Enhancing Your Employability

Check out these tips for insight on how to be a better job candidate:


1. Get involved in the career development process early, freshman year. Check out Careers in Anthropology, available in the Career Planning Office; it is a manual of advice and a great source for exercises for prospective and present anthropology majors.

  2. Select minors/elective courses that will demonstrate interest/applicability to your career objective.

3. Get career related experience: internships, summer and/or part-time employment, volunteer. Join a career related association or organization.

4. Develop the following job search and self-marketing skills: resume and cover letter writing, portfolio development, researching employers, interviewing, networking, and employment searching.

5. Skills to develop: surveying, understanding geological and geographic information systems, record keeping, designing and implementing surveys, interdisciplinary team problem-solving, second language, teaching, and grant-writing.