e-news archive
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
in this issue...
- Topic of the Week: Resume Writing and Winter Break
- Jobs & Internships! New This Week
- Ask Dot
- Featured Website
- Career Resources: Kimberly Clark Library
- Alumni Highlight: Psychology and Business Administration
- Employer Spotlight: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
- Calendar of Career Events
Check out this new career resource for Students with Disabilities
Click here to get the handout
SPRING CAREER COURSES!
The Career Services Center offers two eight-week sessions focusing on career planning or job search. Read former student testimonials here.
ARSC 050 (primarily freshmen and sophomores)
Tuesdays 3:00-5:05 p.m.
Career Planning and Decision Making : As career planning is an important step toward academic success and job satisfaction, this course is designed to help you assess your interests, skills, values, personality characteristics, investigate career possibilities, and learn how to use a wide variety of resources in your career search. Students will participate in self-discovery activities and learn about sound career decision making strategies as well as the world of work. The course stresses the value of liberal arts education and places an emphasis on exploring Arts and Sciences academic majors.
ARSC 051 (primarily juniors and seniors)
Wednesdays 3:00-5:05 p.m.
Job Search Strategies for Arts & Science: This course section is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of planning and organizing job search strategies. Emphasis is placed on identification of individual goals, assessment of talents, exploration of career options, analysis of the job market, effective use of job search materials (cover letters, resumes) and tools (interviewing, career fairs, networking), and management of career direction. The course stresses the value of the arts and sciences degree in the labor market and develops job search skills that will be useful throughout lifelong career management.
Questions about this course may be directed to Laura Kestner.
Click on the link below to check out the schedule for
ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWING
Don't forget to register on MU Career Manager!
Reminder: If you have previously created an account on MU Career Manager, please consider updating it with your current year in school and resume!
Stop by Career Services walk-in hours Monday-Friday from 12-2pm for additional assistance!
Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events
and career-related workshops.
Make the most of Winter Break!
Click here to get the handout on what you can do to
help your job search over winter break!
Top 10 Resume Writing Blunders to Avoid
10. TOO LONG! The resume of a new graduate should—with very few exceptions—be limited to one page in length.
9. NO DEGREE! Always write out the degree you will be receiving in the “Education” section. For example, “Bachelor of Arts in Psychology”.
8. TOO WORDY! A good resume is a concise resume. Use bulleted action word statements to describe your experiences and stay away from personal pronouns (I, me, my, etc.).
7. USE OF A TEMPLATE! Fight the urge—really. They are much harder to edit and the formatting can be extremely frustrating!
6. NO OBJECTIVE! Employers often receive hundreds of resumes for a variety of positions—do you really want them try and guess what job you are applying for?
5. INAPPROPRIATE E-MAIL ADDRESS! Everything included on your resume must be professional, so no cutesy or otherwise inappropriate email addresses in your contact information.
4. POOR CHOICE OF FONT! Usually using one font is best (sometimes two are okay). Also, don’t size your font too small—for reference, Times New Roman in 11 point is small enough.
3. NO DATES OR LOCATIONS! Always include dates and locations (city, state) of all jobs and education. It is also nice to include dates for other listed achievements.
2. NO BULLETS! Employers spend approximately 20-30 seconds skimming your resume, so it will benefit you to make your resume as reader-friendly as possible. Bullets with action words are always better than a block paragraph of information.
And the #1 Resume Writing Blunder to Avoid…
1. TYPOS! You MUST re-read your resume and NOT rely on spell check. Then, you should have one or more other people read it over, too.
For more information on resume writing, please visit: http://www.marquette.edu/csc/students/sampleresumes.shtml
And don’t forget to call 288-7423 to make an appointment with a Career Counselor to answer any specific questions you have about resume writing, submit your resume for critique to career.services@marquette.edu, or drop by the Career Services Center during walk-in hours this Spring every Monday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Looking to gain career-related experience with an internship? Ready to start your job search? View internships and jobs posted recently for Marquette University students. To see even more internships and full-time jobs, register with MU Career Manager.
Did you know Disney offers great opportunities for both college students and professional internships? Click on the links below to learn more!
www.disneycollegeprogram.com -- Disney College Program
www.disneyinterns.com -- Disney Professional Internships
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Dear Dot,
All I want for Christmas is a job! Please help! What can I do over winter break to help along my job search?
Robert R.
Read Dot's advice
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www.careerbuilder.com
As the U.S.'s largest online job site, CareerBuilder.com put over 1.6 million jobs in front of poised job seekers wherever they are - at home or work - in print and on the Internet. More than 23 million unique visitors come to the site every month to check out opportunities in every industry, field and job type.
Looking to gain career-related experience with an internship? Ready to start your job search? View internships and jobs posted recently for Marquette University students. To see even more internships and full-time jobs, register with MU Career Manager.
Jennifer Damiano , Psychology and Business Admistration, 1997.
Learn more about the success and career path of this Marquette Graduate.
Contact Jennifer Damiano at JDamiano@catholic-foundation.org.
Are you interested in contacting other alumni for career advice?
Check out MU Connect: Career Alumni Network.
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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is a not-for-profit organization and one of the largest integrated regional health care delivery systems in Wisconsin. Our member organizations provide nearly one-fourth of the total health care delivered in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Racine, and Ozaukee counties. With nearly 12,000 associates in Southeast Wisconsin, Wheaton Franciscan is the state's second largest private employer.
At Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, we are focused on our Mission and Values, which emphasize the respect and dignity of our patients, employees and the communities we serve. Our growing financial strength gives us the means to reinvest in facilities, technology and clinical programming, ensuring that we will continue to provide exceptional care with the latest technology.
We hire for all healthcare-related positions, such as nursing, PT and OT, Social Work and Clinical Lab Scientists. We also hire positions for our corporate office, such as IT, finance and purchasing.
Please visit our website at www.wfhealthcare.jobs to review our current openings and to apply on-line.
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Career and Internship Connections (CICs) for 2009
CICs are career events in NYC, DC, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles held over the January break for full-time and internship positions. The events have a morning career fair open to all undergraduates from the consortium schools and afternoon interviews.
While the December 1st pre-selection deadline is passed, you are still encouraged to attend the events. Up to 20% of interviews at the CIC’s are scheduled through the Morning Open-Forum, and many employers even hold space for interactions they have at that time .
Many of these employers will not be traveling to your home campus, but will be happy to meet with you in their local city. These events are an excellent opportunity to network and interview face-to-face with prospective internship and full-time employers.
Visit http://www.rochester.edu/careercenter/students/cic/index.html and click on the registration tutorial for complete registration details, list of employers registered thus far, etc. This year's PASSWORD TOKEN is "cic2009".
CICs 2009 dates are:
Boston - January 5th
West Coast (Los Angeles) - January 6th
Washington, DC - January 7th
Midwest (Chicago) - January 8th
New York - January 9th
As always, the Career Services Center is ready to assist you with your resume, navigate the CIC web system and prepare for CIC interviews.
Big East Career Fair
Headed back east for the BIG EAST Tournament?
Seeking an internship or job back east?
New York, New York
Big East On-Site Fair
Friday, March 13, 2009
10:00am – 3:00pm
Madison Square Garden, NYC
http://www.eventemanagement.com/bigeast2009/
TEKsystems Open House
TEKsystems, an IT staffing and services agency in Schaumburg, IL is hosting an Open House on Monday, December 22nd from 4pm-7pm. TEKsystems is the leading provider of technology staffing and services.
Their office is located at: 1933 N. Meacham Rd, Suite 100, Schaumburg, IL 60173.
Refreshments will be served. They welcome all recent and upcoming grads majoring in Business, Communication and Computer Science to attend this event.
For more information and to RSVP for this event, please contact Angela Taff at: ataff@teksystems.com or 847-221-1478.
Check out their website for more information on their job opportunities: http://www.teksystemscareers.com/Recruiter-Sales-Positions/
Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events
and career-related workshops.
Upcoming Career Fairs
This calendar includes upcoming Marquette career fairs,
off-site career fairs, and e-fairs.
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