The Career Center: Overview of Services

Nationally recognized for its comprehensive career services, the Florida State University Career Center provides students and alumni with the services and resources they need for career success. With individualized career advising, thousands of information resources, employability skills workshops, mock interviews, and more, the Career Center helps students and alumni design their careers.

Career advisors, liaisons, and staff assist students with choosing a major, researching occupations and potential employers, identifying internship opportunities, exploring post-graduate study, and developing job search strategies. No appointment is necessary to meet with a career advisor or liaison. For students who would like to design their career plans with the assistance of an instructor, the Career Center offers a one to three-credit hour course, SDS 3340 Introduction to Career Development. The course gives students indispensable resources to help make a successful transition to their future career opportunities.

The Career Center connects students directly with employers through career fairs, on-campus interviewing, job shadowing, a mentorship program, and a powerful network of Florida State alumni and friends of the University. These programs and services allow students to network with employers and apply for full-time, part-time, and internship positions as well as for other career-related work experience such as cooperative education, externships, or volunteer opportunities through NoleNetwork, an extensive online jobs database. Through online badging programs like FSU Career Ready and FSU Career Pathways and Badging, the Career Center assists students with developing and strengthening career-readiness competencies through co-curricular engagement to increase their competitiveness throughout their internship and job search processes.

FSU students can further distinguish themselves by taking advantage of the Experience Recognition Program (ERP). ERP enables students participating in an internship, research, creative experience, or significant community service engagement to earn recognition on their résumé through either a certificate or transcript notation. The Career Center offers customized mock interviews, where students can practice and improve their interviewing skills, as well as workshops where Career Center staff present on employability and career development skills, including job searching, writing résumés and cover letters, interviewing, going to graduate school, and more.

The Career Center is in the Dunlap Student Success Center at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Traditions Way and is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday. Drop-in services are available for students with quick questions or with busy schedules. Further, most Academic Colleges host career liaisons to extend the reach of the Career Center and to focus advice, programming, and networking opportunities. Students can search for their career liaison by clicking through to About Career Liaisons.

For more information, visit https://career.fsu.edu or call (850) 644-6431.