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THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 4 • 1997
Center extends
job opportunities
to A&M students
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Rick Odum, a junior history major, examines the Vallauris Exposition in the MSC art gallery. The exhibit
runs through mid October.
Brandye Brown
Staff writer
The Student Employment Center,
offered by the Texas A&M Department
of Student Financial Aid, is service
starting this fall that will post on- and
off-campus employment opportuni
ties on the World Wide Web.
Employers in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area and all on-campus employers
are participating.
The service helps students find part-
time jobs while they are going to school.
A&M students can complete on-line
applications that will be made available
to employers. After searching through
the list of job openings, students can
send applications and resumes to the
employers by e-mail.
Robert Lawson, the assistant direc
tor of Financial Aid, said if an off-cam
pus employer does not have access to
the Internet, the Center will forward the
student’s resume to the employer.
“We want this to be as simple as possi
ble, and effective as possible,” he said. “No
one will be included or excluded solely
based on their access to the Internet.”
Although the service will consolidate
the process of looking for part-time em
ployment into a few centralized steps,
students will still be responsible for ini
tiating the hiring process, such as set
ting up interviews.
Lawson said this service will help
students when looking for a job after
they graduate from college.
“Financial Aid has always provided
access to higher education, but now we
are adding intrinsic value to the stu
dents themselves,” he said. “By provid
ing access to work experience, we are
making students more valuable to fu
ture employers.”
Lawson said the Student Employ
ment Center will ’ ’elp lower the cost of
education by helping students find
quality jobs.
“Personally, I want to reduce the cost of
education for students,” he said. “Today
the more a student bon ows, the more in-
“We want this to be as simple
as possible, and effective as
possible.”
ROBERT LAWSON
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL AID
terest is charged, the higher the cost of
school and the more they go into debt.
This service will make more, better-pay
ing jobs easily accessible to the student.”
Lawson said the Student Employ
ment Center assists students in trying
possible career choices.
“As soon as a student figures out what
they would like to do with their life, we
can help them find employment that re
lates so die student can find out if that is
really what they want to do,” he said.
Lawson said another reason the
Center is being formed is that despite
the many students working on campus,
there was no human resources depart
ment to represent them.
“If a student worker is discriminated
against, there is limited recourse for
them,” he said. “We plan to address stu
dents as a huge employee group. Policies
and procedures will be set out in order for
the Center to truly become a human re
sources department for students and to
give student workers rights.”
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By Karie Fehler
Staffwriter
Although for some A&M stu
dents the summer is a time to re
lax and take a break from class
es, other students use the
summer months to gain work
experience at internships.
Jay Greenberg, a senior in
dustrial engineering major, in
terned for Andersen Consult
ing in its Dallas office this
summer. He assisted Ander
sen Consulting with comput
er programming and the de
velopment of an application
on the World Wide Web.
Greenberg said the intern
ship helped prepare him for the
business world.
“The work experience is in
valuable,” he said. “I would defi
nitely recommend summer in
ternships because they help you
gain invaluable insight into the
real world experience.”
Greenberg said that the in
ternship will benefit him when
he enters the job market.
“When I get on a job, I won’t
have to go through the whole
‘initiation’ period,” he said. “The
schedule is different and the ex
pectations are different.”
Megan Witcher, a senior
management information sys
tems major, interned for Coop
ers and Lybrand of New York,
New Jersey, and Connecticut.
She worked on an interna
tional software development pro
ject and attended client engage
ments with information
technology controls and security.
“I wanted to leave Texas to ex
plore industries not prevalent in
Texas,” Witcher said.
She will return to Coopers
and Lybrand for a job in June
1998.
Witcher said the internship
provided her with experience she
could not find in the classroom.
“I think it is essential to com
plete significant work experi
ence applicable to your field to
confirm your career choice,” she
said. “You learn communica
tions skills in dealing with peo
ple that you can’t always get in a
classroom. The knowledge I
gained in those three months
will be valuable as I complete my
last year in school.”
Lauri Morgan, a senior
management information
systems major, interned in
Houston as a technology con
sultant for Rexton Interactive.
She left Houston with a job of
fer she is considering.
“It was overall a really great
experience,” Morgan said.
Morgan said although she
works in the A&M Career Center
and has placed many students
with internships, she never
grasped the importance of these
experiences until this summer.
“A lot of people are con
cerned with grades when they
begin to look for a job, but any
experience you can get through
something like an internship is
invaluable when beginning the
interviewing process,” she said.
The Career Center can help
find internships for students.
Terri Morrison, the assistant di
rector of the Career Center, said
the internship application
process is simple.
“There’s such a tremendous
resource right here at the Career
Center to assist students seeking
internships,” she said.
To apply for an internship,
students must purchase a re
sume disc first. The resume disc
has a program that guides stu
dents through the resume
process. Students add their per
sonal information and a resume
is generated.
Then, the student must at
tend a Career Center orientation
and register the disc resume. Af
ter being registered, students
gain access to Internet re
sources. This access includes the
ability to view various company
qualifications and job descrip
tions for positions available.
By Amanda Smith
Staffwriter
Texas A&M students should start submitting resumes to
the Car eer Center before the on-campus interviewing and re
cruiting for jobs and internships begins Sept. 24.
Terri Morrison, the assistant placement director at the Ca
reer Center, said A&M has led the nation in on-campus re
cruiting for the past four years.
She said about 700 recruiters are expected this fall; this is
almost 100 more recruiters than last year.
Glen Payne, the associate director of placement at the Ca
reer Center, said that students must give their resumes to the
Center to get interviews.
Morrison also said when students submit their resume
discs they have access to the Career Center’s database of in
formation about on-campus interviews, a nationwide listing
of jobs and a resume referral service.
“It’s a very tailored service,” she said. “Students have to be
registered to get access.”
Morrison said that students can use the same disc through
their college years.
“We have graduate students still using the same discs that
they used as underclassmen,” she said.
Leigh Turner, the director of the Career Center, said since
the center is one office on campus instead of in the different
colleges, it is easier for the employers and students to find
each other.
Payne said the interviews will be held in interview rooms
at the Career Center in 209 Koldus, the MSC and the sky box
es at Kyle Field.
Turner said some companies may not return to campus in
die spring. She said that December, May and August gradu
ates need to submit their resumes early in the fall semester.
She also said undergraduate students looking for summer in
ternships should also give their resumes to the Center now.
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Gardener displays variety of historic flowers
Story by
Laura Oliveira
Photography by
Dave House
garden filled with antique roses
Martha Washington may have
*.planted in her own flowe’- bed,
can be found at a quaint emporium
outside of Independence, Texas.
Mike Shoup, owner of the Antique
Rose Emporium, began the garden af
ter finding several old-fashioned var
ieties of roses hidden in cemeteries
and lost in neglected land areas. The
flowers withstood the test of time, and
their beauty had not faded.
So Shoup uprooted the historical
remnants and gave the old roses a more
pleasant home.
Now he and about 30 employees
supply tender love and care for over 300
varieties of roses.
“What we realized is we had plants
from 150 years ago or older,” he said.
“We try to reintroduce varieties that
have been forgotten.”
Please see Emporium on Page 2.
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