Use our FOCUS 2 online tool for a guided, intuitive career and education decision-making model to help you choose majors, explore occupations, and make informed career decisions.
Career Planning and Networking
Making PennWest work for you
The PennWest Career Center, which includes the Internship Center, is committed to giving every student a professional advantage. The Career Center works with employers and alumni to build strong professional networks and provide qualified PennWest students and alumni with professional opportunities supporting their continuing career goals.
What is a career coach?
A career coach will create and leverage resources to support, teach, and empower students to develop and achieve their career goals. By serving as a partner, educator, and motivator to enhance a student’s career readiness, your coach is there to help you reach your professional goals.
Explore, prepare, and apply
Use O*NET employment data to see salary trends, required skills and education, employment growth, and more from across the country.
Gain a free virtual project experience through Forage, a remote, interactive, and real-world experience working with employers such as Red Bull, Bank of America, and Lyft. Work at your own pace while gaining skills to prepare for your future career. Completing programs provided by Forage, in partnership with global companies, helps build your resume by earning certificates awarded to you after completing a program. The virtual job simulations help students explore new career options interactively. Broaden your knowledge, gain practical skills, and apply what you have learned to real work situations.
Resumes and cover letters are important tools in your job search and can make or break a job application. Let us show you how to craft job search documents that will help you secure an interview!
Chances are you will conduct many of your internship, job, or graduate school admission interviews in person and virtually. The best way to prepare is to practice with your career coach or by using our digital interview training and practice system, Big Interview, which is free and accessible 24/7 to students and alumni.
Mark your calendar with the upcoming events, both on-campus and virtual.
An internship is a professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work related to a student’s field of study or career interest. An internship gives a student the opportunity for career exploration and development and to learn new skills.
The Career Center offers advice on job-searching strategies to help you secure a position!
The Career Center can help you explore if graduate/professional school can help you achieve your career goals and help you through the application process.
Prospective, accepted, and admitted students can view open positions and apply online.
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