CEHD Career Corner

Group Interview: Thursday, March 26th
Training: March 27th – March 30th
For more info contact: Mike Jackson, 612-353-6927 or Mike@projectlegos.org

Project Legos is a non-profit with a mission to inspire, empower, and prepare youth and community to be change agents, social leaders, and volunteers.

Program facilitators are those that go out to various locations throughout the Twin Cities and conduct our youth programs with young people of all ages; all with the common goal of getting young people to realize their social leadership capacity and take responsibility for making the changes they want to see in our community. The amount of hours/week depends on the facilitator's availability and how it lines up with the programs on our calendar. Many programs happen during the after-school hours of 2-5, but there are several programs outside of those times as well.

For each program that a facilitator "signs on" for during the season, there is weekly time spent in the office preparing for each day of the program that can range from 1-2 hours and there is also time spent actually out at the programs with the young people ranging from 1-5 hours depending on the program set-up. Facilitators are only paid for the hours spent out conducting the program and not for the hours spent in the office.

This not a full-time position and is very much for someone who feels strongly about the mission and work we are doing and wants to be a part of creating positive change versus someone who is just looking for a paycheck.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Earle Brown Heritage Center
6155 Earle Brown Drive
Brooklyn Center, MN

What you can expect at this Career Fair:
-Meet face-to-face with employers that are hiring
-Meet with service providers that can provide information on benefits
-Get information on GI Bill benefits
-Meet with resume critique experts
-Attend workshops that teach you the latest trends in finding a job and making a career change

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The program:
The Federal Service Student Ambassadors program produces a corps of college students ready to actively promote public service following their completion of a federal internship in Washington, D.C.

Who is eligible?
Any student interning with a federal agency in Washington, D.C. this summer (2009) who will be returning to their campus for the 2009-2010 school year is eligible to apply.

Bonus for students:
This is a paid, year-long position, with a stipend of $2,200 and an added $300 stipend for expenses and materials.

Bonus for you:
If a student from your school is selected, we will train the student to do campus outreach promoting federal service. The student will be expected to work with their Career Services office to help with events, build federal agency relationships and generally coordinate cross-campus efforts to educate their fellow students about career options in government.

What we need from you:
Spread the word! We're currently recruiting our 2009 class of Ambassadors, and we need your help reaching out to students working as federal interns this summer. Please send out this announcement to your student, faculty, staff, and administrator contacts across all disciplines.

Students can apply for the Federal Service Student Ambassadors program at http://www.makingthedifference.org/ambassadors. For more information, please contact ambassadors@ourpublicservice.org.

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INTERN TITLE: Program Assistant, Refugee Mentoring Program
COMPENSATION: Unpaid Position
TYPE: Semester, Summer, J-Term or Year Long Options available. Min 20 hours/week. Full-time preferred, Monday-Thursday 9-5 Thursday 6-9 pm, off Fridays. Occasional other evenings and weekends.
SUPERVISOR: Refugee Mentoring Program Coordinator

The International Institute of Minnesota is searching for an unpaid intern to work in the Refugee Mentoring Program (RMP). The RMP is a fast-paced program which recruits, trains, and supports volunteer mentors who meet weekly with newly arrived refugees. We are searching for an energetic, well-organized individual with a positive attitude and a commitment to effective social service.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Recruit, train, encourage and support volunteer mentors working with newly arrived refugees
•Help volunteer mentors and newly arrived refugees navigate the social services systems
•Track data using Microsoft Office Suite, especially MS Excel and MS Access
•Compose newsletters
•Update social service resources
•Plan and convene social and educational events for volunteers and refugees
•Additional tasks as necessary

RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS:
•Bachelor or Master degree desired; upper level students considered
•Knowledge of cultures
•Understanding of the relativity of cultural norms and values.
•Ability to view one’s own culture from the viewpoint of refugees
•Knowledge of social services and community resources
•Understanding of poverty
•Experience with computers and Microsoft products, especially Access
•Ability to work with groups and individuals
•Experience, skill, and comfort with public speaking
•Good organizational skills
•Flexibility and ability to multi-task
•Have an eye for detail, while still seeing the “big picture”.
•Ability to work independently, as part of a team and to take initiative
•Willingness to take direction from supervisors
•Willingness to work with people from a variety of backgrounds and English abilities
•Availability to work days with occasional evenings and weekends
•Driver’s license, insurance, and car helpful for driving yourself to frequent home visits and community meetings

Applications will be accepted until filled. We are looking for interns for summer, Fall semester, Winter break, and Spring semester. Please send a résumé and cover letter bstone@iimn.org. Please write “RMP Intern Position” in the subject line. Please include your preferred: Start date; End date; Start time each day; End time each day; numbers of hours per week available.

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STARS Scholar Information:
Four paid internships to be completed in the summer of 2009, or the 2009-2010 academic year, for county fieldwork opportunities for Social Work & Psychology Bachelor and Master degree interns who are African American, African Immigrant, Asian, Latino, or American Indian.

STARS for Children’s Mental Health, a local federally funded children’s mental health initiative, is sponsoring four paid internships for students from underserved populations in our partnered counties. The purpose of these internships is to provide students from underserved populations fieldwork experience with a county children’s mental health services unit, along with training on STARS.

Eligibility Requirements: Eligible students with a major in Social Work or Psychology who will be doing their academic fieldwork requirement this summer or fall, 2009. Eligible students will be one of the following; African American, African Immigrant, Asian, Latino, or American Indian. Eligible students must have an interest in doing their bachelor or master degree academic fieldwork requirement in children’s mental health services in one of four counties. The four counties are Stearns, Benton, Wright and Sherburne. In addition, the STARS Scholars will agree to attend at least six STARS Scholars group meetings with the STARS Cultural & Linguistically Competent Consultant to discuss the internship. The purpose of these meetings is to provide a forum for the STARS Scholars to share experiences and to get insight and support for this fieldwork opportunity.

Internship: STARS will provide $3,000 to each STARS Scholar for a semester of acceptably completed fieldwork at an assigned county’s children’s mental health services unit. $1,500 will be paid to the student when half of the fieldwork hours are successfully completed. The remaining $1,500 will be paid when the total fieldwork hours are successfully completed. An agreed upon mileage reimbursement will also be paid, based on the distance to the county field placement, car usage for the placement, and other available mileage payments.

Application Process: Eligible M.S.W. students need to fill out the STARS Scholars Application Form and submit it to Steve Maxwell, Director of Field Instruction. He will forward the application to the appropriate county agencies. Applicants also need to send a copy to Mary Jo Verschay at Children’s Mental Health Division, P.O. Box 6485, St. Paul, MN 55164-0985 or mary.jo.verschay@state.mn.us.

Additional Information Contact: Mary Jo Verschay at mary.jo.verschay@state.mn.us or 651-431-2338.

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Panel Session
Monday, April 20th, 2009
4:00-6:00 PM
(panel: 4:00-5:30, networking 5:30-6:00)
402 Walter Library (East Bank)

Save the date for this moderated panel session. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome. Panelists will include representation from the following industries: IT, Business/Financial, Engineering, Human/Social Service, and much more.

Sponsored by:
Employer Relations Group and the Career Development Network
Questions, please email: A Yang, yangx326@umn.edu

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Tuesday, April 14th
-Workshops run from 10:00am-4:00pm
-Career Fair runs from noon-4:00pm
University of Minnesota
Coffman Union, Great Hall
http://www.cclc.umn.edu/idealist.html

Come to this event to explore jobs and career paths in nonprofits and social change organizations. This event is both a career fair and a career exploration conference. This event may be particularly interesting to graduate students, graduating seniors, other undergraduates considering careers in the non-profit or social change oriented sectors, and other job-seekers. Spend the whole day or just stop by for the event(s) that interest you!

From 12:00 to 4:00pm is the "Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair". During that time, more than 80 organizations will have tables and staff reps inside Coffman's Great Hall. Stop by to talk to them and learn about the jobs and internships they have available. Bring your resumes!

Between 10:00am and 4:00pm is the "Working for Change Conference" portion of the event is ongoing. During that time there will be numerous, 50-minute workshops that will feature panelists talking about the paths that led them into nonprofit and social justice work (as well as for-profit GREEN careers, social entrepreneurship, working abroad, post-college service programs and other topics that may be of interest to anyone). Feel free to attend just one workshop or all of them - pick any that interest you. View the workshop schedule here: http://www.cclc.umn.edu/Events/Idealistorgworkshops.html.

This event is FREE and open to the public, but please preregister at http://www.idealist.org/careerfairs.

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New online workshop on writing cover letters and references: http://umconnect.umn.edu/coverletters

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April 29, 5:00 p.m., University International Center Room 101
Enjoy free pizza!

Looking for opportunities to live abroad and get paid? Thinking about making a career change? Come and learn about exciting opportunities to teach English abroad. What better way to learn about a culture than to become immersed in it! There is demand for English teachers all over the world. During the info session, students can discover where and how, while hearing from people who have taught abroad themselves.

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April 15, 5:00 p.m., Heller Hall Room 110
Enjoy free pizza!

Students can learn about exciting opportunities to work abroad! If you are interested in travel, learning about other cultures, and gaining cross-cultural work experience while getting paid, then this is the info session for them. You could be working at a café in France, in the tourism industry in New Zealand, with kids in Spain, or at a university in Ireland. We’ll explore options for short term working abroad during the summer or after graduation.

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Awards up to $500 for non-credit work, internship, volunteer, and teaching English abroad programs for Summer 2009. Students must participate on a Learning Abroad Center cosponsored program, which can be found online.

Preferences will be given to non-paid experiences. Deadline of April 15. Students must complete a 250–300 word essay detailing their program and the impact of the program as well as their intentions for funding the experience. Find more information online.

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Monday, March 30
12:00pm - 1:00pm
35 Nicholson Hall

And

Wednesday April 1
3:35pm - 4:30pm
110 Blegen Hall

Attend an info session to learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which provides generous support for 1000+ recent college graduates to study, carry out research or creative work, or serve as English Teaching Assistants abroad in over 100 countries.

U.S. citizenship is required. Current juniors who have strong academic records are especially encouraged to attend an info session to learn how to apply for a Fulbright for 2010-11. Other interested undergraduates are also welcome to attend.

For more information about the Fulbright program and other national scholarships: http://www.honors.umn.edu/scholarships

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Minnesota’s comprehensive career, education, and job resource. ISEEK just launched their re-designed website, making it easier for Minnesotans to research, organize, and understand successful pathways to the hottest careers, best education, and perfect jobs.

Check it out: http://www.iseek.org/

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The Learning Abroad Center is offering this workshop for students that have recently returned from a study, work, intern, or volunteer experience abroad.

Attend this workshop on marketing your experience abroad in order to identify skills learned abroad, articulate your experience with relevant details and stories, and, finally, communicate the value of your time abroad in a job search or graduate/professional school application process, in a resume or interview.

Workshops are 1 hour and in groups of 2 or more and will be conducted Mondays and Wednesdays the first and third week of the month; time is negotiable. Bring a story about your experience abroad to share! Call 612.626.5311 or email gradadv@umn.edu to reserve your place!

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Sponsored by Inst. for Global Studies

Wed., March 25th
Session I 2:15-3:15
Session II 3:30-4:30
Carlson School of Management
Room 2-224

If you are looking to truly become a global citizen, gain knowledge about other cultures and countries, and gain valuable work experience, the Peace Corps is a wonderful way to do just that! Find out more about the application process, benefits of service, and speak with a recruiter.

For more information contact Ryan Kattner at: 612.221.5541 or rkattner@peacecorps.gov

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ECELA is a Spanish-language volunteer and study-abroad destination in Latin America. The program is designed for students seeking volunteer opportunities in South America. It combines our regular Spanish immersion program with volunteer work in many different fields. Some of the benefits are:

• The profits of this program will be donated to the organization for which you volunteer.
• Flexible start dates: Start any Monday all year round.
• All Spanish levels accepted – Max 6 student per class – 20 hours per week. Representatives from

ECELA will be on campus on May 4, 2009, to talk about volunteer and study possibilities in
Peru and Chile. For more information, visit: http://www.ecela.com/work_vol.php or contact Christopher Watts. ECELA International Representative, at: 1-866-577-8693, ext. 1000. Job

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The goal of these workshops is to help student veterans and service members get their resumes organized and effectively translate military experience for potential civilian employers.

Tuesday, March 10
8:00am-9:00am
B20 Fraser Hall

Friday, March 13
11:30am-1:00pm
Veterans Transition Center, 302 Wesbrook Hall

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Deadline: April 15 at 4:00pm
Notification: May 1

The Learning Abroad Center has funding of up to $500 for students participating on non-credit work, intern, volunteer or teaching programs during summer 2009.

Students must complete an application and submit a 250-300 word essay illustrating their reasons in choosing the program, how it will impact their personal, professional, academic or long-term goals, and how they plan to fund the program in addition to the awarded fellowship.

Preference will be given to students participating on non-paid programs.

Please visit the Learning Abroad Center's website to find a list of approved programs and application information: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/programs/WIV/apply.html

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Bike Walk Ambassador Program - Department of Public Works

Under the supervision of the Youth Ambassador Coordinator, work with high school aged students building team work and leadership skills and training them to provide direct service to youth, their families and the general public on biking and walking as a part of transportation.

Hours: 15-20 hours per week, some evening and weekend hours.
Duration: start summer 2009
Compensation: $12.24 per hour
Approximately 80% outdoor work, 20% indoor work

Preferred Qualifications:
Prefer youth development or education students with experience working in and with diverse populations. All applicants must have valid driver’s license and be willing to work outdoors in all types of weather. Pass a background and drug test (do we need to say this?)

Function of Organization:
The Youth Ambassador program hires high school age students from Minneapolis who provide outreach and education to K-12 students and the public in the NTP program Area. The youth act as volunteers at park, school and large community events.

Application Procedure: Submit cover letter, resume and transcript on or before March 31st, 2009 – (Final Hiring dependent on approval of City Hiring Freeze Waiver)

Contact: Michelle Chavez, Program Assistant
Address: City of Minneapolis Public Works
350 South 5th Street, Room 203 City Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55415-1390

Phone: 612-673-3564 Fax: 612-673-3565
Email: michelle.chavez@ci.minneapolis.mn.us

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Visit http://www.freegovtjobs.com for a complete summary of available government jobs by State.

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Date and Time: Monday, March 30, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Place: Educational Sciences Building room 325

Purpose: This panel discussion will feature professionals from the education field who will share their experiences/viewpoints on the teaching job search. Speakers include an ELL teacher, an assistant principal, a second grade charter school teacher, and a charter school principal. After brief presentations, the audience will be able to ask the speakers questions regarding getting a teaching or other education position. Speakers will provide useful tips regarding what employers look for in interviews and for getting through that first year.

Who Should Attend? Anyone is welcome to attend this free event. It will be most useful for initial licensure students who are embarking on a teaching job search.

Questions? Please contact Kaitlin Lindsey (lind1263@umn.edu).

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