Career Enhancement Services
At Drexel, we understand the needs of busy professionals who are seeking new challenges and careers, improved salaries and security, and the opportunity to create a lasting legacy. As a Drexel graduate student, you'll have the resources to make any dream a reality.
Steinbright Career Development Center
The Steinbright Career Development Center (SCDC) staff, from their offices on the Main Campus in Philadelphia, serves students and alumni in career services, graduate placement, and cooperative education. The SCDC's staff of experienced, practicing professionals utilizes a variety of resources and techniques to help students develop the skills necessary to construct meaningful career management strategies. These skills empower students and alumni to develop and follow career paths that incorporate their values, strengths, and interests to maximize their personal satisfaction.
Some of the services that the Steinbright Career Development Center offers to our students in Sacramento are listed below. These services will be offered through a variety of means including video conferencing, online assessments as well as in person presentations.
Career Counseling and Career Assessment
The SCDC offers individual career counseling to assist students with setting appropriate educational and career goals. As part of the career counseling process, career assessments – including personality and interest inventories – are available to students. The assessments and subsequent feedback help students clarify their interests as they relate to their education and career choices, identify their motivators and preferences in order to make a better match between personalities and work settings, and understand how certain personality factors affect career decision making and career progression.
The SCDC offers the following assessments to students:
MBTI
The narrative report includes interpretation of personality type on four preference scales including introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, judging/perceiving. Supplemental handouts provided by counselor include: the effect of preferences on work setting, definitions and characteristics/descriptors of four scales, Type in College, Type and Careers, Type in Organizations, Type and Career Coaching
Strong Interest Inventory
Includes summary and interpretative reports on six occupational themes – Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Indicates degree of interest (high to low) on basic interest scales. Compares interests to various occupations on all themes, indicating to students how their interest patterns match individuals in specific professions.
16PF- Personal Career Development Profile
Provides a narrative report including individualized information on following personality items: problem-solving resources, organizational role and work setting preferences, interpersonal interaction styles, patterns for coping with stressful conditions, career activity interests, and personal career lifestyle effectiveness considerations. The Career Activity Interest section compares student scores with individuals in various occupations to provide feedback and comparative information on general occupational themes, career field interests and specific occupations.
Additional assessment tools are available to students with specialized needs.
Workshops
The SCDC offers a full range of workshops aimed at the continuing career development of students and alumni. For undergraduate students the topics focus on securing cooperative education and full-time employment with an emphasis on interviewing, resume development, and job search techniques. At the graduate level the workshops, guest speakers and panel discussions are targeted toward career advancement. Getting a promotion, mentors and mentoring, and experienced versus entry level resumes are just some of the issues that are explored.
Career Services Library
The SCDC career services library provides a collection of online resources that will enable you to research and gather information at any stage in your exploration of professional development opportunities. Our resources include access to over 500 databases including:
- Hoover's
- D&B Million Dollar Database
- Uniword
Cooperative Education
Cooperative Education, or co-op, is experiential learning. At Drexel University co-op is work experience related to one's field of study and is generally six months in length. It is available to full-time students at both the graduate and undergraduate level.