the first step that leads to a formal interview.
Each Fall semester, Education Majors participate in a speed dating style event called Meet the Districts. This event is created for Education majors to network with multiple Columbus school districts. Principals and HR representatives share information about district hiring policies, resume and application tips, interviewing strategies, and help students learn more about their specific district culture and student population.
Each Spring semester, we host Education Interview Day. For more than three decades Ohio Dominican University has helped our education majors get a foot in the door with local school districts. During this event, Education majors can conduct a screening interview with multiple school districts and often are quickly invited for an on-site interview after the event.
We know that our student athletes are busy and often struggle to participate in career and professional development programs. The Career Development Center partners with the Athletic Department to create an event for athletes to connect with a professional outside of ODU and discuss how to translate their unique student athlete experience to life after college.
The Career Development Center strives to integrate intentional career conversations into any setting on campus. Partnering with the CDC will allow you to provide presentations and workshops designed to support students at all levels with information tailored to their year in school and major. The CDC can partner with your class or organization.
Employers and organizations in the Central Ohio region want to #hireodu. If your business or team would like to come to campus and connect with our students in-person, please email us careercenter@ohiodominican.edu call us at (614)-251-7340.
With a new school year, we are excited to try new things! Your team could set up in Erskine Hall or in the Griffin Student Center to recruit students for part-time, full-time, seasonal and internship positions and begin the important first impression conversations!
ODU has strong reputation in the Central Ohio region for producing “Career Ready” graduates. Employers are encouraged to facilitate on campus interviews to connect with our talented motivated students during the fall and spring semester. For more information, please email careercenter@ohiodominican.edu or call us at (614)-251-7340.