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Career
Services moves into new facility
By Danny Gillham
Staff Reporter
After
spending the summer in the Student Center Reading Room,
University Career Services is back in its own building,
executive director Patricia Bergmaier said.
Career
Services provides information about majors, internships
and job opportunities to TCU students, faculty and alumni,
Bergmaier said.
Bergmaier,
who took the executive director position on May 19,
said the expansion will allow Career Services to better
serve students and faculty on campus.
“We
needed to have enough room to provide space for our
staff, and adequately serve our faculty and students,”
Bergmaier said. “The more room we have, the more
staff we can properly hold. I couldn’t do it alone.”
Amy
Render, who graduated from TCU in May 2003 with a marketing
degree, said she used Career Services her senior year
for job searches, and attended Senior Conference,a workshop
designed to help students prepare for their careers
and life after TCU.
“It
was beneficial to me,” Render said. “Senior
Conference was great, and everybody should go. The one-on-one
time they provide works well.”
Bergmaier
said Career Services currently employs seven full-time
employees and are hiring two more. She said seven student
employees and one intern also work for Career Services.
More books and files are being added to the database
to provide additional information for decision making,
she said.
Bergmaier
said companies send recruiters to campus to look for
possible job candidates.
Expanding
the facility has increased the number of interview rooms
from one to five, she said.
Jill
Somerville, human resources manager for the Fort Worth
division of the Cintas Corporation, said Cintas has
been using Career Services for four years with good
success.
“They
are very, very helpful in providing us with top-caliber
candidates on campus,” Somerville said. “We
interview with management and marketing students that
we feel fit well in our management trainee positions.”
Somerville
said four management trainees with Cintas were found
through Career Services.
Danny
Gillham
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