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Placement Office Services
The Placement Office provides career counseling, job placement services, and helps process applications to universities and colleges for students and alumni by appointment or on a drop-in basis. Location: Academic Support Center Room 105 Mailing Address: Phone and Fax Numbers: Placement Counselor: Career Exploration: The Placement Office Counselor is available to assist students with identifying career interest inventories and assessments for choosing careers that match their knowledge, skills, and abilities. The Kuder, an internet lifelong career plan, is assessable for SIPI students as well. The SIPI Kuder access code number can be obtained at the Academic Support Center Main Office, Room 104, or the Placement Office, Room 105. Although some students may know what their career goals are, reaching these goals requires motivation, research, and an organized plan. The links below are resources designed to assist you in identifying career interest inventories and assessments: Department of Labor, State of New Mexico America's Career Information Network Job Search Advisement and Counseling: Finding a job is a job within itself. It takes a vision of what type of work you are interested in and how you will look physically, think mentally, and feel spiritually when appearing for an interview. Even though you may not be looking for employment immediately, it is important that everyday you do some activity to get you closer to being prepared to seek employment. The SIPI Placement Counselor is available to begin this process with you and will continue to offer job search advisement and counseling after graduating as well. The links below are resources that are designed to assist you in this regard: America's Career Information Network Occupational Information Network U.S. Equal Employment Commission Resume Assistance: A resume is a screening devise for employers to select applicants for a job interview. Therefore your resume needs to be carefully written in order to portray you in a positive professional manner. The Placement Counselor is available to critique your resume to assure that format, spelling, and grammar are all correct. The links below are resources that are designed to assist you in developing your resume: Quintessential Careers Resume Quiz Occupational Information Network Quintessential Careers Cover Letter Quiz Career Develpment & Job Search Advice for New College Graduates Interview Coaching: Preparing for an interview does not begin the night before your interviewing appointment, it begins now! Think about where you would like to be employed and what you will be wearing; do you need to improve you posture for example, and most of all, what will you say about yourself in answer to employers questions. The Placement Counselor will be available to assist and coach you through this process. The links below are resources that are designed to help you achieve and become a success on an interview: Quintessential Careers Job Interview Quiz Job Web Career Development & Job Search Advice for New College Graduates On the Job Success and Survival: It is important to understand why you want to work and who you want to work for. Put yourself in the employers place and imagine what type of employee you would hire and what they would need to know. The Placement Counselor will work with you after graduation to continue counseling and supporting your job success and survival. The links below are resources that are designed to promote job success and survival skills: Quintessential Careers Job Marketability Test Quintessential Careers Job Burnout Quiz U.S. Equal Employment Commission On-Line Job Listings: To assist you with your job search listed below are job bank sites. Be cautious when posting your resume online. Employers are not the only ones who will have access to personal information from your resume. The Placement Counselor will be available to provide you with more job bank listings for your job search. The job bank listings below are but a few of the online listings that can assist you with your job search: USAJOBS official job site of the U.S. Government Albuquerque Journal Job Search City of Albuquerque Job Search Bernalillo County Job Search Job Market and Reference Materials: The Placement Office has a variety of labor market information, occupational outlooks, career, and job seeking books and brochures. Application to Universities and Colleges: The Placement Counselor is available to assist students and help them make a smooth transition from SIPI to universities and colleges. This process however takes time, planning, and research. Students are encouraged therefore, to begin this process soon after being admitted to SIPI. The following are universities and colleges that SIPI has established articulation agreements with: Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM Clovis Community College, Clovis NM Luna Community College, Las Vegas, NM New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, NM San Juan College, Farmington, NM Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque, NM Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM Application to Scholarship and Internship Programs: The Placement Counselor is available to assist students applying for scholarships while attending SIPI or transferring to universities and colleges. There are numerous internship programs available to SIPI students during the academic year and summer months. The Placement Counselor works closely with instructional and occupational coordinators to recruit students for internship programs. Internship programs are a great opportunity to gain work experience and skills. The following are scholarships and internship programs that SIPI students are eligible for: Scholarships
Free Application Federal Student Aid-FAFSA American Indian College Fund Federal Student Aid on the Web Over 1.3 million Scholarships- FASTWEB National Indian Youth Council
Internships
Department of Labor's Internship Program U.S. Department of Energy Internships U.S. Department of Agriculture, New Mexico Native American, SUNY Western Consortium Native American Science & Engineering Society-AISES Internships Student Conservation Society USDA-Student Opportunities, Internships, & Scholarships Graduate Placement Statistics: The Placement Counselor encourages all prospective graduates to make an appointment for job placement and/or assistance for applying to universities and colleges at least two to three trimesters before graduating. This allows enough time to develop a well planned transition from SIPI to employment or from SIPI to continue their higher education. | | |||||
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