Job Fair highlight of Career Week
By Gary Nelson
Career Awareness
Week was a tremendous
success, according to Dr.
David Amante, who
together with Dr. Len
Goodman, spearheaded
the project. As of Friday
morning, tentative
talleys indicated approx
imately 1,300 students
had attended the pro
grams, with the session
on internships to still be
held.
According to Amante,
the week started off to a
slow start with low par
ticipation but rapidly
picked up on Tuesday,
for the career fair, with
some 550 students at
tending. The students
had the opportunity to
meet and talk with
business leaders and to
ask questions about
career opportunities. In
fact, one of Amante’s
students took the oppor
tunity to arrange an in
terview with one of the
local television stations,
to discuss the possibility
of a summer internship,
working as a script-
writer.
On Tuesday, the
keynote address con
cerned the future of the
sunbelt states and their
economy, with specific
attention to the Pied
mont area. Charles
Cooley, vice president of
NCNB, addressed the
group and provided
some very encouraging
information. He noted
that by 1984, there will
be some 150,000 addi
tional profession jobs in
the Piedmont.
When asked why the
Career Awareness Week
was devised, Amante
replied, “We in the
humanities department
had found there was an
increasing concern from
students that they
would not be able to find
employment upon
graduation.” With this
in mind the humanities
and the College of Social
and Behavioral Sciences
provided a great deal of
support for the program
and in some cases pro
fessors actually recom
mended and required
that students attend the
career fair to gain more
knowledge about the job
market.
As noted in the promo
tional brochures, this
was the first annual
Career Awareness
Week, and Amante
noted the coordinators
have already gained
some valuable informa
tion which they will take
into consideration when
planning next year's
Career Awareness
Week. Amante express
ed the possibility that
next year the Career
Awareness Week will
probably net feature as
many keynote speakers.
Although the speakers
were interesting and in
formative, Amante
stated most of the
students are more con
cerned with meeting
their immediate demand
- finding a meaningful
and interesting job upon
graduation.
In addition, Amante
noted even though the
media coverage of the
events was very well
handled, next year more
student groups will
become involved in help
ing to promote the
Career Awareness Week
to reach a much greater
portion of the student
population. Also
Amante would like to in
volve students in the
planning of next year’s
program, which will
begin organizational
meetings this spring.
The Career Awareness
Week was a great oppor
tunity to initiate in
terest in a course which
will be offered at UNCC
this spring —
Humanities 350 —,
“Jobs, You, Choices,
College and Careers.”
The course, which will
provide three hours of
university elective
credit and will count
towards the 120 hours
required to graduate,
will answer many of the
questions students are
confronted with concern
ing career planning.
Basically the course
will be divided into two
parts. The first part of
the course will en
courage self-evaluation
-what type of career is
desired, how important
is money, what types of
people would the stu
dent like to work with
and what type of work
ing environment is most
appealing?
The second portion of
the course will expose
the student to the dif
ferent types of jobs
available in the current
job market and will let
the student evaluate the
job potential his specific
degree will offer.
Amante noted the
reason for the course
was many students at
UNCC do not know how
to study for career
development. Amante
has had experience with
such programs, and at
the University of
Michigan he coordinated
the establishment of
courses in career
Money runs out
Executive budget ruled invalid
By Bill Peschel
The student body
president's budget has
been ruled out of order
after the treasurer
reported there was not
enough money in the
student government ac
count to cover it. This
action came during last
Tuesday's meeting of
the Student Legislature.
In his report to the
body, Treasurer Ward
Simmons said $54,763 of
the $58,094 originally
allocated to the
legislature has been ap
propriated to clubs and
organizations, leaving
$3,332. When the
legislature, unaware of
this fact, passed the
president's budget of
$3,432, they did not
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development as well as
acting as an advisor for
some 4,000 students.
He noted Thanksgiv
ing and Christmas vaca
tions are a good oppor
tunity for students to
practice their interview
ing techniques.
Tips for interviewing
include: When writing or
calling for information
the student should try
to develop a contact
name with an employee
who works with the pro
spective employer or
research some
background information
on the person who will
be conducting the inter
view as well as the com
pany, or business.
Amante also recom
mends the student
prepare practice ques
tions before reporting to
the interview, which will
give the student the op
portunity to hone his in
terviewing skills.
have enough money to
cover it. Simmons said
according to the Finan
cial Procedures Act, if a
budget is passed for
more than what the
legislature has left to
allocate, the budget is
automatically ruled out
of order.
Also affected by the
money squeeze are the
Math Club, Student
Financial Services and
money needed for stu
dent government office
supplies. A total of
$3,889 must be cut from
present budgets.
In other business, the
revised Judicial Act was
tabled back to the
Judicial Committee
after Attorney General
Billie Stickell objected
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to several portions of the
act. She said she was
against using loss of
campus voting privi
leges as a sanction, the
way notification to the
defendant of a charge is
stated and appointing
the main witness to the
crime as prosecutor of
the case.
According to the act, a
notice of a charge may
be left “with a resident
of the accused student's
room." A follow-up
phone call is required to
assure the accused has
received the notice.
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Finally, the five
minute time limit for the
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son's reports was an
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