Thursday, February 12, 2009

Job Market Survivors: Surviving the Job Market Tsunami

By: Erin Phillips

Outdress, outspeak, and outsmart your competition. PRSSA will be hosting Job Market Survivors Tuesday, February 17, 2009 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Center Pit. This event will give all Rowan students the opportunity to have their resumes critiqued and participate in mock job interviews with members of the CAP center. Also, every hour on the hour, the CAP center will give a brief presentation on all different aspects of resume building, job interviews, and even what to do at a career fair.

Unlike the College of Communication, many students don't have advisers willing to tirelessly critique students resumes. For many, they type up a list of their credentials, slap on a few references, and send it out tp a future employer. If they are lucky enough to even get a job interview after that, they go in totally unprepared. Job Market Survivors' goal is to make Rowan students to be confident walking through their future employer's office doors. We want them to surf (pun intended!) above the competition and stand out among the countless other applicants.

After attending the event, Rowan students will prepared for every type of question an interviewer can throw at them. They will be dressed appropriately and conservatively, and they will have stellar resumes. They will outdress, outspeak, and outsmart all of their competition.

Any questions about the event, contact Erin Phillips at ajfprssa@gmail.com.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think this is an excellent idea for people like me, who after losing their job last year, need a way to compete with the thousands of others looking to get back into the PR world.
Even with some experience, it is getting increasingly hard to attract prospective employers to interview me.
I look foward to attending and hopefully learning something new.