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By Lori Steinhauer
Of (1m Emerald
While freshmen are trying to
master the ropes of University
life, seniors and graduate
students are preparing to step
out of their comfort zones here
and into the ranks of “the real
world.” Leaving behind good
friends and memories, and fin
ding the right place to create
new ones can cause tension.
Some students are searching
for employment, with career
goals not yet defined. Others
have landed jobs, but must kiss
girlfriends or boyfriends good
bye and move on to another ci
ty. Still others are suffering
from anxiety about taking
graduate school entry exams.
The University provides ser
vices for both practical advice
and emotional support regar
ding these issues.
The Career Planning and
Placement Service, located at
244 Hendricks Hall, is “work
ing with graduating students at
the UO to help them get jobs,
and helping lower division
students plan their education
for a satisfying career,” director
Larry Smith says.
“Probably the single-most
stated issue for students who
are getting into graduation
mode centers into the kind of
work they’re going to do.” he
says.
In addition, not knowing the
requirements of a given position
can add stress to searching for a
job, he says. But whether job ex
pectations are specific or
undefined, beginning to search
for employment can be ‘‘scary,’*
until students have identified
the actual companies they will
send resumes to.
“It’s hard to write a ‘to whom
it may concern' story,” he says.
To define job skills and in
terests, students can take a
Career Assessment test at Career
Planning and Placement.
Another source for direction in
the work field is the Career In
formation System, at 686-3872.
The Career Planning and
Placement Service matches
graduating students with pro
spective employers throughout
the nation via the Employment
Register, which provides
employers with the names and
addresses of students who will
be seeking work, and employer
directories, listing companies
that have job openings.
In addition, businesses
recruit students for employment
by scheduling a day of inter
views at the Career Planning
and Placement Service.
Students can consult the public
service announcement section
of the Emerald for a list of
scheduled interviews, and sign
up for a half-hour meeting with
the companies • they are in
terested in. To schedule an ap
pointment students must bring
their resumes to Room 244 Hen
dricks Hall beginning at 7:30
a.m. the Wednesday prior to a
company’s recruiting day.
To improve interviewing
skills, students can pick up an
evaluation, filled out by the in
terviewer, the day after the ap
pointment at the Career Plann
ing and Placement Service.
in addition, the Service con
ducts weekly workshops on in
terviewing skills, resume
writing and job-searching
strategies. The workshops may
be followed up with individual
counseling.
Also ‘‘College to Career Job
Finding Strategies” is offered
by the counseling psychology
department, and combines all
these strategies into a four
week, non-graded, one-credit
seminar.
I he Learning Resource
Center, at 686-3226, conducts
preparatory workshops for
seniors who will be continuing
their education.
“Normally if they’re going to
go into the master’s program
they have to take graduate
school entrance exams,” Becky
C o u c h-G o o d 1 i n g , Ad
ministrative Assistant of the
Center says.
Couch-Goodling commonly
sees students who have not
studied a certain subject, such
as math, since high school and
are nervous about mastering the
questions in that area on the en
trance tests.
But annual surveys indicate
that the University’s graduating
seniors are getting placed in
jobs and graduate schools. Of 60
percent of the June 1982
graduating seniors who
responded to a questionnaire,
80 percent said they had found
jobs. Of those who responded,
60 percent were working full
time, while 20 percent had part
time positions, and 26 percent
were attending graduate
schools.
“Separation anxiety,” is a
problem that University Crisis
Center director Sue Snyder
often sees among the graduating
University population. ‘^Having
to leave a place where their
friends and supports are, and
their feelings of facing the
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unknowns of the future, and
that’s where questions about
relationships come up as well,”
Snyder says.
Graduating students involved
in relationships are often troubl
ed over deciding whether to
stay and pursue the relationship
or to pursue a job search in a
more hopeful employment
market.
“The primary need people
have at that point is to talk it
through and then look at the op
tions and the crisis counselors
can be real helpful at that,”
Snyder says.
The University Crisis Center
at 686-4488, and the Student
Health and Counseling Center
at 686-3227 both offer informa
tion and counseling.
However, Snyder says she
doesn’t hear too much from
people graduating from the
University.
“We really don’t get a lot
because 1 think most seniors
and graduates tend to go to their
departments and Career Plann
ing and Placement,” she says.
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