From helping foreign exchange students in the H1-B Visa workshop to the annual career fair, career services has many events planned to help students prepare for the job market after graduation.
The first event planned by career services is the H1-B Visa workshop for foreign exchange students. This event is planned for Feb. 25 at noon in the alumni room in the administration building.
The purpose of the workshop is to help bring employers that are willing to pay for the H1-B Visa application, according to Jeff Jackson, director of career services. Jackson hopes this workshop will help students feel less overwhelmed by the process of the H1-B Visa.
On March 9 in SAC 225 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. career services along with the alumni office and Sam Centellas are sponsoring an etiquette dinner.
“It’s a way for them to learn proper dinner etiquette,” said Jackson.
The dinner will be catered by the Grille and there is a reservation fee of five dollars. The event is meant to teach things like how to pass the bread, when it is appropriate to start eating and what fork is for what.
In preparation for the career fair, there will be a career fair workshop. It will be held on March. 31 in the SAC from 4to 6 p.m.“We break down all the companies according to major,” said Jackson, “and we recommend that students go to those primary employers that they are really interested in first.”
This event is meant to help students with resume building, job fair etiquette and how to dress.
“You don’t walk up and say do you have a job for me,” said Jackson.
In previous years they had all three workshops on separate days, but this year they are condensing them into one night, said Jackson.
On April 9 in the SAC from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is the career fair.
Career services would like all students to pre-register for the event. This is to ensure that enough packets containing lists of all the companies.
“I don’t see it [the job market] as prosperous as it used to be,” said Jackson.
Jackson advises students looking for jobs to be aggressive and to start looking early. Students may need to extend their search out of the area. He also advises not to pay for a job.
“It’s a saturated market and employers have the advantage,” said Jackson.
Once you have the job Jackson advises to be on time, learn the politics of the office and to be assertive.
“The difference between college and the workplace is the workplace you can no longer raise your hand,” said Jackson.
All students wanting to attend any of these events can register for them at sbcareer@iusb.edu or 520-4425. Students looking for jobs can visit the career services website and follow the find a job link.
Events aimed to help students find jobs
Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Updated: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Career Services is located in the Administration Building and offers several services to help job seekers fine tune their job hunting skills, including tests and resume workshops.
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