Mercer University Career Services equips students and alumni with knowledge, tools and resources to help find the right career now, and in the future.
What does the Office of Career Services do?
Through counseling, coaching and consultation we:
- Conduct individual and group personal counseling sessions to help clarify life/career goals.
- Administer and interpret assessments and inventories to assess abilities, interests, and other factors, and to identify career options.
- Encourage exploratory activities through assignments and planning experiences.
- Utilize career planning systems and occupational information systems to help individuals better understand the world of work.
- Provide opportunities for improving decision-making skills.
- Assist in developing individualized career plans.
- Teach job hunting strategies and skills and assist in the development of resumes.
- Help resolve potential personal conflicts on the job through practice in human relations skills.
- Assist in understanding the integration of work and other life roles.
- Provide support for persons experiencing job stress, job loss, and career transition.
As you think about your career, it might help to ask yourself these questions:
- How satisfied are you with your current job? What are the main satisfactions and dissatisfactions?
- What are your hopes and fears regarding your current job?
- What can you do to make your current job better? How might you change aspects of your job? How might you change work groups or projects?
- How might you change the meaning of work in your life?
- If you decided to do so, how might you change jobs?
- What are your goals related to work and your career? In the near future? In the long-term future?
- What are your long and short term priorities for work and your career?
- What actions, if any, do you need to take regarding your job and career? Now? In three months? Long term?
- How do your values, interests, skills, and personality traits match your job, career, or goals?
- What lifestyle suits you and does it reflect a meaningful work life?
Career Services can help you contemplate these questions.
What Career Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting is...
- Confidential sessions with a Career Services professional.
- Processes that help you learn more about yourself, the world of work and the demands of the current job market.
- Typically takes 1-8 appointments.
- Appointments last 50-60 minutes.
The Career Services Office is not a job-placement service, a staffing agency, an executive recruiter, a resume or cover letter writing service.
For more information about career counseling, the credentials of a career counselor, etc., visit the National Career Development web site.
Appointments can be scheduled at the Atlanta Campus, Douglas County Center, Henry County Center or the Macon Campus.
Atlanta: (678) 547-6023
Macon: (478) 301-2863
Douglas County Center: (678) 547-6584
Henry County Center: (678) 547-6584
What did American adults say about their careers in a recent gallup survey?