PsyCaD Career Services support and subscribe to the vision, mission and values of the University of Johannesburg, The Division Academic Development and Support, as well as that of the Centre of Psychological Services and Career Development (PsyCaD), in which Career Services is settled organizationally. The Career Services’ mission is to promote the career development and related life planning skills of its clients, and to facilitate graduate recruitment opportunities and contact with potential employers, in order for our clients to actualize their career development goals.
Career Services strives to engage with it clients and stakeholders, being prospective and enrolled students, alumni and the working population, as well as the employer community and the faculties of the university. We view career development as a life-long activity, and engage with our clients in a comprehensive manner in order to contribute to their career development by providing the following activities:
• Advisory services to assess client needs and to refer them appropriately;
• Career assessment, consulting and counselling services to assist clients to explore their self and career knowledge, and to enable them to exercise informed career choice decision making;
• Career Resource Centres with print and web-based resources to enable clients to access self-help and self-assessment resources, information about career fields, job search strategies, and to access employment opportunities;
• Career education workshops to assist in the acquisition of CV writing and cover letter skills, interviewing skills, job search skills and career management skills;
• Online Careers Portal provides clients access to job listings for graduates, work integrated learning and internships, part-time and promotional work opportunities, as well as to access opportunities in the educational and NGO sectors;
• Graduate Recruitment Programme to facilitate contact and networking opportunities between prospective employees and graduates;
• Conducting research on career development, of an academic and market related nature, in order to inform our career services activities, and to provide our clients with relevant and recent information on job destination trends, salary and labour market information, and employer’s needs and requirements.
PsyCaD Career Services is dedicated to offering our clients and stakeholders opportunities to participate and fully utilizes service offering and activities by the provision of equitable and available resources of all four our campuses. As such each campus provides access to a staffing contingent comprising of Registered Psychologists, Registered Counselors and Psychometrists, a Graduate Recruitment Programme Coordinator and professional support staff.