Tuesday, September 14, 1976 Connecticut Daily Campus Page 9
Arts & Features
Programs to assist job searching students
By DARIA CARUSO
A ‘new program has been developed by the Office of Place- ment and Career Planning and the counseling and Student De- velopment Center which will de-
termine the skills and interests of '
seniors and aid them in their
search for jobs. The Sessions
Assessment,
in Placement
sions which will be offered at different times throughout the semester. These sessions will help students identify the careers to which they are suited and present the techniques of job hunting.
An orientation session. open to all students, will be offered
beginning this afternoon to ex-
plain the SPARC program. There
Resources and will be 12 sessions offered during
Counseling (SPARC) program this month and in October.
consists of several one-hour ses-
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sessions over a two-week period this month and in October dealing with self-assessment and occupa- tional choice. In addition to these sessions, there will be one or more meetings with a counselor. From September to December. ..there will be a series of five
one-hour sessions dealing with the topics “Placement Office Services," “Resume Writing,"
“Interviewing Techniques." “Graduate Study" and “Job Hunting Techniques and Strat-
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Douglas Daring. director of the Office of Placement and Career Planning. said that they will “show students the process and allow them to plug into the process according to their indivi- dual needs and schedules."
Daring said that students “can go the whole routine in typical sequence or take individual ses- sions."
According to Daring. SPARC is a modified version of the Senior Job Search program which his office conducted last year.
The Senior Job Search. was comprised of six sessions in sequential order. Eighty to ninety students participated in the five- week program.
Daring hopes that SPARC will alleviate the major error in the Senior Job Search which. he said. “was in assuming that all people
beyond the starting point and dropped out before their point of readiness was reached while others came in too early and weren't prepared for the estab- lished starting point. Daring said.
The goal of SPARC. like its predecessor. is to help students. especially those in the Liberal Arts field. to find jobs by plan- ning their careers early enough.
Daring is quick to stress that “Of all the services the Office of Placement and Career Planning provides. SPARC is just one program."
Another program which the Office of Placement and Career Planning conducts yearly is the on-campus interview program. Between September and March. 200 to 300 employers. many of whom are looking for Liberal Arts students. will visit the campus and meet with individual stu-
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were at the same point of readi- dents. ness." According to Daring. the on-
They discovered that some campus interviews program is people entered the rogram where the placement service began in the late 1940's am‘. early 50's. It was a way for employers to reach college graduates.
“A transformation occurred about 6 to 8 years ago and career counseling was added to the job placement services." Daring said.
Students can receive help with their careers by meeting with a staff member or using the book- lets and other material available to them at the Office of Placement and Career Planning.
In the 1975-76 school year. 2,400 undergraduate and gradu- ate students and 2.200 alumnae registered with the Office of Placement and Career Planning programs. Many other students used the services without regis- tering.
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