UNL near national average in job placement
B\ (I ret then Boehr
St.ill Reporter
About 50 percent of University of
Nebraska-Lincoln seniors do not
have jobs right after graduation, said
Janel Queen, assistant director of
UNL’s Career Planning and Place
ment Center.
Queen said some seniors wait until
after graduation to look for jobs.
Other graduates join the Peace Corps,
travel or attend graduate school, she
said.
Larry Routh, director of Career
Planning and Placement since Janu
ary, said 50 percent of the nation’s
college students have jobs by the time
they graduate.
Routh said the university is close
to the national average, but graduates
in some majors arc in higher demand
than others.
Seniors in areas such as actuarial
science, engineering, leaching and
computer science arc in high demand,
he said.
“Employers are competing for a
limited supply of graduates in these
areas,” Routh said.
But, he said, any senior who can
deal with a variety of people and do a
job well will find employment.
Queen said more and more organi
zations want to recruit UNL stu
dents.
Corporations like the “Midwest
work ethic” they find in UNL gradu
ates, she said.
Nclvia Agnew, career resource
specialist at Career Planning and
Placement, said whether seniors gel
jobs depends on how well they market
themselves.
“Looking forajobisa full-time job
in itself,” she said.
Putting together a sharp resume
and researching prospective compa
nies arc ways students can get ahead
in their job search, she said.
Motivation is also a plus, Agnew
said.
Gail Grossman graduated in De
cember 1987 with a degree in adver
tising. This April she got a job as a
food service sales representative for
Land O’Lakcs, Grossman said.
Grossman said lack of motivation
caused her delay in finding a job.
“It was hard to get into looking for
something that would last for the rest
of my life,” she said.
Routh said graduates don’t have
problems finding employment, but
some graduates have problems find
ing the jobs they want in the geo
graphic area of their choice.
Routh said graduates should be
willing to live outside Nebra
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Job hunting a job in itself tor graduates
By David Uczen
Staff Reporter
Finding a job begins with students
looking at themselves and their
strengths, and then developing their
strengths, abilities and skills, said
Larry Routh, director of the Career
Planning and Placement Center.
The placement center can help all
students searching for employment,
from freshmen to alumni, from
searching for career jobs to finding
summer jobs, Routh said.
Routh suggests career planning
should begin while still a freshman.
“Getting a job is a job,” he said. “It
takes a fair amount of time, and it’s
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nice to be able to spread it over a long
period of time.”
‘‘We highly recommend students
start looking long before graduation,”
Routh said. ‘‘There arc some opportu
nities to contact employers and meet
employers while you’re still a student
that are very hard to duplicate after
graduation.”
The placement center, Nebraska
Union 230, may be an unfamiliar
place to many students, said Janet
Ehlcrs, an assistant director of the
placement center.
‘‘Studentscomehereas seniors and
they don’t even know the room ex
ists,” Ehlers said.
The placement center offers a wide
variety of resources to helpstudents in
their job search, Ehlers said.
Ehlers said if the center lacks the
resources, the center can show stu
dents where they need to go.
Vacancy newsletters, referrals to
employers, employer contacts, and
on-campus recruiting are some of the
resources that students have available
to them at the placement center.
About 300 to 400 businesses partici
pate in on-campus recruiting, Routh
said.
The placement center offers other
ways to help students with their job
hunting.
“There are many informational
kinds of programs that go on all year
long, many of them sponsored by this
office,” Enlers said.
Some of these programs include
career days and seminars on inter
viewing and job hunting skills.
Even though the placement center
puts a large number of resources at the
reach of students, the students still
need to be assertive, intelligent job
hunters, Routh said.
‘‘Astudentcan’tjustrelyon vacan
cies,” he said.
Statistics on graduate placement
before and after graduation are not
available, said Janel Queen, an assis
tant director at the placement center.
Queen said the center hopes to
have statistics available after this
semester. Availability of statistics is a
problem with placement centers
across the nation, she said.
Once students have visited the
placement center and used the re
sources, they should begin to be con
cerned with writing a resume and
interviewing.
The importance of the resume can
depend on the field. But whatever the
field, a well organized and thought
out resume should be written. Help
with resume writing is offered by the
placementcenteron Fridays from 2 to
4 p.m. or by appointment.
In the teaching field, the resume is
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