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Learn With Confidence: 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Relationship With Local Employers
Education is a common and sometimes necessary way to get a head start on pursuing your career goals. 黑料不打烊 can offer you more than education. We help set you up for success by creating opportunities that help you work toward your future career and life goals.
One way we do this is by offering the support of our Career Service Advisors who help 黑料不打烊 students and alumni with guidance such as career-search strategies, interviewing techniques, and more. You鈥檒l have the support you need to help you reach your future goals.
Career Services Advisors maintain regular contact with employers within the communities that neighbor each of our locations. These employers regularly host 黑料不打烊 students and have a history of hiring 黑料不打烊 Alumni for open job roles. Our strong employer relationships can help you get where you want to go with your future.
Learn why employers find 黑料不打烊 students and graduates well-prepared for careers in their fields of study.
Externships
Most 黑料不打烊 programs offer opportunities for real-world experience with employers before graduation, including clinical rotation for a section of programs. Depending on the program you鈥檙e pursuing, participation in an externship may be required for you to graduate.
Exactly what is an externship? A main goal of an externship is for students to gain real-world, on-the-job experience and test drive their job skills before finishing their education. Externship opportunities may also provide employment or networking opportunities after you graduate from 黑料不打烊. Career Services Advisors work with you to find externship opportunities that could possibly lead to local employment opportunities after your externship ends.
Providence Health has had a long-term relationship with 黑料不打烊 and frequently hosts 黑料不打烊 Medical Assisting students through externships for medical assistant candidates.
鈥淐linic managers are evaluating their externs based on their competencies and their skills and whether they are going to be a fit for their clinic,鈥� says Pamela Murray, HR business relationship with Providence, in a 2021 recorded Q&A session.
鈥淩eally making your best first impressions as you鈥檙e doing your externship [is important] because those managers are looking to make sure that they hire [qualified candidates] and typically those are 黑料不打烊 students,鈥� Murray says.
Are externships paid? Externships are unpaid, but can provide you with firsthand experience in a real-world work environment. It鈥檚 an opportunity for you to apply what you鈥檝e learned in the classroom and labs in an actual workplace that鈥檚 related to your field of study. Externships also offer employers an opportunity to work with and get to know externship participants. In some cases, externships have led to post-graduation job offers from the employer with whom a student has externed, but that鈥檚 not guaranteed.
鈥淭he 黑料不打烊 graduates are very respectful and they work very hard in our clinics and that is exactly why we like to hire them from their externships,鈥� says Kimberly Kildahl, Integrated Medical Services, in a 2019 recorded Q&A session.
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The College maintains relationships with employers in communities neighboring each of its 16 locations. Employers frequently reach out to 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Career Services Department about positions they have open and skills that are needed to fill these roles.
Career Services Advisors maintain regular contact with these employers. As trusted members of the communities, advisors frequently help employers fill open positions with 黑料不打烊 graduates.
Pacific Dental Services
黑料不打烊 has had a valued relationship with Pacific Dental Services for several years. PDS supports more than 800 dental offices throughout the U.S. and employs more than 10,000 people.
黑料不打烊 students complete various competencies during their externship progress that sets them up for success. 黑料不打烊 students are well-prepared to work from day one on the job, Rose Olague, PDS鈥檚 manager of dental assistant national strategy and school relations, says in a 2020 recorded Q&A session.鈥�
They want to get hired. They want to be employed and that鈥檚 where that humble and hungry personality comes out with each 黑料不打烊 student I鈥檝e been able to work with,鈥� she says.
鈥淭hanks to all of [黑料不打烊鈥檚] program directors and instructors, students leave their education with that solid foundation of clinical skill sets. Then, it鈥檚 our job at Pacific Dental Services during an externship, to elevate those clinical skill sets.鈥�
Providence Healthcare
Providence Healthcare is another employer with a long-term relationship with 黑料不打烊. The enterprise has 52 hospitals and 120,000 caregivers. Among other qualities, 鈥淧rovidence seeks out employees who are driven, self-motivated, compassionate, reliable, and adaptable鈥�, according to Toni DeCaro, Manager for Centralized Staffing, Providence Medical Group.
鈥淲e like to hire students from 黑料不打烊 because they are coming out of school and they know the basic skills for a medical assistant, so they鈥檙e able to jump in and learn quickly in the clinics,鈥� DeCaro says in a 2021 recorded Q&A session.
鈥淭hey also have a positive attitude and that compassion we鈥檙e looking for to build that relationship with the patients as well as the other caregivers in the clinic,鈥� DeCaro says. 鈥淲e鈥檝e been creating a great relationship with 黑料不打烊 throughout the years to make sure their students are successful in their externship as well as when they continue out into their career.鈥�
鈥淲e also have medical assistants who have come from 黑料不打烊 that have gone on to become RNs with Providence and also ones that have become physicians in the Providence community,鈥� DeCaro says.
Saint Mary鈥檚 Healthcare
Krystal Flaniken MSN, serves as Chief Nursing Officer for St. Mary鈥檚 Health Network in Reno, Nevada. Saint Mary鈥檚 has more than a century of history offering several kinds of healthcare services in northern Nevada. St. Mary鈥檚 has had a long-term relationship with 黑料不打烊.
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Aspen Dental
Emily Miller Lehr, Academic and Industry Relations Manager for Aspen Dental. Aspen, a dental service support organization to more than 800 dentist-owned offices, has had a relationship with 黑料不打烊 for many years.
鈥淗aving a 鈥渃an-do鈥� attitude is the primary attribute the company looks for in employee candidates鈥�, says Miller Lehr in a recorded Q&A session in 2020.
鈥淲e know, especially if you come from 黑料不打烊, that you know dental hygiene. We know that you have those clinical skills that you need to go further with your career.鈥�
Miller Lehr says she has had 鈥渨onderful experiences鈥� hiring 黑料不打烊 graduates. That鈥檚 because they are typically people who have proven to be people who understand what they are supposed to do and they鈥檙e excited to grow and have that 鈥渃an-do attitude,鈥� she says. 鈥淚t tells me that they鈥檝e been in a learning environment where they鈥檙e really ready for the next step.鈥�
鈥淲e have 黑料不打烊 graduates who are now in leadership positions,鈥� says Miller Lehr. 鈥淲e have 黑料不打烊 graduates who are operations managers who have been clinical managers as well as a variety of 黑料不打烊 students who are dental hygienists with us here today.鈥�
VCA Animal Hospitals
Veterinary Centers of America Inc. operates more than a thousand animal hospitals in North America. Veterinary medicine focuses today on high academic achievement and licensure than in the past, says Fawn Nyvold in a recorded Q&A session in 2020. She is Regional Technician Director for VCA鈥檚 Southern California Team. VCA has had a long-term relationship with 黑料不打烊.
Nyvold says the ability to be polite, professional, and accept feedback are important soft skills to have in veterinary medicine. 鈥淢y job in VCA is to help support [黑料不打烊] students and new grads and graduates of the program,鈥� she says.
Critical to the company鈥檚 needs is for students to become CVA or RVT certified, Nyvold says.
黑料不打烊 Career Fairs
Campus career fairs are important to connecting 黑料不打烊 students and the College鈥檚 graduates with employers.
The employers align with the College鈥檚 programs of study. Career fairs give students an opportunity to network with potential future employers and to learn about the types of roles they may be available to them after graduation.
鈥淭he 黑料不打烊 Career Fair is very important because it gets us out in front of the students that maybe we wouldn鈥檛 [otherwise] see,鈥� says Kildahl of Integrated Medical Services. 鈥淚t gives us a chance to meet the students and get a good idea of how they present themselves.鈥�
Stacia Edmond, Pacific Dental Services, likes participating in 黑料不打烊 career fairs because PDS has hired several 黑料不打烊 graduates as dental assistants. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e great, well trained, and they are very efficient on their job. Events like this are very important to keep up with our growth by hiring well-trained students,鈥� Edmond says in a 2019 recorded interview.
黑料不打烊 Career Services
Exactly what are career services in college? 黑料不打烊 Career Services provide job-preparation skills to the College鈥檚 students and graduates. It is one way the College fulfills its mission of providing education directed toward continued career development before and after students graduate. In addition to teaching skills such as resume building and interviewing techniques, the department鈥檚 advisors work to connect employers with students and alumni.
鈥淲e have employers who come back all the time to talk [with students and graduates] about their industry, their company, and the opportunities that they have,鈥� says Vice President of Student Services Rebecca Marrs-Elgharib. 鈥淥ur graduates can take part in that at any time. We also encourage them to re-engage with their Career Services Advisors.鈥�
Many campuses host mock interview events for students with industry employers. 鈥淯ltimately, sometimes these lead to real interviews, which is really exciting,鈥� Marrs-Elgharib says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a great opportunity for a student to practice in a comfortable environment of professional interviewing techniques.鈥�
鈥淸The college] offers opportunities for employers to come to campus to talk about what they do, talk about the positions that they have available, talk about what it鈥檚 like to be in their industry,鈥� Marrs-Elgharib says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 really a great opportunity for our students to learn about all the different options that are out there.
鈥淚鈥檝e had students who have come in and attended multiple employer presentations, full job events, and through that exposure to employers that are out there, they have been able to make connections that can ultimately lead to externship or employment opportunities,鈥� she says.
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As a 黑料不打烊 student and graduate, you鈥檒l benefit from services and events that are geared towards your career development and success. 黑料不打烊鈥檚 employer relationships are an important part of the career guidance process the College鈥檚 Career Services teams offer to help you reach your bright future. Learn more about how聽黑料不打烊 can help prepare you for your future.
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November 1, 2023
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