DAC Holds Career Building Workshops

Landing a job while in college or figuring out what you want your career to be after college, and then figuring out what you need to do to achieve it can be challenging in a globally competitive workforce. On September 21st 2016, the Disability Access Center welcomed Thresholds to Wright, to assist students on their career doubts, just one of many events DAC will be hosting. Thresholds is a service recovery provider, primarily helping people dealing with mental illnesses with housing, health, employment, education, and case management being some among many services they provide.

The workshop consisted of participants completing the Holland Code Career Test, an online questionnaire that determines the most suitable careers based on the answers provided. After participants got their career matches, they were instructed to research information on what the career consisted of and the requirements needed to be in that field. Websites like Occupationalinfo.org and Glassdoor.com were websites recommended by Thresholds for students to utilize when researching about a particular career.

This session ended with a Q&A segment where any questions regarding the workforce were welcomed. This semester, the DAC is focusing on providing workshop sessions relating to helping students get in the workforce. Although these events are being hosted by DAC, they are open to anyone that is interested and they hope that more students take advantage of their upcoming events.

The next event hosted by DAC is a resume building workshop happening October 5th, followed by interview do's and don'ts on October 19th, a LinkedIn how to session on November 2nd, an organization/time management and goal setting workshop on November 16th, and a budgeting and financing while in college workshop on November 30th. For more information visit the Disability Access Center located on the first floor of the learning and resources building in room 131. To learn more about Thresholds you can visit their website at www.thresholds.org