Focus Groups Reinforce Idea that Job Experience Hurts Students’ Ability to Get Jobs
by Ava Dsing Freelance Writer After completing a number of focus groups with the undergraduate student body, the Advising and Career Development staff of Moneastern College has published its findings. The focus groups provided evidence that what was once believed to be a hard fact, that one needed job experience before going to search for [...]
Job Posting: Completely Directionless Career Counselor
Position: Career Counselor Nash College Department of Careers Services Description Nash College believes that career development is a life-long process. We seek to empower students to see college as only the beginning of their never-ending search for a fulfilling career. Requirements The successful candidate must have multiple degrees (completed or uncompleted) in unrelated academic disciplines. [...]
Career Specialists Split on Benefits of “Helicopter Agents”
by Alan Finch Freelance Writer Charles Franklin, a career counselor at Mount Whitney College, is in jail today after an incident involving a student’s mother. According to Mount Whitney’s student newspaper, The Daily Climber, Mr. Franklin and the unidentified woman became embroiled in an altercation after she refused to wait outside during her son’s mock [...]
Still Awaiting Response from 2001 Search Process, Candidate Demands Answers
Posted on Tuesday, April 13th 2010
Tags: candidates, career, college, communication, counseling, job, placement, services
Tags: candidates, career, college, communication, counseling, job, placement, services
by Erica Price Freelance Writer Administrators at Kentucky Methodist College are on edge this week as they fend off media attention relating to a 2001 search process for a Career Services Coordinator position. Rob Shackleford, 26, held a standing room only press conference in the local OfficeMax break room to disclose his intent to sue [...]
The Placement Exchange Adopts Greek Recruitment Policies
Posted on Monday, March 15th 2010
Tags: acpa, best, budget, career, exchange, fair, interview, naspa, ope, placement, practices, tpe
Tags: acpa, best, budget, career, exchange, fair, interview, naspa, ope, placement, practices, tpe
by Irma Voigt Senior Staff Writer At the close of The Placement Exchange, held in Chicago in early March, an ad hoc committee met to discuss recommended changes for future years. The Placement Exchange is student development’s largest employment fair, representing multiple national student affairs organizations ranging from housing to orientation to Greek life. It [...]
Nerds Wearing Ill-Fitting Interview Suits Spur On-Going Nature/Nurture Debate
Posted on Monday, November 23rd 2009
Tags: career, dweeb, geek, hygiene, interview, job fair, nerd, professional, suit, wrinkled
Tags: career, dweeb, geek, hygiene, interview, job fair, nerd, professional, suit, wrinkled
From MIT to Cal Tech, nerds seeking interviews with top tech firms have shown up wearing the same ill-fitting business attire. Finally, staff members from career placement offices have engaged with social scientists to try better define the problem. “Every year, at our pre-interview workshops, we tell students to dress professionally, but we see the [...]
Tweet Us Your Job Search Stories!
Posted on Saturday, November 7th 2009
Tags: acpa, career, crazy, funny, higheredjobs.com, interviews, job search, naspa, noda, oshkosh, stories
Tags: acpa, career, crazy, funny, higheredjobs.com, interviews, job search, naspa, noda, oshkosh, stories
Whether you use ACPA, the Placement Exchange or HigherEdJobs.com, we want to hear your craziest, funniest tales from this year’s job searches. Register at Twitter and @CronkNews with your Tweeted interview (or lack of) journal. We’ll post stories HERE. Employers, we’re talking to you, too! Worried about anonymity? Email your stories and your preferred alias [...]


