Services for Graduate Students | Springfield College

Services for Graduate Students 

Did you know that the Springfield College Career Center provides comprehensive, wraparound, career-related services to all actively enrolled graduate students? The Career Center counselors proudly support and provide lifetime services to alumni as well. 

At the Career Center you will work alongside a trained career counselor who specifically serves as a liaison to your academic major. Your career counselor's training, expertise, and current-day knowledge of your intended career will allow you to engage in advanced, meaningful, and structured conversations to further support your career-readiness.

Throughout your graduate studies, career counselors can assist you with your credentialing, specifically tailored toward your current or future career aspirations. As you know, graduate-level education allows you to finetune and hone-in on specific areas of focus pursuant to your career; therefore, counselors work alongside our master's and doctoral students, and alumni, to provide constructive feedback and reviews of personalized resumes, curriculum vitaes, and cover letters.

Job Fairs and Off-campus Events

Higher structured level of career education, counseling, and advice include, but are not limited to:

  • Assessment inventories, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  • Exploring new and diverse career pathways
  • Graduate school advising for students/alumni pursuing additional degrees
  • Informational interviewing
  • Job boards
  • LinkedIn
  • Mock interviewing
  • Negotiations/offers
  • Networking
  • Online presence
  • Professional communication
  • Transferable skills 

Welcome to Handshake

Current students can join Handshake for free and begin connecting with employers immediately. Alumni who do not have a Handshake account already will need to complete the Handshake Alumni Registration which includes an email verification process. As an alumni you can use your own, personal email address if your Springfield College email address is not active or is not your primary email address. Springfield College will automatically be pre-selected as the institution and then you’ll be asked to create a Handshake password. Once the email address has been verified, your account information will be submitted to the Career Center for approval. When the account has been approved, you can use all of the functions Handshake has to offer. If you have any questions, please contact the Career Center at (413) 748-3222.

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