Career Center for Students

You have work hard for years to gain the knowlege they need to get ahead. Now's the time for the payoff.

Using CollegeMatrix.com a student will set up his or her own account and decide their user name and password (The passwords can be customized to be accessed only through your existing system). They will select their home campus, and expected graduation date. Then choose their Major, Minor, and/or certificates they are working for. (Students can select more than one campus and curriculum if they choose). They will also enter if they are an under-graduate, graduate, or alumni member.

The campus(s), staff member will then receive an email instructing them to approve and assign this student with a primary and secondary career counselor, (or if the consoler was pre-approved, the student’s assigned consoler will receive the message). After the consoler has approved the student they will have access to the site. (You can also set the limits so that a student must have a resume in the system in order to view existing job openings)

The student can enter a resume and activate the job alert function to notify them when a new job is available in their chosen field. (Students are able to post more than one resume; however, the resumes are not on the web until the career counselor approves them.) There are multiple resume formats in the system, and the student can select each one to have the educational emphases more prominent on their resume, and experience being more prominent on another. They can also use assorted colors to accent their resume.

The system also maintains a Contact Manager for each student. This will keep track of each job that the student applied for, which resume and which cover letter was sent, and will maintain a brief copy of the job description. Students are also allowed to make additional notes for each record in the contact manager.

Students can also see a report of how many times their resume has been opened by employers.

When searching for a job or activating the Job Alert, the student can choose to include or exclude the CareerMatrix.com jobs in their Job Alert settings. They also have a special link that allows then to easily log into the CareerMatrix.com system and search the jobs in there.

The system will maintain a record of the student's activity on the site, so that the counselor will know how often the student has logged in, and how many jobs the student has opened.

Other utilities allow the student to print or email their own resume to anyone, not just those in the system. They can easily save their resume to a disk, and develop multiple versions of cover letters, and resumes.

Students have a utility to easily contact their assigned career counselor, view the on campus interview schedule, and set an appointment right on line.

Students can also save a search that they often use. They will set up quick search link to easily recall search criteria that you initiate regularly