Career Development at Saint Joseph's College
The Career Development Center
The SJC Career Development Center, located on the second floor of Halleck Student Center, seeks to serve all SJC students and alumni by providing quality service through comprehensive career development programming. Keeping with the larger mission of Saint Joseph's College, the Center strives to engage students at the beginning of their college careers by encouraging critical examination of their anticipated leadership roles in society and encouraging the values of Christian Humanism in their daily lives and vocations.
FOCUS 2 is a Web-based, personalized career and education planning system based on established career and counseling principles. It provides a complete picture of your interests, values, personality, skills, and leisure activities using self-assessment questionnaires, interest inventories, and personality testing. After assessing your personal attributes, the system searches its career and occupational information database to identify and analyze occupations and career paths that match your personal characteristics.
Sponsored by: Career Development, Center for Indiana Partnerships, Alumni & Parent Relations, and the Dean of Freshmen.
The Center for Indiana Partnerships
The Center for Indiana Partnerships, established through a grant from the Lilly Endowment, delivers programs that connect the SJC community with Indiana organizations. The experiential learning program expands opportunities for SJC students to complete internships and practicum with area businesses, not-for-profit organizations, social service agencies, local governments, and churches. Through these opportunities, students gain practical career experience, develop workplace skills, enlarge their career network, and connect with job opportunities in northwest Indiana. The Center for Indiana Partnerships offers a career network that actively engages SJC alumni and community leaders as mentors and employment contacts. The Center also supports collaborative partnerships and specialized projects with businesses, organizations, and educational institutions in order to contribute to job growth and economic development in the region.
