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Feature | Conference 2005 Highlights

Career Opportunities Center brings professionals and students together

Hundreds of Attendees Benefit from Job Listings & Mentoring

The 2005 NIRSA Foundation Career Opportunities Center (COC) was a great success for employers and job seekers, alike. BluefishJobs.com was central to the process of finding just the right graduate assistantship, internship or professional position; approximately 475 job seekers were able to pursue opportunities, either online using the computer bank, or in paper handouts available to job seekers at the Candidates' Mailbox area.

Using the mailbox system, 130 employers were able to schedule interviews with individual candidates in cubicles in the COC. Additionally, 41 employers gave group presentations to disseminate information about their campuses and programs.

In all, BluefishJobs had over 320 job postings that included well over 400 positions!

A new feature in the Center was a mentoring table attended by several experienced NIRSA leaders including Paul Lee from University of California at Santa Barbara, Juliette Moore from the University of Arizona, and 2005 Honor Award winner, Pat Besner, from the University of Toledo. National Student Representative Tiffany Barr-Lundy was instrumental in providing this valuable resource for NIRSA's Student Members to benefit from those Professional Members who made time to share their experience and wisdom.

Career Opportunities Committee co-chairs, Dave Frock, James Madison University, and Jeff Huskey, University of Tennessee, extend their thanks to the committee members and additional volunteers, numbering more than forty-five, who worked to make the 2005 COC a great success!

Also, huge thanks to the NIRSA Foundation for their very generous financial support!

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