The Career and Professional Development Center offers a range of services to help alumni of all life stages, majors, and industries navigate their careers. Alumni your career will go through different seasons, ups, downs, twists, and turns. We offer our alumni services to support career changes and job transitions – from networking opportunities to resume reviews to one-to-one career coaching with our Career Specialists. 

Our Rattler alumni may set up an account on the HireARattler powered by Handshake system.

If you need additional assistance, please contact the FAMU Career and Professional Development Center at 850-599-3700.

Internship to Job: How to Turn Your Summer Internship Into a Full-Time Employment

This article provides great tips on achieving the goal of securing a job form the internship program that you have applied for.  It gives pointers on strategies for building relationships, networking, and secrets to being hired after the internship period …

By Mark Pate
Mark Pate Assistant Director, IT
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5 Tips to Ace a Career Fair

Career fairs can be overwhelming, to say the least. In many cases, you’ll be vying against scores of other students for the attention of company representatives. The following infographic provides strategies that will help you stand out to employers and make …

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