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SOWELA's Office of Career Services educates and supports individuals in life planning and profession self-reliance. Students at all SOWELA locations can utilize its ingenious and informative task positioning services for employment support during their college experience or in preparation for life after graduation. The Office of is at the Main Campus in Lake Charles, LA, in the Magnolia Building, Student Success Center.

Online Job Bank

SOWELA's Career Services Office offers innovative and helpful task positioning services to our students. Among those services is our online task bank (opens brand-new window).

- To access the job bank, you need to enter your student ID as your username and after that click "forgot password."

Services are available to students, alumni, and employers.
Approved employers might publish jobs and search resumes.
All services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
After you register to the website, it is really important that you cheeck your e-mail daily for informs and announcements from the Career Services Coordinator concerning task openings, career fairs, workshops, etc.

Job Search Services
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- Resume Tips How to compose a resume (opens brand-new window). Resume templates (opens new window)

How to get ready for a task interview (opens new window). Steps to prepare for your job interview (opens brand-new window)

Tips to help get ready for a profession reasonable (opens new window)

Coast Guard Lateral Entry Program

SOWELA has a Lateral Entry Program with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). This makes it possible for SOWELA graduates in particular programs to straight get into the USCG or USCG Reserve at a greater rank and pay. As part of the program, eligible SOWELA graduates can likewise bypass USCG technical training due to their degree credential.

Helpful Links

Career Coach (opens brand-new window). Career Explorer SWLA (opens brand-new window) - A virtual home for all things Career & Technical Education in our area. Try to find resources, programs, occasions and webinars, and task searches.
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- A task listing website that caters particularly to employers looking to employ brand-new college graduates. This offers graduates a simple method to find their very first career chance in their discipline without extensive experience.

- A complimentary guide to writing an expert resume. It also supplies complimentary Microsoft Word design templates and sample resumes, at the bottom of the page, that can be easily downloaded and personalized for any particular task chance. Hloom Internship Resume (opens new window) - An internship-specific resume section of the website that is terrific for trainees looking for a summer season internship.