Volunteering at Peer Career
The Role of a Peer Career Volunteer:
The volunteers at Peer Career, called Career Guides, are the source of Peer Career's unique program. Peer volunteers provide students the opportunity to discuss career planning topics with a fellow classmate who has encountered or is encountering similar issues.
A Career Guide is responsible for interacting in a helping way with students who are in various stages of career decision-making. Training for specific tasks will be provided during a twenty-hour training program and during weekly staff meetings which are held Fridays at 12:00 noon.
Six hours of work per week is expected. This includes supervision and training, staffing the center, and periodic participation in presentations about our services to classes, residence halls, and campus organizations. Volunteers are required to attend all training sessions and staff meetings. All majors are encouraged to apply.
What Volunteers Do:
- Provide individual career guidance and exploration for your peers
- Document case notes
- Make presentations to classes and organizations on a variety of career planning topics
- Assist students in finding and researching major and career information
- Interpret Self-Assessment inventories
- Work on special projects such as research, focus groups, assessments, and videos
- Work as part of a team
- Have fun!!
Requirements:
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- Dependable, cooperative, and mature
- Ability to learn quickly
- Attendance of training retreat in Fall
- Work 6 hours per week
- Attendance at staff meetings, Fridays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Benefits of Volunteering:
- An opportunity to help fellow peers
- Writing and documentation skills
- Gain skills utilized in counseling
- Analysis and interpretation skills
- Research skills
- Resume building
- Hands-on experience outside of the classroom
- References for graduate school
- Help with your own career planning
- Friends and memories!
