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. Soup of the day on -
Fridays, usually
BAC...................
-A-A-A CA-A-
BA------A- -A-AC-CA
BA-A-C-
B-AS- B-A-- B--
-A—— AB-- -ABBA-
— C-BA--
BAC— B—-
ABB— A- C-------
C-A- C—
The Right Connections
Answer the 10 clues, then make the right
connections by pairing them together a certain
way. You should have five pairs when you’re
done.
1. Astronaut’s orange drink
2. Popular bottled water brand
3. Dog’s feet
4. Unsophisticated, inexperienced
5. Like a bug in a rug?
6. Use a whip
7. Teeny tiny buzzing insect
8.1988 western “Young_____ ’’
9. Trade, like baseball cards
10. Game on the greens
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