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Contact:Career Services 505-984-6066

Fax 505-984-6167

Web address: www.stjohnscollege.edu/admin/SF/career.shtml

AGORA:www.myinterfase.com/sjcsf/student

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sjcsfcareerservices

Email: careerservices@sjcsf.edu

Office located in the basement of Weigle Hall, Room 13

Office Hours:Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.or by appointment

Career Services Staff:Margaret Odell Director

Barbara Lucero Sand Assistant Director and Internship Coordinator

Lise Lookman Administrative Assistant

Allen MatsikaPublication Editor

Asmin SitaulaResearch Assistant

Melissa Latham-StevensArt Director

WELCOME BACK TO THE FALL SEMESTER!!INSIDE YOU’LL FIND

CAREER SERVICES RESOURCES

ARIEL INTERNSHIP INFORMATION

EARLY INTERNSHIP DEADLINES &STUDY ABROAD RESOURCES

SELECTIONS FROM THE CAREER SERVICES LIBRARY

Career Services News...Welcome!from Margaret Odell, Director of Career Services

Career Services welcomes students to the work and the excitement of fall 2013 at St. John’s College. Career Services’ mission is to: • Provide information and assistance to students and alumni formaking internship, education, and career-related decisions.

•Assist students and alumni with acquiring skills needed to implement those decisions.

•Connect students and alumni to career-enhancing opportunities.To accomplish this mission, Career Services is dedicated to

helping students brainstorm about future plans that can range frominternships or apprenticeships, study abroad, job shadowing, scholarships and fellowships, graduateschool, and part-time and full-time jobs. We do this through individual meetings, workshops, informationsessions, newsletters, our own Facebook and LinkedIn groups, on-campus recruiters, the Ariel Internship program, and our student information management system, Agora. Agora is a powerful tool for students to use for job searching, connecting with alumni mentors and

accessing career related resources online, 24/7. To get started, go to: https://www.myinterfase.com/sjcsf/Account/LogOn

and follow the directions to complete your profile. Your profile will then be sent to Career Services for activation. Once your account is activated you can browse through the Resources Library, look at part-time and full-time jobs that jobs have been posted by local, regional and national employees, and seekalumni who have agreed to be mentors for current students. If you are looking for a part-time, short-termjob this fall, Agora is an essential resource.All of these resources, however, are worthless if students don’t take advantage of them. Visit the Career

Services office to get acquainted with the staff, so we can begin to know your interests and aspirations.Attend the information sessions and workshops and learn how to present yourself and your skills to employers, graduate schools, and potential mentors. Complete your Agora profile and post your resumeso you will be ready to apply for jobs that are posted throughout the year. Let Career Services assist you in taking the ideas and questions you are formulating in the classroom and turn them into a plan for your future.

Career Services Office

CAREER SERVICES AT ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE | SANTA FE | SEPTEMBER 2013

John Postlewaite (SF13) spent his summer at Trinity NaturalMedicine in Washington State.

Elizabeth Fedden (SF15) spent her summer archiving at the Museumof Indian Arts & Culture – Laboratory of Anthropology, New Mexico.

Internships

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InternshipsInternship BoardCareer Services keeps current internship information posted on the bulletin boardoutside the office. Be sure to stop by and check for new internships or updates, or popin and chat with Barbara. Opportunities are out there — find them and take part!

Internship BoardWhat is an Ariel internship?Ariel is the name given to the college-funded internship program at the Santa Fe campus. The Ariel Internship Program, created in 2004, provides stipends to under-graduates for a limited number of summer internship opportunities regardless of financial need. Modeled after the Hodson Internship Program at the Annapolis campus, the Ariel program is very competitive.

Who can apply for Ariel and what are the funding levels?Only current full-time undergraduates at Santa Fe may apply for Ariel funding (Annapolis students apply for Hodson funds). The maximum award in Santa Fe is$3,600 per general internship (internships that are in the biomedical field can qualifyfor a $4,000 stipend), but stipend amounts vary depending on each situation, including amount requested and duration of the internship. Transfer students fromAnnapolis may apply while enrolled in Santa Fe, as may graduating seniors and students planning on taking a year off. International students are also eligible, butmust first meet with Career Services to discuss the specific guidelines.

The advantage of the Ariel Internship program:Internships these days are more frequently unpaid. The advantage of the Ariel intern-ship is that the college provides financial support for Ariel recipients to conduct theirinternship. By offering this generous stipend, the college is freeing students to dedicate themselves to the internship experience by eliminating the need for summeremployment. We encourage all students to apply for this great opportunity at leastonce in their academic career at St. John’s. Student need is not a criteria for the Arielprogram.

U.S. Department of Labor Internship Guidelines:1| The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment;2| The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern;3| The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff;4| The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage fromthe activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may be impeded;5| The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship; and6| The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled towages for the time spent in the internship.

Legal Guidelines foran Internship

Internships are meant to be educa-

tional. They are not meant to be

unpaid labor. This is sometimes a

difficult distinction to make. From an

employer’s perspective, it would be

tempting to use interns in a manner

that makes the company more

efficient and take advantage of

having workers that are not paid.

The U.S. Department of Labor wants

to protect students against this. If

interns are doing a job that should

be fulfilled by a full time employee

(who the company has neither the

duty nor interest in educating), then

it is an illegal internship. On the right

you will find the six criteria that the

U.S. Department of Labor has

issued to test whether an internship

is legal or not. If you have any

questions whether the internship

you are thinking about applying

for is legal or not, please visit

Career Services.

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What if I can’t find an internship that suits my needs?The great thing about the ArielInternship Program is that you can CREATE YOUR OWN INTERNSHIP! Career Services staff is here to help you with the procedure of creating your own internship.Generally, we will help students find appropriate mentors in the field of the student’s interest and then help build the framework of a successful internship. Often, St. John’sCollege Alumni provide great opportunities for students who wish to create their owninternships.

Early Internship DeadlinesIn the competitive market for internships and opportunities, it’s always smart to startearly. Below are internships with upcoming deadlines: CIA Internships – Interns will work in analytic offices and centers, attend meetings, andwork with staff on projects. A choice of two 90-day summer internships or one summerand one semester internship. Application deadline: October 15 For more information visit https://www.cia.gov/careers/student-opportunities/index.html#undergradint

TIME Inc. Internships – Time Inc. offers many internships in reporting and video journalism, graphics, page design, photography, copy editing, and digital media. Application deadline for all internships is October 31. For more information visit http://www.nytimes-internship.com/

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Internships – Summer internship in business reporting,multimedia editing, news editing, or sports editing. Application deadline: November 8. For more information visit http://www.dowjones.com/djcom/careers/newspaper-fund-interns.asp

Washington Post Internship –12-week internships available for reporters on local, financial, sports, style, and editorial beats. Internships also available for visual journalists,multiplatform/interactivity producers, and web designers. Application deadline: November 4. For more information visit http://intern.washpost.com/

Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University Internship – 8-week internship at newspaper, radio station, news media company, or nonprofit investigativenewsroom. Application Deadlines for spring and summer are to be announced.For more information visit http://www.theihs.org/ihs-journalism-internship-program

New Career Services Staff Member: Lise Lookman

Career Services would like to intro-

duce you to Lise Lookman, their

new Administrative Assistant. She

comes to St. John’s College with a

BA in English and Medieval Studies

from the University of New Mexico

and has many years of experience

working at universities in Canada.

Lise would love to get to know all

of the students at St. John’s, so

please stop by Room 14 in Weigle

Hall for a chat and a snack. The

addition of Lise to the Career

Services Staff brings with it a

shifting of roles in the office.

Barbara Lucero Sand is not only

the Assistant Director of Career

Services, but she will be taking

on the role of Internship

Coordinator as well.

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Mississippi Teacher Corps Summer Internship – Gain teaching experience in low-income schools in the Mississippi Delta region. Interns will work in summer school activities, office work, recruiting, and field trips. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling admissions cycle:October 15, 2013 (Notified by November 15, 2013) January 15, 2014 (Notified by February 15, 2014) Final Deadline: March 1, 2014 (Notified by April 1, 2014)Start early! For more information visit http://mtc.olemiss.edu/about/summer-internship

Peace Corps Internships – Internships in advocacy, communications, andmedia/technology. Rolling applications, but the earlier the better. For more information visit http://www.peacecorpsconnect.org/contact-us/internships/

Study Abroad OpportunitiesInterested?Career Services has extensive material from many networks and pro-

grams in our library. Please stop by and take a look, and chat with Margaret, Barbara orLise about your plans for the future. Programs Include:Arcadia http://www.arcadia.edu/ AustraLearnwww.australearn.orgCET http://cetacademicprograms.com/Center for Cross-Cultural Studywww.cccs.comCIEE (Clearinghouse for International Education programs)www.ciee.org Global Link Learning Abroad http://www.globalinksabroad.org/IIE (Institute for International Education) http://iiepassport.org/Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence http://www.iaufrance.org/Programs/Marchutz?MarchutzCoursesRILA (Rome Institute of Liberal Arts)www.rilarts.org TaLK (Korea) http://www.talk.go.kr/University of St. Andrews in Scotland http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Teaching OpportunitiesTeach for America –Teach for two years in a low-income school and make a differencein education. Especially looking for math, science, and early education teachers.Now accepting applications. For more information visit http://www.teachforamerica.org/why-teach-for-america

Uplift Education: Teaching opportunity in Dallas/Fort Worth TX for motivated, intelligent teachers who want to close the gap in education and move students forward in their learning. For more information visit http://www.uplifteducation.org/default.aspx?PageID=1

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Graduate Programs and Other OpportunitiesAccountingMaster of Accounting Program at William & Mary’s Mason School of Business –The school is reaching out to St. John’s College, having had a good track record with St. John’s graduates going through their program over the last few years! If any seniorsare considering careers in the business world but are unsure of where to start, William & Mary provides a roadmap and skill training, including work in complex financial instruments and analyses of current issues (such as International Financial ReportingStandards). Seniors without any business classes can finish the entire program in a year,by taking prerequisite boot camps over the summer. Williams & Mary is located inWilliamsburg, VA.Application deadline: Rolling deadlineFor more information visit: http://mason.wm.edu or contact Associate Admissions Director, Peggy Gesing Director Miller 1055 757-221-2295

Check out http://www.santafe.com/calendar/for daily events!

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Career Services Library

CAREER SERVICES LIBRARY

The Career Services Office has an extensive selection of career-related books and testtaking (GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT) resource books available for you to check out.1 | 150 Best Companies for Liberal Arts Graduates

Insights and advice from liberal arts grads working for the companies! 100% relevant to all Johnnies. Companies listed include corporate, government and nonprofit companies

2 | American Jobs AbroadMore than 800 U.S. corporations with career opportunities overseas, with infor-mation about where the jobs are, who to contact, and what skills are required. 111nations covered (from Albania to Zimbabwe) with details on location, major cities,American communities, languages, working and living conditions and more.

3 | Best Jobs in the 21st Century500 job descriptions – 65 “best jobs” lists (best pay, fastest growth, best for suchand such personality type, etc.), job descriptions with wages, growth, tasks and re-sponsibilities, skills needed, and required education and courses

4 | The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job AdventuresFrom internships to seasonal work to volunteer jobs and adventures abroad, thisguide contains more than one thousand opportunities to make detours from yourroutine and work, play, learn, help, create, experience, and grow.

5 | Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative LivingThis directory includes over 600 communities in the U.S., and over 100 commu-nities in other countries. If you are looking for communities which embrace otherways of living and belonging, this book is an essential start.

6 | The Graduate Student’s Complete Scholarship BookThis book lists more than 1100 scholarship and grant sources relevant to master’s,doctoral, postdoctoral and professional degrees. Don’t pay $100,000 for your degree!

7 | Inside Secrets of Finding a Teaching JobTips from teachers and administrators on how to find unadvertised job leads, create a portfolio, apply for jobs over the internet, and how to launch a teaching career straight out of college.

8 | Directory of Poetry PublishersThis 24th edition has almost two thousand magazine and book-publisher markets for poets!

9 | The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st CenturyThis book presents a through consideration of environmental trends for the 21stcentury and the likely impact of those trends on career fields. It also covers careersearch strategies, as well as case studies of representative work and individual pro-files that give readers an understanding of a variety of environmental professions.

10 | The Princeton Review: Cracking the GRE (latest editions)Your best study bet for the GREs!

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What’s happening on Campus?? Events and Opportunities

RECRUITINGStop by to chat, get information, and go somewhere!

October 23 New Mexico Tech Graduate Programs in Science, Socorro, NMPeterson Student Center Hallway near cafeteria 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

WORKSHOPSOctober 2 Pathways Fellowships Town Hall Meeting

Great Hall, 3:15 - 5:00 p.m.Pizza will be served

Panel discussion with Pathways Fellowship Committee members who will share the philosophy and details of this new college-supported opportunity for summer academicclasses, including pre-requisite courses for graduate and professional school and studyabroad.

October 8 Ariel Internship Introduction PresentationJunior Common Room, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.

Bring your lunch as Ms. Barbara Lucero Sand, Assistant Director of Career Services andInternship Coordinator outlines the Ariel Internship program and answers questions.Also hear former Ariel Interns speak about their experiences this past summer and sharetips on the application process.October 15 Graduate School Panel

Senior Common Room,12:15 – 1:15 p.m.Bring your lunch as tutors share their experiences with choosing and applying for variousgraduate schools and what they actually experienced once they matriculated. Topics willinclude finding the best graduate school for your needs and interests, entrance exams,scholarships and other financial aid sources, and how graduate classes are similar to anddifferent from St. John’s. Great event for anyone beginning to think seriously about grad-uate or professional school or for those not yet sure of their next step.

October 22 Projects for Peace PresentationSenior Common Room, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.

St. John’s College has once again received an invitation from the Davis United WorldCollege Scholars Program for any interested undergraduates on our campus to designgrassroots “Projects for Peace,” which will take place in the summer of 2014. Bring yourlunch and find out all about the proposal process, deadlines and receive an example of asuccessful proposal.

October 23 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, Science PresentationSenior Common Room, 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Assistant Professor, Ms. Sally Pias, Department of Chemistry at NM Tech will lead a seminar discussion on The Molecular Mind-Body.

Don’t forget tolook at Horizons and Internship News, which

are publications that come out of the

Career Services Office in Annapolis.

They have great resources and,

combined with Odyssey Bound, you

will get a fuller picture of available

opportunities. Pick up hard copies at

the Career Services office or read

them online in Agora.

DON’TFORGET

Disclaimer:The St. John’s College Career Services Office produces Odyssey Bound as a service to St. John’sCollege students and community members for their career development and educational and life planning. Any jobs or other opportunities listed herein do not indicate an endorsement or

recommendation from St. John’s College or the Career Services Office. Students and individuals from the St. John’s College community are responsible for all

necessary precautions when interviewing for or accepting these positions or awards. They are also responsible for checking the credentials and integrity of all employers or organizations. St. John’s College and the Career Services Office assume no liability for acts or omissions by third parties or for material supplied by them. The St. John’s College Career Services Office is not responsible for anything that happens at a given job site. The presence of an employment listing in Odyssey Bound does not guarantee any given employer’s compliance with legal behavior. If a student or individual experiences discrimination or sexual harassment on the job or in a job interview, he or she is encouraged to call the Department of Fair Employment in the state in which the violation occurred. Career Services makes every effort to publish the most current information, but unforeseen publishing problems may render some events

obsolete. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause the reader.

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