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Peer Advisor Weekly Words of Wisdom
Solveig Hagen
Resource of the Week
Inc.com
Career Opportunies
Health Care Assistant/Student Nurse, Mathematics Teacher
Internship Opportunities
Software Developer/ Analyst Intern, Guest English Teacher (GET) Program ...
Scholarships
2008 Social Innovation Competition ...
Events
Minnesota Private Colleges Job and Internship Fair 2008, Statistics Colloquium
Workshops
Graduate School Quick Stop Walk-In Hours
Job Humor
Caroling Quiz
Peer Advisor Weekly Words of Wisdom
"Do you want to become more involved in the Northfield community? Do you have an interest in serving others? Would you like to learn more about nonprofit work? If you're eligible for work study, Diana Dargen in the CEL can help you find a tutoring position in the Northfield Public School District or work with a local nonprofit organization. She'll help you make the contacts, arrange transportation and you'll get paid for your service!"
-Solveig Hagen '09, Peer Advisor
IncBizNet is a free website designed exclusively for private companies to promote their businesses and connect with other businesses in the network. Use this website to create a detailed company profile and gain exposure to a community of entrepreneurial companies and the public at large. You can also post your products, services, and marketing materials on INC.com. Read blogs by other entrepreneurs, or write your own to keep potential customers and partners informed with an up-to-date journal about your business. IncBizNet also has a comprehensive database available you can use to find customers, vendors, and partners. This resource will provide the support you need to launch your own innovative business ideas.
Career Opportunities
Health Care Assistant/ Student Nurse
Friendship Ventures offers a variety of seasonal positions for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, CNA's, TMA's, and student nurses. You'll gain practical experience working with children and adults with disabilities, while enjoying the relaxed, friendly environment of our wooded, lakeside camps - Camp Friendship, Camp New Hope and Eden Wood Center. The Health Care Assistant I is a Certified Nursing Assistant, student nurse or TMA that provides direct care to campers, including personal care; monitors special diets; administers simple treatments and first aid; assists camp nurse in providing supportive care for chronic medical needs.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2007
For more information visit olerecruiting.
Mathematics Teacher
As the premiere college prep school in Chicago's educational and cultural corridor, Jones College Prep seeks to grow as an intellectual community rooted in helping students realize the characteristics identified in The Profile of the Ideal Jones College Prep Graduate at Graduation (document available at www.jonescollegeprep.org under Info > Mission & Grad at Grad). Consequently, first and foremost, the mathematics teacher in this position needs to be intellectually curious; a scholar interested in continued study in mathematics, creative thinking, and critical theorizing with a focus on social justice.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2007
For more information visit olerecruiting.
Software Developer/ Analyst Intern for General Mills
General Mills is seeking a software developer/ analyst intern for this summer. As an intern, you would have the opportunity to learn and enhance relational database management skills in SQL Server or Oracle as well as deepen your business understanding by working with Finance, Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain functions within the corporation.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2007
For more information visit olerecruiting.
Operations Manager Intern for Sportslife Camp
SportsLife Camps is looking for an operations manager to join the team as they prepare to serve churches in throughout the upper Midwest during the summer of 2008. This person will exercise organizational excellence, and must be able to organize and quickly extract from a large and diverse amount of information when needed. Also, this person must have strong communication skills, knowing how to present and relay information to others in a timely and accurate fashion. The internship will begin as a part-time, paid internship as early as January and extending through mid-May. It will then evolve into a full-time paid internship lasting from Mid-May to the end of August.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2008
For more information visit olerecruiting.
Guest English Teacher (GET) Program
The Korean Community Development Services Center (KCDSC) has been designated by the government of Korea, Ministry of Education, to recruit applicants for the "Guest English Teacher" (GET) program. Successful applicants are given an attractive one (1) year contract (renewable for an additional year). They will receive free housing, transportation and a salary. The Korea public school system invites responsible, enthusiastic native speakers of English who will invest their time to enrich their lives and build a professional teaching career while sharing knowledge and culture with students and teachers of Korea.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2007
For more information visit olerecruiting.
2008 Social Innovation Competition
The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin invites students to participate in the 2008 Innovation Competition. Open to undergraduate and graduate students in any field of student, students should submit creat and innovative ideas that tackle pressing social issues for a chance to win $50,000 to put their plans into action.
For more information, visit the website or contact Kris Estenson.
Join the "2008 Social Innovation Competition" facebook group.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2008
Minnesota Private Colleges Job and Internship Fair 2008
Over 175 organizations with career and internship opportunities in the business/industry sector and the non-profit sector will be gathering at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Registration begins Friday, November 30th in the CEL and the deadline is February 12th. Register early to be prepared for networking, interviewing and landing the job or internship you are looking for. The fee is $15.00 which includes transportation and must be paid at registration.
For more information: Connect to the CEL website and contact the CEL at x3268
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 9:00am-3:00pm exhibit booths open & science panels
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 8:30am-4:00pm interviews as scheduled
Statistics Colloquium
Andie Bykerk Christopherson, FSA, MAAA is a consulting actuary at Reden & Anders, focused on health care trend analytics. An ‘02 Ole grad with a mathematics major and statistics concentration, she finished her actuarial exams this fall, becoming a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries. She resides in the Twin Cities, and has been very involved with the recruitment of new students into the actuarial field, focused especially on making candidates with broad backgrounds aware of the possibilities the field has to offer.
Andie will discuss the actuarial modeling challenge of understanding and analyzing the impact of calendar patterns and content on expected health care claims costs, as well as the trend patterns these values produce. She will also discuss skills most important to being a successful actuary and a little about the preliminary exam and education requirements. Following the colloquium, she will be available to meet with any students who are interested in actuarial work and internship opportunities.
Graduate School Quick Stop Walk-In Hours
Do you have questions regarding graduate school or wish to have your personal statement or CV critiqued? Stop in for our "Quick Stop Walk-In Hours"
Tuesdays 3:00–5:00 in the CEL (Modular Village)
In honor of Christmas Fest, here is your chance to see how well you know your Christmas Carols: http://mymerrychristmas.com/2005/namecarol.shtml
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Student Spotlight on
a Rhodes Scholar:Nicole Novak
How did the CEL help you through the application process?
I stopped by the CEL in September to make sure I was on the right track with my CV--Kevin Friede was really encouraging and gave me some good formatting and phrasing advice. Once I knew I had been accepted to interview, I also arranged a few practice interviews with Kirsten Cahoon. I hadn't done many formal interviews before, so she helped me know what to expect and helped me work through a few bad habits like saying "um" too much.
How did you prepare for the interview(s)?
I looked over my application and tried to anticipate questions the committee might ask me, but I also realized that I couldn't predict much--there are lots of legends about the off-the-wall questions people have gotten at Rhodes interviews! Mostly, I just thought a lot about the values and experiences that drive me. I read through old papers and journal entries and I tried to have those things fresh in my mind so that I could call on them to respond to whatever questions arose.
I also had a mock interview with a faculty committee on campus, which was very helpful, and Ishanaa and I got together a few times to talk about current events and calm our nerves a little bit!
What was your hardest interview question?
There were a few questions I didn't know the answer to, and I just explained that I didn't know. The most challenging question I got was a hypothetical one. One of the committee members told me about a dilemma his university had faced, involving a pharmaceutical company's donation of medications that were to be distributed by morally questionable means in West Africa. He asked me what I would do if I were the university president, and why. My first answer to the question didn't really satisfy him, so he made me try again!
What will you be studying next year, and what are you looking forward to most?
I'm hoping to pursue two one-year master's degrees: Medical Anthropology and Global Health Science. Global Health Science is an interdisciplinary program that surveys the main issues surrounding health in developing countries. I'm looking forward to studying issues I care deeply about with classmates from all over the world. I'm also excited because the third term of the Global Health Science program is a research placement abroad (hopefully in Latin America for me).