What is CELS?

Career Enhancing Life Skills, CELS, is a four-year program through which students explore career options, assess interests and skills and learn to consider lifetime goals when planning coursework and activities, look for a career-related junior-year internship, and get help with a job search as seniors.

According to the program director, if you complete CELS, you'll be twice as likely to have a job or graduate school acceptance at graduation.

The program is simple:

• As a first-year student, you'll start by creating an electronic portfolio to catalogue your high school and college accomplishments. You also can complete an on-line personality assessment.
• As a sophomore, you'll take a series of three workshops geared toward identifying your interests and skills and meet with a CELS counselor. They'll help you build a resumé and to make choices about classes, activities and the paid junior-year summer internship.
• When your junior year begins, you'll focus on finding an internship that matches your goals.
• As a senior, you evaluate what you've done, what you've learned and where you're going. You'll submit a paper about your internship and are encouraged to consider whether to review or revise your goals as a result of the experience. Then you'll map out a plan for grad school, a fellowship or a job.

Last Modified: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:47