Career Center Weekly Update
March 26, 2018
UGA Career Center
APPOINTMENTS: Call (706) 542-3375 or schedule your appointment on Handshake. No appointments are scheduled via email.
Walk-in hours are regularly held Monday-Friday from 12:00-2:00 PM in the Career Center multipurpose room. Check for your career consultant's satellite hours here.
Email: career@uga.edu
Website: career.uga.edu
Location: Clark Howell Hall, South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA, United States
Phone: (706) 542-3375
Facebook: facebook.com/UGACareerCenter
Twitter: @ugacareercenter
SEC/ACC Virtual Career Fair
Save the Date: Grad Pics with Hairy Dawg
Date: April 10th & April 11th
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Tate Reception Hall
Whether you were 'just hired by' an employer or 'just accepted by' a graduate program, come celebrate your success with the UGA Career Center and Hairy Dawg!
Attendees will receive:
- FREE high-res photo
- UGA photo frame
- Cookies & punch
UGA Career Readiness Challenge
Showcase your Digital Technology skills!
Are you able to leverage existing digital technologies to efficiently solve problems, complete tasks, and accomplish goals? What a great skill! Show us your accomplishments!
Submit a Portfolium Project representing how you’ve developed the career readiness skill, digital technology, for a chance to win a career center t-shirt and be entered to win our Grand Prize: Wireless Beats by Dre Headphones!
Follow the link to submit your project today:
https://portfolium.com/challenge/UGACareerReadinessChallengeDigitalTechnology
Financial Literacy on the Lawn
Graduating Soon? Complete the UGA Career Outcomes Survey!
Apply for these (and over 10,500+ additional) positions via Handshake!
Now Hiring - Congressional Budget Office
Familiarity with SAS data analysis software in a health policy context is highly desirable; experience using SAS to work with survey or other large data sets is strongly preferred. Knowledge of health care financing, private insurance markets, and federal health programs is desirable.
For more information, please go to www.cbo.go/careers to review the job posting and to apply.
Now Hiring - Express Employment Professionals
A company in Bogart, GA is seeking part time Customer/Office Support. Candidates MUST be available to work Mondays and Fridays, 8:30am-5:30pm. Other hours as needed are flexible. This position will ultimately transition to full time.
Responsibilities/Requirements:
· Exceptional customer service skills
· Will provide customers with shipping quotes
· Will receive messages/questions online and respond in a timely fashion
· Background/Education in History or English is preferred
· Must have strong attention to detail
· 1-3 years administrative experience is required
· Students will be considered, as long as they meet the Monday/Friday availability requirements
Qualified candidates please submit your resume to Kathryn.Kay@ExpressPros.com. Check out posting #1386714 on Handshake
Now Hiring - UGA Office of Sustainability
The Office of Sustainability Student Internship Program, a collaboration with UGA’s Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, provides opportunities for experiential learning, leadership, and professional development while making a positive and tangible impact within the University of Georgia and Athens communities. All interns participate in a kickoff event, weekly meetings, leadership development programs, and the Semester in Review event on Reading Day. Check out our website for more information.
Now Hiring - Skyline Seven Real Estate
Arch Ready: Career Assessments 102: Personality
Date: March 27th
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Location: Career Center Multipurpose Room, Clark Howell Hall
Arch Ready: Budgeting and Money Management
Date: March 27th
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Location: MLC, Room 101
In this session, you will learn:
- The process of creating and maintaining a budget
- Strategies for effective debt management
- The benefits of saving and investing for the future
Pre-registration is NOT required.
Life is Art Panel Event
Date: March 28st
Time: 7:00 - 2:30 PM
Location: Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
Arch Ready: Career Assessments 101: Interests
Date: March 28th
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Location: Career Center Multipurpose Room, Clark Howell Hall
Arch Ready: Writing a Personal Statement
Date: March 28th
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Location: MLC, Room 101
In this session, you will learn:
- General information about the role of a personal statement in the admissions process and core aspects of what goes into a strong personal statement
- An understanding of common challenges and mistakes when writing personal statements
- "Best practices” for developing a strong statement, including reflective questions to help the writing process and strategies for concise writing
Pre-registration is NOT required.
Arch Ready: You Majored in What? Alumni Panel
Date: March 29th
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Location: MLC, Room 213
Translating the major you love to a career you'll love can be a challenge. You may not know how to answer questions like, “What will you do with that major?” or “Why are you majoring in that?” At this event, a panel of recent alumni will join us to share information about their careers and how they got there after completing a degree from UGA. They are here to offer you practical advice to help you answer the questions above as well as take steps toward carving a career path you'll love.
In this panel you will:
- Hear from recent alumni who have successfully carved their career paths
- Learn more about what you can be doing now to pursue a career you will love
- Have the opportunity to network with the panelists
Pre-registration is NOT required.
Lending Tree Information Session
Date: April 4th
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Location: Career Center Multipurpose Room, Clark Howell Hall
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