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P R IN T : News 2 «¡S» Wednesday, Feb. 6,2013 Career Center puts students on track toward employment Denee’ Shelton Career Center Hours: The Clackamas Print How cool would it be to work for Intel, IBM, Nike or even National Geographic? Sounds pretty awesome,' right? The Career Center, located in the Student Community Center, is the place to go to get assis tance when job hunting and career searching. Mat Genuser, the Career Center chief of staff, has built the center from the ground up. He explains as he points at all of the computers and resources in thé center. “We had no prior recourses to work with and now we have all of this information [avail able], I never dreamed it would go so well,” said Genuser. The Career Center was implemented and established in the Community Center during late summer of 2012. A new tool the Career Center has started using is called Interview Stream. “There just isn’t enough time for me to meet with every stu dent that needs to talk to me,” said Genuser. “This tool makes it so everyone can get the help they need without having to talk directly to me.” Sometimes students’ inter view skills aren’t really what they should be. The cool thing about Interview Stream is that it allows Genuser to have an interview with any student who u en u ser k g iv e s 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mon. - Fri. Located in the counseling ggSj 111 department of the Community Center PRINT Ö c o cn <U I report the news in an honest, unbiased and professional ■ manner. Content published in T h e P r in t is not screened or .j subject to censorship. Pam Allen, left, and Zach Turnbull, right, work together in the Career Center. The Career Center is open from 8 a.m. - 5 pan. Monday through Friday. be or what kind of job they want when they get older can check out career exploration and career navigation though a website called Career Inventory System. CIS allows students to start exploring different careers. Students who know what they want to do, but just need more in fo r m a tio n , can u tiliz e ir th is a s tu d e n t Stream a series of questions is torn between two different for a student to answer through careers they can use the website his/her own webcam. The tech to compare them side by side. CIS also allows the student nology allows the tracking of how many times he/she says to compare schools that are “um,” or “uh.” It also tracks suited to the career they want to how many times eye contact pursue. It shows the population is broken as well as body lan of the school, the population guage and other eye move- of the city and the tuition dif ment. Feedback is provided and ference. “If a student comes to the Interview Stream will also send a copy to Genuser so he can see Career Center and doesn’t how the student is doing. know what to do, we help them Pam Allen, Genuser’s assis decide between two different tant, is an advocate of the careers,” Genuser said. “Then center because she believes it we go one step further and fig strengthens individuals in the ure out what school they want community, while strengthen to transfer to. Then we can tell ing the community as a whole. them to meet with an adviser “Having come fresh from a and figure out what their career job search, the skills that I ’m path is and put together an edu showing students and commu cation plan.” nity members who are looking Students who say “I need a for jobs are pretty well honed job!” and don’t know the true in me,” she said. process of looking for a job or Students who have no idea haven’t had much success can what they want to do, no idea use a website called collegecen- what career pathway they want, tralnetw ork.com /C lackam as. what their major is going to Within the website there are ^1 Staff T h e C la c k a m a s P r in t aims to o n lin e r e s o u r c e , In te rv ie w all different types of resources that can help a student become employable. When a student creates an account, they can allow employ ers access to their resume. Some employers will actually contact the student directly. An employer may contact a student before they even apply for a io b . 1 C o lle g e C e n tr a l N e tw o r k also has the ability to allow you to create a portfolio. For exam ple, an art or design student can upload samples of their work so potential employers get to sjee what they’ve done and why they should hire the students. “Genuser and Allen are a friendly, informative and sup portive team of people to work Email comments, concerns or tips to ch<efed@c/ackamas.edu or call us at 503-594-6266. 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 Journalism Adviser: - Melissa Jones w ith.” said Z ach Turnbull,, a n v e-term student at Clackam as has relationships with other job Community College. “I didn’t search engines and instead of go to any of the counseling having to go to 15 different and advising for a long time. search engines, College Central I knew about them, but never Network pools the jobs together had any desire to use their help. into one place to save you from Now I’m realizing that I need all the extra time and hassle. them and wish that I had come The website also offers the back sooner. He [Mat] is very option of internships. helpful.” With this website, you can Don’t be afraid of the Career either upload a resume that you Center. Genuser and Allen are already have, or you can cre a strong team that will do any ate your own. The process is thing in their power to get you incredibly easy and takes 30 into the work force and into a seconds at least, but obviously job that you enjoy. “If a student the more specific you get, the asks for it and we don’t have more time it takes. it,” said Allen, “we go out of College Central Network our way to get it for them.” g m9lissaj@clackamas.edu editors ip Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Joshua Dillen & Anna Axelson chfefedgc/ackamss.edu g 2 z Editor: Brittany Bell Associate: Christopher Taylor newsed@c/ac/camas.edu w Co-Editor: Emily Rask * C oEdiiO rfBreanna Craine aced@c/ac/camas,edu H Editor: Andrew Millbrooke 5 Associate: David Beasley a. sportsed@c/ackan)as.edu ®> Editor: Chris Morrow g copyed@clackamas.edu Photo Editor: Patty Salazar photoed@clackamas.edu Web & Design: gipmes. 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