Enjoy your new start in KMU! Freshmen greet their new semester with new hope, and other Keimyung students also hope for a better campus life than last semester. However, because of the economic situation, students are facing one of the worst states of employment in years. In this situation, if you want to take the initiative in employment, you should raise your ability and skills in advance. You can find an answer from the Keimyung University Job Placement Office, the Student Counseling Center, and the Center for Student Development which are run by the university. If you are a freshman, or you didn't know about these centers, by using these centers and their programs, you can enjoy a better campus life than ever. These centers will help your future employment with practical help.

Keimyung University Job Placement Office

1. Job Openings
To students who seek employment, the Keimyung University Job Placement Office offers job openings and part-time job information. Through surfing Web sites and visiting corporations, it keeps a file on employment information and offers it to students.

In addition, you can apply for a position on-line. The Job Placement Office takes applications from graduates and prospective graduates on-line. Then they furnish information through e-mail or telephone to applicants who want to apply for a position. You can find lots of information about job openings or part-time jobs and apply for a job on-line.

2. Employment Café
A resume and personal introduction, coping with the changing tendency of employment, and interview skills are the most important things in employment. To some, however, it is difficult to have an interview or to write their personal introduction. To reduce these difficulties, the Employment Café is operated by the Job Placement Office. Through this program, you can get a consultation individually or with a small group. To apply for this program, advance reservation is necessary.

The Job Placement Office helps students to decide on their profession more clearly through consultations. Through the Employment Café, an employment consultation and education program, people who are preparing for employment can get a lot of information and skills.

3. CAT-TOEIC
CAT-TOEIC (Computerized Adaptive Test-TOEIC), an on-line trial TOEIC examination, is offered to students for free. Through this program, all users can apply for a trial TOEIC examination free from restraints like time or place. According to the results of the examination, you can find weaknesses and correct them to get a better TOEIC grade.

- Users: Keimyung University students (including students on leave of absence), graduates and prospective graduates
- Duration of program: 2 months
- Application: Keimyung University Job Placement Office Web site
- Fee: free
- Updates: every month (12 trial examinations a year)

4. LCGP (Lifelong Career Guidance Program)
The Job Placement Office has offered the Lifelong Career Guidance Program to Keimyung students since 2006. As a career guidance program, it helps students to find their career and employment by themselves. According to students' grade, the information that they need is different and it is send to students on different days.

Delivery date: Monday - freshman, Tuesday - sophomore, Wednesday - junior, Thursday - senior
Users: Keimyung University students (including students on leave of absence)
Delivery method: personal e-mail
E-mail registration: through the graduate information system

Student Counseling Center

The Student Counseling Center was founded to help students adapt to their university life. The center offers four kinds of counseling programs. The first one is a psychological test, and the MBTI (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) test is frequently used. As for other psychological tests, the center usually uses an aptitude test and character test.
Second, the center offers individual counseling. Students can consult counselors on their problems about future course in life, studies, personality, personal relations, emotions, and sexuality.

Third, the center offers cyber-counseling. Cyber-counseling is usually done through students' writing their problems on the center's Web site, and then the center counselors answer them with helpful solutions. If you want secrecy of counseling content, you can make your writing secret through clicking on a secrecy button.

The last counseling the center uses is group counseling. There are many interesting programs, for example, decreasing feelings of unrest during presentations and how to manage time effectively. The most exciting one is “Men Come from Mars; Women Come from Venus.” Students who want to use this program need to bring their girl friends or boy friends to the center. This program helps students understand their partners more and express their own feelings more confidently.

The programs of the center are all well-prepared for Keimyung students. If students want to take the counseling programs, students have to make a reservation through a visit, telephone call, or application on the Web site. All counseling is done secretly and is free. The official hours of the center are 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., Monday to Friday, but 9:30 A.M. to 3 P.M., Monday to Friday, during vacations.

Center for Teaching & Learning

The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) runs teaching and learning activities for all Keimyung professors and students. The center offers such digital educational mediums as video recording of lectures, and it runs the Web site http://cyber.kmu.ac.kr, where any Keimyung people can meet online.

In addition, this center holds various workshops. For professors, teaching workshops are held with contents like how to make good use of Microsoft Office PowerPoint or how to teach students with creativity. What is more, for students, the Study Skill-up Program is regarded as a very helpful program for its practical study guidance through its sub-programs “How to Take Good Notes” or “How to Write A+ Reports.” The Study Skill-up Program has 5 sessions every semester, and you can choose whatever program you want to attend. When students participate in these programs and complete the courses, they can have certificates for the programs. If students miss one or two sessions among the five sessions, they need to apply for the missing sessions in the next semester to get the certifications.

Every semester, this center recruits study supporters. Study supporters can participate in all of the activities in CTL. The center also runs the Keimyung Peer Tutoring (KPT) program which connects tutors and tutees with one another. Students who want to be tutors need to apply to the center through their self-introduction by e-mail. Then, the center loads tutors' information on the tutors' list on the CTL Web site. After that, tutees choose their tutors on the list and make an application to the tutors directly. If both tutors and tutees want to study together, they have to apply to the center with a written application and participate in orientation. The requirement for tutors is junior or senior year students who have a GPA of more than 4.0. In the case of tutees, there isn't any requirement, but mostly freshmen or sophomore students or transfer students can become tutees.

CTL is always prepared to give students the newest educational information and guidance to help students to increase their academic ability.