As part of Piedmont College’s focus on Critical Thinking, the QEP recognized a need to help students think critically about their future. In response, a series of Career Days and Career Workshops were initiated to better prepare students for their professional lives after Piedmont.

Career Day

Career Day was introduced in the Spring of 2010 and held for a second time in the Fall 2010. Each Career Day offered multiple career preparation workshops: Sizing Up Your Strengths, Marketing Yourself & Resume Writing, Negotiating Your Salary, Interviewing Skills, and Job Search Etiquette; student-led performances: Dress for Success and What Not to Do in a Job Interview; resume critiques; graduate school information; and mock interviews hosted by faculty and local professionals.

Career Workshops

QEP began hosting Career Workshops during the Fall Semester of 2011. The workshop format was implemented as an effort to expand the opportunities of Career Day to a wider audience of both traditional and non-traditional students, alumni, and the surrounding community. These workshops were held twice on each campus: once during the lunch hour, and once in the evening.

Fall 2011

• Writing a Professional Resume with Kel Lee Cutrell
• Interviewing for Your Career with Bob Perella
• Finding Your Transferable Skills with Pat Sherrer
• Sizing up Your Strengths with Wilma Hutcheson Williams
• Marketing Yourself with Kaitlyn Botts
• Why Do an Internship? luncheon uniting current students with alumni
• Interviewing for Your Career with Julia Schmitz and James Beeks.
• Finding Your Transferable Skills with Pat Sherrer
• Interviewing for Your Career with Kel Lee Cutrell
• Writing Professional Resume with Bob Perella

Spring 2012

• Dress for Success offered on the (Demorest Campus only)
• Mock Interviews with Laura Balkcom (Athens Campus only)