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You Are Now Entering The EMPLOYMENT ZONE

Jo Gelfand
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/Employment

We present for your perusal two scenarios:

• You're a hard-working, hard-studying ECE about to graduate. You've worked your way through class projects, homework, exams, and a pile of paperwork that would daunt a lesser person. Commencement looms, and you suddenly realize you don't have a job lined up! What do you do?
• You're working at your desk in the ECE Main Office and the phone rings. It's XYZ-ECE Company, and they suddenly have permission to hire two new employees. They've got to be ECEs, they've got to be from Purdue, and they've got to have them now. What do you do?

Believe it or not, these scenarios are not drawn from fiction. Rather, they are closer to being a daily occurrence here in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Companies often call schools and departments directly in order to find qualified candidates for open positions. The problem in the past has been how to get the information out to the students.

Early (primitive) efforts included posting a hard copy of job notices on a bulletin board in the main hallway of the EE Building. However, the number of notices posted resulted in a density of paper that was almost impossible to wade through. So, a hard-copy notebook duplicating the material on the board was added in the Main Office -- a little more convenient, but still intimidating. Blanket e-mail messages to students enrolled in EE 400 and EE 694 classes managed to get the word out a little more effectively, but resulted in a scattershot, hit-and-miss methodology. Then, the revelation hit: We can put the job listings online!

ECE would be the test case for all of engineering to see if "jobs online" would actually benefit the students. Kyler Laird and Marian Delp designed a standard page to input information, and on May 16, a brave crew of typists including Retha Stockton, Jo Gelfand, and Siddhartha Rao joined Marian and Kyler in transforming the hard-copy notebook into an easily accessible, electronic version. Now, anyone with an ECN account can check the current listings at
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/Employment

When you view the job postings:

1. Clicking on the job title will bring up information concerning that job.
2. Clicking on the employer will produce a listing of job offerings from that employer.
3. Using the inquiry/search element provided will allow you to locate postings by your desired criteria. (Example: Indiana for locating listings for employment in Indiana.)

Listings are removed after 60 days in order to keep the material fresh and up-to-date. Does it help? We hope so. Is it easy to use? We think so. Are there bugs? You tell us. Log on, check it out, and send your comments and suggestions to webmaster@ecn.purdue.edu.

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