Career Services

This November we will be hosting various career development workshops in honor of National Career Development Month. This month is designed to highlight the importance of life-long career development and the personal empowerment of all people. Career development is important because in today's economy job seekers need to understand the importance of transferrable skills that are learned in college. Employers only have one opening to fill and are looking to hire someone that can meet the requirements of three different jobs. So critical thinking, writing, and the ability to work with diverse people are all very important and necessary skills for the workforce.

Join us in honoring National Career Development Month by participating in one of our events.

• Poster and Poetry Contest 
• Admissions and Advisement Open House
• Choosing a Major Workshops
• "Using social networking in your job search."
• Roadtrip Nation special screening
• "From backpack to briefcase: Establishing your financial success after college."
• Career Development Job Fair
• Allied Health Information Sessions
• Working for America: How to land a Civil Service Job
• Getting Hired and Moving Ahead in a Job When Working with a Disability

For our event dates and times please check out our Career Development Month Calendar and Workshop Descriptions.

Click here to RSVP to any of the above mentioned workshops.

Welcome to the CCC Career web page. To get started, we invite you to sign on to Sigi3 to discover what some of your career interests might be. If you are already pointed in a firm career direction, Sigi3 will assist you to further research your work cluster, earnings, training, etc. To sign on to Sigi3, use your Cumberland County College student email account as your USER ID. After you submit you will then receive a secure PASSWORD sent to your CCC email account. This will get you started. Good luck! Discuss your results with your academic advisor, counselor, friends, etc. Use the Career Web page links to further your career search.

There are up to 20 thousand distinctly different occupations that the US Federal Government classifies with specific job titles and different job descriptions. These can be found in the Dictionary of Occupations Titles, or the DOT. This can be overwhelming!

One way to simpilfy your career focus is to look at the following Career Clusters.  Read the descriptions of each cluster at www.careerclusters.org and try to identify what cluster interests you the most. All of Cumberland's degree and certificate programs can be found in the front of the college catalog, and on our web page. Here are the career clusters and the degree programs that match them.

	Agriculture, Agribusiness, Horticulture, Floriculture, Landscape Technician
	Construction Supervision, Technical Studies
	Fine Arts, Theatre/Acting, Fine & Performing Arts, Art Education/Art Therapy, Ceramics, Design/Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Music, Theatre, L/A - Humanities, Ceramics, L/A - Communications, L/A - Television Production, Graphic Design, Computer Graphics/Desktop Publishing, Journalism
	L/A - Business Administration, Business Management, E-Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resources, Insurance, International, Marketing, Retail Sales, Accounting
	L/A - Elementary/Secondary Education, L/A Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Preschool Education, Teacher's Aide in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Education Management
	Finance, Business Administration, Math/Science
	Public Administration, L/A - Social Sciences, Health Service Administration, Office Administration/Government/Legal
	Biomedical Science, Health Science, Nursing, Practical Nursing, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Radiography, Respiratory Therapy
	Business Administration
	Social Service, Gerontology, Public Administration, Philosophy & Religion
	Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Management, Cyber Security
	Criminal Justice, Corrections, Forensics & Technology, Homeland Security, Private Security, Paralegal, Paralegal/Spanish
	Engineering, Engineering Technology, Electronics Technology
	Marketing, Business Administration
	L/A Mathematics/Science, Engineering, Biomedical Science
	L/A Mathematics/Science, Business Administration, Accounting

Find In Demand Jobs on the Bureau of Labor and Statistics website
http://www.bls.gov

To get detailed information on job titles use the Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/


To get more information on where you can receive training for a particular major or take a free career assessment http://www.mynextmove.org