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Career Opportunities Website Available for students
By: Kalyn Nelson
Issue date: 1/29/07 Section: News
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Career Services is making an effort to improve the opportunity of employment for PUC graduates. The idea came about a dozen years ago as a result of a Purdue faculty member having a brainstorm to help students in their future career path. Beth Pellicciotti, assistant vice chancellor for academic quality programs worked with the career offices at the Purdue University West Lafayette campus.
The Center for Career Opportunities is the website available for students. Students can access informational research by navigating through a special website called www.CCO.Purdue.edu. When a students enters the CCO website they click on the student section where they will create a new user password to gain access. The website will then have the student create a personal profile. They will have the opportunity to upload a resume into the system and the information will become proactive within the website.
When the student becomes active in the system the potential employer will review the resume and if the criteria are met for the company, then they will send the student a schedule with a time for a potential interview.
Career Services Assistant Donna Weidenfeller, said there are benefit sessions where information about the various companies and the positions are available for the students. Six hundred fortune 500 companies go annually to these job fairs to interview students.
"The program encourages the students to sign up for this program by getting the word out around the campus and having active participation," said Weidenfeller.
Last year's job fair had over 400 student attendees. The differences between job fairs held at PUC and at Purdue University are students in West Lafayette organize and sponsor the job fair, while at PUC the career office staff sponsors the event.
There are various positions offered such as internships and co-op programs available for engineering and technology students.
With the co-op program, the student splits the semester in half with a year-and-a-half of school and work.
After returning from co-op, the classes become secondary because of the hands on training from the work study program. Students can also obtain some networking with potential employers, if the potential employer does not have a job available for the student at that particular time they may keep the resume on file for a future position.
The Center for Career Opportunities is the website available for students. Students can access informational research by navigating through a special website called www.CCO.Purdue.edu. When a students enters the CCO website they click on the student section where they will create a new user password to gain access. The website will then have the student create a personal profile. They will have the opportunity to upload a resume into the system and the information will become proactive within the website.
When the student becomes active in the system the potential employer will review the resume and if the criteria are met for the company, then they will send the student a schedule with a time for a potential interview.
Career Services Assistant Donna Weidenfeller, said there are benefit sessions where information about the various companies and the positions are available for the students. Six hundred fortune 500 companies go annually to these job fairs to interview students.
"The program encourages the students to sign up for this program by getting the word out around the campus and having active participation," said Weidenfeller.
Last year's job fair had over 400 student attendees. The differences between job fairs held at PUC and at Purdue University are students in West Lafayette organize and sponsor the job fair, while at PUC the career office staff sponsors the event.
There are various positions offered such as internships and co-op programs available for engineering and technology students.
With the co-op program, the student splits the semester in half with a year-and-a-half of school and work.
After returning from co-op, the classes become secondary because of the hands on training from the work study program. Students can also obtain some networking with potential employers, if the potential employer does not have a job available for the student at that particular time they may keep the resume on file for a future position.
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