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Decided or undecided—help availuble in Hanes
By BERNADINE WARD
Features Editor
If you are uncertain about where
your skills, interests, and job op
portunities lie, you should visit
Career Planning and Placement
(CP&P) on the second floor of Hanes
Hall. Even if you are certain about
your career objectives, CP&P staff
urges you to come anyway.
CP&P is a division of Student Af
fairs and has been under the direc
torship of Joe Galloway since 1948.
According to Galloway, “The gist of
the program is that we publicize and
you must come to us.” The program
has quite an impressive lot to ad
vertise.
The following were listed as ob
jectives in the program’s annual
report for the 1976-77 academic year:
“(1) CAREER PLANNING—to help
students make career decisions by
identifying interests and skills and
ways to relate them to the working
world; (2) INSTRUCTION—to teach
students effective approaches to
jobseeking; (3) OUTREACH—to
maintain an active outreach ap
proach through broad publicity and
flexible programs that serve students
individually and in groups at many
campus locations; (4) EMPLOYER
it would be a safe bet that an ex
tremely small amount are Black.
This is ironic because according to
Galloway, “Companies want more
minorities to register for interviews.”
But, even if a company were
specifically interested in minorities,”
law prohibits CP&P from setting up
activities according to race.”
Personnel of CP&P conduct
workshops on preparing for in
terviews, writing resumes, and
setting up referral services. In ad
dition, workshops are held so that
students who are uncertain of what
their skills and interests are, can
discover these facts. Information
about this career program is
available from a variety of sources,
including newspapers, flyers and
posters.
Galloway also encourages faculty
members to inform students about
CP&P. “Faculty members,” he
stated, “can be an asset to students
by urging them to begin thinking
about careers early and not wait until
spring semester of their senior year.
Instead, they should become involved
their freshman year.”
Students who seek career guidance
early in their undergraduate years
usually participate in the “Pre-career
Experience Program (P.E.P.), the
‘7 think it would be kinda rough trying to find a job on
your own. It’s really convenient because companies go to
see you rather than your having to seek them out.’’
LIASON—to stimulate employer
recruitment and to utilize their
knowledge of work fields to promote
career development and placement
for our students; (5) RESOURCES—
to provide accessible printed and
audio materials to support the ob
jectives listed above.”
During the period of this report
4,716 students and alumni par
ticipated in the CP&P program.
There is no data about the percentage
of participants according to race, but
career seminar series and a new
mini-course ^ called Centering-
Venturing.” Students work at in
ternships, temporary jobs, and in
volunteer situations under P.E.P.
This enables them to determine what
field they would like to work in; in
some instances it determines majors
as well.
Meeting with student leaders and
organizations is another method used
to explain its services. Last year,
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The Resource Room: just one of the many services provided by
Career Planning and Placement. Staff photo by James Parker.
Advisors, junior transfers, Resident
Advisors, orientation counselors, and
Student Bar Association leaders.
Faculty groups and classes were also
contacted.
Galloway believes that “Groups are
responsible for arranging meetings
with CP&P. We have put out notices
letting groups know that this service
is available.”
Minority students are sometimes
contacted about job opportunities
through the office of Special Projects.
Dean Harold Wallace of the Special
Projects explained this process.
“Career registry sends letters to
minority seniors and to some juniors.
They are to drop by and let us know of
their plans by filling out forms which
we file.”
Dean Wallace encourages students
to register with CP&P and adds that
his office “supplements what Career
Planning and Placement does.”
“We have received,” he em
phasized, “excellent cooperation with
Joe Galloway and his staff. They send
minority information to us.
Sometimes I put together a list of
students and tell companies that they
should notify us in advance to
guarantee a sizeable audience. Some
companies write me directly.”
Workshops and seminars are
designed to prepare students for
perhaps the most important step in
job hunting-the inte
m ew. As Galloway put it, “The real
benefit (of CP&P) will be to stimulate
people. We don’t place anybody, we
facilitate placement through our
service. In the final analysis, the
student must sell himself in the in-
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students ready and in the right frame
of mind for the interview.”
Seniors Precious Plummer and
Lynne Marvin have gone throu^
services of CP&P and are being in
terviewed. Precious first went to the
program in August, and believes that
it has helped her. “I think it would be
kinda rough trying to find a job on
your own. It’s really convenient
because companies go lo see you
rather than your having to seek them
out.”
Business major Lynne Marvin was
referred to Career Planning and
Placement two years ago. “Last
year,” she said. “1 mainly went to
seminars about how to do resumes
and interviews and I talked to
representatives from companies.
They were basically trying to give
you insight about what to expect. This
year I’m mainly using CP&P for .,
referral and placement.
“The main value is getting in tough
with potential employers. Everything
leads up to the interview. I average
up to one interview per week. The
workshops have l)een very helpful. If
I hadn’t had anybody tell me what to
expect I’d really have been up the
creek.”
Lynne advises students to do in
ternships their freshman year, and to
have resumes completed by their
junior year. However, if you do wait
until your senior year. Precious
suggests that you begin during the
fall.
“Employers,” Lynne added, “tell
you you have a definite edge if you
have decent grades and can present
yourself well. I’ve had one man say
you have an edge over white males
with the same Q.P. I guess you kind of
take it for granted because everybody
is still in the middle of affirmative
action. But you know when you’re
qualified, so you just have to sort of
overlook it.”
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other students. Everyone—the actors and
actresses, singers and dancers, frater
nities and sororities, and sets crew and
musicians—all worked harmoniously to
produce a performance that seemed
astoundingly professional. The production
showed not only other students, but Black
students as well, the kind of things Blacks
can get involved in and produce something
beautiful”