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Wednesday, July 20, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Placement centers give head start on jobs
By Carla Krause
By Carla Krause
Kansan staff writer
The days of finding a job the day after graduation are over, said Vernon Geissler, director of the University Placement Center.
Students should be aware of all the career counseling and placement services open to them and take advantage of them as early as their freshman years, he said.
"The process of job hunting really should be fun," Geissler said. "It's the most exciting period of a student's college life."
Workshops and advisement in letter and resume writing, company researching and interviewing skills, along with one-on-one career counseling are among the services offered by the placement centers on campus.
However, several schools and their placement offices also offer services that differ from the other schools or make a special effort to help students gain work experience in their fields of study while in school.
Diane Mielek, assistant director of the placement office at the School of Business, said that services there were open to students in all schools and that firms looking to fill a wide variety of jobs, including sales and public relations positions, recruited through the school.
"A lot of firms recruiting here aren't looking for people with specific majors," Mielke said. "They're looking for people with diverse backgrounds and interests."
Mielke said the center offered computerized interview scheduling, which allowed advisers to work around the students' class schedules, and a computerized resume-writing program, which compiles the undergraduate and graduate resumes into two separate books for recruiters.
Students enter the School of Business after completing 60 hours of credit work, but Mielke said students should begin defining and exploring their career options in their freshmen years.
Edith Black, assistant dean of the School of Social Welfare, said that school's center placed most of its students through a networking program with alumni or through field work, which students in the school are required to complete during their senior year. The field work places the undergraduate students in a variety of settings, including a mental hospital to relieving court workers' duties, such as in child custody cases.
Students in the School of Journalism gain experience by working with the school's newspaper, magazine or radio station, then may gain an
internship that eventually will lead to a job.
"The key is to have good samples of your work," said Dana Leibengood, associate dean of journalism and director of the school's placement office.
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Leibengood said the school had a strong internship program, placing 250 students in internships this year
"That's because our entire faculty works at placement and said, 'They need me.'"
Jeremy Matchett, associate dean of pharmacy, said pharmacy students gained practical field experience during their first and third years. Students usually enter the school at the start of their junior years and complete a three-year program.
MATCHETT said students worked in the Watkins Hospital pharmacy during their first year in the program, spent the second year with coursework, and then worked in three different settings for a period of six weeks each during the fall or spring semester of their third year. During this time, students will experience the city of Kansas Medical Center, a hospital pharmacy and a community pharmacy under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist.
Julie Cunningham, placement director at the School of Engineering.
said the school started a program last year that gave students full-time work experience, including pay and benefits. The students in the Cooperative Education program are able to work with companies such as Boeing for one or two semesters, then return to school.
Cunningham said the program added only a year to the students' planned time of study while offering immeasurable job experience.
First-year students at the School of Law are encouraged to keep their minds open on their career possibilities, said Maggie Cartart, director of placement at the school.
Carttar said that although the school placed a heavier emphasis on theory than on practical experience, students were able to do legal work in clinics, which are selective courses taught by lawyers who have become instructors.
The services and experiences offered through each placement center vary, but the advice from each center remains consistent: the key to finding the career with the most possibilities is to begin the search early and to use all possible resources.
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