5 Essential Resources to Help You Plan Your Career

While your academic advisor is always there to guide you along your academic journey, you should also take full advantage of career technology tools and career planning.

Awato
Provides assessments to help you plan your career goals. Using Awato, you can explore our degree program options and careers that match your interests.

Handshake
Looking for an opportunity that opens the door to a fulfilling career? Handshake is an internship and job search site for college students at all stages of their lives. It’s unique because the jobs you see are posted by employers actively recruiting from our college community.

VMock
A virtual resume assistant, VMock provides you customized resume recommendations based on criteria gathered from employers. You’ll receive line-by-line suggestions to improve your resume based on your major and level of experience. It even scores how well you have marketed your skills and experience.

Interview Stream
This video interviewing platform allows you to practice interviewing and review your performance. You can customize the questions based on the industry or job you’re pursuing and share your interview video with your advisor, a friend, family, or mentor to gather feedback.

LinkedIn Learning
Access engaging personal development courses built for your interests. Discover a world-class library of over 16,000 expertly-produced and consistently updated courses across seven languages.

To get started, contact your academic advisor who will submit a career services referral, or call us directly: 855-472-4255.

At Granite State College, our community is comprised of working adult students so we design our degree programs to integrate with your career and goals. There are several types of courses at Granite State College that incorporate work experience.

The most common types of opportunities you’ll encounter at Granite State College include:

• Internships
  During internships, students work at a company, school, agency, or organization on an assignment or project that lasts up to an academic term in duration.
• Practicums
  Similar to an internship, a practicum is a course that requires both classroom time and several hours of work in the field at a company, school, agency, or organization.
• Integrative Capstones
  This is the final course students take in their degree program. The coursework integrates the concepts, outcomes, and knowledge gained throughout the duration of the degree program, with a culminating project, research, or internship experience that demonstrates what the student has learned.