by sgrady
| April 22, 2010 03:28
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OneWire Newsletter
Helping you help your students and alumni land their next job
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With graduation just around the corner, your office is sure to be busy.
We hope your students are turning to you for help, whether they are
searching for their first full-time job or a summer internship. We wish
them - and your office - the best of luck over the weeks leading up to
graduation!
Partner Schools
More than 500 leading colleges and universities have partnered with OneWire.
We are now turning to those schools to gauge their interest in serving
on our advisory board. If you would like to become a member of the
OneWire advisory board - so you can help us meet and exceed the needs
of your students and alumni - please contact us at
campuspro@onewire.com.
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Recruitment and Placement
Undergraduates Have a Tough Time Evaluating Unpaid Internships
Unpaid
internships are on the rise. They have always been an option for
students looking to gain some experience over the summer and bulk up
their resume, but we have seen an increase in the number of unpaid
internships in recent years. However, The New York Times reports that the legality of such internships may be in question.
This
poses quite the dilemma for many undergraduates. Because so many
internships are unpaid, students often cannot afford to accept an offer
and opt to search for paid work instead. However, they then feel they
are missing out on valuable work experience, as well as the opportunity
to strengthen their resumes. And what about the students who do accept
an unpaid internship? The New York Times article
reports that these students often find that, at the end of the summer,
they are more familiar with the filing cabinet and the photocopier than
the ins-and-outs of the industry in which they worked.
When
students are ambitious enough to devote their entire summer to an
internship program, they want and expect results. Even if they are not
paid, they at least want to head back to school with three months'
worth of solid work experience and a feeling of preparedness for their
eventual entry into the work force. With your help, students will be
better able to convey their experiences to potential employers, even if
they were not able to take on a summer internship in their field of
study. So what steps can your office take to help students make the
most of their experiences?
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OneWire's Solution
Use OneWire Campus Pro to Help your Students Map Out Their Work Experience
Helping
your students create their resumes and career profiles is the first
step to helping them
land internships or full-time jobs. Creating a profile on OneWire is
one of the best and easiest ways for your students to track all their
experiences and accomplishments in a single, organized application.
Most employers expect that graduating seniors will have little to no
work experience as compared to their educational experiences. That is
why the OneWire candidate profile page asks for as much detail in the
Education section as it does in the Experience section.
Under
the Education tab, students can add detail surrounding their entire
experience at their college or university, from Degrees & Fields of
Study and Scholarships to Clubs & Organizations and Study Abroad
Experiences. They can even add information about their High School and
any Board Tests they have taken.
Any work experience should be
added under the Experience tab, no matter the type of position or
employer. And skills, interests, and hobbies should be added under the
Skills & Interests tab. Students can even upload a resume or
include their LinkedIn profile information. The combination of all
these details provides hiring managers with all the information they
need to make their decisions - and OneWire presents it to them in a
clean and concise manner, all in one place. This will help your
students land the internships and jobs that are right for them.
Contact us to bring Campus Pro to your students.
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OneWire Marketing
At
OneWire, we want to help you spread the word about the benefits of
Campus Pro to your students and alumni. Remember, placing the OneWire
link on your career office and the alumni office homepages is the best
way to drive students and alumni to OneWire.com. But you can always contact us to request marketing materials or lists of relevant jobs to send to your students.
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"Quick Tip"
As
long as students have given your office access to their profiles, you
can view them and send them messages through the OneWire system with
any suggestions you may have.
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Features
We
added a new LinkedIn widget to the candidate profile that allows
OneWire users to add their LinkedIn profile URL to their OneWire
profile to help them network.
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Jobs for Students
Undergraduate
and graduate students can expect to be matched to relevant internship
and full-time opportunities on OneWire. Here is a list of current opportunities. |
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