Photo illustration by Bryan Cole / The Collegian
As Fresno̢۪s unemployment rate hits a high of 15.7 percent, students at any stage of their education have on-campus access at the Career Center to help them prepare for their own job search or guidance in picking their major and the correct classes necessary to meet their graduation goals.
With the rising unemployment numbers, the Career Center is seeing a rise in the students coming in requesting assistance.
“Our individual counseling appointment numbers have been steadily increasing over the last three years,â€Â said Rita Bocchinfuso-Cohen, the center’s director.
The Career Center, which is located in the Joyal Administration building, room 256, provides multiple avenues for students who may be questioning the direction they have chosen for their future career.
It offers workshops throughout the year to aid students with resume writing, interview techniques, preparations for graduate school and career fairs that are held through the year.
It also holds special events, (students need to sign up in advance), that give them experience in the interview process, how to work a room at a career fair and even how to fine tune a resume.
Center attempts to give students necessary skills
Students have long thought of the Career Center as a place to go to find a job, said Bocchinfuso-Cohen.
Its main function is to counsel students to gain the proper tools to identify what their job goals are and the ability to market themselves well. It also provides access to employers that offer part and full-time jobs, as well as internships in the student̢۪s field.
“We’re seeing a lot more students coming in earlier, where they used to wait until right before graduation,â€Â Bocchinfuso-Cohen said.
In economic hard times like the present, it̢۪s important to get in to see a counselor as soon as possible. Bocchinfuso-Cohen recommends that students call in to make an appointment to review their goals and assess their future schedules, that way they can be sure of their plans and avoid taking the wrong classes.
If they are looking for an internship, they need get to the center to start their searches the semester before they expect to have the job.
Every year, during the fall semester, employers come to Fresno State to do on-campus interviews.
The center offers, “Mock Interview Day,â€Â which will be held this year on May 6th and “Jobseeker Readiness Bootcamp,â€Â which will be held on May 7th, to give job seekers the experience they need to be successful in the interview process.
Online resources
One of the biggest requests, according to Bocchinfuso-Cohen, is help with resume construction.
Along with in-person counseling, students can access the centers Web site, www.csufresno.edu/career, for multiple free resources, one of which is a quick link resume system, Optimal Resume.
It has a tutorial system to help students write professional resumes and to submit those completed resumes for review.
The center regularly checks with the different counselors in each major on campus to see what concerns students are having.
Some students are choosing to avoid the job search all together.
“Counselors are seeing trends where many students are deciding to go to graduate school to delay their career search,â€Â Bocchinfuso-Cohen said.
“We have tools available to help these students as well.â€Â
Whatever the needs of the student, the Career Center is well equipped to get the future employee focused in the right direction and the tools to be successful in the real world.
“If you are unsure about any part of your future stop in or call,â€Â said Bocchinfuso-Cohen.
“We can give you the individual attention needed and get all your concerns and issues addressed.â€Â
the hermit 33 • Oct 18, 2009 at 12:07 am
He’s just a freaking ol’ man in your eyes. Focus man.
You wouldn’t understand.
the hermit 33 • Oct 18, 2009 at 7:07 am
He’s just a freaking ol’ man in your eyes. Focus man.
You wouldn’t understand.
jennifer • Apr 15, 2009 at 11:22 am
thats the point they should of aleady had a real job. They should already know how to do a resume and how to do an interview.
jennifer • Apr 15, 2009 at 6:22 pm
thats the point they should of aleady had a real job. They should already know how to do a resume and how to do an interview.
Get Real • Apr 3, 2009 at 12:57 am
Did I miss something……??? The purpose of the department is to prepare those who havent had a REAL job, other than their part-time job at Blockbuster, while attending classes….Interviewing for jobs that pay higher than minimum wage require better interview skills. I’m glad there are opportunities like this on campus. In economic times like these, we need all the help we can get! I’m A-Ok with my future interviews, but I have a lot of friends that will need the help!! Thanks for the info!
Get Real • Apr 3, 2009 at 7:57 am
Did I miss something……??? The purpose of the department is to prepare those who havent had a REAL job, other than their part-time job at Blockbuster, while attending classes….Interviewing for jobs that pay higher than minimum wage require better interview skills. I’m glad there are opportunities like this on campus. In economic times like these, we need all the help we can get! I’m A-Ok with my future interviews, but I have a lot of friends that will need the help!! Thanks for the info!
jennifer • Mar 31, 2009 at 5:45 pm
“mock interviews” give me a break. I had to do mock interviews every year that I was in high school. It was required for us to graduate. What kind of high school are these people going to that they dont know how to do an interview upon graduating. Then they are graduating college still not knowing these skills.
What the hell is wrong with them? I mean how freaking hard is it to do a stupid interview and type a damn resume. It isnt rocket science. It is common sense. If you need help doing those things your never going to make it in the real world. I mean your telling me that people actually go through all their college years without working. loosers. Grow up and take care of yourself. You should of had a job long before you graduated college. I wish the center actually provided us with something we could actually use. Thanks anyway!
jennifer • Apr 1, 2009 at 12:45 am
“mock interviews” give me a break. I had to do mock interviews every year that I was in high school. It was required for us to graduate. What kind of high school are these people going to that they dont know how to do an interview upon graduating. Then they are graduating college still not knowing these skills.
What the hell is wrong with them? I mean how freaking hard is it to do a stupid interview and type a damn resume. It isnt rocket science. It is common sense. If you need help doing those things your never going to make it in the real world. I mean your telling me that people actually go through all their college years without working. loosers. Grow up and take care of yourself. You should of had a job long before you graduated college. I wish the center actually provided us with something we could actually use. Thanks anyway!
Miguel Sobrevilla • Mar 25, 2009 at 2:27 am
Omission of guilt:
“I think I know why.”
‘They’ don’t aspire, this popular, cultural social buff, and drunk by psychological definition. O’ lament oust alegre.
[I hate your prized ‘what’ losers, posture children of the studious, green eyed slime. I despise them.]
Miguel Sobrevilla • Mar 25, 2009 at 9:27 am
Omission of guilt:
“I think I know why.”
‘They’ don’t aspire, this popular, cultural social buff, and drunk by psychological definition. O’ lament oust alegre.
[I hate your prized ‘what’ losers, posture children of the studious, green eyed slime. I despise them.]
Miguel Sobrevilla • Mar 25, 2009 at 1:19 am
[Yes, I’m looking.]
My first student/teacher crush was with an art
historian.
This woman was remarkable, and married. I’d could kiss her
breath, like the lilac in the Song of Solomon.
She was Italian with a masters degree. Though her course was challenging, and ‘brain cramming’, I was motivated. I received a just grade, A.
I have not felt that way with any ‘obsessive compulsive’ post grad. I know where to draw the line. But if I were gay, I could kiss this ‘one’ male instructor.
I
haven’t felt that kind of motivation in a while, and Fresno State’s
head hunters look for unique departmental administrative leaders to insure professorship is quality for model. As a student in observation, I dare not.
Instructors are squashed at the university level, like cigarette butts. In fact, they suffer a lot for not having a post grad degree, and would rather call themselves professors, God forbid.
I
graduated from a Junior college first. The Register (Tulare) reported
that Junior College Graduates have a difficult time succeeding in a four
year university. I think I know why.
Of course, you don’t have
to agree with my ‘I’ language. It merely suggests qualitative data, and
not the quantitative data a post grade requires.
I think one
can simply be over educated. At that point it is no longer
appealing.
I have writer’s block.
I need to reaffirm. Specialization is the “buzz”, and has merit in
education, non-profit organizations, government, and other types of
organizations – profit organizations doesn’t float their boats however.
Specializing is so tight that it has no special interdisciplinary
hindsight; no vision, no appeal. It aspires to argue, otherwise the one that
specializes becomes dormant. The institution needs grind.
These groups
that are being led by post graduates are frustrating me. There is a
foreseeable negative impact as a result of these post grads building
value in their intellectual capability, and education.
Its an ego
buster stupefying innovation for those organizations that have
integrated decentralized platforms.
In these platforms the little
person is a vital human resource. Its value is well worth the expense,
in fact it is more of an investment. I developed writers block, because
some other institution of mass media, argued (intellectually), that
writing poetry, or lyric does not promote the fundamentals of English
composition.
That’s a lie, its an assumption.
Plus, I lost my flow.
My
professors are so critical, instead of encouraging, they discourage
(I’m sure its to weave out those not worthy of the next level in the
educational hierarchy, only the best can be doctors, but I am of course a conspiracy theorist). I respect the medical profession, and no other discipline that requires a masters/doctorates at this point in my life.
The thing is, I am not as impacted by
the scholarly works of post grades, like I am of those works coming
from prose. Where ‘I’ language, and ‘we’ language is used. Teary.
They are so easy to identify (post grades), to include those that model this dead society. Electrify Frankenstein.
I imagine, the Flaneur, has lost all associative ability; which is why ‘it’ would rather have not graduated a doctor.
[I need a job. I imagine this was another great plunder.]
Miguel Sobrevilla • Mar 25, 2009 at 8:19 am
[Yes, I’m looking.]
My first student/teacher crush was with an art
historian.
This woman was remarkable, and married. I’d could kiss her
breath, like the lilac in the Song of Solomon.
She was Italian with a masters degree. Though her course was challenging, and ‘brain cramming’, I was motivated. I received a just grade, A.
I have not felt that way with any ‘obsessive compulsive’ post grad. I know where to draw the line. But if I were gay, I could kiss this ‘one’ male instructor.
I
haven’t felt that kind of motivation in a while, and Fresno State’s
head hunters look for unique departmental administrative leaders to insure professorship is quality for model. As a student in observation, I dare not.
Instructors are squashed at the university level, like cigarette butts. In fact, they suffer a lot for not having a post grad degree, and would rather call themselves professors, God forbid.
I
graduated from a Junior college first. The Register (Tulare) reported
that Junior College Graduates have a difficult time succeeding in a four
year university. I think I know why.
Of course, you don’t have
to agree with my ‘I’ language. It merely suggests qualitative data, and
not the quantitative data a post grade requires.
I think one
can simply be over educated. At that point it is no longer
appealing.
I have writer’s block.
I need to reaffirm. Specialization is the “buzz”, and has merit in
education, non-profit organizations, government, and other types of
organizations – profit organizations doesn’t float their boats however.
Specializing is so tight that it has no special interdisciplinary
hindsight; no vision, no appeal. It aspires to argue, otherwise the one that
specializes becomes dormant. The institution needs grind.
These groups
that are being led by post graduates are frustrating me. There is a
foreseeable negative impact as a result of these post grads building
value in their intellectual capability, and education.
Its an ego
buster stupefying innovation for those organizations that have
integrated decentralized platforms.
In these platforms the little
person is a vital human resource. Its value is well worth the expense,
in fact it is more of an investment. I developed writers block, because
some other institution of mass media, argued (intellectually), that
writing poetry, or lyric does not promote the fundamentals of English
composition.
That’s a lie, its an assumption.
Plus, I lost my flow.
My
professors are so critical, instead of encouraging, they discourage
(I’m sure its to weave out those not worthy of the next level in the
educational hierarchy, only the best can be doctors, but I am of course a conspiracy theorist). I respect the medical profession, and no other discipline that requires a masters/doctorates at this point in my life.
The thing is, I am not as impacted by
the scholarly works of post grades, like I am of those works coming
from prose. Where ‘I’ language, and ‘we’ language is used. Teary.
They are so easy to identify (post grades), to include those that model this dead society. Electrify Frankenstein.
I imagine, the Flaneur, has lost all associative ability; which is why ‘it’ would rather have not graduated a doctor.
[I need a job. I imagine this was another great plunder.]