Employment Prep Center

Vision

Explore Careers

• The Maida Kamber Center (MKC) offers two resources to help you identify careers that align with your personality, interests, values, and strengths. We recommend starting with the Focus 2 assessment. Register for your own personal account using the password from the MKC site.
• Hawai‘i Career Explorer is an interactive resource to gain information and real-time data for occupations, companies, state agencies, institutions, and industry sectors. Start with exploring an industry, reviewing the top jobs and skills in demand in Hawaii, or taking a lifestyle quiz to find out how much money you need to make to afford the lifestyle you want.
• Informational Interviews: Gain insider knowledge from people already working in a job, industry, or organization you’re interested in. Pick up a copy of the Networking Success Strategies handout in the Employment Prep Center (EPC) office for more info. Or, learn more about UH Connect which is a networking and mentoring platform for UH alumni.

Gain Experience

• Learn through Service: Get connected with The Kapi‘olani Service & Sustainability Learning Program or Aloha United Way for hands-on experience in the neighboring community. Kapi’olani CC’s Māla Māunuunu and Conservation Connections provide a variety of opportunities through ʻaina-based learning as well.
• Campus Contribution: Join a student organization to develop leadership skills and make a difference on campus.
• Research: Undergraduate research provides an opportunity to build your Curriculum Vitae (CV) while connecting with faculty in the field. Visit your program director to discuss independent study or the STEM Program for opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
• Study Abroad: Expand your worldview through Study Abroad and develop academically and personally through immersion in a foreign culture.

Prepare to Get Hired

• Resumes: Create a draft resume by copying this template to your Google Drive.
• Job search document handouts: Stop by the EPC office to pick up copies of handouts on resumes, Curriculum Vitae (CVs), cover letters, job search strategies, and interviewing.
• Career workshops: The EPC regularly hosts workshops to help students prepare, search, and secure part-time and full-time jobs. Check out the Kapi’olani CC Calendar for upcoming student and community events that may be of interest to you.
• Individual job search support: EPC advisors are available to meet in person to review your job search documents and conduct practice (mock) interviews. Make an appointment via STAR Balance (view instructions on how to do this here).

Connect to Opportunities

• On-campus jobs: Current students that are enrolled at least half-time and in good academic standing can apply for on-campus jobs using SECE.

• Off-campus jobs: Students can apply for part-time and full-time off-campus jobs using SECE.

• Internships: In addition to the SECE, the STEM Program, Kapo’oloku Native Hawaiian Student Success, Native Hawaiian Academic Advancement Program, and the Honda International Center are resources on campus to help students access experiential learning opportunities.

• SECE: UHCC alumni are welcome to use SECE to search for non-UH jobs.
• Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai‘i: Professional positions across the University of Hawai‘i system are advertised through this website.
• Career Consults: Whether you’re exploring your next career move or focused on preparing for your job search, you can work with an Employment Prep Center (EPC) advisor to assist you. To set up an appointment, call (808) 734-9066 or email gethired@hawaii.edu.
• Refine your skills: Sharpen your existing skills or build new career skills through Continuing Education courses.
• Connect to Alumni: Kapi‘olani CC is the only UHCC with an independent, active alumni association. There is no cost to join. Visit the Kapi‘olani CC Alumni and Friends Association website for more information.

• Conduct in-class presentations about “What Can I Do With a _____ Major?”
• Collaborate on class assignments related to student’s career goals or employment readiness (e.g., career exploration, resume writing, job searching, networking, interviewing, participation in job fairs)
• Invite a panel of employers (from specific industries or who studied specific majors) for a talk story session with your students
• Invite employers to speak in your class about topics such as professionalism, time management, conflict resolution, effective communication, etc.
• Speak to your class for 5 minutes about EPC services & resources
• Serve as a mock interviewer

If you’re interested in any of the above or want to chat about career education ideas to include in your syllabus, call (808) 734-9066.

• Job Postings: Contact gethired@hawaii.edu to learn more.
• Flyers: Bulletin boards on campus are reserved for student activities only. The Employment Prep Center (EPC) encourages you to email job-related PDF flyers to gethired@hawaii.edu.
• Job Fairs: The EPC hosts one job fair at Kapi‘olani Community College in the Fall semester with a small group of employers.
• Share Your Expertise:  For this upcoming academic year, the EPC is excited to announce a new initiative called Beyond the Table. Beyond the Table is our database of employers who would like to volunteer their time and expertise to engage with our students beyond hosting a recruiting table during one of our job fairs. Learn more about our Beyond the Table database.

• Employment Prep Center (EPC)
  Kikaha O Laeʻahi Center, ʻIliahi 231
  (808) 734-9066
  gethired@hawaii.edu
• Hours: The EPC is open for appointments and walk-ins Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm. Appointments are preferred.
• Individual Appointments: Current students can make an appointment via STAR Balance (learn how to make an appointment.) Alumni, faculty, and employers can call (808) 734-9066 or email gethired@hawaii.edu to request an appointment.
• Social Media: Follow us @kccepc on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.