Career Services

Welcome to Career Services

Trying to plan your career? Make the best of your time in university and graduate with valuable experience. We can help you make the match between your studies, your paid or volunteer work and your future direction.  If you are a new student we can help you pick majors or courses and develop the résumé, cover letter, interviewing and networking skills that will start your career.

Career Services
Saint Mary's University
923 Robie Street
3rd floor, Student Centre
Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada
B3H 3C3

Phone: 902-420-5761
Fax: 902-491-6248
career.services@smu.ca

 

Services & Resources:

  Individual Career Counselling

  Résumé & Cover Letter

   Development

•  Mock Interviews & Feedback

•  Career Exploration

•  Assessments

•  Jobs for your Degree

•  Graduate School Information

•  Volunteer Fair

•  Labour Market Information

•  Career groups

•  Presentations

•  Online Resources

•  A Library of Hard Copy Resources

•  Information on Majors

All services are free except a subsidized charge for formal assessment testing

Podcasts

Thanks to our friends at Career Joy, we would be providing you with audio files about career related issues. Please feel free to click on the link and enjoy the many podcasts from www.careerjoy.com

 

" A fountain of career information. Very friendly staff who are willing to discuss all the details of your educational and work experiences to help you wrap it all together."

Ali Hamed,

3rd year, BComm, Accounting

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"Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true."

Lester R. Bittel

Mission Statement

Career Services provides individuals the ability to expand their understanding of self, academic direction and career planning. This is achieved through professional counselling, innovative programming and career related initiatives. Career Services values; self awareness, knowledge, commitment and achievement of goals.

ALUMNI SERVICES

Career Services is very pleased to announce that they have partnered with the Saint Mary’s University Alumni Office to extend services to all recent graduates of Saint Mary’s.

Click here for more information

ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS!

Health Canada is looking for recent or soon-to-be graduates from a Masters or a Doctoral program or are pursuing a Post-Doctoral research, to staff various positions in the Health Products and Food Branch.

More info attached.

SOIL Apprenticeship Program

Canada-wide agriculture apprenticeship program:
Stewards Of Irreplaceable Land (SOIL)

Linking Canadian farmers with young folks wanting to work and learn on an organic farm using sustainable practices

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Sociology Criminology Career Explore

Friday, February 10, 2012

Soc Crim Career Explore 2012

 

Katimavik

Now accepting applications for July 2012 & January 2013 departures

Don't miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to hit the road and spend 6 months living and getting involved in communities across the country! Katimavik gives youth between 17 and 21 years old the unique opportunity to live and volunteer in one or two distinct regions across Canada. Most volunteers will live in one English speaking community and one French speaking community. Please note that volunteers of the Second Language and Cultural Identity program live in two communities, one in Western Canada the other in Quebec

www.katimavik.org

 

We are open Monday to Friday 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

 

Please drop by to use our resources or contact us to make an appointment.


This page last modified Wednesday, 08-Feb-2012 14:15:49 AST