Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
March 2nd: OKC Greater Grads Career Fair
Career Development Center
Spring 2010 Schedule
Date: Tuesday, March 2
Program: OKC Greater Grads Career Fair
Time: Noon – 4:30 p.m.
Site: Cox Convention Center, Downtown OKC
Note: Over 100 recruiters from business, industry, state and federal organizations will be on to visit with 1,000 college students from across the state.
Vendor RSVP List: www.greatergrads.com
Hosted by OKC Chamber of Commerce
Date: Monday, March 8
Event: Stand Out for Career Fair Success!
Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: University Center Tower Room
Speaker: Speaker: Todd Essary, Director of Career Development Center
Note: You will learn how to prepare for the fair, how to dress, develop a pitch, questions to ask and much more! An up to date list of vendors that will attend our ECU Career Fair.
Date: Wednesday, March 10
Program: ECU Career, Internship and Graduate School Fair
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Site: University Center Atrium
Note: Recruiters from business, industry, state and federal organizations will be on hand recruiting the workforce of tomorrow.
Vendor RSVP List: CSO website through your myECU portal
Description: Plan to attend the fair to meet professional recruiters from across the nation, from a wide variety of companies, organizations and graduate schools. There is a Dress Code so show up to impress and bring a stack of professional resumes. Dress Code will be no flip flops, t-shirts, shorts, jeans with holes or ripped. We will have door greeters to stop anyone breaking dress code rules.
Hosted by ECU Career Development Center
Date: Wednesday, March 24
Training Series: The Career Intelligence Series
Program: Resume Workshop
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: K-102, Memorial Student Union
Presenter: Todd Essary, Director of Career Development
Seating: You MUST RSVP by calling 580.559.5890 or e-mail careerdevelopment@ecok.edu because seating is very limited!
Note: For any student or alumni wanting to learn how to build a resume from the ground up. The workshop will cover the resume section by section by using ECU’s CSO Career Development Resume builder software. Bring any rough draft you have currently and will be something to start out with and build from that framework. An online workbook will be provided to all attendees.
Date: Wednesday, March 31
On Campus Professional Management Trainee Interviews: Sherwin-Williams
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Will Interview: Graduating Seniors & Alumni
Interview Location: Call for interview appointment
Majors Considered: Business Management, Marketing, Business Admin. & General Business
Note: Please sign up through Career Development Center at careerdevelopment@ecok.edu or call 580.559.5890 to sign up for this on campus interview day. Hiring for summer interns, full-time positions and Management Training Program. Interviewing for regional positions
Website: www.sherwin.com/mtp
Date: Wednesday, April 7
Event: Third Annual Choctaw Career Expo.
Theme: Target Your Dream Career
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Southeast Expo Center
Address: 4500 West Highway 270
City: McAlester, OK
Notes: 150 business and training recruiters, workshops and more.
Bring a resume and dressed for success!
Website: www.choctawcareers.com or call 866.933.2260
Date: Wednesday, April 7
Event: Tulsa Metro Job Fair
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Reynolds Center, Tulsa University
Note: All ECU students invited to event!
Date: Wednesday, April 7
Training Series: The Career Intelligence Series
Program: Job Interview Fundamentals
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: K-102, Memorial Student Union
Presenter: Todd Essary, Director of Career Development
Seating: You MUST RSVP by calling 580.559.5890 or e-mail careerdevelopment@ecok.edu because seating is very limited!
Note: For any student or alumni wanting to learn basic skills for interview success. An online guidebook to interview success will be provided to all attendees.
Date: Tuesday, April 20
Program: Teacher and Education Career Fair
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Site: Education Building Hallway (Main level)
RSVP List: View CSO website
Dress Code: MUST dress for success to attend! Show up to impress and bring a stack of professional resumes. Dress Code will be no flip flops, t-shirts, shorts, jeans with holes or ripped. We will have door greeters to stop anyone breaking dress code rules.
Note: Event for all education majors, alumni or any student searching out a career within a school district. Many Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas school district recruiters will be in attendance to visit with you about career opportunities and take professional resumes. Be prepared to be interviewed on site!
Stat: There were over 20 interviews held during the 2009 Teacher/Education Fair.
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Big Lie about the Life of the Mind
The following was published "Thomas Benton" (the pen name of William Pannapacker--see image at left, an associate professor of English at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan) in The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 8, 2010:
"A year ago, I wrote a column called "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go,"advising students that grad school is a bad idea unless they have no need to earn a living for themselves or anyone else, they are rich or connected (or partnered with someone who is), or they are earning a credential for a job they already hold.
"In a March 2009 follow-up essay, I removed the category of people who are fortunately partnered because, as many readers wrote in to tell me, graduate school and the "two-body problem" often breaks up many seemingly stable relationships. You can't assume any partnership will withstand the strains of entry into the academic life.
"Those columns won renewed attention last month from multiple Web sites, and have since attracted a lot of mail and online commentary. The responses tended to split into two categories: One said that I was overemphasizing the pragmatic aspects of graduate school at the expense of the 'life of the mind' for its own sake. The other set of responses, and by far the more numerous, were from graduate students and adjuncts asking why no one had told them that their job prospects were so poor and wondering what they should do now.
"I detected more than a little sanctimony and denial in most of the comments from the first group and a great deal of pain and disillusionment in the latter. The former seem used to being applauded by authorities; the latter seem to expect to be slapped down for raising questions. That's why they write to me, I believe. They want confirmation that something is wrong with higher education, that they have been lied to, systematically.
"Some people have mistaken my position that graduate school in the humanities is fine for the rich and connected for the view that that's how it should be, as if I am some kind of smug elitist. It often happens that readers—looking only at an excerpt from a column—mistake practical advice about coping with a harsh reality for an affirmation of that reality, instead of a criticism of it."
To read the rest of the essay, click here.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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