College degrees should include career prep
The career skills employers want are part of your degree. Learning these skills in college gives you the freedom to work on your own terms, earn well, and build a life you love—whether that means freelancing, landing a job you enjoy, or creating something of your own.
SMC is the ONLY college where you'll learn these skills as a part of your four-year degree. No extra time, no extra cost. SMC is the way college should be.
Watch: SMC's Camak Core Focuses Your Degree on Career and Life Skills
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SPOILER ALERT: EMPLOYERS WANT YOU TO HAVE CAREER SKILLS BEFORE YOU START THE JOB.
The Camak Core is SMC's professional development/career skills degree concentration featuring hands-on experiences for all four-year degree students. No extra time needed.MOST STUDENTS DON'T HAVE TIME TO VISIT A TRADITIONAL CAREER SERVICES OFFICE - SO WHY MAKE THEM?
Employers want to hire graduates who already have skills like communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and analyzing information. Getting these skills doesn't just magically happen—they take practice. But let’s be real: most college students don’t have endless hours to perfect them. Between working, studying and having a life, very few students have time to work on these skills outside of class.
That’s where your Camak Core classes come in. Through hands-on projects and real-world learning, you’ll build these skills (and more) while earing degree credit. You won't have to sacrifice your job, study time, or social life.
Life hack: These aren’t just “work” skills—they’re life skills. Master them now, and you’ll be way ahead of the game.
The Camak Core works: SMC graduates outpace the national averages in jobs and earnings.
Learning the skills employers want can get you hired and paid better than your peers.93% of SMC graduates are working or in graduate school. The national average is 85%.
Here’s the deal: Colleges measure employment rates based on whether grads have landed a job or gotten into grad school within six months. But don’t stress—that’s just the standard way schools track success. Most students get hired way sooner, especially with career skills and real-world experience on their resume.
Bottom line: The stronger your skills, the faster you land a job—and that’s exactly why career prep is built into every degree at SMC.
SMC grads make $8K more on average than others with the same degree.
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HERE'S HOW CAREER PREP FITS INTO YOUR SMC FOUR-YEAR DEGREE
ALL SMC STUDENTS COMPLETE A CONCENTRATION IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
80% of college students say they want a degree that leads to a career they love, but employers say they're not prepared for the workforce. That's a problem.
To solve it, we changed the SMC degree structure to carve out space for professional skills and experiences.
Our traditional four-year (bachelor's degree) programs include two years of general education and then you take your academic concentration and professional
development courses in your junior and senior years.
Our customizable four-year (bachelor's degree) programs also include two years of general education, but you can customize your degree with two academic concentrations plus professional development.
Pick either degree that suits you - either way, your professional development classes won't add any additional time or cost, only incredible value.
Check out the Camak Core classes:
Class 1: Professional Communications
Communicating in the workplace is different than communicating in the classroom. This course will prepare you for an internship, teaches you how to network like a pro, and helps develop your interview and resume skills.Class 2: Internship
You'll complete 120 internship hours as part of your SMC degree. You can do all of your hours during one semester, or break it up into 40-hour increments over several semesters. You get to pick the internship experience(s), and we'll help you get placed with a company.Class 3: Community Discovery & Engagement
Professional Development and Leadership
Being a leader isn't about being the most important person at a company or on a team. No matter what job title you have, leadership is about knowing how to be a good work teammate, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and working to continuously improve (personally and professionally).Applied Technology
No matter what career you choose, some basic tech skills will give you a head start for job success and make you career-ready at graduation! Most colleges don't teach these skills, but at SMC, you’ll receive certificates in many technologies you can use in almost any career, including Microsoft Excel, data collection, website creation, and many others.Capstone Project
You'll showcase all of the career skills you learned over the past two years in a project of your choice. Start your own business, plan an incredible event, or create an organization that helps others. The project possibilities are endless but you now have the skills to do it. The confidence you'll gain from this final, incredible SMC experience is another important benefit. See 2022 student projects.Free Application.
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