Career Services officials are beginning School Pop-up Days to provide career guidance to more students.
School Pop-up Days are events where Tiffany Smith, director of career services, and Kanika Brown, assistant director of career services, will visit different schools and provide services including help with resumes, cover letters and personal statements. Food and raffle prizes will also be available.
Smith said her team had discussed ways to reach out to more students and had considered this idea for a while.
“We were trying to find more ways to be visible with the schools, and because we’re in Meinders School of Business, we may seem far away from other schools,” she said. “This is our way to provide more visibility.”
Their first pop-up event was Feb. 12 in Room 151 in Walker Center for Arts and Sciences.
“We had a lot of students come on by in between classes, which is what we were aiming for,” Smith said. “Our hopes are to be in a visible spot where we can hit a lot of student traffic. They can come up with anything—our goal is to be at a certain school for a few hours to show we can help with anything.”
Smith said they will visit Kramer School of Nursing next from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday in the student lounge in Kramer East, and they will provide pizza. She also scheduled a pop-up event for music students from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 9 in the atrium in Wanda L. Bass Music Center. Smith said she also is working with Emily Wilkinson, student services coordinator for theater, to arrange a pop-up day for the School of Theater.
Jacqueline Bennett, acting senior and Career Services student professional, said the program’s goal is to provide more help to students across campus.
“We’re coming to you because coming to Meinders can be really hard,” she said. “Ideally, we’ll go to the theater schools and the science and mathematic ones. We want to be more accessible to students, so we’re coming to you.”
Students may email careerservices@okcu.edu if they have questions.
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