Gaining hands-on experience is a key step in exploring careers and building your skills. This community provides resources to help you find internships, volunteer roles, research opportunities, and other ways to apply what you’re learning outside the classroom.
Internships are the best way to test out a work environment and gain industry-specific experience. An internship is a stepping stone to career success, where you can set objectives related to your goals and work under the supervision of an experienced professional to achieve them. By engaging in hands-on projects, making connections in your field, and exploring your intended career path, an internship can be the key to setting yourself up to launch your career after graduation.
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Service-learning can help students learn classroom concepts, gain career readiness skills, build their resume, contribute to the community, gain hands-on experience, and explore passion areas. Service-learning is so vital to the FGCU experience that we are one of the only public institutions to make service learning a graduation requirement for all undergraduate students.
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Campus Life is where students find meaningful involvement opportunities that help define their passion, meet other students, and find a chosen family at FGCU. With four departments and many events throught the year, Campus Life offers a variety of experiences that allow student to become connected with themselves, others, and members of the surrounding communities.
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Study Abroad is an invaluable opportunity for students to experience cultural and language immersion, academic enhancement, personal and career development, and to build global connections that last a lifetime.
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Competitive fellowships can help students reach their academic, professional, and personal goals through global citizenship, public service, scientific advancement, and academic excellence.
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Digital badges are microcredentials that help students enhance their resume by verifying to employers what in-demand skills they possess. FGCU offers digital badges for industry-specific knowledge, transferable skills, and professional development. You can gain marketable skills while bridging knolwedge gaps and increasing your career readiness.
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Get paid to work on campus and build meaningful transferable skills.
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Helping Build Job Skills and Networks While Promoting Social Change, Volunteerism Can Accelerate Your Career
Work experience is critical to moving forward in your career. But did you know that you can also gain many valuable job skills through volunteering? …
It’s perfectly okay not to know what you want to do or be unsure about options. That’s a very normal part of the college experience.
Your potential opportunities can become clearer through the actions you take.
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