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The Clackamas Print ^7 Wednesday, December 6,1995 / Feature Career center a useful resource Damon Fouts Contributing Writer The CCC Career Planning and Employment Center has one mission, according to Career Re source Specialist Ethel Swanson: “To give the best career informa tion possible to our customers, the students.” She believes she and a staff of career and job specialists and counselors have the arsenal to do just that. The center has a vari ety of resource materials and ser vices, including employment list ings, career development courses, and workshops on job searches, job interviewing and resume writ ing. But their most effective tool, Swanson said, is CIS. “The majority of the students that come into the center, use CIS. It’s the greatest resource we have,” she noted. CIS, developed by Oregon Computer Information Systems, is a 25 megabyte information sys tem software designed to assist students in career planning. Stu dents access the information from one of several computer terminals in the center. Once on line, the student embarks on a hypertext tour of Oregon industry and academia, navigating in the Windows envi ronment. Various mouse clicks sort through the data, adding and ignoring characteristics that help cater the information to the student’s needs. CIS offers information on al most any career in Oregon. For instance, a print-oufof computed programming in Oregon included an overview of the job; personal aptitudes needed in the field, such as detail orientation; work setting descriptions, such as the typical work schedule; general employ ment sources; the total number of programmers employed in Or egon and a regional breakdown of that number; the future outlook of the programmer labor market; average Oregon programmer wages; skills and academic train ing needed; specialty positions within the field; and a bibliogra phy of related books, periodicals and trade publications. A few more mouse clicks and CIS generates a nationwide list of schools and universities offering curricula in a particular field. Another set of hypertext maneu vers and a list of scholarships is on the screen. A student can hone in on a scholarship that mirrors his/her need, heritage or lifestyle by en tering their age, race, income level, grade point average or any other characteristics deemed rel evant.. Once a scholarship donor is selected, the student learns the scholarship amount, the number offered, the number of applicants last year, and more. CIS also of fers information regarding mili tary employment and self employ ment. The career center isn’t just a bunch of binary codes, though. There is plenty of hands-on as sistance available from the staff as well. If a student hasn’t decided on a career, Career Counselor Donna Ford can help. By conducting a student inventory, which is a list of questions designed to deter mine aptitude, interest and per sonality traits, Ford can begin to match a career to those factors. There are several inventories of fered at a cost per student from $5 to $10, according to a career center brochure. Once a career is chosen and thejjgtefaCftmgs.tQ^iadia lob, Co- operative Work Experience Spe cialist Jodi Stapleton can step in. She manages the co-op program, designed to find students jobs within their chosen careers. The students earn college credit work ing within their field while pur suing a degree. ‘We try to create the job when the student comes in,” Stapleton said. She does this by determin ing the best career match, then notifying employers that partici pate in the co-op program, of the new candidate. While the co-op program isn’t officially under the career center jurisdiction, the two enti ties work closely to satisfy student employment needs. “We’re like an extended fam ily,” said Stapleton. For those job hunting in gen eral, Job Specialist Diane Drebin has about 100 jobs on file at a given time. The jobs include gen eral office, clerical, executive as sistants, personal assistants and computer aided drafters, among many others. Many of the jobs are short-term. Drebin can also assist in writing resumes. The career center can also put students in touch with counselors on campus who can help students with almost anything, from a lost job to a lost relationship, said Swanson.But she warns that de spite these tools, people need to be aggressive job hunters. “Eighty percent of the jobs out there aren’t listed. So you may want to contact the employer di rectly before they get a chance to list it,” she said. She also sug gests students network to uncover jobs, or even volunteer to work without pay to get a foot in the door.Swanson considers educa tion the first step, though. “Oregon’s technology work force is a highly educated work force: more than 50 (percent) have a college degree, 19 (per cent) have one or more advanced degree(s).” she said in a recent “Today” bulletin. s e. She concedes that competi tion for jobs through state immi gration makes the job-seeker’s task more difficult. She believes the center can help. “I just want people to know what we have so we can help them go through that process of decid ing what to do,” she said. The career center is located in the Community Center. Office hours are Monday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Ethel Swanson can be reached at ext. 2396. FCA provides fellowship for students Jon Roberts Feature Editor There is a club here at Clackamas that has one goal: to show God’s love for everyone. That club is Fellowship of Chris tian Athletes (FCA). FCA meets in Randall 012 every Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The FCA Faculty Advisor is Head Volleyball Coach Kathie Woods, who has been the advisor for the last seven years. “The most important part (of FCA) is the fellowship,” said Woods. “FCA is a positive envi ronment for students here at Clackamas.” At the FCA meetings stu dents can talk about their struggles and triumphs with fel low students, the majority being Christians. There are all types of people who attend FCA meetings. Mitch Christensen, a member of the FCA here at Clackamas, defines FCA membership as “not just strictly an athlete thing.” FCA is not only for college athletes. But it is for anyone who would like to attend. The meetings contain on av erage about 25 people per week, with the number continually growing larger. The officers for FCA are President Denise Haselwood, a three sport athlete and Vice-Presi dent Casie Ireland, a volleyball all-star. Haselwood says that FCA is important because it allows members “... to talk to people their own age that are dealing with the same things as you.” “The main motive of FCA is to love others, which means sharing, re specting and basically just supporting each other.” said Woods. “The FCA is not out to convert people, all we’re out to do is share ' the source of our love, God.” The FCA group here at Clacka mas doesn’t just have meetings, they also have get togethers. Like the one, they had last Saturday night at the Arrowhead Athletic Club. There are many more events planned for the up coming months. FCA in the words of Kathie Woods is “open to everyone” and there is an open invitation to any one that would like to come and worship God. by MvH Jones fc Jon Roberts Letter Litter I’ve taken each letter from a popular movie title and done the following: If it’s a J, Q,X or Z, I left it alone. If it’s a vowel (including Y), I replaced it with a ‘v’ (for vowel). If it’s any other letter, I replaced it with a ‘c’ (for consonant). How many can you name? As a hint, the year of the movie is given. 1. Jvcvccvc cvcc (1993) 2. QvvZ ccvc (1994) 3. cvcc & cvc’c vXcvccvcc vccvccvcv (1989) 4. cvc ccvcc! cvcc cvvX (1993) 5. Jvccvcvc 8 (1992) 6. cwZ c ccv cvvc (1991) 7. ccvjvcc X(1987) 8. Jcc (1991) Simple as ABC This puzzle is as simple as ABC—in fact, I’ve already given you all the A’s, B’s and C’s in each answer. How many can you get? (‘-’signs indicate blank letters.) 1.1985 Michael J. Fox film 2. It connects the Atlantic to the Pacific 3.1978 sci-fi TV show 4. David Hasselhoff series 5.1965 Avalon/Funicello flick 6.1985 Laker’s MVP 7. Ex-Nirvana leader 8. Crunchy salad topping 9. Classic comedy team 10. 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