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Important Questions and Important Answers!
The QUESTIONS:
What do you know about our company? Why are you interested in this position and our company?
Would you like to find the name and phone number for:
1) a business in New York City that has over 4500 employees and makes over $3,000 million in sales each year?
2) the Secretary to the President of a Salem headquartered business with $67 million in sales each year? And find contact information for their 21 U.S. locations?
3) the Senior Managing Director for an electronics company in Japan which employs over 3,000 and has sales of over $1,000 million per year?
Would you like to learn more about the BioFuels industry or Technology & Communications in the Medical industry and also find business contact resources?
Would you be interested in the latest industry specific news?
"Sprint Buying Virgin Mobile - .. The $483 million deal would add 5.2 million customers to Sprint's books and further narrow the field of prepaid providers as bigger players acquire smaller rivals."
The ANSWER:
CareerBeam - a FREE one-stop shop for career development information. Investigate careers with company and industry research tools. Take assessments and exercises to help discern your vocational direction, view extensive advice on interviews and networking, and so much more. Visit CareerBeam today or during your holiday break. First time users will be required to register.
Important Events/Deadlines - for more details visit the Events Calendar
- Nov. 19, 2009 - Late Night at the Center, 5 – 9 p.m., Willamette Career Center
- Dec. 3, 2009 - National College of Natural Medicine (Recruiter), 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Table, Goudy
- Dec. 3, 2009 - National College of Natural Medicine Info Session, 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m., Alumni Lounge
- Dec. 4, 2009 - Friday on the fly, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Willamette Career Center
- Dec. 8, 2009 - Organic Finger food for Kids Internship Opportunities, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Cat Cavern, Dining Room #1
- Jan. 25, 2010 - Atkinson BA/MBA Info Session, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Alumni Lounge, UC 3rd floor
Internship, Work Study and Job Opportunities
Now posted on JobCat (First-time users must register at https://willamette-csm.symplicity.com/students/) Here are a few examples:
JobCat ID# 13548 Willamette University Collegian, Arts Editor for the Collegian, Part-Time. Become the Arts Editor for the Collegian for the Spring 2010 semester. You will be required to organize a staff, work with them on editing and create interesting and publishable stories each week. $180 per month. Other Collegian positions are: #13546, #135491, #13547, #13434
JobCat ID# 13563 EthicsPoint, Digital Marketing Communications Intern, Communications/PR/Marketing The Digital Marketing Communications Intern helps develop and execute the strategy for the CEO’s social media communications. With the goal of enhancing awareness of EthicsPoint, the CEO, and the company message to the ethics and compliance community, this role will research, recommend and craft written communications that increase social media activity. This position is designed to require approximately 15 hours per week with daily interaction. Some flexibility is available for a portion of the work to be performed outside EthicsPoint’s offices.
JobCat ID# 13564 Casa De Esperanza (House of Hope), Internship/Volunteer Opportunity Casa de Esperanza provides residential, medical and psychological care to young children in crisis. We are looking for applicants with a broad range of skills. Applicants will work directly with abused, neglected and HIV+ children who are 6 years of age or younger at the time of placement. Applicants will do everything necessary to properly and safely care for, advocate for and generally meet the daily needs of the four to six children placed in the home.
JobCat ID# 13565 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Research Internship.The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease's STEP-UP Program is designed to provide short-term research education for undergraduate students from racial and ethnic minority or disadvantaged background to expose them to research within the mission area NIDDK. The program exposes students to research in areas of diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, nutrition, obesity, digestive, liver, urologic, kidney, and hematologic diseases. $4000.00 Total Student Participation Allowance.
JobCat ID# 13560 Ramapo for Children Summer Camp Counselor. Camp Ramapo is one of the few residential summer camps serving children, ages 4 – 16 years, who have emotional, behavioral and learning problems. Campers live in rustic bunks in groups of 6-7 with 2-3 counselors. Counselor positions are filled by mature, energetic, enthusiastic and diverse persons who are carefully selected for their qualities of leadership, personal values and caring that enable them to relate to and motivate young people. Most counselors are college students who are offered a six credit college course during their summer at Ramapo. $1000 for season.
Resources
US Federal Government job openings in Oregon = 300+. To find out more and to check other states visit http://www.USAJobs.gov.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov Here are 2 very interesting findings for the years 2006 through 2016: 1) The 10 industries with the largest wage and salary employment growth are, from first in growth to tenth, management, scientific, and technical consulting; employment services; general medical and surgical hospitals; elementary and secondary schools; local government (excluding education and hospitals); physician offices; limited-service eating establishments; colleges, universities, and professional schools; computer systems design; and, home health care services. 2) The top 10 occupations with the largest projected employment growth are, from first in growth to tenth, network systems and data communications analysts; personal and home care aides; home health aides; computer software engineers (applications); medical assistants; computer systems analysts; food preparation and service workers; registered nurses; postsecondary teachers; and management analysts.
Business Cards Just because you don’t have a job, doesn’t mean you don’t need a business card. College students have busy schedules, meet lots of people, partake in numerous activities and can use college as the perfect place to hone social networking skills. Your consistent use of a well-designed business card will show other business people that you're both professional and serious about your career. Did you know that you can order 100 WU personalized business cards for $10? To place your order: Stop by the PawPrints window, UC 1st floor (next to the Mail Center).
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