CCLC's New Collection

CCLC's New Collection
5/5/06 at 8:25:30 AM

— by the CCLC Staff

The Career and Community Learning Center (CCLC) would like to announce a brand new collection of "What Can I Do With a Major In (WCIDWAMI)" binders and materials. Our WCIDWAMI collection has proven invaluable to students and advisers over the years, and we want to let you know that it has recently grown and improved. The collection now includes detailed information about every individual major in the College of Liberal Arts, along with info about other majors students ask about or that we think they should know about. Every student in CLA can now come to the Career and Community Learning Center for information directly related to his or her major.

Our WCIDWAMI section has grown from 60 to 80 information-packed (and newly designed) binders. Each one includes:

--U of M degree requirements
--career options for that major
--salary information
--sample internships
--graduate school information
--articles that discuss the major
--any other CCLC material related to the major

Please take advantage of this great resource in CCLC's Resource Room, located in 135 Johnston Hall. Due to the immense amount of information in these binders, which we continually update, the collection is not posted online and can only be accessed in our office. Stop by to check it out, and please be sure to let students know about it!

Traveling NSE Students

During the 2006-2007 school year, roughly 65 U of M students will participate in the National Student Exchange (NSE) program. NSE gives students the chance to study at another campus in the U.S. or Canada for a semester or a year. U of M students will be studying at universities as close as the University of Iowa and as far as the University of Guam! The most popular destinations were the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Hunter College in New York. There will also be about 30 students coming to the University of Minnesota next year through NSE.

Semester Report from Employer Relations

CCLC's Employer Relations team serves all CLA students, working to connect them to substantive jobs and internships. This spring semester we more than quadrupled the number of on-campus recruiting visits we hosted compared to this time last year, with 14 employers coming to campus to interview and recruit. Companies we hosted included ACNielsen, Ameriprise, Honeywell, Target Stores, Marshall Field's/Macy's North, North Star Resource Group, ACR Homes, and others. These recruiting visits allowed students to land some great positions. Target Stores alone hired seven CLA students.

As part of our work for employers, we scheduled interviews with and met individually with nearly 100 students. CCLC also facilitated a prep workshop for students who had been selected to interview. Feedback from those who attended indicates that the workshop provided valuable guidance. We plan to offer more next year.

In addition to our work around on-campus recruiting, we helped find employers to speak in classes, events, and on various CLA Career Panels. Fourteen employers participated in a hugely successful networking session at CCLC's "Job Search Jump Start" event, which approximately 30 CLA juniors and seniors attended. We received extremely positive feedback from students about the employers' contributions to the event.

We continue to build relationships with a wide variety of employers, and we anticipate our 2006-2007 programming to be even bigger and busier!

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