FARMHOUSE
QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK
(From recent Inside FH newsletters)
Careers
- "I was wondering if there's a way you can help us with finding internships or getting resumes into the right hands with alumni for interviews?"
QUESTION OF THE WEEK? --- "I was wondering if there's a way you can help us with finding internships or getting resumes into the right hands with alumni for interviews?"
We regularly get calls from FarmHouse alumni who are employers asking about whether we can recommend good candidates for various jobs. One method of helping facilitate job placement is through our online resume center at http://www.farmhouse.org/jobbank/jobbank.htm...We started the service 12-18 months ago and would like to begin promoting this service more.
One of our challenges has been that undergraduates haven't taken advantage of this awesome opportunity - we only have around 40 resumes currently posted on the site. You'd think with around 1,300 undergraduates and as difficult as jobs are to find today that we'd have at least 1,300 resumes posted.
Please know that alumni do log on to our website and more and more employers are taking advantage of this powerful way to identify top prospective employees. We regularly send e-mails with links to our site to targeted alumni who are CEOs of companies and large employers to alert them of potential new hires.
Once we build up enough resumes on the site, we can justify further promotion with our alumni through Pearls & Rubies and other means. But, first we need your resumes.
Follow these simple instructions to get your resume posted:
1. Resume must be no longer than 1 page and in a Word document (no Mac formats).
2. Be sure it includes school and home contact info (addresses, phone numbers, email addresses).
3. Be sure it lists expected graduation date.
4. E-mail as an attachment to our web master Brian McCann at Brian@FarmHouse.org.
5. In the subject line of the e-mail please list "Full-time position" or" Internship" and which broad category you're interested in it be placedin" Agriculture, Engineering, Business, Communications, etc."
6. For those seniors seeking full-time positions, your resume will be up for 1 year (unless you ask Brian to remove it). Those underclassmen seeking internships will have their resumes up for at least 1 year. If not updated before the year is up, your resume will be taken down.
7. To update your resume, simply re-send it to Brian McCann at Brian@FarmHouse.org ... Since Brian is a volunteer and we don't want to drive him absolutely crazy, we ask that you update your resume no more than once a semester.
8. Even if you've accepted an internship or a job offer, it doesn't hurt to still post. You never know what job contacts and future leads may come from it.
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