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Need Help wilting a resume? Yant information on
career opportunities in your field?
Confused students can now turn to the Career Assist
ance Resource Handbook compiled and puUliicd by the
UNL Career Action Commission (CAC). The handbook is
available through all undergraduate advisers.
Some common complaints among students are about
advisers who don't care about their students or who advise
too many students to do their job well, according to CAC
chairwoman Kanet Krause.
This handbook is a first attempt to provide campus
wide career assistance information, Krause said. It was
developed to inform the students of the existing UNL
career programs, career-related courses, and adviser efforts
concerning careers in each college and the Student Affairs
Office.
Tipsoaresssses
The career-related information includes a career goals
statement, decision-making strategies, resume tips, a
bibliography of career resources and a CAC description
and membership list.
In a CAC survey of students this fall of 355 students,
78 per cent said they needed career assistance. Of these,
53 per cent said they wanted information concerning
career options, training and job opportunities. '
CAC, in its third year at UNL, was appointed by Vice
Chancellor of Academic Affairs Adam Breckenridge and
supported by Ken Bader, former Vice Chancellor of
Student Affairs to encourage career services and programs
on campus and in the community and to develop resource
materials for faculty and administrations, Krause said.
The commission, which includes members from the
college, community and state agencies, was financed by an
S800 grant from a chancellor's fund.
Need clear
The need for career assistance was made "agonizingly
clear through a survey conducted by Gene Harding,
Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, Krause
said.
According to the survey students drop out of school
because of social and emotional stresses, not because of
academc inadequacy or financial problems.
Half of the students at UNL are from hometowns of
fewer than 10,000 persons and one fourth are from towns
of fewer than 5,000 persons.
In addition, more than 20 per cent of the students are
under 25 years old.
Those factors play a role in the fact that freshman at
UNL have the highest "loneliness scores" of any other
group in the state, the study showed.
Student loneliness and stress have been the subject of
investigations by the UNL Teaching and Learning Center.
Information collected indicated that students have
limited contact with their advisers during the first
semester of their freshman year on campus.
According to the study, students expressed a very
strong preference for being advised by professors in their
major field of study.
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In another survey, students participated in a practice
interview session that ran six days from Sept. 23 through
Oct. 2, 1975 at the UNL Career Planning and Placement .
Center, sponsored by CAC
One hundred and twenty UNL students participated in
the interviews. After each interview, tlx interviewer gave
feedback to the person faterriewed, describing both
positive and negative arpects exhibited. -
Interviews also gave tips on hcrar to interview. Follow
ing the session, a written evaluation, fiHed out by inter
viewers, indicated:
83 per cent of the student participants would like to
have a course in career planning offered at UND
90 per cent would recommend that their friends
attend a practice interview session, if they were offered
again. '
. -82 per cent said they thought the practice interviews
prepared them for real interviews. .
As a result of those surveys, the commission began
assessing the need for student career assistance through
interviews of the 53 departments, schools, and programs
at UNL, Krause said.
This survey showed that 69 per cent of the depart
ments and 72 per cent of the colleges provided no faculty
orientation for advising students concerning career concerns-
Two colleges and 14 departments expressed a need
for faculty and staff training in career awareness, counsel
ing, job opportunities, and life planning.
Faculty shcsdJ be accocstaLIe
The commission recommended that college deans hold
faculty advisers accountable for career advising.
College and department curriculum committes should
assess their curriculum to explore where career related
"components can be incorporated into existing or new
curriculum, the commission said.
Workshops courses or activities to asset the students in
exploring career options also should be developed, the
commission said.
The commission also praised the development of those
courses such as Introduction toEngineering in the College
of Engineering and the Agriculture Employment Seminar
at the College of Agriculture.
"The engineering course is good in that it exposes the
freshman students to all branches of engineering and its
opportunities," Krause said. "
The agriculture course teaches the student how to
apply for jobs, write resumes, and gives tips in job-hunting.
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various schools and they decide thit they
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tus symbol. There seems to be more pride
in schools these days."
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order.
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