Career Services

Enhance Your Professional Life

Many students come to Antioch to enhance or change the direction of their careers. Antioch University provides career services to help you take charge of your career path before and after graduation.

Career Counseling resources are available on the Antioch campus and are provided through Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal, a well-respected, nonprofit organization which has provided career services to the Antioch community since 1994.

Individual Career Counseling at Antioch University Seattle

Antioch understands the busy, full schedules of its adult students. To give you personalized attention and flexible options, you can schedule a 30 or 50-minute individual career counseling session with a professional career counselor who can answer your specific questions.

In your career counseling sessions you can address a full range of career questions including how to:

• Clarify your career vision and focus.
• Translate the vision for your area of study into a real job.
• Learn new and creative methods to search for your ideal fit.
• Understand the essential role of networking and how it fits into your search.
• Use traditional job search approaches in nontraditional ways.
• Keep the momentum going while trying to manage everything else in your life.
• Prepare for upcoming interviews.
• Review your résumé and letters.
• Negotiate for the highest salary.
• Develop the best strategies how to get where you want to go.
• Individual Career

Vickie Chaffin, M.A. in Psychology from Antioch with a Certificate in Centerpoint Cycles of Change, is the primary career counselor on campus. Chaffin has consistently received outstanding evaluations over the years.

Eligibility and Scheduling

Each Antioch student enrolled full or part time can schedule up to 50 minutes of career counseling per quarter free of charge. Additional sessions can be arranged for a fee. This benefit is also available to alumni who are currently unemployed and graduated less than two years ago.

Office hours are the first Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the third Monday of each month from 3 to 8 p.m. Check with the Front Desk or in the Learning and Teaching Coop for campus location.

To schedule your appointment, please leave Vickie Chaffin a confidential voice mail on 206-268-4026 (or ex. 5026) or e-mail career_services@antiochseattle.edu. You will receive a response within two business days.

Please note: Antioch community members (i.e. other alumni and staff) can also schedule career counseling time with Vickie on campus at a reduced fee. She will extend her hours on the days she is scheduled to be on campus.

Additional Resources

Centerpoint has a comprehensive career center with a full range of workshops just across town from Antioch. All in the Antioch community get special tuition discounts. Please contact Centerpoint directly at 206-686-LIFE for more information.