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Job Shadowing

A job shadowing experience allows a student to spend a few hours to a day (or more) observing a professional on the job. This experience can provide students with a “real-world” look at the occupation or career they may be considering. Job shadowing is a good way to help students decide if a particular occupation is right for them. These experiences are generally not done for academic credit and are usually unpaid.

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» Locate a Job Shadowing Opportunity
» Tools for Informational Interviewing
» Additional Resources

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Locate a Job Shadowing Opportunity

There are several ways to locate potential job shadowing opportunities. The following is a list of different resources to locate these opportunities:

• Mentor
• Previous employers
• Family/Friends
• Advisor/Professor
• Alumni Association
• UIS Career Development Center
• UIS-SUCCESS (Click to login)

For more information about job shadowing, please visit the Career Development Center. We would be more than happy to provide you with possible names and numbers of potential job shadowing opportunities or help you get started with our online resources.

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Tools for Job Shadowing

» Job Shadow Request (Word)

Hands On Resource

» Job Shadow Movie
http://www.jobshadow.org/mov/glimpse-l.mov

Visual Resource Auditory Resource

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Additional Resources

• Quint Careers: Research through Job Shadowing http://www.quintcareers.com/job_shadowing.html
• NCREL: Definition of Job Shadowing http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/stw/sw3jobsh.htm
• Virtual Job Shadow
  http://www.virtualjobshadow.com/
• GroooveJob: Benefits of Job Shadowing
  http://www.groovejob.com/resources/job-shadowing/
• Career Connector
  http://www.careerconnector.com/scripts/findjobshadow2.cfm
  

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