February holds the introduction of a new feature and job fair for Career Services.
On Feb. 1, it will kick-off of the newest addition, the career coach.
“Career coach is an online resource, it’s a tool that is intended to help students make good choices about their career pathway and link the educational opportunities here at Sinclair to their career goals,” Matt Massie, manager of Career Services said. “There’s all this information that students need to know about careers and ultimately about the academics programs that help them get those careers that they need to know before they start.”
The career coach contains information such as employment growth, salary and job openings— all centralized in the Dayton area.
“All of [these questions are] what people should ask, but it’s really, really hard information to find,” Massie said. “And when they do find it, it really doesn’t make sense a lot of the time.”
He said career coach puts all this information into one website and helps students figure out how to get there through Sinclair’s own academic programs.
“Students, first off, don’t know what they need to ask and then when they know what they need to ask, they don’t know how to find it,” he said. “Career coach does all of that for them… It is a website that compiles all the information that students need to know in an easy to use format. And probably the most important thing is, it’s information based off our area.”
When using career coach, students have the option to change the zip code to the Dayton campus location, Courseview campus location or the Preble County Learning Center location, as well as the radius around the location that they are searching for.
Massie said some career-related websites update yearly, but career coach uses six different sources that are updated quarterly.
The link to find career coach will not be released until Feb. 1, but students can access it through Sinclair.edu in the “in the spotlight” section on the homepage.
On Feb. 7, the 25 annual career job fair for the Life and Health Science departments will be held in the Great Hall of Building 12 from 12 to 3 p.m.
“This career fair is aimed at the life and health sciences industries, so we see hospitals, we see doctor offices, we see physical therapy employers; we see all these medical related entities come to this career fair,” he said. “But what people don’t realize is all of those types of places need more than just nurses… They also need information technology people, they need accounting people, they need all of these different things. So just because it’s the life and health sciences career fair, doesn’t mean that not everyone should come to it and talk to these employers.”
Massie said although the career fair is aimed at a certain industry, it’s good practice for students studying for other industries.
He suggested bringing resume copies and coming dressed professionally.