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CLASS center aims to launch careers

By Tiffany Dean
The Daily Cougar

Aiming to make career planning services available to members of UHis largest college, The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Career Center is having its grand opening today at 11:00 a.m. in Room 110 of the Heyne Building.

"The center will be a wealth of resources for CLASS students," said Cornelius Johnson, an academic advisor for CLASS. "We want our students to be overconsumed with resources."

The CLASS Career Center will offer such services as part-time and full-time job listings, career counseling, resume review and practice interviews. The center will offer free magazines including Black Collegian, Hispanic Business Journal and Job Choices. The center is equipped with eight computers and the program Discover. 

"Discover is a free career-assessment program that is based on an individual's interests, abilities, experiences and values," Johnson said. "This program is a great fit for CLASS students."

The new center will also offer a variety of workshops and seminars, from self-assessment to appropriate business attire to resume writing. In the fall, the center plans to hold a job fair for CLASS students.

The career center will be strictly for CLASS students and will be a partnership between the University Career Services Center and the college.

"The collaboration with the University Career Services Center has been a very big part of our development," said Janie Graham, director of academic affairs for CLASS. "We are working very closely with them so that we can better serve the students."

"I envision referrals back and forth between centers," said David Small, assistant vice president of student services, who also is the director of the campus Career Services Center. "I believe that students would benefit from both since we offer different services."

Being the "intellectual, cultural, and artistic heart of the university," CLASS is the largest and most diverse college on campus. 

"Many people believe that CLASS students arenit marketable, when in fact they are actually more marketable than others because they have so many options," Johnson said. "Thatis why we are here."

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