By Christy Foreman
Staff Writer
Someone once asked a soap salesman why, if his product was so good, was there still so much dirt in the world. The soap salesman replied that it doesn’t matter that he has the best soap in the world available to people. What matters is that people must then use it in order for them to be clean. The same can be said for the multitude of wonderful opportunities available to students through Student Affairs, in particular, those offered by the Seaver College Career Center. Sure, it requires a little initiative on your part, but the Career Center staff has worked hard to put together quality workshops and events that will help you prepare and remove some of the anxiety of searching for a job or internship.
The Career, Internship and Graduate School Fair on Wednesday was an excellent opportunity for students to meet with potential employers right here on campus. Representatives from various companies and organizations, as well as graduate schools, were on campus to meet with students, discuss opportunities available with them and collect resumes for potential employment.
The Seaver College Career Action Project (CAP) is also another opportunity to utilize the Career Center. The mission of CAP is to assist students in the self-
study and career exploration process, and to prepare them for the social and functional realities of the workplace. It includes the Career Coaching Program, which is a year-long program that teams you up with top professionals and focuses on portable professional skill development, and the Career Connections Network, which links students with accomplished professionals in their fields of interest to facilitate such things as informational interviews and job shadowing. The Career Coaching program is accepting applications now for next year.
With such events and programs as these, as well as the weekly workshops, which are designed to help you with such things as “How to Search for an Internship,” “Choosing a Major,” “Job Searching,” “Interviewing” and “Resume Writing and Review,” the Seaver College Career Center is 100 percent committed to assisting you with your career management … all you have to do is walk through the door of suite 227 or visit the Career Center Web site at http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/studentaffairs/careercenter/
March 27, 2003