2-6-19 | Spring Employment Guide by The Pitt News

Volume 109 | Issue 99

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CAREER CENTER, STUDENTS OFFER INTERVIEW ADVICE

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Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee began collecting signed, confidential union cards from more than 3,500 Pitt faculty last January. tpn file photo

PITT FACULTY SEE FUTURE IN UNION

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Senior Staff Writer To most passersby, the fliers, posters and comics adorning the office doors in the narrow corridors on the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning blend in with the rest of campus. But for Tyler McAndrew, a visiting lecturer in the English department and prominent faculty union organizer, the posters that read “Union of Pitt Faculty” represent years of grueling campaign work. “I’ve been knocking on doors every week for the past two and a half years just trying to have conversations with professors about how a [faculty] union could improve their lives,” McAndrew said. “That effort began right here in the English department.” McAndrew’s own office, nestled in a small enclave on the same floor, is outfitted with many of the same pro-union posters. But while McAndrew is heartened to see pro-union fliers scattered all across campus, he said the most tangible sign that organizers’ efforts were successful came last month, when Pitt filed for a faculty union election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee began collecting signed, confidential union cards from more than 3,500 Pitt faculty last January. According to McAndrew, the organizers spent several years campaigning with their peers be-

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fore even beginning to collect cards, attending monthly meetings, refining their talking points and ultimately going out into the field to persuade other professors to support the cause. “We really needed to gauge interest among the faculty here at Pitt,” McAndrew said. “Once we started collecting cards, we only had a year to get at least 30 percent of professors on board for a vote.” Once the PLRB verifies that more than 30 percent of faculty have signed cards, it will set a date for a union election, assuming the University doesn’t contest the filing. At least 50 percent of professors must vote yes to institute the union at the University. The union would be affiliated with the Academic Workers Association, a division of United Steelworkers, according to USW spokesperson Jess Kamm. “We’re here to be a resource for the union effort,” Kamm said. “We know the legal processes they have to go through, we know strategies that tend to work in organizing, but really it’s the faculty who are leading the way with this.” McAndrew said he’s unable to reveal the number of professors that signed cards, but he thinks the union bid will succeed if it goes to an election. “We have supporters from all different departments, at all different levels with all sorts of See Union on page 3

Resumé-building often starts in high school, but budding professionals usually lack the skills needed to prepare for an actual interview. Professionals and students alike advise that getting an internship or job requires the job-seeker to focus on certain essential documents and skills. While it can be beneficial to build your resumé piece by piece, there are important details to focus on in interviews, such as your mannerisms and answers to crucial questions. According to Sharon Mickens, the assistant director of employer relations for Pitt’s Career Center, an applicant will likely have to first submit a resumé and application online. Mickens said this is typical, regardless of how the potential employee learns of the opportunity. Mickens said it’s important to adjust your resumé to an online platform to increase the chances of scoring an interview. “Typically applicant tracking systems (ATS) screen out candidates before they’re even seen by someone in human resources. It’s important to use relevant keywords and to avoid using a template with tables as they’re unable to be read by that system,” Mickens said in an email. Jessica Druga, a career consultant for engineering, said applicants can further customize resumés depending on the job description. By targeting specific keywords, such as certain skills the employer is looking for, in bulleted lists of accomplishments, an applicant can make an individual resumé stand out from other online applications. “It’s really important to tailor [a resumé] as much as possible so your resumé can have different types of experience listed,” Druga said. “Tailoring it, looking at the job description, seeing what experiences you have relative to it.” If an applicant is offered an interview, Mickens and Druga said preparing beforehand is key to a successful interaction. De-

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pending on the industry someone is applying for, the applicant can Google interview questions for their specific field. Mickens recommends using the STAR method — Situation, Task, Action, Results — to practice answering common questions. Interview questions will often require the applicant to present a job situation, the task at hand, the actions they took to solve that task and the result of those actions. Employers use these responses as an indicator of future behavior, Druga said. According Druga, it’s helpful to practice this way because interviewers often pose questions that leave the interviewee in a vulnerable position. The STAR method and an understanding of the position for which someone is applying are helpful for interviews, Mickens said. “Familiarize yourself with the job description and qualifications of the position to which you are applying. Make sure you know your resumé inside and out, and can connect your experiences to what’s required of the job,” Mickens said. It’s helpful to prepare in the mirror or with someone else with these techniques in mind, Druga said. Practicing in front of a peer can help an interviewee handle certain things that he or she may not expect, such as an interviewer’s negative facial expressions. Druga said recording a practice interview can also help a candidate understand how they sound to others. “[Recording] can maybe help us realize how many times we say ‘um’ or ‘like like like,’ even our tone in general. We might have a really flat [tone] without even realizing it, and that can really drain the listener. They might have made a decision already based on that,” Druga said. “They want someone who’s enthusiastic, someone who has done research, knows their stuff.”

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Union, pg. 2 different grievances,” McAndrew said. Among the union’s supporters is Caroline Brickman, an adjunct professor in the English department who came to Pitt in 2018 after finishing her graduate degree at the University of California Berkeley. There, she was a member of one of the country’s largest university labor unions, which represents all the UC schools. “I got the job when I still lived in California,” Brickman said. “I Googled, ‘Does the University of Pittsburgh have a faculty union?’ and I realized that there was the [card] campaign.” Brickman believes every laborer should be represented by a union, and she has many job security- and pay-related grievances with the administration that pushed her into Pitt’s faculty union campaign. “Adjuncts aren’t treated that well on an institutional level,” Brickman said. “I’m lucky enough just to get rehired every semester. I could be told a week before the start of the semester by the department chair, ‘Sorry, we don’t have any classes for you to teach next semester.’” The dismal pay for adjuncts doesn’t help matters either, Brickman said. The Pitt faculty union website says pay per credit can range from $2,500 to $4,000, which, full-time psy-

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chology professor Melinda Ciccocioppo said is far below the average pay for adjuncts at Pitt’s peer institutions. “Pitt always says it wants pay to be at the median compared with its peer institutions, but every year, faculty members, especially adjuncts, are down toward the bottom,” Ciccocioppo said. “I think giving adjuncts a raise will be really easy once we have a union in place — it’s what we all want.” Pitt lecturers, who McAndrew said are “one step above an adjunct,” ranked 28th in annual salary when compared to 34 public institutions in the Association of American Universities, which is comprised of 62 distinguished public and private research universities across the United States. McAndrew said some of Pitt’s peer institutions, like Rutgers and the University of Oregon — which are public and comparable to Pitt in size — granted one- to two-percent raises to all faculty immediately after forming a faculty union. “In most faculty unions there’s an umbrella clause for all faculty. That usually includes a one- to two-percent raise for everyone across the board, which would disproportionately benefit adjunct faculty,” he said. That’s the easy part, McAndrew said. The

challenging part is renegotiating employment contracts to give all faculty more job stability. If the union bid succeeds, the first step would be to create contract renewal committees with both faculty and administrative representatives specific to each department. While each department has a document outlining the path to promotion for tenure-track and full-time professors, Ciccocioppo said the criteria don’t specify the amount of research or teaching a professor must do. “We want to negotiate a legally binding contract that streamlines the promotion process to improve faculty stability across the board,” Ciccocioppo said. Those contracts are of interest to tenured professors as well, according to Marian Jarlenski, a tenure-stream professor in the public health department who said she supports the union. “Of course we stand in solidarity with adjuncts who aren’t being paid what they deserve,” she said. “But a lot of people don’t realize that the path to promotion for tenured and full-time professors is often just as cryptic.” The administration is also very secretive about how it allocates its funds, according to Brickman. Besides publishing statistics about student tuition, average faculty pay and total

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endowment, Pitt often doesn’t reveal where its money goes. “Sometimes I just look at the students in my room,” Brickman said. “Let’s just say they’re all paying in-state tuition. A third of [one student’s] tuition is paying me. Where is the rest of the money going?” Pitt declined to say whether the University will contest faculty’s bid for a union. University spokesperson Joe Miksch said Pitt is still reviewing the petition filed with the PLRB. “This is a faculty issue, and it merits careful consideration of the pros and cons involved,” Miksch said. “The University is dedicated to supporting the diverse interests of our faculty members … This commitment will not change, regardless of how this particular issue evolves.” McAndrew said faculty interests are somewhat diverse — he’s spoken with professors from various departments who oppose the faculty union, mainly because they see it as a third party entity that will make sweeping changes to university operations. None of the professors The Pitt News spoke with opposed the union, however. The University has remained neutral toward the union in public, which McAndrew said he is grateful for. But he expects that to change as the See Union on page 5

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Union, pg. 3 PLRB gets closer to announcing an election date, especially given the way the University reacted to the grad student union campaign, which filed for election last semester. Pitt hired the Philadelphia-based law firm Ballard Spahr, which offers union avoidance training and counseling to employers, to contest the graduate student union. According to the University Times, Pitt hired the firm a week after a faculty assembly Sept. 4, where union representatives discussed their struggles with job insecurity and low pay. “That’s your tuition dollars at work,” McAndrew said. “It’s going toward union busting.” But while Pitt argued that graduate students are not employees and therefore don’t have the right to unionize, the University can’t use the same argument against the faculty union, Kamm said. “The University can register any legal concerns they have about the union, but they can’t just unilaterally say no,” Kamm said. Pitt faculty have attempted to and failed to unionize twice before, most recently in 1996 when organizers failed to collect signed cards from a majority of faculty members. Its first attempt in 1976 failed when faculty voted against the union 1,243-719. But McAndrew is confident the third time’s the charm for Pitt’s faculty union. “We feel pretty optimistic, I can say that,” McAndrew said. “We got more than that 30 percent of the cards we needed to prompt an election.” McAndrew believe students will also reap the benefits of having healthier, better-paid teachers. “I can say when I was an adjunct, I was teaching two classes here and working at a writing center twenty or thirty hours a week, and at points working a part-time service industry job, too,” McAndrew said. “I couldn’t pretend that I was coming in to teach with my mind not in other places. McAndrew maintains that all faculty should have a union to negotiate pay, have job security and ultimately give themselves a voice. He said it’ll benefit students just as much as professors. “We’re the ones on the ground working with students. It’s not the Chancellor, it’s not the administration, so they can give themselves raises all day long, but it won’t help students,” McAndrew said. “At the end of the day, the University should be serving its students. And in order to do that, they need to serve their faculty, too.”

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COLLEGE STUDENTS FIND BIGLEAGUE NICHES

Nick Carlisano Staff Writer

If you’re watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game on TV, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Sarah Snyder on the sidelines. If you ever got a phone call from the Pittsburgh Pirates trying to encourage you to go to a game, there’s a chance you talked to Nick Roberts. And if you were at the Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup Championship parade in 2016, you probably saw Dana Julian. Many kids grow up playing and watching sports, and a large number of those kids carry that passion into their adult life. Some love sports so much that they aspire to work in the field. A vast majority of people don’t even get the shot to pursue a sports-related job, yet alone their dream job –– but some, like Snyder, Roberts and Julian, do. After growing up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, Snyder, a Penn State grad and DuBois, Pennsylvania, native found a way to turn her passion into a career this past year. At just 22 years old, she has acquired a position working for the National Football League.

Snyder is employed by Live Content Correspondent, a new program started by the league that hires photographers and videographers to cover games in cities across the country. Due to her location, she’s found herself spending her Sundays at Heinz Field during the football season. “On game days I shoot for both teams,” Snyder said. “If the Steelers are playing the Patriots, I would get a shot list from the Patriots of everything that they need, and a shot list from the Steelers of what they need. It’s typically some video for their social media accounts and a lot of photos.” Snyder landed her role in the LCC program after graduating college. While in college, she was a photographer for Onward State, Penn State’s student news website, and also started her own wedding photography business. “I photographed a couple football games for [Onward State] and shot for Homecoming, too,” Snyder said. “I thought, ‘Dang, this is really cool’ and after graduation took a shot in the dark to see if there was anything out there for sports photographers.” She stumbled upon the application online –– a few months later, she received a

phone call, and within two hours had secured a job with the NFL. From her position on the field, Snyder is as close as you can get without actually playing. The LCC workers also receive black vests that grant them full access to the stadium, another cool aspect to the job. “We can pretty much go anywhere we want,” Snyder said. “We get to go down on the field, walk wherever and have postgame locker room access.” A goal of the LLC is to make fans feel close to the players through social media, so Snyder gets to interact with players to do so. “Getting selfie videos after the game for social media requires one-one-one time with the players, so that’s been very interesting,” Snyder said. “Especially being a Steeler fan since childhood.” Not all paths to a job in sports are similar, just as not all sports jobs themselves are similar. Roberts, a Gannon University graduate from Punxsutawney found himself in an inside sales role for the Pittsburgh Pirates right out of college. Throughout college, Roberts worked as See Sports Jobs on page 10

SATIRICAL STAFF PICKS: OUR DREAM JOBS The Pitt News Staff For college students, family members ask at every holiday, “So, what are your plans for after graduation?” We all have our tentative plans such as law school, internships, business jobs and medical school, but sometimes the future seems a little unattainable. In the heat of all the assignments, applications and exams, we can’t help but dream of a low-stress life. Members of The Pitt News staff are sharing our secret dream jobs outside of academia. Instagram Personality // Shahum Ajmal, Layout Editor Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. Like it or not, social media is kind of a big deal. I’ve been branding my social media since my preteen years. Now, as a 20-year-old, I am waiting for the moment my social media takes off so I can humbly accept the title of “Instagram Personality” — so my grid aesthetic can get the appreciation it’s been longing for. What does it take to brand yourself among Instagram’s 1 billion users? Fill your bio with hobbies followed by an appropriate emoji,

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snap daily OOTDs, go on a juice cleanse, offer some fake deep health and wellness tips, post aesthetically pleasing city and nature views, go on weekend getaways and, if you’re not exhausted yet, go wine and dine with your “friends” four out of seven days a week. All social media platforms are interconnected. If I make it on one, I can aim for the rest. Just look at Cameron Dallas, Nash Grier and Jake Paul who found their start making six-second videos on Vine. Each of them now has more than 10 million followers and lucrative sponsorships, and Dallas has even branched out into acting and singing. Endorsements allow people to create careers out of their profiles. Kim Kardashian has been paid up to $500,000 for posting branded posts for her followers. But not all of us were born into fame. All I am is a junior political science major and law school hopeful. But, while you’re here, follow my Instagram, Twitter and friend me on Facebook — and don’t forget to comment and subscribe down below. Soap-cutting ASMR YouTuber // Sarah

Connor, Culture Editor In light of the recent string of journalism layoffs across the country, I have been rethinking my plans for the future. I had been planning to pursue a career in journalism, or at least media in some way, but it all seems so dismal. Last night, as I was wallowing in self-pity, searching through YouTube, a video came up in my recommended options — “Soap Carving ASMR ! Soap Cutting 1 Hour Satisfying ASMR.” I clicked on the video, and within the first 10 minutes of the one-hour video, I was entranced, completely relaxed and ready for bed. The video itself is just as the title suggests — clips of knives slicing through crisp bars of soap. For many, myself included, the sounds and visuals are quite satisfying and relaxing. This video currently has 3.3 million views. Imagine the money this soap-slicer has pocketed from posting a video as simple as this. All they had to do was cut some soap, and YouTube has no reason to demonetize See Dream Jobs on page 11

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Sports Jobs, pg. 8 an intern for the Pirates through a program called BUCS (Building Ultimate Careers in Sports) Academy. After graduation, he reached out to the organization himself to show he was a go-getter –– a creative elevator pitch sealed the deal. “It’s a tough job,” Roberts said. “We had to average 100 calls a day. Sports is just a hard field, it really is.” The goal of the phone calls was to sell tickets and convince people to come to the games, therefore increasing sales revenue for the organization. Roberts’ stay with the Pirates was short-lived. After a year with the Pirates, Roberts accepted a job with the Phoenix Suns. Now, Roberts works for a nurse staffing company called Maxim Healthcare.

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“It kind of burnt me out,” Roberts said. “Not that I don’t love sports, but I have a passion for helping people, and you don’t have to be in sports to do that.” Julian, a senior neuroscience major at Pitt from Mendham, New Jersey, also had the opportunity to work for a local sports team. Although she no longer works for them, Julian was a part of the Pittsburgh Penguins organization from her first through junior year. Her first year, she worked in the Kids Zone arcade before joining the ice crew, a team responsible for maintaining the ice and entertaining the crowds, for two years. “We cleaned the ice three times a period, did intermission games and did interactive fan games,” Julian said. “We also did other things, like appearances at sponsors, student rush promotions and T-shirt handouts. We also got to be in the

parade my sophomore year.” Julian found out about the Kids Zone position through her first-year roommate. The next year, she went to the tryouts for the ice crew. As a member of the Pitt women’s club hockey team, Julian has the experience needed on the ice and was bound to ace the tryout –– which she did. “I grew up going to New Jersey Devils games, and they don’t have girls on their ice crew,” Julian said. “It didn’t even occur to me that was an option until I attended Penguin games. It took two on-ice tryouts and an interview in front of a panel to get the position.” Although the ice crew doesn’t get any specific “perks,” the job in and of itself is the best perk a fan can get it. Everything the ice crew does is at ice level, so they get to watch the game from that view and go out on the ice during the game to interact with fans.

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“It’s just really cool to interact with fans,” Julian said. “We get to take pictures with little kids and it would make their day.” Julian counted up the time commitment to about six hours with pregame, the game itself and postgame traffic. This kept her from continuing this year, but that doesn’t mean the job wasn’t worth it. “The ice crew really made the job worth it,” Julian said. “It was just a great group of people, and I loved getting to know everyone.” Although Julian’s time with the Penguins has come to an end, she, along with Snyder and Roberts, can still say they are living, or have lived, their dreams. “It’s a complete dream,” Julian said. “It’s insane how an opportunity falls into your lap, and it turns out to be your dream job. I just love what I do.”

Dream Jobs, pg. 8 these simple videos like some YouTube stars’ (*cough cough Logan Paul cough cough*) should be. Sign me up! That Person Who Makes the Background Sounds in Rap Songs // Alexa Marzina, Staff Writer While I certainly don’t have the required skills to carefully craft or perform a rap hit, I think a cameo in the background of a one-hit wonder fits right into my talents. I was inspired to choose this career path when I first heard the song “Panda” by Desiigner. The first few seconds, while unintelligible, perfectly display the I-don’t-know-how-to-speak-outloud trait that most writers — definitely including myself — have. Button-mashing on a keyboard is an enjoyable pastime of mine during sessions of writer’s block, so I think I could really break into the biz by simply verbalizing my new lexicon. Let’s see —“Agjlofdh” — aglo-fid. Easy. I can even say it backwards: Difloga. Are you feeling the beat already? These days, it seems journalists are expected to write “for exposure” or be able to make a living by freelancing only, so if I can make my studio debut and get paid for it, I don’t even need credit in the song title! Seriously, guys, I’m available! Please. Hire me. Professional Existing Human // Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot, Senior Staff Writer Even though I have dreams of being a successful author and screenwriter one day, I’ve always had the desire to leisurely live out my days in a picturesque cottage — just enjoying life and the world. Having the time to write, draw, paint, garden, take care of animals, travel and occasionally binge shows on Netflix is the ideal kind of life I would want to live. The fact that each of us exists the way we are really is a miracle when you think about it. So why shouldn’t I take the time to embrace that cosmic and evolutionary lottery win? There’s such a big push in the market for people contributing a product or otherwise competitively engaging in our hard-driven capitalist society. That means there’s a clear opening for my dream job — living my best life, worry free. Hermit Writer // Kim Rooney, Copy Chief You’ve heard of them — J.D. Salinger, Harper Lee, Emily Dickinson — writers who thought, do I want to deal with this? No. Reclusive writers garner a sort of mythos to them, an air of mystery that draws people to their work. And there’s cer-

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tainly an appeal to becoming a quasi-mythological being, but beyond that, reclusive writers get to sidestep most concerns about entering the workplace. Coworkers? Not if it’s just me and my cat. Office politics? Only over what kind of food my cat wants to eat. That being said, picking up and leaving society takes relative financial privilege. Having a residence you can go to live comfortably, far away from anyone else, isn’t an option open to everyone. But we can open up opportunities for potential reclusive writers by combining it with another job I hope will make a comeback — orna-

mental hermits. It optimizes the curiosity people have regarding reclusive writers, and makes it a more viable option for those who want to pursue their dreams. Sure, it’s not complete reclusiveness, but for the most part, ornamental hermit writers can enjoy relative solitude, spend time writing and avoid extensive contact with the rest of the world. So if anyone else is looking to bring back ornamental hermits, hit me up. My qualifications? Copious amounts of writer’s block, existential weariness and, most importantly, aspirations of cryptid status.

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