Campus Life

Office of Career Services

The Lincoln Memorial University Office of Career Services, a branch of Enrollment Management and Student Services, is located on the second floor of the Student Center, Harrogate Campus, Room 317. Click here for a map of campus. 

Mission Statement

The Career Services Office is dedicated to implementing programs and services to Lincoln Memorial University students and alumni.  These services include personal, educational and relevant experiences that provide students and alumni with an understanding of themselves and the world around them as they engage in their search for worthwhile, community impacting careers.

Program Staff

The program director is Larry Thacker, M.Ed., Director of Student Success and Career Planning. Regular office hours are 8 a.m-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Drop by, email at: larry.thacker@lmunet.edu or contact at the additional information below. 

Process

As with any adventure, there are endless ways of experiencing the journey. Your career path experience has been and will be no different. Here's what our office suggests for assisting you along that path whether you're a first-time, full-time freshman, a transfer or an alum:

• Schedule an appointment or walk-in for a meeting so we can set up your permanent Career Services File. This file is kept for you through graduation (and later if you wish) and serves as a single point for collecting career related information on yourself in addition to what you will do on your own. In the file we include: the Career Services profile, the John Holland's Career Mosaic self-inventory, the Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences self-inventory, your working resume and cover letter and any other pertinent information. We will also get your on-line Kuder Journey account started, which includes Kuder inventories, job searches, and a life long career e-portfolio. You can acquire your LMU access code from career services.
• If you don't have a working resume and general cover letter you should have one! But ask ten people how to write a resume and you'll get eleven answers! The truth is there are many ways and lots of people willing to help, but no two resumes will ever be the same due to differences in personalities, educational and professional experiences, and career intentions. Go to: Microsoft Office Online for some good template starters for resumes and about.com for Cover Letter guidance.
• Keep tabs on your job experience particulars, organizational involvements, and volunteerism so that at the end of each semester or academic year you can come in and update your file with us. By the time you're graduating, applying for that internship, or happening across that job, we'll have all that information ready to compile with you.
  
  Office of Career Services
  Larry Thacker, MEd
  Lincoln Memorial University
  Room 317, Student Center
  6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway
  Harrogate, TN 37752
  423 869 6433
  larry.thacker@lmunet.edu