Experience Career

Your Career doesn't start at graduation. It starts now.
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SMC's First Step to Career counseling
As a starting point for our Career Counseling, in SMC 101 you'll complete PathwayU, a free online assessment that helps you understand your personality, interests, skills and career values. By uncovering your values, dreams and career goals, assessments can help affirm the direction you want to go in, or they can help you see that you may be happier pursuing a different path.
Undecided? Your Advisor Can Help you with your career goals!
More about Advising:
SMC students have one advisor that supports them in all areas of success from enrollment to employment. This includes scheduling your classes, academic success and recovery, AND CAREER PLANNING! This model allows you to get to know your advisor better and have someone that truly understands how to help you reach your goals with SMC!
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Professional Development
Internships

The Professional Development Department has a variety of internship programs that offer an opportunity for you no matter your career path or class level. If you'd like to explore what open internship listings we currently have available, please log into Handshake.

Internships for Bachelor's Degree Programs: On-ground students must complete 120 Hours of an Internship as part of the Camak Core curriculum in our Bachelor's Degree programs.

What's Handshake?

Handshake is a career services platform EXCLUSIVE for current and recent college students, where you can find jobs and internships.

All students have a Handshake account starting their first year at SMC until they graduate!

Job searching

The Professional Development Department hosts a variety of PDEV events, including Career Fairs, Career Panels, Employer Tables, and MORE! Each semester, employers visit campus to interact with students and discuss opportunities in many fields.

Log into Handshake to see what positions we have received from local employers, or reach out to the SMCX Career team and let us help you find something that works for your career goals while balancing your class load! Other great job-searching resources include Indeed.com and LinkedIn Jobs.

RESUME & Interview prep
A good resume is critical in finding an internship, job opportunity, and our team is here to assist you with resume writing tips that highlight your qualifications. We are also here to practice with you to improve your interviewing skills. Your resume might get you an interview, but it is the interview itself that will help you make the most of your opportunity.
Questions? Contact
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Rachel HillDirector of
Professional Development
HillR@smcsc.edu

Camak Core Program
SMC’s bachelor’s degree program is designed to equip you for your next move – an internship, the career of your dreams, or grad school.
SMC's four-year degree is different because it features the innovative Camak Core. The Camak Core, named for SMC’s founder, Dr. David English Camak, is a required 6 courses – or 18 hours of degree credit – of professional development (soft skills and experiences for personal and career success). The Camak Core makes up one-third of your total degree hours. These classes and hands-on career experiences will give you an 18- to 24-month head start on learning the habits, skills and behaviors that are vital for workplace success. No other liberal arts college offers this much career preparation for college credit.

Watch Our "Camak Chat" Series to Learn More!
About APEX Events! During Capstone, Students Present the Results of Their Projects and Network with Employers at APEX!
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR CAPSTONE STUDENTS >
Camak Core Courses"PDEV" is short for Professional Development! Introduction To The Camak Core
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Meet Your Professional Development Department
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Trish Cobourn
Assistant Professor of
Professional Development 
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Clara Jane Hallar
Department Chair &
Assistant Professor of
Professional Development
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Rachel Hill
Director of
Professional Development 
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Dr. Randy Nichols
Professor of
Professional Development
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Dr. Tom LeGrand
Assistant Professor of
Professional Development