• Use Cardinal Career Link to explore opportunities for full-time employment.

Cardinal Career Link is a job-vacancy database that helps you to identify the latest full-time job vacancies in your career field.

• Attend drop-in advising.

Career Center staff are available to answer quick career and job-search questions. Drop-in Advising times are Monday through Wednesday, 1-3 p.m., and Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m.-noon.

• Attend the Fall Career Fair in September and Cardinal Job Fair in the spring.

Network with employers and learn about career opportunities with their organizations.

• Participate in on-campus interviews.

More than 100 organizations visit the Career Center each year to conduct interviews for full-time employment. Registration and sign-ups are early in the fall and spring semesters. Visit Cardinal Career Link to sign up.

• Research potential employers.

Use employer directories and company literature available in the Career and Experiential Learning Resource Lab, LU 235.  Make a list of your top prospects and contact them about career opportunities.

• Teacher candidates should attend the Teacher Fair.

During the spring about 100 school districts from around the country interview teacher candidates at Ball State.  Call the Career Center for additional information.

• Attend professional association meetings.

Expand your network with local or national professionals in your career area.  Contact professors in your department for more information.

• Identify job vacancies through your networking contacts, professional associations, newspaper ads, the Web, and other sources.

In addition to using Cardinal Career Link, search national databases on the World Wide Web.  Visit Great Links to Explore on the Career Center's Web site to get started.

• Pick up a copy of The Job Search.

Visit the Career and Experiential Learning Resource Lab, LU 235, to pick up a career planning booklet containing information on résumé preparation, interviewing, and other aspects of conducting a job search.

Helpful Career Resources (available in the Career and Experiential Learning Resource Lab)

• American Employer Digest
• Hoover's Handbook of American Employers
• Job Bank books
• National Trade and Professional Associations

Job-Search and Employer Research Links

Cardinal Career Link
Great Links to Explore