The Citadel Career Center Mission Statement: 

The Citadel Career Center educates and empowers students to become active participants in their professional success. We encourage early career exploration, we provide weekly opportunities for employer engagement and we support development of proactive job search skills for the purpose of securing competitive employment or admission to graduate school at graduation.

Who We Serve:

• All actively enrolled students
• Employers
• Alumni 

Actively enrolled students, alumni and recruiters have access to Handshake, our modern platform for talent recruiting, networking, job postings and on-campus events (accounts are approved during business hours).

Undergraduate Students - Log in as a first-time user with your Citadel email address. Follow prompts to create your password.

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Graduate Students & Alumni - Click here, select "Sign up for new account,"choose "student/alumnus" and follow the prompts.

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Recruiters - Click here to create or access your Handshake account.

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WHY IS THE CITADEL'S CAREER CENTER DIFFERENT?  

The Citadel strives to make career planning an integral part of our campus culture. Career planning and job search skills, like resume writing, behavioral-based interview techniques and salary negotiation are even embedded into our Leadership Development Program. Cadets have a minimum of six required career touch points throughout their academic careers. In addition to traditional career services support - like drop-in hours, career fairs and weekly recruiting events - supplementary career education is integrated into many academic departments.This proactive approach helps students learn to correlate early engagemnent to long-term success. 

The Citadel consistently exceeds national averages for career outcomes. Over 80% of the South Carolina Corp of Cadets report professional employment, military or graduate school acceptance at graduation and over 90% success six months after graduation. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 6 month report shows "53.4% (of graduates) are in full-time positions, 17.5% are continuing education and over 16% report they are still searching."

Our Four Year Career Planning Timeline highlights our vision of exploration, preparation and engagement. 

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