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We've all seen the advertisement campaign "Got Milk?" The question you need to ask college students is "Got Experience?" Today, employers are looking to hire new employees with broad backgrounds. Work experience, especially career related work experience, is an increasingly more important component of a well-rounded education. However, work experience is useless unless students can articulate its benefits to employers. Students must reflect and record their work experience and gather the evidence to verify the skills they are building. Here are a few ideas to help your career center launch a successful summer work experience campaign.
- Contact local employers to encourage them to provide summer employment and internships to students.
- Create interesting opportunities and products to help students seek out and identify summer work experiences.
- Post all information, links, and resources on your career center website and update it frequently.
- Promote summer work experience opportunities by printing and distributing the Tips to Terrific Summer Job, attached.
- Track what you do…tell your story and tally your numbers ... read the "facts" section.
How about a Summer Job and Internship Fair?
Students can develop their own internthips suggests Berkeley Career Center.
New employment trends in Michigan State University’s 2005-2006 Recruiting Trends ... useful wherever you are.
There are LOTS of good reasons to get a summer job. POCKET CHANGE, to BUY A CAR, to SAVE FOR COLLEGE?