Career Planning and Coaching
Here to Help You Reach Your Goals
The Office of Career Services team held more than 1,500 one-on-one appointments last year. Some were resume tune-ups. Plenty started with "I don't know what I'm doing." That's a real conversation, and we have it often.
Schedule an Appointment
Monday through Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In person or virtual
A first appointment usually starts with a question: What are you thinking about? From there, your coach can help you explore fields you haven't considered, connect what you're studying to existing work, build a search strategy, or just tell you whether the plan you already have makes sense.
What To Bring
Nothing, if that's where you are. Not every student walks in with a plan, and the appointment works fine without one.
If you do have something, bring it. A resume draft, a job posting you're curious about, a graduate program you keep coming back to, a major you're second-guessing. Anything concrete gives us somewhere to start.
What We Work On
- Figuring out what you want when you don't know yet
- Deciding whether the major you're in leads where you think it does
- Resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn
- Interview preparation, including the questions you're dreading
- Graduate and professional school applications
- Job and internship search strategy
- Salary expectations and evaluating an offer
If it's about your career and you're not sure who to ask, ask us.
We Talk to Your Faculty
Your Career Professional works with your department, not around it. The advice you get lines up with your degree requirements, your Internship Coordinator, and what your professors already know about where your program's graduates go.
Internship CoordinatorCareer Assessments
A career assessment asks about your interests, values, and skills, then matches your answers to careers in which people with similar profiles have built satisfying lives. It won't hand you a decision. What it will do is clarify what you're actually drawn to, name strengths you may not have counted, and put fields in front of you that you'd never have thought to consider.
The Strong Interest Inventory is one of the most widely used career assessments in the country, and it's especially useful if you're choosing a major, second-guessing the path you're on, or drawing a blank on what comes next. Take it, then bring it to us. You won't interpret the results alone — sitting down with a professional and working through what they mean is where the assessment turns into a plan.
Your Four-Year Career Plan
Career readiness at Florida Southern is not a senior-year scramble. It starts your first semester and builds year by year, from figuring out what you're drawn to, to landing an internship, to walking into your first interview knowing what you're worth.
First Year: Explore. Discover your strengths and start building habits.
Sophomore Year: Focus. Narrow your direction and land your first experience.
Junior Year: Build. Deepen your experience and expand your network.
Senior Year: Launch. Refine your materials and step into your next role.
