Message to the Student:
 

Company recruiters will be on campus between September and May to give group presentations and individual interviews.  Members of all degree programs are encouraged to attend group presentations, however, individual interviews are reserved primarily for graduating seniors.

Remember you are the best career counselor for yourself.  If you were the employer searching for the right graduate to hire, what qualities and attributes would you look for in potential candidates?  Make your own shopping list and make sure you meet those criteria.

Your career strategy is actually your life strategy.  Do your research and work early and your efforts will be rewarded.
 

 Richard George Youcis
 Director of Career Services and
 Cooperative Education Administration

 

 
Random Thoughts...
 

Graduating from one of our degree programs is a job well done! You and your family are to be congratulated for a tremendous amount of work and financial sacrifice.  As you ready yourself to enter a new chapter in your book of work, a chapter that you are adequately prepared for, please remember the following:
 

1. College degrees do not make you better than individuals without degrees, just more marketable.

2. The world doesn't owe you a living.  You get good career results if you put in the hard work and research early.  Three hours a week is not too much time to give toward finding information and identifying contacts that may lead to employment.

3. A ship can not get into port without a rudder.  You must develop job goals and priorities.  These goals are not carved in steel, and they will change over the years. The first job after graduation isn't necessarily the last.

 4. You must be willing to work hard as part of a crew solving as many of the craft's problems as you can.  You can not become desperate and have that "Give me a job, any job" attitude.  If you do, you will be nothing more than cargo aboard that vessel.

A lot of unsolicited advice and counsel will be given to you by well intentioned friends, relatives, instructors, recruiters and others.  Unfortunately, this often serves to confuse rather than clarify your thinking on your choice of job and career planning.

You are the one who counts.  You should not be sidetracked by trying to please others or by blind acceptance of their ideas on what is acceptable employment.

Enjoying the work you are doing is more important than money. Enthusiasm will take you a long way toward your goal.  During the first few years of employment it is more important to obtain valuable working experience and to learn as much as you can.  You are building asset value and the pay off will come later.

Your training at Maine Maritime Academy has prepared you for a wide range of employment opportunities afloat and ashore.  You should not put too many conditions on the type of employment you want.

Do your own job analysis.  Consult three or more knowledgeable "alumni" sources of information on each type of employment.  Do not adopt the prejudices of others about certain types of employment.  Make your own job decision and avoid being pushed or shoved in this direction or that.

Attend as many employer group presentations as you can to increase your awareness of a wide range of job opportunities.  You may change your mind about one of these sources of employment two or three years from now.

There are thousands of organizations through out the world that are looking for talented, creative, hardworking, drug free graduates to hire; graduates that can help solve some of their problems.   That graduate can be you.

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