One of the many services offered on the Tallahassee Community College campus is the Career Center. Director of the Career Center Catie Goodman sat down with Talon to discuss the different services and events offered such as career coaching and counseling, job and internship searching, mock interviews, job shadowing, and resume reviews.
Goodman said that the Career Center offers walk in hours every Thursday from 9 am to 1 pm when students can get help with an array of career-focused topics.
Catie Goodman
We have two staff available every Thursday to assist you. So you would see one of those designated staff members, Career Center staff members, and then they would take you kind of through the job search process and help you in your job search, the first thing really starting with a resume review. If you don’t have a resume we can help you build one from scratch.
Goodman said that the biggest misconception about job searching that TCC students have is that it can wait.
Catie Goodman
Definitely the biggest misconception is that you can wait to start in your junior and senior year to start preparing for that transition. So I’ll start a resume when I’m a junior, I’ll start an internship when I’m a junior. You need to start now the workforce is extremely competitive. And I would say the second you step into college, whether that be TCC or wherever, as a true freshman start taking advantage of and utilizing career center services.
Goodman talks about FutureLink, the online service for students to find jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities, and shadowing opportunities. Goodman said that students can apply to any of the listings posted and said that students should.
Catie Goodman
You can apply to any job that’s available. And I would encourage you to, I mean the employer is always going to list you know, what their ideal candidate would be and sometimes employers have unrealistic expectations. But I would encourage you to apply in Future Link, and just see if you get the interview you really could be a great candidate and I think our employers know that and they’re open to that.
Goodman said that employers are slowly adjusting to how younger generations such as Millennials and Gen Z don’t stay with one job for long.
Catie Goodman
It’s definitely a gig economy and I think we have adjusted our mentality. Have employers? Not all of them. So you know there are still some of those old school employers. You know that are my parents age or grandparents age that are still in these hiring positions, and if they see kind of that job jumping, and it’s definitely a red flag to them, and we are seeing employers start to come around and realize that you know this is not the generation even millennials and Gen Z behind you guys that is going to stay with like a state job for 35 years so they’re coming around very slowly. We have adjusted but the employers, it takes them a minute.
