 Hello, I am Sharon Kitzmiller, Assistant Director for Employment Management Services at Colorado Christian University. Employment Management Services, or EMS, is a robust job placement program that exists to help you pay for college, complete your education, graduate with little or no student debt, and to gain meaningful work experience to be competitive in the marketplace upon graduation. EMS has succeeded in these initiatives and continues to place hundreds of students each year through opportunities with our employer partnerships. What this means for you is that all qualified students that go through the EMS process are guaranteed an interview when their resume is sent to an employer. This guarantee increases your chances for hire and aids in the development, success, and employer recognition of you. Employers that partner with EMS recognize the high caliber integrity and hard work ethic of our candidates and they actually continue to build their companies and cultures with our CCU students and graduates. The benefits of the EMS program are worth noting as they will allow you as a student to build a long-term consultative relationship with our highly trained staff. We are so tuned in to your student needs, the employment trends, the job qualifications that what happens is that you have the ability to get successfully matched with the student to the employer relationship. To start this EMS program you will need to align with the EMS guiding principles and these are work as worship, excellence, and growth. The first step will be to get your resume ready. On the EMS website you will find a variety of tools to help get you started. Be sure to look at the templates and the checklist so that your first meeting with our professional staff member is efficient and productive. One goal that we have for you is to help you attain employment quickly so your preparation is really important in this process. The second step will be to set up a meeting with one of our staff members and what you'll do is you'll submit the student contact form located on the EMS website. One of our staff members will then contact you and set up a meeting which will focus on your employment history, current employment needs, your schedule of availability in your resume and then you'll be able to look at the skills that you'd like to develop now and in the future. This meeting will help determine the next step either to send your resume on to a job discussed or to set up a second meeting to identify other positions that will continue to use your level of skills and talent. If it is recommended that you set up a second meeting, typically for those with one to two years of work experience, it's important to keep growing and moving into positions that will prepare you for post-graduation. This meeting will help our professional staff member assess the type and level of placement needed to ensure your success, as well as the success of the employer. Once a position is identified, we will send your resume to be reviewed and finalized. References will be checked and a mock interview will be set up. You will receive an email that has preparatory interview videos and questions. Take time to review the material. This preparation is a really, really important step in the process and one that will maximize your confidence and ability to compete at a high level for the position. Once you have done the mock interview, EMS will send your resume to the employer. At this point, make sure your voicemail is set up professionally and there is room in your inbox for the employer to leave a message. Within a few days, you will be contacted directly by the employer to set up an interview. Let EMS know the date you set up. Be sure to arrive at the interview excited, prepared and ready to make a great first impression. Let them see and hear why you are the right person for the job. Your preparation and your ability to communicate and demonstrate competency and a desire for the job is now in your hands. Once you land the job, work hard and earn great references. Prove to them that they made the excellent hiring decision of hiring you. Demonstrate excellence and a desire to learn and grow. Remember, you are the hands and feet of Christ and this is your opportunity to serve others at this point in time through this very specific role. Now that you know a little bit more about EMS, it's time for you to get started. We look forward to meeting you.