Career Services Center

The Cerritos College Career Services provides programs and services designed to assist you
in moving forward with confidence, new skills, and strategies for success.   The Career Services
Center provides Assessment-Testing, Career Planning, Job Placement, the CalWORKs Program
and Re-Entry Resources  to assist students and alumni in exploring and planning their academic
and vocational futures. 

Assessment-Testing is administered in the Career Services Center. Computerized assessments are
available for English and Reading.  Math and ESL placement are available in pencil-paper form.  Results
are used for advisement in selecting classes. 

The Career Center provides the opportunity to explore career options. A number of sophisticated computerized
search programs are available as well as up-to-date information about careers. Students are encouraged to take
advantage of the interests, values, and abilities inventories that are available to them in the Career Services Center.
A career counselor will interpret the career assessment results and assist you in choosing a career or major. These
services are available for individuals who are currently enrolled, who have graduated, or who hold certificates from
Cerritos College.

Job Placement provides services to both employers and students. Employment listings are available in the Career
Services and currently enrolled students as well as Cerritos College graduates/certificate holders are eligible
to take advantage of the service.

The CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids) program is the state's new welfare-to-work
program for families with dependent children.  The goal of this program is to assist students in becoming fully
self-supporting through short-term training, education, career counseling and work experience.  At Career Services
participants receive employment assistance and job placement services as they transition off welfare into full-time jobs.

The Reentry Resource Program assists adults returning to school make a smooth transition, over barriers unique to
returning adults, and successfully attain their college goals and objectives.