Career Services

Mission

Our mission is to provide students and alumni with access to valuable career information, advice, and guidance to achieve their life goals. This means promoting the importance of career planning at every stage of a person’s life. We serve as a connecting point between students, alumni, and employers in an increasingly diverse and globally influenced job market.

Career Services is continuously fostering positive partnerships with employers, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators. These external and internal partnerships are critical in helping students and alumni discover their career potential while sharing their success with their families, employers, and communities.

To visit our Career Services Web Site, please select the school of interest to be redirected to their Career Services pages: AMU or APU.

Core Benefits and Services

We are dedicated to helping students and alumni begin careers, experience smooth career transitions, and finding potential employment.  Our office provides benefits and services that provide career planning guidance, job seeking resources, and networking opportunities.

• Vault Career Library: called "The best place on the web to prepare for a job search." by Fortune Magazine, Vault is the ultimate destination for insider company information, advice, career management services, and career guides.
• Focus-2: an online, self-guided, interactive program, designed to help you select an appropriate major and develop a career plan by identifying your personal interests, values, skills, and personality traits. 
• Career Fairs: providing national and local career fair information to educate students and alumni on resources, tips, and job opportunities available at these events.
• Resume Review and Distribution: offer resume review services, in which we work one-on-one with alumni and students and provide direct distribution to companies at local career fairs.
• Employer Partnership Program: work directly with employers , providing exposure to our highly qualified students and alumni with the purpose of aligning them with employers and open positions that match their qualifications.
• Interviewing Strategies: offer information today's top interviewing questions and answers, job interviewing tips and techniques, types of interviews, and basic interviewing etiquette and attire.
• Internships: providing a collection of internship resources and we work with employers directly to offer our students and alumni internship opportunities.    
• Global Mentor Network: facilitate mentoring relationships where our graduate students and alumni can share their vast educational knowledge and career experience with other individuals in their professional fields.
• Professional Affiliations: developed a directory of professional affiliations, organized in degree-specific categories that will allow students and alumni to identify the right networks for their professional journey.
• Social and Professional Networking: building a community of peers through University affiliated sites like inCircle, LInkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter