Career Services Office
GCCSO Update - Week of December 3, 2007
Topics in this issue:
- No Career Services Walk-In Hours on December 4-5, 2007
- Looking for a Career or Internship with a Leading European Firm?
- Fiscal and Policy Analyst Position/Internship
- Recent Articles about Careers and Job Search Strategies
- Mark Your Calendars for the 2008 Symposium on Graduate Education!
- The Graduate College Career Services Office
1. NO CAREER SERVICES WALK-IN HOURS DECEMBER 4-5, 2007
The Graduate College Career Services Office offers advice on application materials, career exploration, networking, interviewing, and the job search process. Students are encouraged to drop by during walk-in hours (Tuesday & Wednesday mornings, 9:00 -11:45 a.m.) to visit with a counselor on a first-come, first served basis.
Regular Career Services Walk-in Hours are suspended during the week of December 3rd. The regular walk-in schedule will resume on December 11th.
2. LOOKING FOR A CAREER OR INTERNSHIP WITH A LEADING EUROPEAN FIRM?
The German Scholars Organization (GSO) is calling for résumés from graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and young professionals of all academic backgrounds and nationalities interested in exploring employment opportunities with research-oriented firms in Europe. In cooperation and conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) European Career Fair (Cambridge, MA -February 1-4, 2008), the GSO will host its 2nd Virtual Career and Internship Fair for interested applicants who are unable to attend the Cambridge fair. Applicant résumés submitted to the GSO-MIT Virtual Fair will be made available by the GSO to participating European firms of the MIT fair, whereby the companies will then contact their preferred candidates. Register and submit your résumé at https://www.euro-career.com
Interested applicants must submit their résumés electronically by December 15, 2007 for review and sorting by the GSO and are strongly encouraged to submit their résumés prior to that deadline. (Note: The GSO observes the strictest of standards on information privacy and does not share submitted information with other parties. For more information, please refer to our FAQs.)
Past participating companies have included BASF, Bayer, Bertelsmann Inc., BMW, Bosch, Boston Consulting Group, British Aerospace, CNRS, EADS, Ericsson, the European Commission, Goldman Sachs, Ford, IBM, Infineon, Lucent Technologies, Merck, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Pfizer, SAP, Siemens, Volkswagen, and many more. For more information on the MIT fair itself, please visit the MIT European Career Fair website: https://www.euro-career.com/public/careerfair/.
3. FISCAL AND POLICY ANALYST POSITION/INTERNSHIP
The California Legislative Analyst's Office is seeking applications for its Fiscal and Policy Analyst position and summer internship program. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 14, 2007.
More information is available at http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/Careers/lao_employment_openings.aspx
4. RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT CAREERS AND JOBS SEARCH STRATEGIES
Need to explain a gap in your CV?
Columnists from the Chronicle of Higher Education answer that question and others.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/11/2007111501c/careers.html
Engineering a Business-School Search
What if your background is in one type of professional school but you fit better in another?
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/11/2007111401c/careers.html
New Study Calls for 'Paradigm Shift' in Social-Science Graduate Education
Doctoral education in the social sciences requires a "paradigm shift" that takes into account significant changes in the job market and uncertain early career prospects, according to a new study.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/11/848n.htm
5. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
The 2008 Symposium on Graduate Education:
Research Integrity: Whose Rights? Whose Responsibilities?
Monday, February 25, 2008
1:00-5:00 p.m., with reception to follow
Illini Union Rooms B & C
Keynote address: "Who Wrote My Paper? R&R in Academia" by Dr. Drummond Rennie, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
This symposium is sponsored by the Graduate College and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. For more information, contact the Graduate College at 333-4610.
6. THE GRADUATE COLLEGE CAREER SERVICES OFFICE
The Graduate College Career Services Office (GCCSO) assists University of Illinois graduate students with decision making and planning for career paths both within and beyond the academy. It is a centralized resource for graduate students from all disciplines, with services focused especially on the needs of graduate students in the humanities, the social sciences, the fine arts, and other areas in which students are not presently served by dedicated, discipline-based career services offices. GCCSO staff provides advising, special programs, resources, and referrals to help students with career choices and with the job search. For more information, see www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/
Career Services Office
The Graduate College
801 South Wright Street
204 Coble Hall, MC-322
Champaign, IL 61820-6210
Phone: (217) 333-4610
Fax: (217) 333-8019
GradCareerServices@uiuc.edu
