Career Week Offers Opportunities for Graduates

For Release Through April 10

DALLAS – Career week at Brookhaven College gives students and community members the opportunity to prepare for a new career for their new spring beginning. Brookhaven College’s Career Development Center coordinates a week of activities for students and the public to prepare themselves for the job market. A career fair in the Student Services Center, Building S, featuring more than 70 employers on April 10 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., rounds out the week of speakers.

The Career Fair provides opportunities for students and community members to speak directly to employers who are seeking to fill both full- and part-time positions. Employers will include banks; hotels and resorts; financial services; and retail, insurance, government and technical companies. Attendees at past fairs have included both national and local businesses, large and small, such as Crowne Plaza Addison, Parkland Hospital, Bank of America, Pappas Restaurants and Green Mountain Energy.

Prior to the career fair, the Career Development Center has arranged for speakers to offer tips for improving your online job search, setting goals and preparing your resume in advance of the career fair.

• Make the Internet Work for You and Your Job Search — April 7, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Bldg. B, Room B304
• Target Practice: Setting and Reaching Your Goals — April 8, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Bldg. B, Room B304
• Résumé Central! Résumé review in time for the career fair — April 9, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Student Services Center, Bldg. S Lobby

The events are free and open to the public. In addition to two semi-annual career fairs, Brookhaven College’s Career Development Center offers individual counseling, mock interviews, career testing and job search assistance. For more information about the career fair, please contact the Career Development Center at 972-860-4894. Brookhaven College is located in the city of Farmers Branch, just north of the LBJ Freeway (IH-635) at 3939 Valley View Lane between Midway Road and Marsh Lane.

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Educational opportunities are offered by Brookhaven College without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, sex, disability or sexual orientation. Brookhaven College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, telephone 404-679-4500, Web site: www.sacscoc.org, to award the associate degree.