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Career Guarantee

Ensuring Your Success Beyond Graduation

Florida Southern College is committed to helping you achieve your career goals. That's why we're proud to offer the Â鶹Éçmadou Career Guarantee, a one-of-a-kind program that promises you'll secure employment or gain admission to a graduate or professional school within six months of graduation — or receive our dedicated support to get back on track.

This program isn't just a promise; it's a comprehensive, structured roadmap designed to help you develop the skills, connections, and experiences needed to thrive in today's competitive job market. Through career-focused activities, personalized coaching, and practical learning opportunities, Florida Southern ensures you graduate fully prepared for what comes next.

What Makes the Â鶹Éçmadou Career Guarantee Unique?

A Step-by-Step Plan for Career Success

A Step-by-Step Plan for Career Success

Starting in your first year, you'll engage in career readiness activities, including resume building, LinkedIn assistance, internship guidance, leadership development, and more. As you work toward graduation, you'll build on your experiences to develop critical skills and expand your networks.
A Clear Path to Opportunities

A Clear Path to Opportunities

By graduation, you will have participated in mock interviews, identified job opportunities, applied for positions or graduate programs, and built a polished resume or CV to showcase your experiences.
Guaranteed Outcomes

Guaranteed Outcomes

If you complete all the requirements of the program and do not secure a job or graduate school placement within six months of graduation, Â鶹Éçmadou will step in with either:

  • Loan Assistance - Covering Â鶹Éçmadou-specific loan payments for up to three months while you continue your job search.
  • Graduate Tuition Waiver - Cover tuition for six graduate credits at Â鶹Éçmadou.
Career readiness is extremely important for today’s college students, and we are thrilled to launch our new Â鶹Éçmadou Career Guarantee program for our first-year students. It provides a structured, year-by-year roadmap of career-related activities to guarantee our Â鶹Éçmadou students are fully career-ready for employment, graduate school, or other post-graduation career goals!
Erin Myszkowski
Executive Director of Career Services

How It Works

The Â鶹Éçmadou Career Guarantee is tailored for first-time, first-year college students. Students enroll in the program during their first year and follow a four-year sequence of career preparation activities. Highlights include:

  • Year 1 - Build the foundation by meeting with Career Services, setting up a Handshake account, and completing the Internship Ready course.
  • Year 2 - Explore career interests through informational interviews and continued engagement with Career Services events.
  • Year 3 - Dive into leadership roles, complete internships, and refine career goals with targeted strategies.
  • Year 4 - Execute the plan by applying to jobs or graduate programs, completing mock interviews, and showcasing a competitive resume or CV.

What Students Need to Do

To qualify for the Â鶹Éçmadou Career Guarantee, students must:

  • Enroll as full-time first-year students (transfer students are ineligible).
  • Declare a major by the first day of junior year.
  • Maintain at least a 2.8 GPA throughout the program.
  • Complete two approved internships or experiential learning opportunities.
  • Actively engage in all required activities for the program, even if planning to graduate a semester or a year early.
  • Begin the job search by the start of their final year, completing job or graduate school applications, and any additional recommendations from the Office of Career Services.
  • Meet any legal or regulatory requirements of the chosen field.
  • Graduate within 4 years of enrollment.*

* Students intending to graduate a year or semester early must complete all four-year program requirements within a condensed timeframe. Those planning to graduate from Florida Southern College in less than three years, or take a gap year, are not eligible for the program.

Your Path to Career Success

Your Path to Career Success

The Florida Southern College Career Guarantee is a four-year structured sequence of career preparation activities delivered via non-credit online modules in Canvas. Beginning in your first year, you'll engage with these modules and continue working through them throughout your time at Â鶹Éçmadou, ensuring a step-by-step pathway to career readiness and post-graduation success.
Setting You Up For Graduation

Setting You Up For Graduation

As you prepare for graduation, the Mocs Milestone: Graduation Ready! will serve as your centralized hub for completing essential non-academic graduation tasks. From the graduation check to commencement details, this course ensures you have everything you need to stay organized and smoothly transition from Florida Southern College to the next chapter of your journey.

Your Future Starts Here

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