Campus career center

Your campus career center Ask if if has any printed information about firms fhaf interesf you, particularly if those companies participate in on-campus recruiting. 

Because employers today may receive hundreds of applications for a single job, it is important to present yourself as positively as possible in your letter and r6sum6. If your campus has a career center, seek it out as your first step. Career centers often have extraordinary resources sample cover letters and resumes, hints for interviews, information on electronic job searching, and much more. Because there are multiple ways to arrange a resume, you will find it useful to familiarize yourself with some representative samples before you begin working on your own. 

By fhe time mosf college or universify sfudenfs have reached their junior year, they are familiar wifh the career center on campus, where... 

The key here is to understand your career center s objectives. With whom does it have relationships If you are not interested in any of the employers that come to your campus, you will need to investigate other options. 

The firm participated in on-campus recruiting, so Michael s first stop was his college career center. Here, he was able to find pamphlets and fact sheets about the firm. This gave him a general idea about the type of work the firm did. 

Your college or university may also participate in on-campus recruiting. This means that you can arrange interviews with certain firms through your college career center. The interviews will take place on campus. 

ACM Career Resource Center http //campus.acm.org/crc/ (accessed August 3, 2010). Search and apply for jobs, find out information about CS/IS/MIS careers and industry trends, set up job alerts, get career advice from career coaches, find out about salaries, etc. In its Professional Development Center http //pd.acm.org/ (accessed August 3, 2010), ACM offers a wide variety of online courses (Element-K) to its professional and student members and member-discounted courses offered through Stevens Institute of Technology. 

Robert J. "Bob" Naumann received his BS, MS, and PhD in physics and mathematics from the University of Alabama. After a long career as a scientist and a division chief in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, he joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a professor of materials science. In addition to his teaching duties, he also served as an interim director of the Center for Materials Research and as the director of the Tricampus Materials Science PhD program between the University of Alabama campuses at Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Himtsville. 

The academic career option is essentially in two forms. Of the 280 or so departments, schools, or colleges of engineering in the nation, many are straightforwardly academic, campus-centered departments or colleges in just the sense that chemistry, or botany, or English at these same schools are academic... 

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