Attend a free Career Conference on March 30th designed with your success in mind and
win some incredible prizes!

- The Job Search Process
- Interviewing Skills
- How to Get That Internship
- Financial Survival After You Graduate
- Finding Housing After You Graduate
- Take a Year Off, and Experience a Lifetime of Cool
- First Year On The Job Success
- How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life

The workshops will take place over three 45 minute sessions, so you get to choose which topics you want to attend.  Be sure to stick around at the end to network with the professionals and win prizes like:

- $250 gift certificate to go out and buy that power suit for interviewing
- Professional interview portfolios
- Oswego gear from the bookstore
- *The first 75 students to show up will get a free "Life After Graduation - Explained" book!

Session I: 6:15–7 pm

The Care and Feeding of Your New Boss
Heather Dera, District Recruiter, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Congratulations, you found a job! Now the really hard part begins. Learn how to succeed your first year on the job, ensure you come back a second year, get that promotion, and prepare yourself for the next move! We’ll cover topics that include: how and why to manage your image in the workplace, identifying a mentor, critical differences between college and work life, and more!

You, Inc.
Bob Casper, Director, SUNY Oswego Career Services
A personal reflection seminar designed to make you the CEO of your future. Learn how to discover your interests, values, skills, strengths, and personal traits — and how to tie it all in to the job market spectrum. If you are stuck at “Dude, I’m not sure what I’m going to do when I leave college” this will be for you!

Nextville—How to NOT Live at Home After You Graduate
Speaker TBA
Perhaps you have lived on-campus during your college experience, or were not thrilled with your off-campus experience. We’ll discuss how to find housing in a post-college world, regional differences in cost, contracts, questions to ask, finding roommates, and much more!

A Car, Some Cash, and a Place to Crash
Sarah Ashpaw, Monster.com
We’ll cover the topics that you need to hear about in order to financially survive out there. Rent or Own? Lease or buy? Managing student loan debt, understanding budgeting, health insurance, taxes and why you should worry about retirement now... are just a few of the areas we’ll cover.

Negotiating the Briar Patch
Jonathan Lawniczak,
Division Recruiter, Sherwin-Williams Co.
The transition from here to there can be challenging.  Learn how to conduct yourself professionally throughout the job search process. Topics will include job search documents, managing your online profile appropriately, critical follow up, etiquette dining, and interview dress.

Test Drive Your Career
Christine Elliott, Metropolitan Development Association
Dara Sanoubane, Associate Director, SUNY Oswego
Experience-Based Education
Bottom line: Employers seek candidates with related experience. Running the Twister at
Seabreeze is fun, but it is time to use your breaks and free-time during the semester to build your resume. Additionally, you’ll get to test drive your
career, gain valuable skills, make networking contacts, secure references, and more. Learn why you should get one, and how to go about finding the best internship for you!

Jobs Your Mother Never Thought You’d Have
Alyssa Amyotte, Coordinator, SUNY Oswego
Service Learning & Community Service
So, you’ve decided that the corporate world is not for you, and you can’t imagine spending the time and money on graduate school right now. What can you do for a year or two that will score high on the cool-o-meter? Sure, there is the Peace Corps, but what else? We'll discuss a world of options that can take you literally to the ends of the earth and across all career fields.

Interview Warrior:
How to Crush the Competition
Amy Lauricella, Group Campus Recruiter,
Target Corporation
Interviewing is the final—and most stressful— aspect of the entire job search process. It is also a skill you can learn! Join corporate recruiters as they discuss what recruiters look for, how to prepare for an interview, what questions you'll likely be asked, how to respond to difficult or illegal questions, and appropriate follow u

Session III: 8:05–8:45 pm

Repeat of Session II topics so you get to the ones you missed!