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College of Engineering and Engineering Technology Job Fair
October is career fair season at NIU. With many companies coming to campus to network with students, this is an ideal time to think about life post-graduation. NIU’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET) hosts its own job fair each year, catering to the career and internship needs of CEET students. This year, computer...
Joyce Keller
NIU Career Services will host the annual Graduate and Professional School Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. “The Graduate and Professional School Fair is an opportunity for everyone who is interested in earning a master’s or professional degree to get information...
NIU’s fall career fairs begin Tuesday, Oct. 2. The annual “NIU Helps Huskies Get Hired” events offer students and job-seekers the chance to network and to impress potential employers. Fall 2012 features NIU’s annual Graduate & Professional School Fair, Internship Fair and Full-time Job Fair as well as two workshops to help job candidates get...
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An increased utilization of Federal Work-Study Grant funds has resulted in a freeze in new appointments through June 30, 2012,  for the duration of the appointment. No replacement appointments will be authorized under the Work-Study Grant, according to Steve Cunningham, vice president for administration and human resources. “During FY12, we have monitored an increase in...
Retail Leadership Expo
Why is Career Services dedicating a career event to retail? To meet the employment needs of NIU students in a struggling economy, the center’s staff are concentrating on retail because: Retailers are still hiring. Retailers offer multiple career opportunities that span all majors. The skills acquired working in retail apply to all industries. Retailers offer...
Don Kluemper
Researchers have tapped into what could become a new, and better, tool for human resource professionals trying to predict the success of job candidates. It’s called Facebook. Don Kluemper, a professor of management at Northern Illinois University’s College of Business, and a team of researchers, found that impressions gleaned from a five- to 10-minute perusal...
NIU’s Spring 2012 career fairs offer students and job-seekers the chance to network with and impress potential employers. Career Services will begin the season with two workshops in advance of the fairs: “ABCs of Getting an Internship” and the Career Fair Preparation Workshop. Attendees are encouraged to be prepared by researching the companies, rehearsing elevator...
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If your boss is giving you a hard time – lying, making fun of you in public and generally putting you down – he or she might benefit from some exercise, according to a new study by James Burton, who teaches in the Management Department in the NIU College of Business. Burton and his team of researchers found...
Lindsey Pollak
Everyone is talking about LinkedIn these days, but how exactly do you use the world’s largest professional social network in your job search and career management? Lindsey Pollak, an official spokesperson for LinkedIn, will tell you everything you always wanted to know. Pollak is the featured speaker at the NIU Alumni Association‘s annual Career Resources...
NIU Career Fairs
Career Services has good news for NIU students looking for good jobs after graduation: The number of employers attending the semiannual career fairs is on the rise. Top employers throughout Chicago, Illinois and beyond hire NIU students for top careers and internships in management and leadership positions. Employers look to NIU students and graduates, posting...
College of Engineering & Engineering Technology job fair
NIU’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology hosted 24 companies Oct. 20  for the biannual engineering and engineering technology job and internship fair. More than 170 current students attended the fair in hopes of finding internship and full-time employment opportunities. Representatives from companies of all size ranges, including Caterpillar, John Deere, Navistar, Hamilton Sundstand and...
Shannon Taylor
Companies are increasingly turning to credit scores as a way of flagging potentially troublesome employees, but there is little data to support that the practice works, says Northern Illinois University researcher Shannon Taylor. “People are basing these hiring decisions on their gut instinct as to what these scores mean. There is no statistical data measuring...
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