2008 Woodie Awards
CDO Sponsors "Road Trips to the Real World"
Trips Bring Students to Job Sites, Prospective Employers
Elizabeth Fields
Issue date: 12/10/03 Section: News
Most students are probably looking forward to lazing around on holiday break, but those who have signed up for the Career Development Office's Road Trips to the Real World program will be on the road from January 5 to January 14, 2004. Road Trips takes students to prospective employers and job sites from Rhode Island to Washington, D.C. The goal? To learn about career opportunities and meet with employers in their places of work.
With the imminent end of the first semester, many seniors are getting nervous about the process of finding a job and a place to live after graduation. Traci Martin, Director of Career Development, hopes that Road Trips will be a resource to alleviate some of those concerns.
"Many students from liberal arts colleges are not certain about the types of employers and jobs that are available to them," said Martin. "We hope this will be a non-threatening way for students to learn about the organizations, job opportunities, possibly internships.
"It's important to see the actual environment of a job," Martin says. "Then it's closer to the feeling of what it would actually be like to work there."
Students will travel in a series of day trips to different locations along the East Coast, including Harvard University; the MIX 98.5-WBMX radio station in Massachusetts; Rodale, Inc. of Pennsylvania; L'OREAL of New Jersey; the Boston Police Department; Cherry Lane Music of New York; the National Security Agency; and the Philadelphia Zoo. There are several sites closer to Goucher, including Sheppard Pratt, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the National Park Service at Fredericksburg, and CNN/Crossfire and the National Cancer Institute of Washington, D.C.
The trips are free and sponsored by the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE) and the Selective Liberal Arts Consortium of Maryland and Northern Virginia (SLAC). Students are responsible for their own transportation.
"We've been doing this for a couple years now," Martin says. "We used to do these trips over spring break, but a lot of students just couldn't make the time commitment. We haven't had much student participation in the past, but we hope to see that change."
According to the EACE, last year about 375 students from 100 colleges participated in Road Trips to the Real World.
"Some of the sites fill up faster than others, so we encourage students to sign up ASAP if they're interested," Martin says. For a complete list of all the sites, as well as information on how to register, go here.
With the imminent end of the first semester, many seniors are getting nervous about the process of finding a job and a place to live after graduation. Traci Martin, Director of Career Development, hopes that Road Trips will be a resource to alleviate some of those concerns.
"Many students from liberal arts colleges are not certain about the types of employers and jobs that are available to them," said Martin. "We hope this will be a non-threatening way for students to learn about the organizations, job opportunities, possibly internships.
"It's important to see the actual environment of a job," Martin says. "Then it's closer to the feeling of what it would actually be like to work there."
Students will travel in a series of day trips to different locations along the East Coast, including Harvard University; the MIX 98.5-WBMX radio station in Massachusetts; Rodale, Inc. of Pennsylvania; L'OREAL of New Jersey; the Boston Police Department; Cherry Lane Music of New York; the National Security Agency; and the Philadelphia Zoo. There are several sites closer to Goucher, including Sheppard Pratt, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the National Park Service at Fredericksburg, and CNN/Crossfire and the National Cancer Institute of Washington, D.C.
The trips are free and sponsored by the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE) and the Selective Liberal Arts Consortium of Maryland and Northern Virginia (SLAC). Students are responsible for their own transportation.
"We've been doing this for a couple years now," Martin says. "We used to do these trips over spring break, but a lot of students just couldn't make the time commitment. We haven't had much student participation in the past, but we hope to see that change."
According to the EACE, last year about 375 students from 100 colleges participated in Road Trips to the Real World.
"Some of the sites fill up faster than others, so we encourage students to sign up ASAP if they're interested," Martin says. For a complete list of all the sites, as well as information on how to register, go here.