Career Fair offers experience, opportunity
Numerous organizations
will be at the winter Career
Fair on Wednesday ready
to meet students interested
in future work
Aimee Rudin
Family/Health/Education Reporter
The University Career Center
will hold the winter Career Fair
Wednesday. The fair will host nu
merous corporations, not-for-prof
it organizations, graduate and pro
fessional schools and government
agencies from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
the EMU Ballroom.
Organizations attending the fair
include American Express Financial
Advisors, Pacificorp, the Internal
Revenue Service, The Associated
Press and Western States Chiro
practic College.
“The Career Fair serves to con
nect students with employers who
have come to the University to hire
them,” Career Center Director Lar
ry Smith said. “Organization repre
sentatives have come to the Univer
sity to fill openings for jobs and
graduate programs because of the
quality of our students.”
The Career Fair provides an op
portunity for University students to
meet potential future employers,
begin networking in a real-world en
vironment, talk with recruiters and
set up interviews.
“I got my initial job because of
the fair,” University alumnus Sean
Whorton said.
Whorton now works for the Lux
company as a buyer, but he attrib
utes his rise up the corporate ladder
to his first job as an executive
trainee at the Bon Marche. The Bon
hired Whorton during a career fair
he attended his senior year.
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“It wasn’t my dream job,” he
said. “But it led to bigger and
better things.”
The Career Center and Universi
ty advisers suggest students come to
the fair prepared to meet employers
and attend interviews.
“It’s a great chance for students
to get some practice talking to em
ployers and going through the inter
view process,” said Beth Pfieffer, in
ternship coordinator for the School
of Journalism and Communication.
University students who take
part in services offered through the
Career Center and attend the Ca
reer Fair are 30 percent more like
ly than students who do not utilize
the services to receive a job offer
after graduation according to a sur
vey of graduating students pub
lished by the Columbia National
Job Search Study.
Officials at the Career Center rec
ommend that students identify the
kind of work they want to do, locate
the organizations at the fair that
specialize in these areas, then gen
erate a list of employers that they
would want to work for.
Kristi Huey, a 2001 graduate,
used the event to land her current
job as a district manager with E.
and J. Gallo Winery.
“It was great,” Huey said. “I just
went to the fair looking for the best
opportunity and I hooked up with
the Gallo people.”
Huey would recommend that stu
ireer Fair
What: Meet employers,
talk to recruiters, set up
Interviews
When: 1D a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday
Where: EMU Ballroom
Find out more about the
participating companies at
http://uoc.areer.uoregon,edu.
From “QuickLi nks,” select
“Career Fairs,”
"The Career Fair serves
to connect students
with employers
who have come
to the University
to hire them.
Larry Smith
Career Center director
dents attend the fair, even if they do
not see the company they want to
work for on the list.
“It is all about networking,” she
said. “Even if you don’t find the
company you’re looking for, there
are just so many people to meet and
contacts to make.”
Contact the reporter
at aimeerudin@dailyemerald.com.
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issues was a good idea, and SFG de
cided to zero-fund the group.
Earll added the student fee alloca
tion process works differently at
PSU and several groups are usually
zero-funded when first presenting
their budgets. This year the SFG has
zero-funded at least 24 student
groups, either because their budget
requests were too high or because
they were asking for funding that
was not supported under PSU stu
dent fee guidelines.
OSPIRG plans to appeal their
zero-funding, as is the custom for
zero-funded groups at PSU, accord
ing to Earll.
“We expect to maintain funding
at PSU, but sometimes it takes a
couple of bumps along the way to
get there,” said Ben Unger, campus
program director for OSPIRG.
Unger added all five established
chapters of OSPIRG are expected to
contribute money to help fund the
start-up of a new chapter at OSU
because that university’s fee alloca
tion process will not immediately
provide funding.
OSU student body President Brid
get Burns said the university has
had misfortunes in funding outside
organizations. She added that OS
PIRG has focused its efforts at OSU
on lobbying students to subsidize
the group before they even know
what it’s about.
“We’re not interested in making a
financial commitment to an outside
organization that hasn’t proved it
self as a benefit to our students,”
Bums said.
Unger said he anticipates that the
University of Oregon chapter of OS
PIRG will not be zero-funded at
tonight’s PFG budget meeting, even
though they also are asking for a
$150,000 budget. He said that the
PFG has a better understanding of
what OSPIRG does and why it is im
portant to the University than the
PSU committee does.
Unger said even though some of
OSPIRG’s money goes to pay for
things off-campus, such as funding
the start-up of a new chapter at OSU,
"We're not interested
in making a financial
commitment to an
outside organization
that hasn't proven
itself as a benefit
to our students."
Bridget Burns
OSU student body president
the group’s efforts are done on behalf
of University students. He added that
funding an additional campus organ
izer would benefit students because
he or she would help organize grass
roots efforts that University of Oregon
students care about.
“I think the PFG sees OSPIRG as
a part of the broad marketplace of
ideas that student groups bring to
campus,” Unger said.
OSPIRG’s opponents have consis
tently targeted the group’s use of
student incidental fee money since
it was first launched more than 30
years ago at the University.
Oregon Commentator Publisher
Bret Jacobson said the Commentator
has a history of opposing OSPIRG’s
funding. In 1998, a former Commen
tator writer launched a successful
campaign convincing the student
body to vote against giving OSPIRG
student incidental fee funding and a
former Commentator editor filed a
federal lawsuit to challenge the con
stitutionality of OSPIRG’s funding.
Jacobson said OSPIRG’s fiscal ir
responsibility manifests itself in its
single-line budget — since other
student groups must provide de
tailed budget requests — and its
practice of using student incidental
fees off-campus to hire professional
lobbyists.
“I don’t think you could serious
ly argue that sending incidental fee
money up to a Portland office de
velops University of Oregon stu
dents in any way,” Jacobson said.
“Unless you’re developing a knack
for corruption.”
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