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Find the Right Experience & Employment (FREE)
FREE: an innovative way for GW students to navigate and plan for their own career development. FREE incorporates a progression of strategic activities and experiences that enhance career learning, build marketable skills, facilitate career exploration and inspire and prepare students for a lifetime of meaningful work.
FREE was envisioned to create a deliberate progression for students to follow that would break down their career-related tasks and experiences into manageable components. These components bring together various Career Center services into a coherent and progressive system that's easy to follow.
Instead of just meandering through experiences that may or may not lead to decisions about potential careers, FREE allows students to take strategic steps toward a goal of career definition.
General FREE Grid (outlines the components of FREE and provides an overview of part-time jobs and community service/volunteer, internship and cooperative education positions)
YEAR ONE: Assess and Engage
Freshmen: In your first year, learn about Career Center services and resources, how to conduct a self-assessment and begin constructing a personal portfolio, and how regular or Federal Work Study part-time jobs, volunteer activities, residential and other experiences during your first year at GW will contribute to your overall career development.
YEAR TWO: Explore and Refine
Sophomores: This year, explore career-related student groups, organizations, and employers and begin to articulate skills, interests, values and goals; research industries and workplace environments to explore career and major interests and to test professional and work assumptions. Learn how the Career Center can help you develop and implement a successful plan to obtain major-related internships, part-time jobs, co-ops, and other experiences.
YEAR THREE: Experience and Enhance
Juniors: In the year before your final year at GW, learn to demonstrate an understanding of career development and job-search skills and strategies that will effectively link career goals to professional realities upon your graduation. Learn how the Career Center can help you this year to clarify your occupational choices, improve your career-development and job-search skills, and develop and expand your career network.
YEAR FOUR: Reflect and Transition
Seniors: In your final year, learn to synthesize your experiences in academics, service, leadership, internship and experiential learning, and articulate plans for post-GW success and lifelong career development. The Career Center can help you develop a self-marketing campaign with resources such as on-campus recruiting, resume-writing and interviewing workshops and career fairs.
FREE Programs @ GW:
FREE in the House – programming in conjunction with GW Housing Programs in which our staff will conduct a program in a particular House.
Career Wednesdays in the House! – A Career Center consultant will be on hand to offer assistance to students in the lobby of a different House each Wednesday, from 7-9pm during the academic year (see calendar for details).
FREE Experiential Exercises:
Skills, Values & Goals
30-Second Commercial - Networking Worksheet
Learning Agreement
Reflection Exercise
Career Center Resources & Services
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Career Center Workshops
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