NPR reports on the ‘big data’ industry - analyzing and making sense of the massive amounts of data that firms like Facebook, Groupon and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences collect.  The ‘big data’ trend is “fueling intense demand for mathematics and computing talent.”  Hello, career opportunity!

Students and graduates with disabilities can better prepare for the job search and interview process with some great tips documented by Matt Berndt of the UT College of Communication Career Services.

Eight Southwestern students are interning while in London this semester 

SEO Mind blog offers great advice for how to capitalize on social media tool LinkedIn when seeking a job.

Do you love gaming?  Do you love it enough to make it your living?  If you think you do, get great advice from Austin-area gaming leaders in an Austin American-Statesman article.

CandidCareer.com, a new video resource for SU students, lets you hear personal stories about people’s careers - from the comfort of your laptop!  Log in to view thousands of videos about different occupations. 

SU alumnus Hugh Arrington, Manager of Business Development for Merchant Acquisition and Optimization at American Express, shared great advice he read for job seekers on crafting high-quality email messages that get you noticed by employers.  Learn more from Marc Cenedella, CEO and founder of TheLadders.com, the world’s largest professional jobs website.

Made it to the interview stage? Congratulations!  Now be sure to review these suggestions from CareerBuilder.com on standing out among the competition.

Dr. Kate Brooks, blogger at Psychology Today, always has great advice for liberal arts students.  Read her post on “Wise Wandering” for the job seeker.

Mannequin mascot provides visibility for programs to help students with career planning

CNNMoney.com reports a brighter outlook for those looking for summer jobs this year.

Check out this helpful article from Fins.com (job search and company research site for finance careers) about the top 10 items you should not include on your resume.

The chaos of today’s job market means job seekers must be flexible and adapt their talents to a variety of settings. But how do you organize and make sense of all the possible career options you need to consider? Read great advice from Psychology Today blogger Dr. Kate Brooks.

D’Artagnan Bebel is the third Southwestern student to earn this national award in the past six years

The Austin American-Statesman’ Top Workplace project selected 75 organizations, small, medium and large, for-profit, non-profit, government and education, based on employee ratings.  Their conclusion:  Different paths, but the same result - happy workers.

Senior Katie Cam’s internship with ‘Saturday Night Live’ sets the stage for her future career in music.

Southwestern students and alumni are welcome to participate in numerous job fairs around Texas each year.  Career Services offers transportation to some of them, if there is enough student demand.  Be sure to dress professionally, take resumes and research participating employers that interest you ahead of time to make the best impression.

CNNMoney.com and Payscale.com detail the 100 Best Jobs in America for 2010.  Get a quick synopsis of each field.  Search by salary, quality of life and job growth.

Twitter can be helpful to your career on several levels, but the most obvious help comes in the form of up-to-the-minute job leads. It’s a great way to start a connection that can lead to a career. read more

The Best Places to Work rankings measure employee satisfaction and commitment in the federal government across 290 federal agencies and subcomponents.   Broken down into categories ranging from work/life balance to effective leadership to employee skills/mission match, the rankings can help you target federal agencies you may want to focus your job search on.

Kayla Krupnick, Assistant Director of Career Planning at Golden Gate University, explains how creating a targeted resume for each position serves to impress a prospective employer just like you would try to impress a prospective date – by focusing on how your interests and experiences match up.

Elementary education major Dylan Hickey has been selected to receive a scholarship from the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators, which honors the best teacher candidates in the state.

Spend much time on Facebook?  We thought so.  Now you can catch up with us there!  Want breaking news from Career Services about upcoming events and opportunities?  Want tips for improving your resume, navigating the internship/job search process, interviewing, etc?  Become a fan of “SU Career Services” or friend Ichabod Black, our mascot.

College students and recent graduates looking for temporary work might be tempted by offers to participate in mystery shopping. It sounds legitimate enough: make a particular purchase in a store or restaurant, and then evaluate the experience for a small payment. But according to the Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, many of these offers are scams.

Biotech center in Georgetown welcomes its first interns this summer, and two Southwestern students take advantage of it

Test-prep provider Kaplan shares news and tips regarding substantive changes to the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), a commonly-used entrance exam for many Master’s and doctoral programs.  Should you take the current version before it changes or wait?  Get advice here!

How do you get employers to notice you?  Put yourself out there! Michael Maine ‘07 blogs about socially concious marketing and entrepreneurship, offering great advice to job seekers as well as thought-provoking ideas about our economy.  Recently, he created a week-long mini-boot-camp for job seekers, including an interview with Alexandra Anderson, Associate Director of Career Services

Here are excerpts from the speech that Business Professor Don Parks gave at the Student Leadership Banquet on April 22, 2010. The speech was titled“How to Not Become “Dilbert’s Pointy Haired Boss” or Ways to Learn About Leadership.

From statistics to governmental policy to education to medical research, public health careers span a wide range of responsibilities and disciplines.  There’s something for everyone.  SU grads Margaret Hawthorne ‘02 and Priya Kewada ‘06 shared their insight into this dynamic and rewarding field.

While students are enjoying Spring Break in March, Career Services will be hard at work settling in to our new home on the first floor of the Prothro Center for Lifelong Learning.  Be sure to stop and see us in our new digs - more conveniently located on the academic mall and surrounded by other helpful student services.  Now there’s no excuse not to start figuring out where you’re headed in life and how to get there!

Learn 15 secrets for succeeding in a phone interview, including not to wear your pajamas!

Fortune ranks the companies in 2010 for whom you want to be working, including best pay, best perks and who’s hiring.

Use your technology or writing skills, work in a lab, even wait tables!  US News & World Report tells you why these roles and a few others make the list of best jobs for college students.

According to data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2009 Student Survey, grads with internship experience earned full-time jobs upon graduation at a rate nearly 10 percentage points highter than those graduates with no internship experience, the October 28, 2009, edition of the NACE Spotlight e-newsletter reports.

For creative jobs, is a standard resume enough to market your skills?  Get advice from this Minneapolis Workplace Examiner article.

Physician assistant, intelligence analyst, CPA, HR manager, college professor:  CNNMoney.com gives overview, pros and cons, earnings, growth and quality of life information about these jobs and many more.

On October 21, 2009, Career Services hosted the 15th annual Etiquette Dinner, featuring Diane Gottsman, nationally recognized etiquette expert and owner of The Protocol School of Texas, and a free, four-course meal.  Students learned critical dining and networking skills they will use their whole professional lifes.  The Williamson County Sun also reported on the event.

The scholarship, granted annually by the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators, honors the best teacher candidates in the state.  Lingamfelter, a mathematics senior, student-athlete and campus leader, plans to teach secondary math upon graduation.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ weekly e-newsletter features an informative article on preparing for and seeking jobs in the video gaming industry.

The Federal Trade Commission offers tips for prospective renters to avoid being burned by a variety of scams.  The transition to life after college is hard enough - don’t let yourself get caught in these traps.

Campus spokesperson for LinkedIn and Gen Y career and workplace expert Lindsey Pollak offers valuable advice for the powerful professional social networking site, LinkedIn.com.  Learn how you can build a professional online presence, build and enhance your brand and connect in a meaningful way with other SU alumni and other “warm” contacts. 

Finding yourself spending a lot of time on Facebook?  Want to get paid for it?!  Find out from CNN.com/CareerBuilder.com about actual jobs that rely on your social networking skills.

CNN.com/CareerBuilder.com gives you tips on what NOT to say during an interview.  For a little humor in your day, and some interview advice, check out these strange interview responses.

Austin ranks #4 in the country for number of job postings per capita, according to this Austin American Statesman report of data provided by Indeed.com, an online job-posting site.  Forbes.com reports Austin and other Texas cities are among the best in the country for recession recovery prospects.

The Partnership for Public Service (with which Southwestern University is a partner institution) and American University’s School of Public Affairs recently released the 2009 edition of Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.

CNN.com and CareerBuilder.com offer sage advice on retaining a good reputation on the job by avoiding common pitfalls - always good practice and especially important in this tight labor market.

Get valuable tips from CNN.com article about health insurance as part of an employment offer (or not) and how to get it.

Breakthrough Collaborative has the mission of empowering motivated and underserved students while inspiring and developing the next generation of teachers and educational leaders.

Eight Southwestern students are interning while in London this semester 

D’Artagnan Bebel is the third Southwestern student to earn this national award in the past six years

Senior Katie Cam’s internship with ‘Saturday Night Live’ sets the stage for her future career in music.

Biotech center in Georgetown welcomes its first interns this summer, and two Southwestern students take advantage of it

Wright Family Internship Scholarship announcement

According to data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2009 Student Survey, grads with internship experience earned full-time jobs upon graduation at a rate nearly 10 percentage points highter than those graduates with no internship experience, the October 28, 2009, edition of the NACE Spotlight e-newsletter reports.

Lauren Berger is called “The Intern Queen” after completing 15 internships during her four years of college.  Now she speaks to college students and writes a blog about internships.  Check out her advice for current interns for getting off on the right foot.

Do you check your Facebook page every 10 minutes?  Are you permanently attached to your iPod?  Used to texting everyone?  Today’s technology pervades college students’ lives, but learn how your new job and your technology habits might conflict.  Get advice from the National Assocation of Colleges and Employers about meeting e-etiquette expectations at work.

Looking for an internship?  SU PirateLink, accessible 24/7 online, features all internship opportunities that have been advertised to Career Services.  If you need help figuring out how to access or use PirateLink, please contact us at 512.863.1346 to set up an appointment to get help, or stop by our drop-in internship advising hours on Wednesdays from 3-5 p.m. in the Career Services office.

Congratulations! You made it through the resume screen to the interview stage. Now use the same process of carefully targeting your experience to the opportunity for which you’re applying to best market yourself. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) offers advice to master today’s behavioral-based interview.

Students and graduates with disabilities can better prepare for the job search and interview process with some great tips documented by Matt Berndt of the UT College of Communication Career Services.

The Austin American-Statesman’ Top Workplace project selected 75 organizations, small, medium and large, for-profit, non-profit, government and education, based on employee ratings.  Their conclusion:  Different paths, but the same result - happy workers.

Twitter can be helpful to your career on several levels, but the most obvious help comes in the form of up-to-the-minute job leads. It’s a great way to start a connection that can lead to a career. read more

Test-prep provider Kaplan shares news and tips regarding substantive changes to the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), a commonly-used entrance exam for many Master’s and doctoral programs.  Should you take the current version before it changes or wait?  Get advice here!

How do you get employers to notice you?  Put yourself out there! Michael Maine ‘07 blogs about socially concious marketing and entrepreneurship, offering great advice to job seekers as well as thought-provoking ideas about our economy.  Recently, he created a week-long mini-boot-camp for job seekers, including an interview with Alexandra Anderson, Associate Director of Career Services

Here are excerpts from the speech that Business Professor Don Parks gave at the Student Leadership Banquet on April 22, 2010. The speech was titled“How to Not Become “Dilbert’s Pointy Haired Boss” or Ways to Learn About Leadership.

From statistics to governmental policy to education to medical research, public health careers span a wide range of responsibilities and disciplines.  There’s something for everyone.  SU grads Margaret Hawthorne ‘02 and Priya Kewada ‘06 shared their insight into this dynamic and rewarding field.

While students are enjoying Spring Break in March, Career Services will be hard at work settling in to our new home on the first floor of the Prothro Center for Lifelong Learning.  Be sure to stop and see us in our new digs - more conveniently located on the academic mall and surrounded by other helpful student services.  Now there’s no excuse not to start figuring out where you’re headed in life and how to get there!

Learn 15 secrets for succeeding in a phone interview, including not to wear your pajamas!

Fortune ranks the companies in 2010 for whom you want to be working, including best pay, best perks and who’s hiring.

You’ve heard that it’s all about “who you know,” right?  Help current students learn the power or networking and referral by sharing your networking success story. 

For creative jobs, is a standard resume enough to market your skills?  Get advice from this Minneapolis Workplace Examiner article.

Physician assistant, intelligence analyst, CPA, HR manager, college professor:  CNNMoney.com gives overview, pros and cons, earnings, growth and quality of life information about these jobs and many more.

On October 21, 2009, Career Services hosted the 15th annual Etiquette Dinner, featuring Diane Gottsman, nationally recognized etiquette expert and owner of The Protocol School of Texas, and a free, four-course meal.  Students learned critical dining and networking skills they will use their whole professional lifes.  The Williamson County Sun also reported on the event.

The scholarship, granted annually by the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators, honors the best teacher candidates in the state.  Lingamfelter, a mathematics senior, student-athlete and campus leader, plans to teach secondary math upon graduation.

In addition to web-based resources to help you navigate a career change, special events sponsored by Career Services may have spaces which alumni and parents of current students can take the opportunity to fill.  This fall, on a space-available basis, you can learn about accounting and environmental careers and how to prepare for grad school application.

Many universities offer career fairs open to the public, in addition to fairs offered through civic groups in the community.  Individual organizations may even host live or virtual fairs to introduce job seekers to the many positions within their organizations that need filling.  Career Services advertises numerous fairs of which alumni, parents and current students can take advantage.

The Federal Trade Commission offers tips for prospective renters to avoid being burned by a variety of scams.  The transition to life after college is hard enough - don’t let yourself get caught in these traps.

Campus spokesperson for LinkedIn and Gen Y career and workplace expert Lindsey Pollak offers valuable advice for the powerful professional social networking site, LinkedIn.com.  Learn how you can build a professional online presence, build and enhance your brand and connect in a meaningful way with other SU alumni and other “warm” contacts. 

Finding yourself spending a lot of time on Facebook?  Want to get paid for it?!  Find out from CNN.com/CareerBuilder.com about actual jobs that rely on your social networking skills.

CNN.com/CareerBuilder.com gives you tips on what NOT to say during an interview.  For a little humor in your day, and some interview advice, check out these strange interview responses.

Austin ranks #4 in the country for number of job postings per capita, according to this Austin American Statesman report of data provided by Indeed.com, an online job-posting site.  Forbes.com reports Austin and other Texas cities are among the best in the country for recession recovery prospects.

MSNBC.com/BusinessWeek.com article reveals surprising research conclusions about the personality types of workers who are most productive in a telecommuting environment.  If you manage telecommuters or are considering trying to work from home, check out this report.

CNN.com and CareerBuilder.com offer sage advice on retaining a good reputation on the job by avoiding common pitfalls - always good practice and especially important in this tight labor market.

Need a valuable networking resource?  Look no further than the new LinkedIn group for SU alumni.  More than 500 alumni members have already joined.  Go to www.linkedin.com to register and grow your network of career exploration, job search and candidate sourcing resources today! 

CNNMoney reports on recent changes to federal student loan repayment options, including the opportunity to earn loan forgiveness by working in public service (government or non-profit) jobs.

Do you check your Facebook page every 10 minutes?  Are you permanently attached to your iPod?  Used to texting everyone?  Today’s technology pervades college students’ lives, but learn how your new job and your technology habits might conflict.  Get advice from the National Assocation of Colleges and Employers about meeting e-etiquette expectations at work.

CNN/CareerBuilder offers great advice for answering typical but tricky interview questions you’re pretty sure to face. 

Already adept at using social networking sites? Make them work for you in your career development, too. With a few strokes of the keyboard you can create a LinkedIn profile and be on your way.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ website features advice from Lily Whiteman, a senior science writer at the National Science Foundation, who has worked in six federal agencies, including the White House Conference on Aging and the President’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government. She is the author of “How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job.”

Get advice from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) on navigating the online application process. NACE offers an extensive website of job search resources for students and alumni.

Were you a student the last time you created a resume? The rules are different for experienced candidates. Get tips from The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) on perfecting your resume as a seasoned job seeker.