Knox College

Career Services

All of the resources available to Knox students are also available to alumni. This includes counseling on topics such as self-assessment, career exploration, job search strategies, resume & cover letter construction, and interviewing & negotiation skills. As well, Knox alumni are welcome to stop by to make use of the Bastian Center for Career and Pre-Professional Development's library and computer resources when on campus.

CareerShift Job Hunting & Career Management Solutions
CareerShift is an effective career management tool available for Knox College students and alumni. It is an amazing tool that allows students and alumni to manage a successful job search from beginning to end with real process-oriented goals.

This job-hunting web service provides integrated employment research tools where one can search, select, and store job listings from all job boards and all company job positions. CareerShift is a robust system that has tremendous resources to identify contacts and the capability to access in-depth information about those contacts and company's job postings.

One can manage his/her confidential CareerShift account securely from any computer 24/7, to update and maintain his/her organized and recorded job search.

CareerBeam Virtual Career Success Center
CareerBeam is a state-of-the art, user-friendly self-assessment program that helps you determine what you want in your career and offers the steps to achieve it. It provides a compilation of the results from the various assessments to assist in clarifying what is important to you. This integrated analysis is helpful to use in career decision-making and career selection. Overall, it is a self-paced process to help you clarify your career goals, develop a professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, develop a network, and implement a strategic career search. CareerBeam helps you tap into the hidden market of jobs and internships by providing access to investigations of over 15 million companies and 20 million industries. It also allows you to identify over 2 million international companies in more than 70 countries. Create and manage your own 24/7 CareerBeam account.

Credential Files
The Bastian Center for Career and Pre-Professional Development will forward your credential file to employers or graduate schools at a cost of $4 per institution. In order to place such an order, please call the Center at (309) 341-7494, fax a request to (309) 341-7708, or e-mail careers@knox.edu.
Please note that for education majors, all credential files that have been inactive for at least 10 years will be destroyed, with the exception of student teaching evaluations. For all other majors, files that have been inactive for at least three years will be destroyed.
If you wish the Bastian Center for Career and Pre-Professional Development to maintain your files beyond these dates, you may call or e-mail our office to reactivate your file at (309) 341-7494 or careers@knox.edu.


Whom to Contact:
Office of Alumni Relations
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401-4999
309-341-7238
888-566-9265
alumni@knox.edu

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