[188]‘BET ON YOU’ IS THEME OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT WEEK EVENTS

Release date: Nov. 5, 2008


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
Career Development Center contact: Karen Austin, 615-898-5732


‘BET ON YOU’ IS THEME OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT WEEK EVENTS


(MURFREESBORO) — The MTSU Career Development Center will hold a Career Development Week Nov. 10-14 that will have something for all students, ranging from freshmen to graduate students.
It is a first-time event to help the center inform students about November as Career Development Month as well as National Career Development Day on Nov. 15.
With some exceptions, all Career Development Week activities will be held in the Keathley University Center. Following Homecoming’s “Bet on Blue” theme, the Career Development Week theme will be “Bet on You.”
“Our goal is to let people know we are here and to use us to start focusing on their career development,” said Karen Austin, Career Development Center associate director. “People at varying stages of their career start asking questions—and these (events) are prompters. Even if they only come to ‘Resumania,’ questions will be asked that will get them to thinking about their plan and show them what they may be doing well or may not be doing well.”
The “Resumania” event to which Austin refers actually is called “Resumania: Make Your Resume Crazy Good.” It will be held twice, Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov. 11-12), from 10 a.m. until noon in the area just outside the KUC Grill.
Austin said other can’t-miss sessions will include the Majors Fair from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the KUC second-floor lobby and “Managing Change: Transitioning from College to Career” on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from noon until 1 p.m. in the KUC Theater.
“If you are a freshman or are undecided, you cannot miss the Majors Fair,” Austin said. “Your decision (on a major) will be the key to open the door you want.”
Kevin McNulty, who is chief motivation officer and founder of Murfreesboro-based Humadyn, a company that specializes in helping people, will lead the “Managing Change” session and organizations succeed.
The first four sessions on Nov. 11 will have an entrepreneurship theme, Austin said.
An Etiquette Dinner will be the final event of the day from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the James Union Building’s Hazlewood Dining Room. The guest speaker will be Francene Gilmer, who serves as director of Vanderbilt University’s Career Center.
Austin said the “From Service to Success” event from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 12 in the KUC Theater will allow students to hear from panelists who will discuss organizations like VISTA, the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, MTSU student leadership, branches of the military and others.
Friday’s “Managing Your Career” speaker will be Vincent Windrow, an MTSU alumnus who recently became director of MTSU’s Department of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs. The event will be held in KUC 314.
For more information, call the center at 615-898-2500 or visit http://career.web.mtsu.edu/.

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