MISSION STATEMENT
Career Center provides career development and employment services that are responsive to the unique needs of our primary constituents, students of Bowling Green State University. We offer job search assistance to help students obtain meaningful career positions, cooperative education and internship experiences, and part-time jobs. Additionally, career planning services are provided to students to explore and identify career directions. In partnership with others, we promote a greater awareness of the world of work and the need to view career development as a lifelong process.

VISION STATEMENT
The staff members of the BGSU Career Center are committed to offering services that are demonstratively superior. We are viewed as knowledgeable about the needs of our students, alumni, and employers, and as a helpful source of support and counsel. Our students, alumni, and employers leave our office feeling understood and valued. We treat them with respect and dignity. We encourage long-standing, mutually beneficial relationship with all we serve. We respond to inquiries, concerns, and complaints in a prompt, fair and courteous manner. We demonstrate by our actions the way we want Bowling Green State University to educate and serve its constituents.

We are committed to providing the highest quality services, programs, and publications that are within our capability. Our services are practical and immediately useable. Technological innovations is a hallmark of the Career Center. We are the standard by which others are judged.

We are committed to creating a caring environment which fosters a climate of openness, mutual respect, and teamwork. We value each employee as an individual and celebrate our diversity. Employees are recognized for taking initiative, risk taking, and providing superior service. Appreciation is expressed freely; we celebrate our success. We strive to maximize personal contributions, individual development, and sense of fulfillment. We emphasize compassion and flexibility so that human needs ( rather than rules and policies) are met. We can disagree without fear; we have the courage to say NO.

We strive to eliminate non-productive work. Achieving continuous improvement through value-added action is encouraged. We value acting and doing to achieve our goals and objectives more than lengthy debate. We strive for consistency between our plans and actions. We are positive in our outlook and treat negative situations as learning opportunities. We seek to minimize the hierarchy. Decisions are made by those employees closest to the situation and staff members are evaluated according to how much each contributes to the others’ successes.

AA/EE STATEMENT
Bowling Green State University is committed to equal opportunity for all and does not discriminate in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in, its programs and activities on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, or veteran status. The Office of Equity, Diversity, and immigration Services at BGSU is responsible for University compliance with Title IX, Section 504. Disabilities Services for students is responsible for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.