It’s April and some of us do not have jobs, temporary or permanent. Now is the time for us jobless people to find some great way to make money, enjoy a fantastic job and gain a meaningful experience. But do you want to explore a field as a career opportunity or just as a vocational experience?
Discussing options and plans with your mentors, friends, family, professors and professional associates will allow you to narrow down your hopes and dreams to actual work descriptions.
Brainstorming with mentors is just one of many ways to network. Here are some direct and indirect networking options and their benefits.
The Career Center has an incredible amount of resources that will help you explore just about any field of interest. Its staff is very attentive and extremely informed. They are wonderfully creative thinkers who can offer guidance in your career-related search.
If you cannot make it over to the Career Center, you should consider perusing their newly designed Web site at www.careercenter.bc.edu. This improved Web site is sleek and packed with fantastic advice. For instance, a step-by-step networking tutorial makes networking an approachable task.
Although the privacy policy states that it does not sell or distribute your personal information, the site does not yet offer encryption, an important mechanism for protecting the electronic transit of personal information.
Nonetheless, BCgrad.com is a promising new site that looks forward to including personalized e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging options in the future. Keep BCgrad.com in mind as you network.
Many students agree that networking is a valuable opportunity that can facilitate you in your job search and personal interactions.
BC’s Career Alumni Network is a valuable and secure means of accessing BC alumni contacts. You can access it in person at the Career Center or via the Internet with a password.
Web sites require greater caution. Non-official alumni sites do not have any way to keep track of whether its users have actually attended the institution. Note that, whereas previously BC’s Career Center site once required a student to log in with his or her Eagle ID or Social Security number through an unencrypted screen, this is no longer the case.
BC was smart to change this feature and improve the overall structure of their site for the benefit and protection of its students.
No on-line company has the right to ask you for your Social Security number, on its Web site or on paper. In addition, be wary of giving personal information on an unencrypted screen.
After your investigations, read the company mission statement with an eye to match your talents to a company that sounds copasetic to your personality. Being happy at work is the most productive mode.
Best wishes in your job hunting and, most importantly, enjoy the process.
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