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Page 14/The Battalion/Monday, March 19, 1984 Job-search pros offer tips; liken job hunt, courtship United Press International CLEVELAND — The job hunt resembles the courtship ritual — success brings incredi ble highs while repeated rejec tion can undermine a person’s self-confidence. Long, dry spells come more often than anyone cares to admit. The smash hil of the season- Every performance a standing ovation! Della reese starring in the national tour of the Broadway musical NIGMT Job-search consultant Phyllis Martin says, “Job seeking can be as fun as courtship if you do it right.” There’s the problem. Should a novice job-hunter dress for success, or just make sure he has the proper parachute? “I wouldn’t limit myself to any one approach,” said Martin, a Cincinnati-based jobs consul tant, in a telephone interview. Many college students gradu ate with a degree but limited work experience. That should not keep them from getting a job, Martin believes. “Experience isn’t limited to work experience,” she said. A spelling bee champion can easily qualify for a proofreading job, for example, or someone with a perfect driving record could make the perfect delivery driver. Don’t look only at large com panies, Martin said, because many new jobs are in smaller, emerging industries. Make sure you look and sound your best, and never, never ask for a job. “It’s the biggest turnoff there is,” said Martin, a former em ployment counselor and the au thor of “Martin’s Magic Formula for Getting the Right Job.” Instead, tell prospective em ployers that you’re interested in their organization, and let them know what you can do for them. Failed interviews can also help the job hunter make con tacts, and can be useful in othe*' ways as well, Martin said. If you’re turned down, ask the in terviewer how you can improve your presentation. Many employment personnel know where the jobs are, she said, so ask them who’s hiring if they’re not. When you use their suggestion, you have a name to give the next interviewer. As many recent college gra duates know all too well, the job hunt can drag on for months, with morale taking a corres ponding plunge. “People who are looking for work tend to think there’s some thing wrong with them,” Martin said. A “buddy system” can help. Job hunting with a friend — which does not mean going to interviews together — can give you a lift as well as someone to help out with the grunt work in- f 'This is entertainment to warm body and soul together.' I-Clive Barnes. New York Post More than two dozen great jazz and blues standards! 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That way, “You don’t go home and get dis couraged. Looking for a job is a full-time job.” Alan Schonberg, president of Cleveland-based Management Recruiters International, said the future job-hunter must have some idea before graduation day of what he or she is looking for. “You can always switch direc tion at any time,” he said. “Hav ing the goal is the most impor tant part.” Once you have it, go for it full blast. Read the want ads, send out cover letters and resumes, ask friends for ideas, make fol low-up calls, drop by the com pany — especially drop by the company. Contacts are invaluable, Schonberg said. “People do hire on that basis.” Once in the interview, “being open, being honest, being natu ral are your greatest assets,” he said. If you’re nervous, tell the interviewer, and don’t worry ab out revealing your inexperi ence. PHOTO By Deal “Older, experienced people are nervous in interview, too,” he said. “It’s like putting your self on trial. Jess Arie, 12, (front) from College Station, beats out Doug Bond, 12, from Bryan, in their moto Sunday at the Star Track BMX motocn park just east of College Stall on Highway 6. trains anti-terrorist squad Try Something Different Tonight! We now have Wine by the glass only 900 and 9 different Imported Beers on y $1 -25 Enjoy a half-order of Lasagna or Spaghetti with your choice of Mushrooms, Meatballs or Meatsauce. r\r\ Both only 1 .yy United Press International WASHINGTON — With the memory of the 1972 Munich Olympics still lingering, the FBI is preparing a crack Hostage Rescue Team for potential ter rorist acts at the summer Olym pics in Los Angeles. The FBI’s 50-member team of specially trained agents put on its first public demonstration Friday to show off its newly hon ed skills to deal with “major scale terrorist incidents.” “The memory of the tragedy of Munich is still very much among us,” FBI Director Wil liam Webster told reporters who watched the demonstration at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va. Eleven Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, prompting a call for elaborate security measures at future games. The FBI’s team will be based in Southern California for the Olympics in July, and also will be deployed to the national politic al conventions in Dallas and San Francisco this summer and to the World’s Fair in New Orleans in May. Webster said he authorized gap in the nation’s anti-terrorist planning. He said the FBI’s SWAT teams and special state and local units could not deal with major terrorism, and using the military would require presidential approval. 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STEVENS POINT, Wis. — When the telephone rings at the Stevens Point Brewery, Presi dent Ken Shibilski or his 78- year-old father, Felix, might answer. “There’s only three of us in the office here,” says Ken Shi bilski with a smile. “So it depends on who is available to answer the phone. We have a hard time finding titles since each of us is involved in everything.” The Shibilskis and their 29 Point workers brew and distri bute Point Special, what one taste-testing panel rated the best beer in America and the second best in the world. That ranking is an accom plishment. But what may be even more of a surprise is the firm’s survival in a decade when the Beer Barons and their major breweries — the elder Shibilski calls them “the big birds” — grabbed larger shares of the market. Five decades ago there were 750 national breweries. Now there are less than 50. 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Fresh out of the local business college, Felix “Phil” Shibilski was hired as an accountant. He worked his way up to president. He still puts in five hours a day, making certain his son and the others stay true to tradition. The “big birds” haven’t de voured this small brewery, he says, because “we put out a good glass of beer, continuously, and we have good public relations.” In 1973, Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko con ducted a test which gave Point the kind of publicity money can’t buy. It shocked the big birds and put Point on the international beer map. Of 22 beers scrutinized by a taste-testing panel, Point Special ranked first in the nation and second in the world, behind only Wurzburger of Germany. “That sure surprised at lot of people,” Felix Shibilski said. It also increased sales by ab out 20 percent, said Ken Shibils ki. all of a sudden, beerdt across the Midwest, and] cially from northern veted Point Special. The ity mushroomed and t! gained national media re lion. 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