THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009
NEWS
3A
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End-of-the-year career fair may be just in time'
Students looking for jobs will find employers with openings
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
For students looking to nab a full-time job or internship before classes let out, KU Career Services is hosting its second career fair of the semester.
The just-in-Time Career Fair will take place from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Career Services organized a second career fair for the first time ever this year in response to the struggling economy, said Cheryl Norwood, recruiting and alumni networks coordinator for Business Career Services in the School of Business.
"We have decided that with the poor economy, it would be in the students' best interest to hold a last-minute career fair before graduation or summer break." Norwood said in an e-mail.
Norwood said every employer
attending the event was required to have either a full-time posting or an internship posting in KU Career Connections Web site.
"These employers will also benefit from this career fair because they
are being able to market last-mi time opportunities or unfiled positions at a very low cost." Norwood said.
Nathan Mack,
Lawrence senior,
said he liked the idea that only companies that
were hiring would be at the career fair. He said it would be disappointing to hit it off with an employer at a career fair just to find out they weren't hiring.
"You can go in with a hopeful outlook because you know there is at least an opportunity."
"You can go in with a hopeful outlook because you know there is at least an opportunity."
According to the Career Connections Web site, 37 companies are scheduled to be at the
"I would call it optimistic for students because when you go, you know people are actually looking for potential employees," Mack said.
NATHAN MACK
Lawrence senior
career fair. Employers include Enterprise Rent-a-Car to the Kansas City Wizards, Congressman Jerry Moran and the Peace Corps.
Dave Byrd-Stadler, employer relations coordinator with Business Career Services, said the idea
for the inaugural Just-in-Time Career Fair came out of biweekly meetings that the various career centers on campus held. He said they found students were having to work harder to find jobs than in past years. Career Services has planned the event since the beginning of the semester.
EVENT DETAILS
WHO: University students
WHAT: The inaugural Just-in-Time Career Fair
WHEN: Thursday April 30
from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Ballroom of the Kansas Union
Byrd-Stadler said Career Services had no immediate plans to make the Just-in-Time Career Fair an annual event. He said the main goal of the career fair was to show students that although they may be frustrated, jobs in the difficult economy still existed and were still attainable.
"We're giving a forum of 37 companies that want to hire college-age graduates," Byrd-Stadler said. "There's probably no better opportunity right before students leave KU to get that number of employers at a single event."
- Edited by Sonya English
companies attending
- 21st Century Systems
· A.D. Banker and Company
· Bartlett and West
· Bukaty Companies
· Chief Executive Network
· Congressman Jerry Moran
· Dodge City/Ford County Development Corporation
· Enterprise Rent-a-Car
· eShipping
· Farmland Foods
· First Investors Corporation
· Garmin International
· Guardian Life Insurance Company
· HighPointe Financial Group
· Hospira Pharmaceuticals
· Internal Revenue Service
· Jackson County Children's Division
· JEI Structural
· Kansas City Wizards
- KeyBank Real Estate Capital
- Liberty Mutual
- Microtech Computers, Inc., bda Atipa Technologies
- New York Life
- Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
- RPS Financial Group
- Peace Corps
- Phillip Morris USA
- PPM Information Solutions, Inc.
- ServiceMagic
- Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.
- Southwestern Company
- Target
- TEC Engineering
- The World Company
- UPS
- US Army
- Verizon Wireless
- Waddell & Reed
INTERNATIONAL
*Source: KU Career Connections Web site
U.S. close to decision about Guantanamo prisoners
BY DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press
LONDON — The United States is "relatively close" to making decisions on what to do with an initial group of Guantanamo Bay detainees, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday.
Holder spoke to The Associated Press during a flight to London, the first of several stops where he will visit with European leaders to discuss terrorism, drugs, and cyber-crime.
Holder did not say how much longer he thought it would take to close Guantanamo. Before officials can meet President Barack Obama's January deadline, the U.S. must first decide which detainees to put on trial and which to release to the U.S. or other countries.
Holder said the first step was to decide how many total detainees would be set free.
"We're doing these all on a roaring basis," he said. "I think we're probably relatively close to making some calls."
The attorney general has called the Guantanamo work the toughest part of his job.
After eight years in which the Bush administration alienated European nations over issues like the Iraq war and Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration is trying to strengthen those ties.
"I don't think they're looking for as much of American leadership as a partnership." Holder said.
The Obama administration is edging toward taking some Guantanamo prisoners to the
U. S., most likely to Virginia. They are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, and their supporters say they never should have been at Guantanamo in the first place.
Republicans in Congress say Guantanamo should remain in operation and are mobilizing to fight the release of detainees into the United States.
Against that backdrop, Holder hoped to reassure skeptical Europeans without generating too much public opposition back home.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Thursday.
ECONOMY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GM to announce plan to restructure today
BY TOM KRISHER Associated Press
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. will announce details of its massive restructuring plan today, including changes in its eight brands and potential factory closures as it fights to avoid bankruptcy protection.
GM must make the announcement in advance of a planned offer to its bondholders to swap debt for company stock. The company
owes $28 billion to bondholders, and under Securities and Exchange Commission rules, it must disclose its operational plans before making an exchange offer.
The disclosure is likely to include the end of the storied Pontiac brand, and could provide further details of factory closings.
GM is living on $15.4 billion in government loans and faces a government-imposed June 1 deadline to restructure or go into bankruptcy protection.
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