Advising and Career Development

Become one of the many successful women who have launched promising futures at Mount Mary College!

The Advising and Career Development Office provides you with the right tools to reach your career aspirations. As a student, you can receive academic and career planning assistance through individual counseling, workshops, classes and activities throughout your college years and within a year after graduation. The road to success begins here!

• Learn more about Mount Mary's majors and minors, so you can decide which is right for your career goals.
  
• Get connected to an academic advisor.
  
• Get career development counseling:
  
  • Discover who you are, where you're going and how to get there.
    
  • Create a four-year career development plan for your college years. See sample.
    
  • Investigate graduation school options.
    
  • Get an inside look at jobs, salaries, reviews and sample interview questions for more than 150,000 companies with free access to Glassdoor.com.
  • Gain access to WISCareers to conduct online self-assessment, learn more about majors and careers, and discover job seeking/career planning tools. Click here for more information.
    
• Learn to polish your image:
  
  • Get your resume and cover letter critiqued. Print a guide.
    
  • Learn more about negotiating a salary and other career-related topics.
    
  • Practice your interviewing skills in a mock interview.
    
• Understand how to use the My Mount Mary job lists, career events, and online resources to get a jump-start on your job search. Click here for a list of job search resources.

Employers- Get Connected to Talent
Share your opportunity with Mount Mary students and alumnae. Submit a job description and application information and we'll post it to the online job board for 30 days. Contact Liz Juntunen.

Schedule an "employer connection" to meet our talented students and alumnae. See our Visiting Employer Policies then complete and return the reservation form.

Mission and Confidentiality
Our mission is to promote and support the integration of academic and career planning in the minds of students, faculty and administration by encouraging critical and holistic thinking about the educational, experiential, moral and personal development required for the life-long practice of career management.

Guided by the ethical standards of the American Association of Counseling and Development, our staff ensure confidentiality to any student seeking career counseling and work cooperatively with other student affair and student service personnel.