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Graduate Students
VP: Morgan Kiper Riechel
Get a Job
Tips for creating a winning resume or curriculum vitae
Masters Students
If you are looking for your first professional position, a one-page resume is most appropriate. Check Purdue’s Online Writing Lab for tips on formatting: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/719/1/
PhD Students
PhD candidate searching for academic positions should create a curriculum vitae (Latin for “course of life”). Wondering how a curriculum vitae is different from a resume? http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/641/01/
Additional resources from Purdue’s Online Writing Lab:
• The Chronicle of Higher Education's job site features an area called "First Time on the Market?" that may be helpful.
• The Curriculum Vitae Handbook by Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe (Rudi Publishing: Iowa City, 1994) includes sample CV's for various disciplines and tips for how to write CV's in various contexts.
• The Academic Job Search Handbook (3rd Edition), by Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick (who are the authors of the Chronicle's "CV Doctor" column) also provides sample cover letters and CV's
-Check back soon! More resources to come!
Wellness
Balancing home-life with school
Graduate school is challenging in so many ways—certainly academically, but also personally as we learn to become self-reflective practitioners. Maintaining our own wellness can be difficult with all of the extra demands on our time. What are you doing to enhance your own wellness? Check out ACA’s Personal Wellness Assessment as well as ACA’s Strategies for taking care of your physical, emotional, spiritual well-being: http://www.counseling.org/wellness_taskforce/tf_wellness_strategies.htm
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s article on “Graduate School with Children” by Keith Greene. http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-With-Children/46501/
Mentorship
Interested in working with a school counseling mentor, someone who has extensive experience in the field and can provide support as you embark on your new career? Mentors can provide networking support to find a job, including contacts in the field, interviewing tips, and resume help, plus provide curriculum resources, strategies and techniques for working with students, an opportunity for social rejuvenation and so much more!
If you are interested in being a part of VSCA’s new School Counselor Mentorship Initiative, email Morgan Kiper Riechel at meriechel@email.wm.edu for more information and to be paired with a mentor in your area. Apply now.
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