Career Center Gets New Manager

Christin Jackson is the new UCBA Career Center Manager.
A 2003 Princeton high school graduate and a 2007 UC graduate, Jackson majored in Marketing and minored in Management at the Lindner College of Business. She is one of ten UC grads in her family.
During her senior year of high school, Jackson won a citywide and state level interviewing contest, which graded students on all aspects of an interview, such as how students walk, talk, speak, and dress, the quality of their resume, handshakes, and responses and reactions.
She has been working with UCBA Career Services for four years, first at Lincoln College of Technology as a career services representative, then at Beckfield College as the Assistant Director of Career Services.
Before entering career services, she worked for News America Marketing, a Rupert Murdoch company, for a year and half. She also had a three-year internship with Toyota.
Jackson switched careers because she did not feel fulfilled. Happier now, she feels that she's still marketing, just marketing students and better equipping students for life after college.
Jackson helps students prepare their resume and cover letters, as well as how to appear in an interview. She also helps with the soft skills every student needs, such as etiquette and professional correspondence.
"What I like the most [about my job] is seeing the students learn and develop and grow...and put their best foot forward."
She likes what UCBA does for students. "Staff really cares and knows what they do. Everyone here is like-minded in that they want to make UCBA great."
As a result, it was not difficult for her to adjust to her new job here. "It was pretty easy," she said. "[There's] so much experience in career services, [people here] know what it's like to have to push and create awareness. [My] boss, Joyce [Wagner], is great. Support in the department is great. Angie [Lucas] did a great job. Communication is great, always there, doors are open."
She does see common mistakes in students' resumes. She says that students need to realize that the resume is them on paper. It's an employer's first impression, she said. It needs to be professional, and it shouldn't just say what jobs you worked, but what you did there.
She also emphasized that students need to prepare. Some employers require G.P.A. and transcripts, and she said that working jobs that fit your career goal can be very helpful.
Students should also pay special attention to social media and how they are presented on the Internet because employers do check those things.
Jackson stressed that CCN or College Central Network, which is available to find on the UCBA website, helps students reach out to employers.
Jackson is very happy to work for UC. She's glad to "be a resource to students, to give back to students and to give the best to the school that gave [her] education. It's great to give back."
Jackson is available in the Career Center in Flory 120.