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In this Issue: Nov. 10 - 17 events & opportunities
CEL Workshops
Finstad Grant Information Session, Exploring Careers in Biomedical Sciences . . .
Career Opportunities
Natural Resource Group, Inc.; Chemistry Positions, INX International Ink Co; Wells Fargo; Information Systems Analyst, City of Shoreview . . .
Internship Opportunities
The Northfield Historical Society, National Gallery of Art . . .
Scholarship Opportunities
Rimbach Teacher Award
Graduate School Opportunities
Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs University of Chicago's Harris School . . .
Job Humor
Working Stiffed
CEL Workshops
Writing a Graduate/Professional School Resume/Curriculum Vitae
Monday, November 13
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: BC 144
Job Search 101: Resources & Strategies
Tuesday, November 14
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Location: BC 144
Thursday, November 16
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: BC 144
Academic Internships: Filling Out the Learning Plan
Learn how to successfully fill out the required paperwork to maximize your learning in an internship.
Wednesday, November 15
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: BC 144
Finstad Grant Information Session
St Olaf Students are eligible to apply for grants up to $3000 to start their own entrepreneurial venture. Come and hear how you can apply.
Thursday, November 16
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: BC 143
Exploring Careers in Biomedical Sciences
Thursday, November 16
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: BC 142
Career Opportunities
To view the recruiters coming to campus, please visit OleRecruiting.
Avant Energy Services (formerly Dahlen, Berg & Co.)
Analyst
Extended Application Deadline: Wed., November 15 - See OleRecruiting
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Financial Representative & Financial Representative Internship
Information Session: Tuesday, November 14
6:00 p.m.
Location: BC 144
Applications Due: Friday, November 17, via OleRecruiting
Interviews: Monday, November 27
City of Shoreview
Information Systems Analyst
Applications Due: Monday, November 20
Edward Jones
Investment Representative - See OleRecruiting
Applications Due: Tuesday, November 21
Strategic Name Development
Marketing Associate - See OleRecruiting
Wells Fargo
Credit Manager - Sales
Contact Ole alum Nick Hanson directly to inquire and/or apply! Find his information under Wells Fargo, Inc. in OleRecruiting or in the online alumni directory.
Natural Resource Group, Inc.
Environmental Construction Inspector - See OleRecruiting
INX International Ink Co
Chemistry Positions - See OleRecruiting
Academic Internships: Filling Out the Learning Plan
Learn how to successfully fill out the required paperwork to maximize your learning in an internship.
Wednesday, November 15
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: BC 144
The New York Union Semester Program
Now accepting applications for its spring 2007 program. Open to all majors. The New York Union Semester is offered through the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and provides students with the opportunity to intern at a labor union or community organization in New York City while taking Labor Studies courses at the City University of New York for a semester.
Applications Due: November 15
The Northfield Historical Society (NHS)
Northfield History Documentary (Academic Internship)
Archivist (Academic Internship)
Applications Due: Thursday, November 30
See OleRecruiting for more details about these two opportunities.
Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center
Naturalist Intern - See OleRecruiting
National Gallery of Art
Summer Internships - See OleRecruiting
Rimbach Teacher Award
Open to all graduating seniors with some German language skills interested in teaching English at the Martin Luther Schule located in Germany.
Applications Due: Friday, December 1
Graduate School Opportunities
Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs University of Chicago's Harris School
University of Michigan's Ford School
University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute
Informal drop-in: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location:
BC 142
University of Minnesota, Industrial Relations Center
Wednesday, November 15
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Stav Hall Table
United Seminary
Thursday, November 16
Stav Hall Table: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Information Session: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. BC 143
Job Humor
Working Stiffed
The 21-Step Out-of-Unemployment Plan
(www.madkane.com)
Finding a new job can be a daunting challenge. But if you follow this simple 21-step plan, you'll soon be battling cranky alarm clocks, rush-hour traffic, and the "living for the weekend" daily grind.
1. Lose job.
2. Panic, freak out, and turn into a pulsating blob of hysteria. CAUTION: It's best to do this at home -- you'll be wanting that reference.
3. Torture everyone you've ever met with your tale of woe. Complain about your former boss, your boss' boss, your lousy luck, the manipulative coworker who stole your job, the economy, and, of course, the world as we know it. Seriously consider buying a voodoo doll.
4. Perfect the art of sleeping late, parading about in slatternly garb, and doing absolutely nothing. Tell your spouse you spent the entire week working on your resume. When spouse says "Let me have a look," say you're still fine-tuning it.
5. Start working on resume.
6. Show spouse resume. Become defensive when asked "Where's the rest of it?"
7. Report to Unemployment. Wait in line for hours. Fill out confusing paperwork. Go home to look for missing data.
8. Return to Unemployment. Wait in line, fill out forms, be interrogated by someone half your age and one-eighth as educated. Someone who actually has a job.
9. Discover the pitiful sum you'll be getting for the next 26 weeks. That is, if you report in regularly, fill out weekly forms, and prove to the satisfaction of some bored civil servant that you've been a diligent, albeit unsuccessful, little job hunter.
10. Revise your resume. Study the help-wanted ads. Conclude you need to be more creative.
11. Compose catchy letters filled with all the latest lingo. Stuff them into envelopes with your new, "improved" resume. Receive nothing in the mail but bills.
12. Buy a new answering machine, lest you miss a call from an employer. Play back messages with great anticipation:
Three hang-ups and two salesmen.
Your mother wondering if you found a job yet.
A former coworker saying your boss just got the ax.
Smile for the first time in weeks.
13. Put on your finest suit and show up at employment agencies. Try to charm them into dispensing with their "no interview without appointment" rule. Find out receptionists now double as bouncers.
14. Become depressed. Over-sleep--eat--drink--spend. Avert your eyes at the help wanted ads. Become overwhelmed with guilt and wonder what adult companionship would feel like. In a spurt of activity, answer several ads.
15. Receive call for interview. Panic. Shop for new suit. Ask spouse to pose as interviewer. Ask parents to pose as interviewer. Practice plausible, sympathetic, yet not strictly truthful explanation of why you're out of work.
16. Suffer through interview. Consider objecting to improper questions. Reconsider. Speak enthusiastically about your old job. Speak earnestly about your prospective job. Barely manage not to gag. Acquit self reasonably well, except for one accidental use of curse word. Decide to clean up your vocabulary ... at least until you're hired.
17. Tell spouse, parents, and friends about interview. Disregard encouraging words. Second-guess yourself. Wonder if interviewer will check references. Wonder if references will make things worse. Wonder if you should threaten to sue for slander. Send effusive thank you note to interviewer. Become nauseated by your hypocrisy. Mail letter anyway.
18. Wait to hear from prospective employer. Leave several phone messages. Finally reach interviewer one evening after phone screener has gone home. Find out the job's been filled. You're under-qualified. Or over-qualified. Or inappropriately qualified.
19. Repeat Steps 14 through 18 except for vocabulary lapse. Repeat them again. Keep repeating them until ...
20. Receive job offer. Become so excited you almost forget to ask what it pays.
21. Set alarm clock for the crack of dawn and fall asleep an hour before it sounds. Moan, struggle into consciousness, crawl into your best suit, and report to work an hour early.
Quit griping and get used to it. You should have enjoyed unemployment while it lasted.
- Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist
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SIFE
(Students In Free Enterprise)
Want to make a difference? Be part of a global nonprofit organization active in over 40 countries? Create real economic opportunity for others? Network with leaders of some of the world’s best companies?
Ambitious students now have the opportunity to start a SIFE team at St. Olaf! Ashley Smithson, U.S. SIFE Program Director, will lead an information session about SIFE on
Thursday, November 16
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
BC 142
Please come even if you can only make it to some of the session.
For more information visit: www.sife.org or email Sian Muir at muirs@stolaf.edu.
The CEL welcomes...
Paula Schanilec
Paula is our new Program Assistant! She comes to the CEL from the Philosophy Dept. Paul will work with various programs and will work on the CEL's marketing initiatives.
