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September 28, 2009 —
College To Career
In these last two weeks, I had the opportunity to listen to two speakers about getting from college to a career: one from Monster. com, organized by Delta Sigma Pi, and another named Lindsey Pollak, organized by Career Planning and Placement. Their messages were important for all students and caused me to do a lot of thinking.
Both speakers outlined many things employers across the country look for in new hires. Here are four that they stressed:
1. Before an employer lays eyes on you, one of the greatest testimonies you can give is a good GPA. While a good GPA is not the only determinant future success, it plays a very important role. Except in special cases, every hardworking student has a good GPA and to have a good GPA means to an employer that you are smart and hardworking.
2. Networking also plays a very important role in getting a job after school. You’re more like to be hired if you come at with the meaningful recommendation of someone in the business than you would if you hadn’t.
3. Most employers require that you get experience while in college and play a leadership role as a student. Get involved in community services or have an internship.
4. Finally and very importantly, the Internet has become an efficient tool for employers to find out about prospective employees. Google your name and try to get rid of anything that can send a wrong signal about you to the world. Always remember: you don’t know who is watching.
It is great to have this information while we’re in college so we can get prepared to face the world. All the same, I think it is important that we are trained on how to become employers ourselves. The world now is in global crisis and what it needs now is a generation of entrepreneurs to create new opportunities. How about having a presentation on “Starting a Small Business”?
Nana Akowuah
Delta Sigma Pi
VP of Professional Activities
Health care is not a constitutional right.
In response to Jeremy Evans’ commentary “Health care reform compromised by pandering.”
Unlike many of my fellow students, I find myself to be a fairly politically aware and active American. I watch and read the news religiously, take part in political functions, and I vote in every election in my district. When I read Jeremy Evans’s article last week about the Tea Parties, I was surprised.
Does it not turn heads that the protesters nationwide are protesting health care? Health care, until now, has been one of the least interesting topics in all of government. But people are finding that the current administration’s complete takeover of our health care system is only the first loss of basic American freedoms and that others are sure to come. Americans at the Tea Parties are not protesting health care. They are protesting the loss of their rights to private enterprise in our capitalist society. The Obama health care system overhaul is just the beginning of what some constitutionally aware citizens believe to be a serious offense on their freedoms.
In his defense of President Obama, Mr. Evans seems to have forgotten the films, books, Web sites, bumper stickers, T-shirts, calendars and various other anti-Bush paraphernalia that became popular in the last few years. But that’s OK, isn’t it? Because George Bush was a blundering fool, an idiot, a heartless droll. It became completely acceptable in our culture to cruelly disrespect and make fun of a president. Oh, wait, that didn’t count … did it?
I am one of those millions of uninsured people out there. Though I do not have insurance, I would like to reserve the right to purchase my own sometime. I do not want to be, in essence, fined by the government for not having health insurance, just because Nancy Pelosi and her comrades seem to think affordable health care is a constitutional right. I do not. I believe that America was founded on people who are able – and willing – to make their own decisions regarding their own lives. I am one of Mr. Evans’s so-called “nitwits” and “blockheads” who would like to be in charge of her own medical coverage without it being forced on her by the government.
Robin Karnes
Art senior