S.H.A.R.E. Center

Virtual Resume Writing available by appointment only. Contact Nathalie Riojas at nriojas6@alamo.edu.

• Career Coach: Find a career by knowing current local data on wages, employment, job postings, and associated education and training. Also, build a resume with the free resume builder
• My Alamo Career: Career and education training come together in one place with online tools to assist in achieving your goals.
• Learning Express - Job & Career Accelerator: Browse career information, find tools to get hired, build a resume, and search for jobs and internships from a national database.
• Big Future Career Browser: Browse academic and career profiles by categories, keyword, or interest.
• Texas H.O.T. Jobs: Search for health-related career info specific to Texas.
• Texas Reality Check: Use one of three methods to compare occupations, lifestyles, and salary goals to find recommended careers.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: This guide includes career information for hundreds of occupations!
• O-Net Online: This site is the nation's primary source for occupational information.
• LearnHowtoBecome.org: This site uses expert-driven content to offer a comprehensive guide to begin, further, or change your career path

Focus 2 is an online tool that lets you plan out your educational goals and explore career options.

• Explore majors based on personality self-assessments
• Research careers associated with specific majors
• Compare multiple occupations at once
• Learn important industry data and facts
• Create a personal Action Plan and Career Portfolio
• Create your profile today! Use the Palo Alto College access code: palomino 

Before you start your job search, you need to be prepared. Things to do:

• Create/edit resumes, cover letters, and other documents needed for the application process. 
• Create a list of three to six references. Don’t forget to ask permission!
• Make a check list: full-time or part-time? Do you have the skills to work in fast food, retail, manufacturing? Knowing and employer's wants and needs will help you search more efficiently.
• Schedule a mock interview with your advisor! Practice makes perfect, and a practice interview is one way to help you make a great first impression.

Use these additional websites to widen your job search

• Glassdoor: Allows you to search for jobs but also provides good information about salaries, interviews, and companies.
• JobStar Central: Lets you search “all,” “what,” and “where.”
• Indeed: Use this site to post your resume and search for openings by: company name, keyword/title, location.
• Snagajob: Provides postings for full-time and part-time hourly jobs. You can search by location, category, industry, position, and even company!
• Texas Internship Challenge: Provides an opportunity to search for internships by keyword and location across the state. It is a partnership between the Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Education Agency, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Create a profile, upload your resume, and start finding your internships today!

Use these websites to find a great internship!

• City of San Antonio - Student Internship Program: Link theory to practice, gain real world experience, and develop specialized skills while working in departments within the city’s organization.
• Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU): Find internship opportunities, available scholarships, and job search.
• Texas Internships: Find internship opportunities in a variety of industries all over Texas!
• internships.com: Identified by Forbes as a “Top 10 Career Website,” this site lets you search through over 70,000 openings by using keywords and location.
• WayUp: Search for volunteer and paid internships by companies, cities, or categories. Sign up and create your profile to let recruiters find you!

Virtual Coaching Session

Virtual coaching is “a service of Trellis Company (funds the grant program) offering free one-on-one virtual coaching. Students will be paired with a trained financial coach to help reach their education, career, and financial goals and help develop a financial plan and prepare for their future. The coaching is confidential, free, and works with the student’s availability.

1. Go to aie.org./coaching
2. Go to “Schedule Appointment“
3. Create an Account
4. Once your account is created indicate in the 3 options provided what dates and times you are available to complete this coaching session a. Note: Weekends do not count and the first session you can sign up for must be 24 hours in advance.
5. Submit your options and save/print the two documents included at the end of the registration page
   (you will need them at the time of your coaching session) a. A coach will contact you within two business days to confirm the day and time of your session. Remember to sign up on a day you will have access to a computer. If you do not have a computer with a camera the session will be done via phone call.

iGrad

This FREE money management tool is an interactive resource for money, career exploration, scholarships, student loans, and financial literacy tools.

Search by:

Topics: managing money, paying for school, finding a career, and more.

Courses: creating a budget, assessing your financial health, understanding your credit report, understanding your paycheck, using banking and checking, using credit cards responsibly, and more.

Tools: scholarship search, job search, budget sheet, financial aid coach, games, live webinars, etc. Watch this ‘How it Works’ video to become familiar with iGrad.

The emergency aid program is a grant program meant to help students pay for an expense that, if not addressed immediately, could result in students leaving school. Emergency grant funds cannot be used to cover school expenses (parking, tuition, fines, balances, books, supplies, required tools/equipment, etc.).The funds must be used for expenses such as: utilities, housing/rent, food, medical/dental, personal automobile expenses, public transportation/bus passes, child care, fuel, etc. Payments to the third-party agency (e.g., utility service) are made by Palo Alto College, so students will not directly receive any funds. Grants cannot be used for tuition or balances.The program is available
to enrolled students in need of limited, short-term financial assistance; an emergency grant does not require repayment.

1. On the AlamoSync home page, click the “Sign In” button in the upper right-hand corner using your Aces login information.
2. Use the Search tool to find “PAC Student Life”.
3. Click on the blue “Join” button located in the right-hand corner.
4. Find the “Dr. Mike Flores Emergency Aid Program” application under Forms.
5. Complete and submit the application.

Palo Alto College will review submitted applications and requirements before approving it. If students are approved for emergency aid, they will be asked to schedule an appointment to complete the process. Students with questions may schedule appointments prior to completing the application with Kiana Piña.

Student FAQ Handouts

• Borrow Smart
• Managing Student Loans: You Got This
• Plan and Spend
• Student Loan Entrance Counseling
• Student Loan Exit Counseling
• Work and Earn
• Spending Plan Worksheet

Faculty Classroom Implementation Handouts

• Fall 2019 executive summary
• In-class session options
• Financial Wellness Syllabus

• Resume Writing: In this session students will learn the importance of having a strong professional resume, while actively completing a resume.
  
  
• Professionalism in Social Media: Educates students on the importance of a LinkedIn profile as well as the implications of discriminatory social media posts and how to avoid post-hire termination. Activity: Students can build a LinkedIn account.
  
  
• Mastering an Interview: This workshop prepares students with strategic designs to answering hard hitting interview questions. Highlights: understanding the elevator speech, non-verbal communication, and tips and techniques.

• S.H.A.R.E. Center Services Overview: This presentation covers the resources and opportunities available to students through the S.H.A.R.E. Center, including the food pantry, professional clothes closet, financial literacy and career advising, emergency aid grants, housing assistance, social services, and volunteer opportunities.
  
  
• AlamoEXPERIENCE & Campus Involvement: Students will learn about the benefits of campus engagement and how to use the AlamoEXPERIENCE platform to engage with clubs, stay up to date with campus events, find volunteer opportunities, and track involvement with the Experience Transcript.
  
  
• Exploring Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement: Students will use the Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement (PPSCE) diagnostic developed by Stanford University's Haas Center to learn about their predispositions and interests toward different approaches to social change. Students will then review different volunteer and career options that align with their individual results.
  
  
• Census 2020: In this session students will learn basic information about the 2020 Census, the importance of a complete count to their communities, misinformation about the process, and what they can do to help get a complete count.

Service Learning Course Design Consultation: If you are interested in planning a service learning course, contact Hunter Bates at hbates4@alamo.edu.

Begin planning the structure of your course with this course development worksheet