The Gloria Siebens Freund Career Services Center at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake and staff members at each campus offer Center students assistance with their job search. The Storm Lake campus offers a wide variety of services—including special career days and on-campus recruiting programs—all of which are open to Center students. In addition, Center staff members are knowledgeable about regional opportunities and are available to students for information regarding career counseling and job placement.

Career Services Handbook
A comprehensive job search handbook is available here.

BVU Career Services is pleased to be in partnership with College Central Network to provide comprehensive web-based job search services to our students and alumni.

Employers who want to hire BVU students can post jobs, review your resume, and more easily connect with you for full-time and part-time jobs, internships, or summer jobs.

Other job search web sites and resources are listed in the Handbook.

The Vault
The Vault is now open! BVU students can access the largest and most comprehensive, user-friendly online career library anywhere anytime! In The Vault you will be able to research employers and industries, download 90+ career e-books, get good career advice and read "a day in the life" articles and much more. You will need to request a password with your bvu email account that is good for 24 hours. Need more time? Just request another password, no problem.

Career Search
This website gives you access to a comprehensive database of over 4 million companies and schools nationwide. Search for information on a particular company, person, industry or location using a variety of search options. Download and save the information you want into your own database. You will create your own user name and password. We share this resource with several other Iowa private colleges, and a limited number of users can be logged in at one time. If you are denied access, try again in an hour. Contact careerservices@bvu.edu for the referral key.

FOCUS
FOCUS is a self-guided career guidance program that can help you discover and explore career paths that match your personal attributes, map out your education and career plans, and narrow down your options. FOCUS has a large database of occupational information that includes job duties, required skills and educational level, future outlook, and salary.

The top three sections for receiving useful feedback are: Interests and Work Values, Education and Training, and Your Personality and Life Values. To get started, request the keycode from careerservices@bvu.edu. You will then create your own user name and password and can use the site as often as you wish.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years. Use the search function in the upper right hand corner to search for comprehensive information on any U.S. occupation.

Additional Career Guidance
Call us at 749-2165 or e-mail careerservices@bvu.edu for your job search and career related questions and advice.

For more information visit BVU Career Services.