SOWELA's Office of Career Services educates and supports individuals in life planning and profession self-reliance. Students at all SOWELA locations can utilize its innovative and informative job positioning services for work support during their college experience or in preparation for life after graduation. The Office of Career Services is at the Main Campus in Lake Charles, LA, in the Magnolia Building, Student Success Center.

Online Job Bank

SOWELA's Career Services Office provides innovative and useful task positioning services to our students. Among those services is our online task bank (opens brand-new window).

- To access the task bank, you need to enter your trainee ID as your username and after that click "forgot password."

• Services are offered to students, alumni, and companies.
• Approved employers may post tasks and search resumes.
• All services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• After you register to the site, it is very crucial that you cheeck your email daily for notifies and announcements from the Career Services Coordinator regarding job openings, profession fairs, workshops, etc.
  
  Job Search Services
  
  - Resume Tips How to a resume (opens new window). Resume design templates (opens brand-new window)
  
  How to prepare for a task interview (opens brand-new window). Steps to get ready for your job interview (opens brand-new window)
  
  Tips to assist prepare for a profession fair (opens brand-new window)
  
  Coast Guard Lateral Entry Program
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  SOWELA has a Lateral Entry Program with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). This allows SOWELA graduates in specific programs to directly enlist into the USCG or USCG Reserve at a higher rank and pay. As part of the program, eligible SOWELA graduates can also bypass USCG technical training due to their degree credential.
  
  Helpful Links
  
  Career Coach (opens new window). Career Explorer SWLA (opens brand-new window) - A virtual home for all things Career & Technical Education in our region. Search for resources, programs, occasions and webinars, and task searches.
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  - A job noting website that caters particularly to companies looking to work with brand-new college graduates. This provides graduates a simple way to find their very first career chance in their discipline without substantial experience.
  
  - A totally free guide to composing an expert resume. It also supplies free Microsoft Word templates and sample resumes, at the bottom of the page, that can be easily downloaded and personalized for any specific job chance. Hloom Internship Resume (opens brand-new window) - An internship-specific resume area of the website that is terrific for students searching for a summer internship.