Thursday, Februarys, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
Former UNL director Phaneuf
opens national career center
By Anne Mohri
Staff Reporter
Gerry Phaneuf may be on to some
thing big.
Phaneuf,' former director of UXL's
Career Planning ami Placement Cen
ter, recently resigned to begin work on
a national career planning and place
ment center.
His new center first will be based in
OmatTa and soon will open branches
elsewhere, Phaneuf said. Because many
campuses do not offer career-planning
centers, he said, his centers will be
accessible to students at many colleges.
'I like to be able to
help a person
explore what they
would like to
accomplish.'
Phaneuf
In the 2 12 years that Phaneuf was
director of UNL's center he made many
changes.
A computer referral system was star
ted to increase the number of compan
ies using the service, Phaneuf said. The
referral system made student informa
tion more accessible to businesses, he
said.
Phaneuf also began a university
wide Career Information Day designed
to give information on different careers.
Participation in the event increased
greatly over the years, Phaneuf said.
The number of companies increased
from 4:5 to 70, and the number of stu
dents attending the event doubled, he
said.
The center also placed more empha
sis on serving East Campus students.
Phaneuf said that before he took the
job of director, East Campus students
were neglected by the Career Planning
and Placement Center.
Also during Phaneuf s time as direc
tor the registration rate by students at
the center increased by Go percent.
Although the Career Planning and
Placement ('enter has made signifi
cant advances, they were not made
without a struggle. Phaneuf said that
when he began his job as director he
was asked to expand the center and
was assured funding for the expansion.
But with the university's financial
cutbacks, Phaneuf said, starting new
programs was difficult. He said the only
thing he didn't like about the job was
the frustration of being underfunded.
Phaneuf said the center also was
understaffed two professional staff
members to serve 24,000 students,
Phaneuf said.
"It doesn't compare well with other
institutions of this size," Phaneuf added.
Despite these problems, Phaneuf
said, he enjoyed his position as director
of the Career Planning and Placement
Center, and he is looking forward to his
new job.
"I like to be able to help a person
explore what they would like to accom
plish," Phaneuf said.
The assistant director of the center,
Jim Schiefelbein, said Phaneuf had a
very upbeat nature and was able to deal
with people positively.
Assistant Director Janel Queen said
Phaneuf was important to the office.
"He had creative insights because of
his experience with career planning,"
Queen said.
Coby B. Simerly, former assistant
dean at the College of Agriculture at
the University of Illinois at Champaign
Urbana, was named interim director of
the center in late January.
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