Resume Referral Program - Students and Alumni

Career Services Center

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Increasingly, hiring officials are seeking names of appropriate candidates to fill current openings they may or may not be advertising in other ways. If you have registered with us for career services, we will be able to refer your name when your qualifications match. You will normally be notified whenever your name is given to an employer in this manner. It is to your advantage to provide us with a resume, which we scan into a database, as it will provide more information about you to the employer. You can email your resume to our office, or send or bring it to us on a disk or on paper and you can replace it at any time with a more recent resume using the same process. If you plan to email your resume or to send it to us by disk, we recommend using Microsoft Word (6.0 or greater). Although we can accept resumes created from most computer software programs, there is less chance of the format changing if this program is used. These resumes are converted to PDF documents for viewing with Adobe Acrobat, so PDF documents are also a good option. It is important to note that resumes are not included in your placement file (if you established one), and resumes scanned into our database for referral purposes are used by employers for the purposes of identifying individuals for interviewing.