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National Career Development Month

Mounties Explore: Spend Time Exploring Your Career Path

Date: November 1- 30
Location: Instagram (@eoucareerservices)

This November, in celebration of National Career Development Month, Career Services is launching a month-long campaign to encourage your exploration of potential career paths. Through various tools and student testimonials, we’ll help you explore your interests and action steps for continuous development of your workforce future.

  • Explore Your Preferences: Learn how to use PathwayU and Focus2—powerful career exploration tools available through Career Services.
  • Explore Your Options: Get tips and advice on exploring different occupations and industries.
  • Hear from Your Peers: Watch student testimonials to learn how PathwayU and Focus2 have helped others shape their career journeys.
  • Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram (@EOUCareerServices) for tips, advice, and more throughout November.

Take control of your career journey now, and set yourself up for success!

Work-Search Wednesdays

Drop-in and virtual appointments

Each Wednesday for resume review and job search assistance in Hoke second floor 11am-1pm.

Employer Wednesdays

Featured Employer: Eastern Oregon Workforce Board

Eastern Oregon Workforce Board will be visiting campus on April 10th, 2024 to be a guest on the EOU Career Talk podcast and to connect with students by tabling. They will be in Hoke from 11am-1pm, stop by and speak with their representatives about employment opportunities!

Check out the discussion with Lindsey Arnson and Kasi Cooper from the Eastern Oregon Workforce Board highlighting their summer internship opportunities.

Click here to listen to the podcast

Featured Resource

PathwayU is a platform that gives you an amazing value during all steps in your college through career journey. PathwayU is powered by a predictive algorithm to help guide you to an educational choice, help with vocational exploration and find employment pathways where you will live with the greatest sense of purpose and meaning.

Create a PathwayU Account

Focus 2 Career guides students through a reliable intuitive career & education decision making model to help them choose majors offered here at EOU, explore occupations & make informed career decisions.

Create a Focus 2 Account

EOU Career Talk Podcast

Career Talk is a student-managed podcast highlighting the experiential learning taking place as our EOU students engage in student employment & internship activity while showcasing local and regional employers providing meaningful student employment opportunities for our EOU students. Hosted by the EOU Career Services Student Staff Team and WorkSource Oregon, each episode delves into what student are learning along with employer interviews sharing details of their student employment positions.

Click here to listen to the podcast

Our Approach to Career Development

We guide and coach students through the multiple aspects of career development. From the beginning stages of career exploration, to preparing for job interviews after graduation, EOU Career Services takes a foundational approach to helping EOU students connect their coursework to the workforce.

The Career Development Process

  1. An awareness to engage in career-decision making
  2. Engage in self-exploration and evaluate goals
  3. Engage in career and occupational exploration
  4. Gather information about potential career-paths
  5. Determine tentative choices
  6. Decide on necessary training and education
  7. Get a job!

Career Services Team

Shawna Elsberry

Director of Career Services

Hoke 115K
541-962-3090
selsberry@eou.edu

  • On and Off-Campus Employment Assistance
    • Work-Search Wednesdays – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hoke 2nd floor or ZOOM appt.
  • Career Exploration & Planning
    • Pathway U and Focus2 (see Featured Resources above)
  • Career Content Integration with Instruction
    • Faculty, please send request to careers@eou.edu
  • Career-Readiness Preparation
    • PathwayU and Focus2 (see Featured Resources above)
  • Resume & Cover Letter Review
    • Work-Search Wednesdays: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hoke 2nd floor or ZOOM
  • Interview Preparation
    • email careers@eou.edu to set up an appointment
  • Placement Services referral to WorkSource Oregon
    • careers@eou.edu

Student Employee Team

Megan Gustafson

Student Employment Marketing-Promotion Intern

Marty Munyon

Experiential Learning Intern Lead

NOTICE TO STUDENTS:

Eastern Oregon University’s Career Service staff is diligent about ensuring the integrity and legitimacy of the on-campus student job postings. EOU Student Employment jobs are screened and verified by Career Services staff before posting.