Getting Financial Aid doesn't reduce the chances of landing that dream job! In fact, many Work-Study positions can give students that much needed professional experience that today's employers are looking for in their ideal candidates. Career Services makes it easy for students to connect with employers.
Whatever work opportunities students are looking for, Wildcat JobLink , UA's premier student job listing and campus interviewing system, is their one-stop source. This system contains listings of both local and national student jobs including Work-Study and non Work-Study. Wildcat JobLink represents the market’s foremost system developed by nationally recognized universities (including the UA) to ensure the privacy of our students and maintain data security.
Anecdotal feedback indicates strong student satisfaction with work opportunities at the University of Arizona. Many students pursue a variety of internships and part-time work experiences during their academic careers at UA. These students exemplify the potential of UA students who take full advantage of resources available.
Here is some advice from several successful students who utilized UA Career Services:
- Alexis Coury from Glendale, Arizona, graduated in May 2004, with a B.S. in Marketing. She started her college career as a philosophy major but quickly switched to business. A Business Management Associate internship her junior year with General Mills in Scottsdale led to a permanent job starting in July. For Alexis, the internship helped narrow down the industries she found most interesting.
- Courtney Cooper from Phoenix, Arizona, graduated in May 2004, with a major in Political Science and International Studies. Like a lot of incoming freshmen, Courtney wasn’t sure of her career goals. She considered business and political science and Spanish as possibilities Courtney finally found what she was looking for by combining International Studies and Political Science. The internships she experienced contributed to her decision including a community and economic development internship with an NGO in Peru, a stint with the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires where she hobnobbed with foreign diplomats including then Secretary of State Colin Powell, plus a study abroad experience in Mexico. These experiences helped her stand out among peers when applying for a competitive master’s program at George Washington University. Not surprisingly, she was accepted into the program.
- Jessica Malone , a San Diego transplant, graduated in May 2004, majoring in Inter-Disciplinary studies in Business, Communications and Spanish. She came to college with the idea of working in international business but once here, found her interests expand exponentially. Jessica worked the Fall Career Fair and found an opportunity at San Francisco’s Gallo Winery in their Management Development Program the summer after graduation. · Christopher Cafiero, who hails from Phoenix, graduated in May 2004, with a B.A. in Civil Engineering and a minor in Spanish. He too had no good answer to what his career goals were when he began college. Ultimately, he got into Civil Engineering because of his strengths. He’s always been good at hands on activities and building things came naturally. He derives a lot of satisfaction from seeing the results of his work and spent one summer here working as a construction supervisor for the Arizona Department of Transportation. He also held an on-campus research position with a department professor, studied abroad in Madrid and was accepted in the intensely competitive Teach for America program upon graduation.
- Alexander R. Kuch from Michigan, graduated in December 2004, with a B.A. in Political Science. Alexander started his college career with the intention of becoming a stockbroker. His first red flag came during orientation. The program was more structured than he liked and it didn’t take long for him to change course. A Gen Ed class in Political Science dealing with current events and ideologies appealed to him. Over Christmas break, he decided on a major in Political Science. Alexander interned at the Arizona Attorney General’s office for six months in the Office of Victim Services and spent one Spring Semester in Washington, D.C. on the American University Campus where he attended seminars and interned at the U. S. Department of Education. Exposure to the world of politics has resulted in a re-focused interest into getting into law school and he is particularly interested in civil liberties.
- Gabriela Macias graduated May 2004, with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Social Anthropology. Her lofty goal when she was young was to become a neurosurgeon, but upon entering the university she was drawn to psychology from a counseling perspective. She’s thoroughly used the Career Services resources including counseling, the Career Information Center, the lab, resume checks and lots of networking. She volunteered with Spring Fling, the largest student-run carnival in the country, working on the Marketing Committee. She credits the Career Services office with nurturing and guiding her to find out how the jigsaw puzzle of her future career might come together for her. As her goals kept evolving, she moved away from counseling but still wanted to work with children. She decided to volunteer with the Boys and Girls Clubs and set her sights on a career in marketing and special events.
- Julie Altman , from L.A., graduated with an M.A. in Communications in May 2004. In exploratory mode she took a variety of classes and enjoyed Communications, honing in on that major her freshman year. She’s explored a wide range of professions and done a variety of internships while here including Sales Rep at The Bikini Shop, Assistant Merchandising Coordinator at Ralph Lauren Children’s Wear and Affiliate Marketing Intern at E’ Entertainment Television in L.A. So eager was she to get into the “real” world, Julie finished her degree in just three years. She accepted an offer with Golden Eagle Distributing’s Sales/Marketing Division and was a Retail Marketing Coordinator for Budweiser for over a year when she was recruited back to U of A for Graduate School. This gave her the opportunity to experience a couple of professions in Academia. During graduate school, she was an adjunct professor/teaching assistant and taught a stand-alone 100 level course in Interpersonal Communication and Public Speaking. She was also a graduate research assistant in the Communications Department.
- Theresa Adams hails from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, though her family moved out here and that tipped her decision to attend UA. She graduated in May 2004, with a B.S. in Marketing and a Minor in Psychology. As the eighth of ten children in a high achieving family, Theresa has several excellent role models. Originally she wanted to pursue an MIS degree. Early in her college career she realized she enjoyed teaching and counseling and she could do those things within the context of a management career. She had taken programming courses to get that MIS degree but realized she wasn’t interested in programming and would rather work with people. Marketing was a better fit for her. By sophomore year she was on the Marketing path. Through school, she worked at State Farm, eventually getting her property casualty license and she served as president of the Professional Women in Business Association in addition to internships with EBSCO Industries and Corporate Communications.
These students are representative of the many students working and learning their way through their college experience here at the University of Arizona. Check out this link to our annual survey: http://www.career.arizona.edu/?annual-cre