Given your knowledge and experience, faculty members are key players in the establishment of students' professional careers. Professors, lecturers, TAs and AIs can support students by supplying information about workplace realities, identifying contacts in appropriate fields, and writing letters of recommendation for jobs and graduate programs. For these reasons and many more, our office regards faculty as crucial, collaborative "career agents" in our endeavor to provide visual and performing artists at UT Austin with first-class career services.

Services for Faculty

Class Presentations

With the demands of teaching, research, and performance, you have more than enough to occupy your time. However, the facilitation of career exploration on behalf of students need not feel like a chore. If you would like assistance developing mechanisms to integrate career exploration into your students' classroom experience, our staff is prepared to help. We can facilitate brief presentations designed to introduce students to our office, or we can design longer presentations on more specific topics.

For more information, contact us at 232-7333 or facs@austin.utexas.edu.

Referring Students to Fine Arts Career Services

Degree seeking students (and alumni) in The College of Fine Arts are eligible to use our services, which include one-on-one career consultations, subscription to our e-mail listservs, and career library use and checkout privileges. All services except one-on-one advising are available without an appointment.

Assistance with Employer Relations

Faculty and staff members frequently receive inquiries from potential employers requesting that they identify qualified applicants for full and part-time positions. Although the temptation to refer your star students may be great, there are legal issues that must be considered. The National Association of Colleges and Employers has created a helpful publication entitled "A Faculty Guide to Ethical and Legal Standards in Student Hiring." Designed to help faculty members understand their role in the job search and recruiting process, the document is accessible online at http://www.naceweb.org/committee/whitepapers/default.htm

The safest bet is to forward all recruitment-related inquiries to our office so that we can ensure equal access under the law. We have several mechanisms for distributing information, including an electronic job bulletin and an online job and internship database. Once we've made the information available to a wide audience, you can feel comfortable encouraging individual students to apply and even offer to serve as a personal reference.


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