Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the April 9, 2001 issue of QuintZine.
The Washington Center's deadline for summer internships
has been extended to April 20, because of continuing interest in
the summer program. Since affordable internship housing is at a premium this
summer, the center is accepting students from some non-affiliated
schools so they can be sure to have housing this summer in
apartments in Northern Virginia. Financial aid is available
for students in these programs: women-in-public-policy,
nonprofit-leaders, mass-communications, environment, diversity, and NAFTA.
Guaranteed aid of at least $1,000-4,000 applies to students
from Iowa and New Jersey colleges, state universities in Mass.
and Florida, and most colleges in Ohio. Students graduating this
semester may be interested in the center's College Plus One
internship program for recent college graduates. For more
information and for a copy of the application, see the
Center's Web site.
To ensure you have some good stuff to list on your resume, take
the advice of Jeff Gunhus, whose book, No Parachute Required, we
review in this issue:
Join clubs and organizations. Doing so makes you seem well-rounded
and socially adept.
Take on leadership roles. Volunteer for lead positions because
most employers seek leadership skills.
Organize an event. You show initiative, innovation, and organizational
skills when you do so.
Do a meaningful internship. Gunhus asserts that an internship
is the BEST way to help yourself after graduation.
Discouraged because you haven't heard anything after applying for or
inquiring about a job through a company Web site? You're not alone.
While career Web pages have become a major recruiting
channel for many companies, overall effectiveness of such
sites remains low, according to a new study by Kennedy
Information Research Group. For example, only 27 percent
of tested sites responded to potential candidate inquiries
within 24 hours. An alarming 63 percent never responded to
such inquiries, says the study, Benchmarking the Corporate
Career Web Site. Response time to candidate inquiries
was just one of more than two dozen "Key Success Factors"
identified by the study as critical to ensuring online
recruiting success. The study collected and analyzed data by
company type, including the country's largest public companies,
largest private companies, small and mid-cap companies,
fastest growing companies and best practice companies.
The Washington Center's deadline for summer internships
has been extended to April 20, because of continuing interest in
the summer program. Since affordable internship housing is at a premium this
summer, the center is accepting students from some non-affiliated
schools so they can be sure to have housing this summer in
apartments in Northern Virginia. Financial aid is available
for students in these programs: women-in-public-policy,
nonprofit-leaders, mass-communications, environment, diversity, and NAFTA.
