The
Clarion
Congratulations,
Class of 2010!
Volume 75, Issue 28
SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
www.brevard.edu/clarion
May 7, 2010
Commencement set for May 14-15
140+ graduates, candidates could march
More than 140 Brevard College seniors
will bid farewell to their life as an under
graduate as the college celebrates com
mencement ceremonies next weekend.
Festivities begin at 3 p.m. on Friday, May
14, at the Porter Center with a reception for
family and friends in honor of this year’s
graduating class. At 4:30 p.m., the cel
ebration continues with the baccalaureate
service and hooding ceremony in the Porter
Center Concert Hall. The sermon will be
delivered by Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster
of the Western North Carolina Conference
of the United Methodist Church.
Afterwards, students and their famihes,
faculty and staff are invited to a campus-
wide picnic in the Porter Center amphi
theater
Commencement weekend festivities
will reach their culmination on Saturday,
May 15, when members of the 2009-2010
class, following a class photo on the li
brary steps at 8:30 a.m., will line up for
commencement exercises to be held in the
Betty Neale Academic Quadrangle.
Two graduates—Ian Townson, a busi
ness and organizational leadership major
from Boiling Springs, S.C., and Jami Perry,
More graduation
coverage inside
□ List of graduates and
candidates, page 6
□ Commencement weekend
scliedule & instructions, page 7
□ Honors & Awards recipients,
pages 2-5
an elementary education major from Green
ville, S.C. —will be the keynote speakers
during the graduation ceremony, which
begins at 10 a.m. A reception will follow on
the lawn of Taylor and Green halls.
10 tools new grads need to get that perfect job
You’ve spent hours crafting the perfect
resume. The format is eye-catching, the
paper feels substantial and the wording
is practically Pulitzer Prize-winning. But
you’ll need much more than a well-crafted
resume if you want to land that all-impor
tant first job.
Ford Myers, career coach, speaker and
author of “Get the Job You Want, Even
When No One’s Hiring” (John Wiley &
Sons, 2009), says the resume is just one of
many “tools” a job seeker should have in
his or her “Job Seekers’ Tool Kit.”
“Unfortunately, most people don’t know
what these other tools are or how to use
them,” Myers says. “By integrating other
elements into the job search—and not rely
ing solely on your resume—^you can add
power, professionalism and flexibility to
your efforts.”
Despite a recent National Association
of Colleges and Employers (NACE) report
which found that 5.3 percent more new
graduates wiU be hired this year than in
2009, most wiU compete with an unprec
edented number of unemployed Americans
with more on-the-job experience.
To stand out from the crowd, Myers
suggests the following 10 items every new
college graduate should have in the “Job
Seekers’ Tool Kif’:
1. Accomplishment Stories. Write five
or six compeUing stories about school or
work-related tasks that made you proud.
2. Positioning Statement. Prepare and
practice a “15-second commercial” about
who you are, what you’ve done in the past
(academically and professionally, if ap-
phcable), and the particular strengths you
can contribute to an employer
3. Professional Biography. Write a
one-page narrative of your career in the
“third person”—as though someone else
wrote it about you.
4. Target Company List. Make a “wish
lisf ’ of adjectives that would describe your
ideal employer, such as size, location,
industry, culture, enviroimient, etc. Then
research specific organizations that meet
those criteria and put them on a list of 35
to 50 “target companies.”
5. Contact List. Compfle a list of all
the people you know personally and pro
fessionally. Remember that approximately
80 percent of new opportunities are secured
through networking.
6. Professional/Academic References.
List coUeagues or professors who would
“sing your praises” if asked about you.
Contact each of them, and get approval to
use their names on your hst of references.
7. Letters of Recommendation. Re
quest letters from four or five respected
business colleagues or academic associates
which wiU be printed on their professional
letterhead.
8. Networking Agenda. Write out a
full networking discussion or script so
you will know exactly how to manage the
networking discussion—how it flows, what
to expect, how to react to the other person’s
comments, etc.
9. Tracking System. Keep a detafled
record of your job search activities, includ
ing phone cafls, meeting notes and corre-
See 'Get the job/ page 4
In this issue...
Graduation info
6-7
Alumni perks
7
Academic Honors & Awards
2-4
Voice of the Rivers 2010
8
Athletic Honors & Awards
5
Reminders for next semester
8