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  • october 23-29, 2002 Even in a Tight Field, Jobs Can Be Had By: Carrie Mason-Draffen I Newsday DEAR HELP WANTED: I am an experienced computer consultant who has been out of work for the past 14 months. I was wondering if an outplacement service would be of any value in a field where jobs seem virtually nonexistent. Any comments or suggestions on how to find something would be greatly appreciated. - Offline DEAR OFFLINE: Cheer up! Career counselor Barbara Frankel, who practices in New York, has some good news for you. But first I need to dispense with some linguistic confusion. Outplacement, as Frankel points out, is a service a company provides for laid- off employees. Private counselors figure in the equation, but the company contracts them and pays the fee. What you want is individual career counseling. And yes, it probably would aid your job search. "There are plenty of jobs out there, even in the •IT [information technology] sector," Frankel said. "However, it is more challenging, and you need to employ more creative and alternative strategies that a career counselor could help you learn." A good counselor, she said, would do a "diagnostic" of the search strategies you've used in the past 14 months. That would include scrutinizing your resume to make sure it markets you in the best light. Frankel said she also works with a client to produce a bio, to shed more light on the job- seeker. The counselor should also include sessions on presentations and interviewing techniques, she said. Frankel added that you should find out something about the counselor before hiring him or her. Determine how long they've been in business and their experience in working with professionals in your field. To find out more about career counseling, you can contact Frankel at 516-773-4802. Another option is the nonprofit Career Counselors Consortium, a group she co-founded about seven years ago to provide services in the New York metro area. Go to www.careercc.org. Another organization to consider is the Five O'Clock Club, which has been around since 1978. Call 800-538-6645, ext. 600, or go to www.fiveoclock club.com. 0 2002 LA TIMES-WASHINGTON POST career news ewsma azine JOBCAT : CAREER SERVICES PROVIDES IDEAS FOR .JOB SOLUTIONS Choose Your Career, or Just Get an Idea About One By: Naci Morris - WCnewsmagazine Do something now for your future by taking advantage of the opportunities available through Career Services. Located in 237 Killian Annex, "Career Services is the best kept secret on [our] college campus, " according to Mardy Ashe, director of Career Services. Although few in number, the staff of Career Services wants to assist students. They are committed to helping you help yourself use your major post-graduation. What is the number one thing that they want you to know? "Get directly related work experience in your major before you graduate, " said Ashe. Career Services helps students help themselves by providing a wide range of developmental activities. These activities are crucial for success: defining realistic career choices; integrating choice of major with career related experience; developing job search skills; encouraging meaningful employment opportunities; and promoting life skills planning to maintain a productive and satisfying life. Employer interaction with WCU students is essential to ensure students' future prosperity. Career Services facilitates employer contact with students through class presentations; career days; interview days; part-time, co-op and full-time jobs; and resume referrals. Career Services also encourages WCU faculty to support their program, as well as students, by involving them in career day activities, job search presentations and co-op/ internship planning. In addition, Career Services strives to increase faculty awareness of current job opportunities. Ashe commented, "Students are generally aware that the economy is problematic; however, they don't seem to translate that into a slowdown of hiring and of job opportunities. Many of our career events during this year will reflect this economic problem. " With the economy in a bit of a slump, it is essential that students take advantage of the opportunities provided by Career Services. The first step? Register on JobCat, which can be found on the Career Services' web site at httpUUcare-e-rs.ycu.edu, anytime 24-hours a day. JobCat is the software program utilized by Career Services to aid students, and it is easy to use. Enter your basic, pertinent information and download your resume. You are then entitled to make use of all the services they provide. Uncertain about what to do when you graduate? Don't wait. Act now. The folks at Career Services are on your side. As Ashe points out, "bringing students and employers together in career related events or through hiring" is something that she finds fulfilling. For more information, contact Career Services at 227-7133. Dream Job or Ni htmare? What do ou do when ou find out that our erfect career is flawed? Finally, her family members and friends staged an By: Amy Joyce I The Washington Post ' 'But I want it NOW!"—Veruca Salt, SWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" Remember our beloved Ms. Salt, who wanted that everlasting gobstopper, only to find that it wasn't such a good idea after all? Such is the position many find themselves in after getting a job in the field they thought they would love. They major in it in college or work on breaking in for years. Then they get into the job and find something amiss: They hate the work. This was the case with one woman, who requested anonymity, who just days after college started work in her dream job of event planning. She thought she knew the number of hours the job would demand, but she wasn't prepared for the reality. Her five days of work a week turned into seven. She would get home at 9 p.m., take more work to her room and fall asleep. She spent her lunch hours at her desk. And once, as she prepared to walk down the aisle as a bridesmaid for a best friend, her cell phone rang. It was her boss asking where several files were. The woman thought her boss was a bit over the top, but she also began to have a nagging feeling: Maybe event planning wasn't what she wanted to do after all. That was a tough revelation, since she had planned to go into the field since high school. I was always sort of the person in charge of special events. That carried over into college," she said. Although her major was economics, she spent her summers doing internships in event planning. intervention. Her roommates from college pulled her aside and told her she wasn't the person they knew before she took the job. She was beyond stressed, constantly in tears and barely able to hold a conversation with friends. As she recounted her experience, her mother reminded her how often she had called home crying. So after the holidays, she resigned. She said she was comfortable with her decision to leave the job. But it wasn't until later that she realized she should give up on event planning entirely. "When I left, I knew I just needed a break to figure out what I wanted to do,'S she said. "Ends up, I didn't miss it.' She still gets a hankering for event planning every so often. So she does some planning; but on a temporary basis. Most recently, she helped her alumni association do an event in the area. This scenario is not unusual, according to Joy Hobgood, a career coach and human resource consultant with Stepping Stone Resources in Hamilton, Va. "Many times, we don't ... really take the time to understand our personality and strengths, she said. Hobgood said she sees many clients who have been in the "career of their dreams" for years' only to realize later that it isn't necessarily what they want to do. The reality, she said, is that people don't take the time to figure out what@ they like and dislike about a career. Sometimes, they assume the problem at work is related to a bad relationship with a boss or other CO-workers, when really, it's that they don't like the career itself. When the event planner left her job, she took a new one as a recruiter at a law firm. She During her senior year, she was an intern at a small event-planning firm in the Washington area. Just found that she liked dealing with people in that way, and in the summertime, she even Planned events two weeks after her January start, the company asked ifshe would come on full time after graduation. for the new associates. She now is in the human resources department at the same firm—and loves it• She did, and most of the job seemed fine. She was happy to come into a small firm, figuring She realizes that she had been putting a positive spin on the event-planning job when speaking with it would give her a chance to try many different tasks. friends. "I started to believe it myself," she said. "I loved it. I liked the people I worked with. The events they did were beautiful," she said of Kim Lysik Di Santi, founder of Total Strategy, a career-coaching firm in Reston, Va., said her job at first. Then came the real work. this common problem could be almost entirely snuffed out if people didn't@ "go with their gut." She She started to question her career choice around September, just a month before the first said a lot of workers have an instinct that tells them to take a particular job, usually one they studied conference she had organized. "It was so stressful," she said. "Part of that is the industry, and there are for or had been in for years. But instead, they should step back and make the decision based on research. She started to realize that maybe she wasn't one of them. "1 think I was just unhappy," she People need to figure out what is the best environment for them and then ask the right >ajd. 'boyseg-fused.") o questions jn interyi9Y5 ti01deFeym!ng whft,h€r it'i 4 what
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