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Top jobs await students
DIANA ASHJIAN ASST A&E EDITOR DA725@CABRINI EDU
Between 60 and 75 potential employers will be looking to recruit students on Tuesday, March 22, from noon until 3 p.m., in the Dixon Center in and move-out days will also occur. Cars will be able to pull up when ready to load, and be shipped out as soon as it is loaded.
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The Intercollegiate Career Fair is an event open only to students of Cabrini College, Eastern University, Immaculata University, Neumann College, and Rosemont College. Undergraduate students of these five schools will be brought together and given the chance to leave their lasting impressions on companies that are looking for possible interns and full-time employees with the right stuff.
Senior educational studies major, and current CAC resident, Lyndsey Griffin, doesn’t understand why the school couldn’t have waited until May, the start of summer break. “There’s already, now, a huge problem for parking at PLANS, page 3 thanks to the dedication of the executive board along with student and community support.
Both Nancy Hutchinson, director of co-op and career services and Jeanine Piccini, assistant director of the co-op education and career services agree that the career fair offers students of all majors the opportunity to find potential employment.
“Up ‘Til Dawn is one of the best things a student can become a part of; knowing you are working to help save a child’s life is so rewarding,” Maria Moglioni, a special and elementary education major and Up ‘Til Dawn executive board member, said.
“The children of St. Judes deserve a chance at life— to have a chance to go to college and do all the things we do.”
Letter writing parties, a dodgeball tournament and student dances have been among the fundraising events carried out so far. The success of each event has confirmed for Up ‘Til Dawn’s Executive Director
It is reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education that “start-up” adults just out of college are hugely unprepared for the nine-tofive grind once keg parties and soccer games come to an end. According to some students, problems adjusting to the “real world” aren’t exclusive to skills instilled or uninstalled, for that matter, by a college or university. Sometimes it’s finding a job alone that remains the biggest nuisance for some, and that’s precisely where the career fair fits in.
Kristen Reichenbach and Geoffrey Klock, both senior biology majors, aren’t fazed about being unprepared academically or otherwise. “My only concerns are that I’ll have problems finding a job without experience and that I won’t remember the basics I’ve been cramming in over the last four years,” Reichenbach said. With companies like Onlab Assignment and Eximias Pharmaceutical Corporation in attendance, Reichenbach and Klock will only have to remember to dress professionally and bring plenty of resumes.
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