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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
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8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Mon. - Fri.
Located in
the
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the Community
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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