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Exciting Career and Job Opportunities through SCDSS

If you are looking for a job or just started a new job, the SCDSS Chafee Program offers resources and services to help you. Maybe you’ve just started exploring career choices. If so, there are resources out there to help you as well.

September 3, 2019 read more
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Writing Your Resumé

Your resumé is a document that shows off your professional skills and talents to potential employers. An employer should be able to look at a resumé and assess your potential as an employee. But how can you make a resumé that shows your potential as an employee if you’ve never had a job?

May 22, 2019 read more
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Talking the Talk

You’ve done it—you’ve used our resume and interview tips and got hired. Awesome! Already you’ve had your first day, and you’re excited to have a meaningful job. You love the office environment, and your co-workers are eager to help you. But everyone around you talks differently than you’re used to—and you’re asking yourself questions like “what does “reach out” mean,” or “how can it be a level playing field if we’re inside in office”? The language they use is so different than what you are used to. Wasn’t this job supposed to be in English?

May 22, 2019 read more