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Career development seminar aims
to help students impress employers
KEEGAN MCGREGOR/The Behrend Beacon
A seminca . on Thursday gave students tips on getting employed.
By Heather McGovern
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Tucked away in a desolate cor
ner of a Reed hallway, the Career
Development Center (CDC) held
an informational session in Reed
3 Thursday night.
Andrew Watters, the Associate
Director of CDC, walked partici
pants through the Nittany Lion
Recruiting website as well as
Indeed.com, a successful job
search website.
The session offered helpful
tips and suggestions for creating
and presenting resumes and cover
letters to prospective employees.
Watters covered everything
involved in a successful search
for an internship, from the initial
search for specific internships all
the way down to the job inter
view that will land the intern
ship.
The CDC informational ses
sion provided a huge packet for
all students who attended.
The resume and cover letter ate
the first. glance arremployer has
of his/her potential employee.
Therelitre, it is very important
for an applicant to perfect his/her
skills in preparing the best
resume and cover letter possible.
Some of the obvious sugges
tions tbr writing a better resume
and cover letter are to include
accurate and similar inhumation
in both documents.
When looking through the
applicants, an
numerous
employee does not usually start
with the resume and the cover
letter. The employer begins by
reading the resumes of all the
applicants, and after weeding out
all the non-applicable candidates,
moving onto reading the cover
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It is very important, therefore,
to include all of the important
information in the resume and
then elaborate on those impor
tant points in the cover letter.
The cover letter is an indicator to
the employer that the potential
employee has adequate writing
skills.
The aim in writing a cover let
ter is to keep it as short as pos
sible so that the employer is
more inclined to read it.
All of these points and more
were offered at the session. The
next informational sessions
being held by the CDC are hap
pening Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday this
week.
Monday's session is titled
"Resume, Cover Letter, &
Employer Contact: How to
Connect with and Impress
Employers 'Through Mail and
Email" and is being held in
REDC 236.
Tuekiay, CDC is holding a
session entitled "Career Fair
Preparation
Expect...and What Employers
Expect" in Reed 3.
Wednesday's session is titled
"Graduate School: Strategies for
Finding and Applying (co-pre
sented with the Learning
Resource Center)" and held in
Reed 113.
The last session of the week is
held on Thursday in Reed 3 and
titled "Ace the Interview:
Winning Ways to Handle Tough
Questions."
The CDC recommends that
students take advantage of these
informational sessions. They say
that it is never too early or too
late to prepare for the future.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Blue and White Society plans to
increase membership at luncheon
The Blue and White Society
held its first luncheon this year in
the Reed Union Building. Close
to 30 members took part in the
luncheon. Members enjoyed free
pizza and soda and also the oppor
tunity to watch the Steelers
parade held in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Members of the society went over
future plans to make the society
bigger and stronger, including
planning for future events, and
preparation for new leadership.
This year's officers of the society
U-Gates excitement attracts police
communications major. "People
were starting fires with cardboard
and shooting off fireworks. After
a while a ton of cops showed
up."
Once police arrived, the crowds
were quickly broken up and spec
tators were ordered to go inside,
witnesses said.
"We were all outside and then
the state police came and an offi
cer said 'go inside or get arrest-
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Sessions Include:
are Nicole Ehrheart as President,
Brittany Guianen as Vice
President, Jenna Benzenhoefer as
Treasurer, and Jennifer Ehrheart as
Secretary. All officers are seniors
this year, and all positions will be
open to members of the society
for next year's leadership.
"The society's future plans are
to get all the members involved
and get all the members to con
nect on a social level," says
Nicole Ehrheart, the president of
the Blue and White Society. There
are about 200 members of the
Blue and White Society on the
Behrend campus alone, making
ed, — said Mau McLouth, a soph
omore plastics engineering
"I was just walking to the
apartments when all of a sudden a
bunch of cop cars come flying
past me," said Greg Matson, a
sophomore Kinesiology major.
1 know there were a lot of peo
ple outside being loud, but the
Steelers just won the Super
Bowl. They should let people
celebrate."
Other students who witnessed
up a large part of the society for
the university as a whole.
"I like the Blue and White soci
ety because is really brings the
alumni and students together to
interact with each other, and you
get a free t-shirt," says Heather
McGovern, a new member of the
society. "White and blue, go fig
ure!"
The society discussed their
upcoming events, one being the
Erie Bayhawks basketball game
set to be open to all students on
campus. The basketball game is
being held on February 27.
Members of the society can sign
the event commented on a num
ber of occurrences, including
snowball fights and couches near
ly being lit on fire.
"People were setting off fire
works," said Allen Swanson, a
sophomore majoring in software
engineering. "Big deal, I'm not
going to leave my room for a
couple colorful bursts of light.
But when I saw a riot and heard
talk of couches burning I came
running. People were chanting
Steelers songs until the police
Friday, February 6, 2009
up for tickets to the game at the
RUB desk. The deadline to sign
up for tickets is February 18.
Members of the society can meet
in the Reed Union lobby at 6
p.m. if rides are needed in order to
attend the game.
The society discussed sponsor
ing one of Behrend's baseball or
softball games as an opportunity
to recruit new members for the
society.
"Brian Streeter is interested in
letting us sponsor baseball and
softball games," says Kristen
Comstock, the society's' advisor.
came and then everyone scat
tered."
"It was pretty crazy," said Matt
Kirkpatrick, a sophomore major
ing in plastics engineering.
"There were a couple pretty big
crowds in the parking lot and
people were throwing snow balls
back and forth."
The Pennsylvania State Police
could not be reached for com
ment.