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Career Week 2017 York

Career Week activities offer networking tips and more

3/23/17

Networking is the key when it comes to finding a job that ultimately leads to a career. Penn State York students and alumni who graduated in the past five years have the opportunity to network with business professionals, many of whom are Penn State alumni, in a variety of career fields, including engineering, business, human services, and nonprofit, during the annual career networking event March 30.

Deadlines for networking and telecommunications work requests announced

3/7/17

Penn State units that would like the best opportunity to have new networking and telecommunications work completed and billed by the end of the fiscal year — June 30 — should submit service requests to Enterprise Networking & Communications Services (ENCS) through the ENCS Service Inquiry Request Form no later than March 30.

Mingle All the Way

No offseason for career networking: Mingle all the Way on Dec. 14

12/13/16

Mingle All the Way, a webinar hosted by Alumni Career Services, features a variety of tactics — from sending holiday greeting cards to making connections at holiday parties — to help you express your holiday joy as you grow and strengthen your network. A free event for all Alumni Association members, the next Mingle All the Way webinar will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Dec. 14.

Sara Shaffer Alumni in the Classroom

Alumna says it’s OK to break from traditional career paths

11/3/16

Sara Shaffer, a 2011 kinesiology graduate from Penn State's College of Health and Human Development, didn’t follow a traditional career path after graduating. A successful manager and director in the health care system, Shaffer and others recently shared with kinesiology students at the University that it’s okay to follow a different path than peers, and to look outside the classroom to discover passions.

Students shake hands on the golf course

Collaborative learning experience is a hole in one

4/25/16

The “Putt, Chip and Dip” event at the Penn State Golf Course was the result of a collaboration between hospitality management and PGA golf management programs to provide students with an opportunity to try out the skills they learned in the classroom. The goal was to prepare students for upcoming internships and jobs in their fields of study.

Career Network Event York

Career Week activities offer a variety of opportunities

3/24/16

Penn State York students and alumni who graduated in the past five years have the opportunity to network with business professionals — many of whom are Penn State alumni — in a variety of career fields including engineering, business, human services and nonprofit, during the annual career networking event March 31.

Allison Kirschner

School of Theatre alumni to present mentoring event for students

3/23/16

Networking, mentoring, the chance to learn directly from professionals in your industry—it’s what all students want. And it’s what Penn State theatre students will get, at the second annual “Behind the Curtain: A Backstage Pass to the Multidisciplinary Industry of Theatre,” on April 2–3, 2016, in the Theatre Building. The event is free and open to the public.

York Career Networking

Career Week activities encourage students to be proactive

3/19/15

Penn State York students and alumni who graduated in the past five years, have the opportunity to network with business professionals (many of whom are Penn State alumni) in a variety of career fields including banking, business, education, engineering, forensic science, human services, law, manufacturing, and nonprofit, during the annual career networking event on Thursday, March 26.

students network with alumni

Brandywine students network, learn from alumni

12/11/14

Penn State Brandywine’s Advising and Career Services office and the Student Government Association (SGA) hosted the Alumni Networking Event on Nov. 19 to allow students an opportunity to gain valuable tips about professionalism and career development from Brandywine alumni and Penn State graduate school representatives.

The ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem, Pa.

Lehigh Valley Nittany Networking event scheduled for April 17

4/8/14

Penn State alumni are invited to a Nittany Networking event featuring food, giveaways and Berkey Creamery ice cream from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Blast Furnace Room (second floor) at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks.

Nittany Networking Event set for Nov. 14 at Pittsburgh food bank

10/22/12

Penn State students and alumni in western Pennsylvania are invited to make new connections, enhance existing relationships and experience community sharing at a Nittany Networking Event from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14, at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank (GPCFB) in Duquesne. The GPCFB distributes approximately 27 million pounds of food per year from its 94,000 square foot warehouse. The event will offer light refreshments and networking opportunities as well as a tour of this award-winning Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified "green" warehouse.

Professors share insights on how students can network with instructors

6/26/12

Students often wonder how to best connect and communicate with instructors and professors throughout their college years. There are always questions: Where do I sit in class? What methods of communication should I use? Should I go to office hours? How can I stand out and make a good impression? The questions can be endless and the answers unclear. Three Penn State faculty members offered helpful tips into the "dos" and "don'ts" for the practice of student-professor networking.

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