Career Assistance & Counseling
The Career Planning and Placement Service of the JCC Counseling Center can help you learn about the attitudes and skills that will be required of certain careers, plan educational programs, prepare for work, and help anticipate and prepare career paths available within a work place.
Career counseling services are provided through personalized, one-on-one, and group counseling sessions and can be supplemented by career inventories such as the Strong Interest Inventory, Holland Self-Directed Search, Choices Guidance Program, SIGI Plus Guidance Program, and the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory. Our counselors will help you assess interests and values, and match those attributes with specific careers.
Learn how you can become more marketable in today's job market and how employment prospects are strongly affected by your personal characteristics as well as your educational background.
The Center offers a variety of job placement activities throughout the year including career fairs, alumni panels and class seminars. We provide assistance writing cover letters and resumes and critiquing resumes. The Center maintains a Credential File service which allows students or alumni to place a resume, references and other pertinent credentials into a file which can be referred to prospective employers. Job Books list various employment opportunities for review and self-referral. Employment and military recruiters regularly visit the Counseling Center at Jefferson.
Career counseling services include:
- Individual Counseling Sessions
- Resume Development and Critiques
- Career Assessments/Interest Inventories
- Labor Market Information
- Guidance and Information
- Credential File Service
- Employment Skills Listings
- Career Resources
- Employee and Military Recruiters
- Interviewing Techniques
- General Career Websites
- Specific Career Websites
The mission of the Counseling Center at JCC is to foster personal, educational, and career development for students and alumni and to provide educational and career information to community members. Counselors are available by appointment to assist you in the areas of career, personal support, and transfer counseling.
A resource room provides career and college guides, life skills leaflets, employment resources, plus a collection of New York State college catalogs. A computer station is available to access career assessments, career and college information, and job-hunting information
The Counseling Center
Room 6-020, Jules Center
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM to
5:00 PM
Telephone: 315-786-2271 / toll free 888- 435-6522
Confidentiality is maintained with all counseling sessions unless otherwise waived.
Our professional counselors are all members of the American Counseling Association and adhere to the ACA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.