Faculty & Staff:

Welcome! The Career Center staff is available to assist HBU Faculty and Staff in providing students with career and employment information for today's world of work. Keeping up with the vast quantity of information related to careers and the job-search process is difficult. We can help.

We greatly appreciate faculty/staff who encourage students to utilize our services and who partner with us to help students make wise career choices. Please review the information we have prepared on this Web page. For additional information, see the "students" portion of our Web site.

Have you been to the Career Center? Come by and visit our Career Resource Center and interviewing facilities. We would be happy to show you the wealth of information available for students and the beautiful facilities that showcase HBU students to employers. Contact us to assure someone is available to show you around.

Classroom Presentation
Contact us if you would like to have a Career Center staff member visit your class to speak on career and employment related topics. Please schedule well ahead of time since speaker availability is limited.

Are you looking for a Work-Study Student?
Contact Financial Services to view resumes of student workers.

Hire a Husky HBU Faculty and Staff are encourgared to register in "Hire a Husky" so they can receive e-mails about upcoming Career Service events and new job postings from our employers.  Passing this type of information on to their advisees and classes helps ensure our students are well infomred about internship and job opportunities available.  Faculty and Staff members, after registering for "Hire a Husky", can also upload student worker positions and make them available to Students looking to be hired. Registered members may also browse through resumes posted by HBU Students.  Send Ann Reynolds an e-mail today to get registered in Hire a Husky.  Already registered?  Log on now.

Want to know about upcoming events?
See our calendar of Career Center events.

Letters of Recommendation
Each year, we receive requests for guidelines about what should be included in the letters of reference which many members of the faculty and staff are asked to write for students. The following information may be helpful as you approach this task.

• Identify the student and the capacity in which you came to know him or her. If the contact was primarily through having the student in class(es), please give the course name(s), not just the number(s).
• Give as much evidence as possible of the student's increased knowledge, maturity, understanding of material or other aspects of development during the period you knew him or her.
• Future employers as well as graduate schools will be evaluating candidates on the basis of the following factors, among others:
  • communication skills (written and oral)
  • willingness to take initiative
  • level of motivation
  • planning and organizational skills
  • technical or professional knowledge or skills
  • flexibility / adaptability
  • interpersonal skills
  • willingness to accept responsibility / leadership
  • analytical / problem-solving ability
  • group interaction and team-working skills

Any information you can give to support the student's candidacy with reference to these attributes would be helpful. Avoid potentially discriminatory references (race, religion, national origin, marital status, age, etc.).

Accent the positive and try to qualify any negative statements with evidence of the ways in which a student is dealing with the problem. If you feel you cannot give a positive recommendation, it is best to let the student know! You may want to have the student provide you with a copy of his or her resume. This will give you an overview of the student's accomplishments in work situations or activities outside the classroom which you may use to enhance your comments. Also, it would be helpful if you asked the student to share his or her career goals with you. This could strengthen your comments.

SEE SAMPLE : Recommendation Letter