Career Services

The HCC Career Center provides free career services to students and alumni at all stages of their career development to support successful transitions from college to career.

Services and resources:

  • ​Career assessments, exploration, and coaching
  • Job and internship search assistance
  • Skills matching
  • Personal branding
  • One-on-one meetings
  • Resume and cover letter writing assistance
  • Mock interviews and interview preparation
  • Job Postings

Entering the workforce can seem daunting at times. Our team is here to help! With a variety of tools and expertise, we can customize our support for your needs to help you prepare for interviews, search for a job, and much more. Meetings and services are available at no charge and are available in person or virtually.

How We Help

  • Resume review
  • Interview question support
  • LinkedIn profile audit
  • Job searching tips
  • Lifestyle cost assessment
  • Career exploration tools, finding a career that may fit you best
Area of support
What would you like assistance with?
 

Job Postings

College Central Network is your gateway to a career advancement network providing leading-edge technology for connecting employers with qualified talent, quickly and easily. This service is free for any U.S. college student and is here to help you reach your career goals.

For Job Seekers

Register with College Central Network and begin searching for part-time, full-time, and temporary employment. Want more exposure? Consider uploading your resume for recruiters.

There are approximately 3,000 registered employers on College Central Network.

Visit CCN

To register:

  1. Visit the College Central Network
  2. Select "Sign Up"
  3. Use your HCC student ID for your user ID
  4. Create an 8-10 character password

For Employers

Posting a job to College Central Network allows your posting to be seen nationwide to all candidates at a U.S. college. This site is one of the most visited entry-level recruitment sites on the Internet.

Post an opening 

Assessments & Resources

Human Metrics: Using both Jung’s Typology and Myers-Briggs insights (see below), Human Metrics takes you through 64 questions to rate you on both scales. The results explain to you how each piece relates to your personality type.

Career Key: Another career aptitude test that costs a fee is Career Key. This online career assessment tool determines how similar you are to six different personality types. The results are linked to occupational choices.

CareerOneStop Interest Assessment: Answer 30 quick questions online to get a list of careers that might be a good fit for your interests.

CareerOneStop Work Values Matcher: Answer questions about different aspects of a job or workplace to help you find your ideal work environment.

O*NET Interests Profiler: My Next Move’s O*NET Interest Profiler is administered by the United States Department of Labor. Users take a 60-question interest inventory that yields a profile of interest tendencies, including six areas: Realistic, Investigative, Social, Enterprising, Conventional, and Artistic.

Skills Matcher: The Department of Labor has developed this resource to enable users to assess the skills they want to incorporate into their careers. You will rate basic skills like reading, writing, speaking, scientific reasoning, and critical thinking, as well as more specialized social, technical, analytical, computer, problem-solving, and resource management skills.

CareerExplorer: CareerExplorer is a free platform for users to assess their interests, personality types, abilities, career values, and preferred work and social environments in order to find matches that will lead to satisfying careers. The assessment suggests careers after users respond to a series of questions. There's detailed information available on each of the suggested career options. In addition, users can browse occupations by clusters like health and nutrition, law, arts and entertainment, animals, food and drink, politics and law, sports, travel, music, engineering, and science.

NC Division of Employment Security
(Unemployment Insurance)
888-737-0259
www.des.nc.gov

Mountain Projects
(Health Insurance Assistance, Food, Rent, Utility, Transportation, Child Services)
828-452-1447
www.mountainprojects.org

NC Works
(Employment Services, Career Counseling, Job Search Assistance, Training, Veteran Services)
828-456-6061
www.ncworks.gov

Haywood County Health & Human Services
(Work First Employment, Food & Nutrition Services, Financial Assistance)
828-356-2365
www.ncddhs.gov

Contact Us

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 4:00pm

828-627-4510
HCC-careerservices@haywood.edu