Job
Fair offers immediate positions
By Joyce Kelly
On-line Forty-Niner
Students
filled the Cal State Long Beach University
Student Union Thursday to give their resumes,
fill out applications and talk with representatives
with prospects of obtaining jobs or internships.
 Some
CSULB students attending the Job Fair, presented
by the Career Development Center, have received
employment. Representatives are interested
in those students who showed a genuine concern
for working with their companies and contact
them for jobs.
“We are looking for engineering management
for internships for next summer at our Carson
refinery,” said Molly O. Phillips, human
resources adviser of BP West Coast Products
LLC.
Anh Duong, a CSULB graduate, had received
a job through the fair last year. Duong
represented BP West Coast Products LLC at
the Job Fair. She is working in the process
engineer optimization group.
“I graduated in chemical engineering in
May 2002 and traveled throughout Canada
and the East Coast of the United States,”
Duong said “I have been working with BP
since mid July.”
Duong continues to support programs at CSULB
in the chemical engineering department.
“I try to do what I can with the women in
engineering program at CSULB, which is sponsored
by BP,” she said. “I also keep in touch
with Lily Gossage, an adviser with the outreach
program that is in touch with top-notch
girls in the math and science fields. Engineering
is not popular with women, so the program
works to try to make a difference.”
Duong said BP hired four college graduates
during the summer, including Ryan Tarkanian,
a CSULB chemical engineer student.
Two other CSULB graduates were representatives
at the Job Fair. Anne Bautista and
Gus Tarantino represented Olive Crest, a
company that provides service to abused
children.
Bautista graduated in the fall of 2002.
She had visited the Career Development Center
and got her first job through Monster TRAK,
a job search engine used by the center,
which she used as a stepping stone to her
current position. She applied at Olive Crest
and began working in May of 2002.
“My boss needed to hire another recruiter,
so I recommended Gus,” she said. “We
had a business class together at CSULB,
and he was working as a child care worker
in group homes.”
Many students presented themselves in business
attire with hopes for securing a job with
one of the companies. Annette Barkenhagen,
a senior majoring in international business,
was one such student.
One particular company showed interest in
Barkenhagen because of the Wisconsin company’s
expansion into the Los Angeles market in
March.
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