Career Experience

Whether you are just starting to explore careers or making a career change, it is important to find a career that matches your interests, skills, and abilities.  Career exploration can help you discover your ideal career path.

Career Coach

This online tool helps you explore careers based on your interests, research local labor market information, and search job opportunities  Use the assessment results to connect to education and training programs throughout the Alamo Colleges District.

• Take a Career Assessment
• Research Careers
• Research Programs of Study

FOCUS 2

FOCUS 2 is is a great assessment tool to explore your interests, strengths and personality to help identify potential career options.

• Explore careers based on self-assessment
• Research careers associated with specific majors
• Compare occupations
• Learn important industry data and facts
• Northwest Vista Focus 2 Access Code: wildcats

What Can I Do With This Major?

What Can I Do With This Major is a website that allows you to explore majors and career fields.  It provides information on common career paths, employers that hire in the field, and how to maximize opportunities.

• Discover career options related to your pre-major.
• Learn about employers hiring in specific fields
• Learn strategies to make you a more marketable candidate.

Northwest Vista Career Experience can help you become 'job ready':

• Resume and Cover Letter Review
• Interviewing Strategies, Mock Interview
• Job/Internship Search
• Networking Strategies
• Handshake Profile Reviews

Northwest Vista has partnered with Handshake, an online platform designed to help guide students through their career search journey. Create your profile to find jobs that are right for you, search job roles based on your interests, and discover new career possibilities!

Handshake Student Sign In:

Login to My Handshake Account

Alamo Colleges District Career Resources: Explore featured career articles, view job opportunities, link to Alamo Colleges District College Career Services

Alamo on the Job - From the classroom to career, Alamo on the Job Interns are matched off campus with top rated businesses within the San Antonio Region. The Alamo on the Job Interns will receive paid on the job training to succeed in their chosen field of study.

Office of Workplace Learning: Offers several ways to enhance your education through paid, hands-on opportunities in San Antonio or around the globe.

PLUS+STEM: Apply to take part in grant funded opportunity to engage in undergraduate research experiences, STEM concept knowledge and development, and career exposure activities.

SA Ready to Work: A city-sponsored program offering education & job placement support

What is Experiential Learning?

Experiential Learning provides real-world understanding that enhances academic success.  It is the process of learning through experience, where you are actively involved in the experience, reflect upon the activity, and apply the value of the experience to broader areas of life. Self-reflection empowers students to take charge of their own learning and make connections to launch their career journey.

Experiential Learning Types

Co-Curricular Learning: Activities related to course curriculum: ex. Public Speakers, Panels

Extra-Curricular: Activities that foster student involvement and strengthen the institution's culture; ex. Clubs, Student Organizations, Interest Groups, Sports

Field Experience: Activites related to career application; ex. Internships, Practicums, Job Shadowing

Service Learning/Community Service: Guided service to the community that is related to instruction; ex. Food Pantry, Habitat for Humanity

Our Career Experience team is a connecting point for you to Northwest Vista students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

If you are seeking to post open full-time, part-time, or internship positions; please sign up for our Handshake career site.

Employer Log In

Need assistance with registering your company or posting your available positions?

Contact:

Career Experience Office
(210) 486-4090
nvc-experience@alamo.edu 

Northwest Vista requires all employers who interview on campus or post jobs or flyers through the Career and Transfer Services office to follow Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) practices as well as NACE Professional Standards in the recruiting process.  There shall be no discrimination against any qualified person on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, political or personal favoritism, marital status, sexual orientation, or disabling condition.

By registering your company or organization with us, you agree to accept and comply with the policies and procedures of the Northwest Vista College and Career Experience regarding employer recruiting activities as well as Northwest Vista Campus Guidelines.  We reserve the right to refuse service to any company or organization whose business we believe is of a nature that is not appropriate for the Northwest Vista student body.