Resume
workshops help with job search
By Joyce Kelly
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Career Development Center gave Cal State
Long Beach alumni the opportunity Monday
to update their resumes and cover letters
in preparation to obtain jobs.
The center, which presented the Alumni Workshop,
prepared to help alumni and current students
write resumes.
Several alumni have come back to CSULB in
positions to represent their companies in
the Job Fairs. They credit their achievements
with the relationships they obtained with
the center.
Anh Duong, employed by BP West Coast Products,
LLC, formerly known as ARCO, got her job
by presenting her resume to the company
at the CSULB Job Fair.
She represented her company at this year’s
Job Fair as a recruiter.
“I submitted my resume at the Job Fair last
year,” she said. “I have been working with
BP since July.”
Working with the center and meeting other
students can also be rewarding when it comes
to jobs. Anne Bautista and Gus Tarantino
work together as recruiters who travel to
the different job fairs. They were recruiting
at this year’s Job Fair, and explained how
they started working together on the Job
Fair circuit.
“My boss needed to hire another recruiter,
so I recommended Gus,” Bautista said. “We
had a business class together at CSULB,
and he was working as a child care worker
in group homes.”
Two other workshops will be offered by the
center. One is the Electronic Job
Search, which will be held at noon today.
This workshop will enable the students to
learn how to access jobs on the computer.
Randy Yee, of Target, will present the other
workshop, Sailing Through the Interviews,
at 11 a.m. Friday.
All of the events that are provided by the
center are free to current students, but
alumni must pay $25 per year for the services.
Events are held in Brotman Hall.
Special accommodations will be provided
to those students who request them in advance.
They can call the center 48 hours before
the event at (562) 985-8468.
Staff members of the center encourage students,
to call for appointments for any services
that will help them with their future concerns.
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