WTNH News Channel 8 / News / 1999

	Grads going online more than ever to post resumes, find jobs (Hamden-WTNH) _ Graduation time can mean only one thing: The search is on to find jobs. A survey done by SNET found most Connecticut college graduates are taking advantage of new high-tech job hunting techniques. News Channel 8's Verna Collins reports. It's the last day this group of Quinnipiac College students can savor in their college days. Tomorrow they graduate, and for all of them that means finding their first job, and these students have taken a high-tech approach to do that. Jason Oksenhendler is looking for a job in the field of broadcast journalism. Jason Oksenhendler, Graduating Student: "A lot of the sites I've looked up -- Talent Dynamics, Don Fitzpatrick and Associates, RTNDA -- all those kinds of sites, which are free job banks, so that's where I'm looking and sending resume tapes to." The computer is a quick way for students to not only find the jobs that are out there, but it's also a good place to post their resumes, and to find out whether a potential job is a good fit for them. Rich DeCapua is going to be a resident director at a college. Rich DeCapua, Graduating Student: "I would go onto the home page of the school that I wanted to be at, and I would see if the school was right for me, and had the kind of environment I could give something to or take something from." As a career services counselor, Pat Nielsen encourages students to use all tools available in their job search. Pat Nielsen, Quinnipiac Career Services: "The resources we have in our career services office here at Quinnipiac, their own personal source of resources which is family and friends, their faculty, as well as the new technology." And we're not just talking about a few students who are taking advantage of the internet. According to SNET's survey, 75 percent of Connecticut graduates are surfing the net for jobs. All but one of the kids we talked to today have already found a job, and they believe the internet was key to helping them get it. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Grads going online more than ever to post resumes, find jobs
(Hamden-WTNH) _ Graduation time can mean only one thing: The search is on to find jobs. A survey done by SNET found most Connecticut college graduates are taking advantage of new high-tech job hunting techniques.
News Channel 8's Verna Collins reports.

It's the last day this group of Quinnipiac College students can savor in their college days. Tomorrow they graduate, and for all of them that means finding their first job, and these students have taken a high-tech approach to do that. Jason Oksenhendler is looking for a job in the field of broadcast journalism.

Jason Oksenhendler, Graduating Student: "A lot of the sites I've looked up -- Talent Dynamics, Don Fitzpatrick and Associates, RTNDA -- all those kinds of sites, which are free job banks, so that's where I'm looking and sending resume tapes to."

The computer is a quick way for students to not only find the jobs that are out there, but it's also a good place to post their resumes, and to find out whether a potential job is a good fit for them. Rich DeCapua is going to be a resident director at a college.

Rich DeCapua, Graduating Student: "I would go onto the home page of the school that I wanted to be at, and I would see if the school was right for me, and had the kind of environment I could give something to or take something from."

As a career services counselor, Pat Nielsen encourages students to use all tools available in their job search.

Pat Nielsen, Quinnipiac Career Services: "The resources we have in our career services office here at Quinnipiac, their own personal source of resources which is family and friends, their faculty, as well as the new technology."

And we're not just talking about a few students who are taking advantage of the internet. According to SNET's survey, 75 percent of Connecticut graduates are surfing the net for jobs. All but one of the kids we talked to today have already found a job, and they believe the internet was key to helping them get it.

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