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Career Expo provides advice
OPPORTUNITY: Connecting students, faculty and employers, expo helps students choose plan futures.
Mary Chou
Issue date: 4/28/05 Section: News
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Many employers were at the expo with positions available, ready to accept applications and hire students.
"Even though they don't have anything related to the medical field, I might still give the shipping company a try just because I need a part-time job," Stephanie Baik, biology major, said.
To help students gain employment opportunities, Career Placement Services came up with a new idea: It set up a corner in the Activities Center with laptops and printers so students could create a resume on the spot to hand to the employers.
"We used to send the students upstairs to the labs during the expo, then they'd have to come back down to hand in the resumes," Lew said. "So we thought why not bring the lab to them?"
Although the resume corner did not have as many takers as the student services technicians had hoped, they were still pleased with the outcome.
"Many students didn't know about it and didn't get to use it, so next year, we will make sure to publicize it more so that more students can take advantage of it," Lew said.
Students who did not have majors walked in to the expo and left with new ideas of the possibilities for their future while others, like Perryman, walked away with a more adamant view of their goals.
"I was at the architectural booth and saw how it could work with urban planning and I even found out about some schools I could go to," Perryman said. "The expo helped a lot to confirm things."
"Even though they don't have anything related to the medical field, I might still give the shipping company a try just because I need a part-time job," Stephanie Baik, biology major, said.
To help students gain employment opportunities, Career Placement Services came up with a new idea: It set up a corner in the Activities Center with laptops and printers so students could create a resume on the spot to hand to the employers.
"We used to send the students upstairs to the labs during the expo, then they'd have to come back down to hand in the resumes," Lew said. "So we thought why not bring the lab to them?"
Although the resume corner did not have as many takers as the student services technicians had hoped, they were still pleased with the outcome.
"Many students didn't know about it and didn't get to use it, so next year, we will make sure to publicize it more so that more students can take advantage of it," Lew said.
Students who did not have majors walked in to the expo and left with new ideas of the possibilities for their future while others, like Perryman, walked away with a more adamant view of their goals.
"I was at the architectural booth and saw how it could work with urban planning and I even found out about some schools I could go to," Perryman said. "The expo helped a lot to confirm things."