Student Services: CAREER SERVICES


NOTE: This document was generated from the 1995-1997 UIUC Programs of Study. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, but be advised that requirements may have changed since this book was published. Errors may have also been introduced in the conversion to a WWW document. Thus for items of importance, it might be wise to seek confirmation from either the paper version or a live human being.


Career Services Center

The Career Services Center in 310 Turner Student Services Building (333-0820) offers students a wide range of career-related services, including individual and group counseling, assistance on job search efforts, choice of major, career planning, graduate and professional school admissions strategies, and help in identifying postgraduate employment opportunities. The Career Exploration Center has occupational literature and directory information, job search aids, government career information, graduate and professional school directories and resources, and special interest resources to assist women and minorities with career and life planning. Each year, the center sponsors many on-campus career seminars and workshops of interest to the student community. The staff here also maintains permanent credentials/recommendations files for students to use for graduate school applications.

Health Professions Information

The Health Careers House at 901 Illinois Street, Urbana, (333-7079) provides advising and career counseling for students interested in dentistry, medicine, osteopathic medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. This office maintains a complete collection of catalogs from U.S. health professional schools as well as information about foreign schools. A faculty evaluation service is provided for the pre-health-professional major. Counselors are available on an appointment basis to advise students on the preprofessional curriculum and help them apply to professional schools.

Counseling Center

The center, with one location on the second floor of the Turner Student Services Building (333-3704) and one location on the third floor of the McKinley Health Center (333-8360), offers workshops and individual counseling to help students with career or career-related problems. SIGI Plus career development computer program is available at the Self-Help Infrormation Center in the Undergraduate Library.

College Placement Offices

Individual colleges and departments on campus sponsor their own job placement programs for majors. These offices provide advising and job search assistance. Each office makes arrangements for employer representatives to conduct interviews on campus.


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