Mercer Graduates Have Access To Valuable Services.
After graduation, your career certainly demands attention. We want you to know that we are still here to help you. The Office of Career Services provides career counseling or coaching to alumni at any experience level. We can help you:
- identify and reach your career and professional goals
- strategically look for a new job and/or career
- reposition for advancement within current company
- discover valuable marketable skills
- develop a personal marketing plan
- build productive networks
- overcome burnout in current career
- successfully negotiate job offers or salaries
- determine graduate school or certification options
We can meet with you face-to-face at one of the three Atlanta area campuses or communicate via phone/e-mail. Appointments are available free of charge for alumni who graduated in the last twelve months. For alumni who graduated more than one year ago, the fee for appointments is $25 per hour with a maximum charge of $100 per calendar year.
The following chart summarizes our services and fees:
| Individual Appointment with Career Services | $25 per hour (>1 year out) FREE (within 12 months of graduation) | Appointments available:
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| Career Assessments | $0 - $30 | Fee varies based on product |
| Networking Events | Nominal | Quarterly events sponsored by the Atlanta Alumni Consortium: Mercer, Emory, GA Tech, GA State, Kennesaw, Spelman, UGA. Click the Networking Events option in the left hand menu to view dates. |
| Career Coaching | $130 per hour | Coaching provided by a Professional Executive Coach. Get help with various issues: strategic career planning, starting a business, career advancement, etc. |
| Web Site Resources | FREE | Bookmark it! www.Mercer-Professional.org |
Connection to the Mercer Alumni group via the networking web-site, "Linked-In" | FREE | (Group manager: Betsy Johnson) |
| Entrance into Mercer affiliated Career Fairs | FREE | View dates on our calendar. |
| Attendance at Mercer's free workshops | FREE | View dates on our calendar. |
| Registration on BEARLink | FREE |
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