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Volu me 105 Issue 80
Fair connects UH students to careers H ERTHA AUMOEUALOGO News Editor
The Campus Center ballroom held this year’s spring Career Fair Tuesday, offering students an opportunity to explore career options with employers from across the island. This year, 61 employers contributed fi ve hours’ worth of interacting with students. The fair focused on UH students and was open to alumni as well. It was organized by the Center for Career Development and Student Employment. CDSE Director Myrtle Ching-Rappa wrote, “ The purpose of the fair is to allow students time to explore career options and get to know employers. It is also a time for employers to meet students.” New additions to the fair included a counselor’s table, which offered assistance for any issue pertaining to the program, computerized evaluations for students to suggest work-related interests, and, most importantly, the fresh idea of career clustering. According to Ching-Rappa, career clustering means “employers are clustered under the different types of industry.” This is a way “to give students a better idea of the type of positions that might be available.” “As a kinesiology major, I was able to take on a broader view of my career options; in that way, my transition into athletic training would run smooth-
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With employers ranging from Bath and Body Works to the U.S. Marine Corps Officer programs, the Career Fair offered a variety of employment options.
ly,” said undergraduate A lisha L eon. She also said she believed that “more students should attend this event; the information they provide makes job searching a lot less complicating.” For five years, CDSE, in partnership with a variety of local and foreign businesses, has
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been informing students of their occupational optionsthrough this event. Based on a sur vey of students that have participated in the previous fairs, positive re sults supported the efficacy of the annual occasion: • 86 percent gained new in-
sight into career options. 90 percent gathered knowledge about qualifications, skills and expectations of employers. • 78 percent received information that will help with their career decisions. “Many students wait until graduation to make decisions for •
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a job,” said political science major Tia Fuimaono. “I realized through this fair that I shouldn’t hesitate to learn about the probability of attaining a career that suits me and my future endeavors.” For more information on their upcoming fairs, log on to http:// cdse.hawaii.edu/fair.
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