Notes from the David Lam Campus On February 21 and 22, the David Lam Campus hosted a hiring fair for the Westwood Plateau Golf and Country Club. More than 150 Douglas College students took advantage of a reserved early time-slot to check out job possibilities at the new facility. The two-day hiring fair, which offered more than 100 jobs at the Coquitlam course, attracted more than 1,000 applicants in total. News on student placements will be available by mid-March. Put on the green and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a March 14 dinner and dance organized by students in the Hote! and Restaurant Management (HORM) Program. “The Irish Jig and Jigger” offers dancing and an Irish buffet, starting at 7pm at the Kinsmen Club, 2175 Coquitlam Ave., Port Coquitlam. Both previous HORM events have sold out, so get your $20 tickets early. Contact any HORM student, or contact Ginny Batke, local 5439, in New Westminster or Yvonne Mostert, local 5868, at the David Lam Campus. International Women’s Day Events March 5 New Westminster Campus 12-14:00 Room 1811 WomenSpeak presents Sunera Thobani on Hearing All the Voices: Transforming Women’s Organizations March 6 David Lam Campus 10:00 Anti-Stalking Laws 13:00 Wenlido 14:00 Starting Your Own Business 15:00 A History of Women plus films and videos March 6 Thomas Haney Centre All-Day Campus/Community Celebration March 7 New Westminster Campus All-day Art Show 11:00 Anti-Stalking Laws noon-1 pm: Women’s Centre Open House 13:00 Wenlido plus films and videos IWD ‘97 Dinner Friday, March 7 5:30 pm, Venus Restaurant 320-6th Street, New Westminster Tickets: $25 each/four for $80 Call Liz at 527-5148 Inside Online by Laurie Drukier This month, INside ONline takes a look at career resources available on the web. Gloria Kummerfield at the David Lam Campus counselling office is looking for sites to bookmark as a way of starting people off on their career and education planning. The Internet, like other resources, is packed with versions of the truth and earnest advice; it is up to the individual researcher to sort the needles from the haystack. Here are a few places for potential career-changers, both students and others, to start. JobWeb http://www.jobweb.com/ Run by the National Association of Colleges and Employers in the US, this extensively linked site is a great place to start. Look under Career Planning Information for sites with resume tips, job interview strategies and information on careers from business to health care. Specifics may be a little too “yankee” for most of us, but the resources and processes for job search and career choice decisions are applicable no matter where you live. Vancouver School Board Career Centre http://www.studentcentre.com/ You can’t get much closer to home than the Vancouver School Board. This site is great for local info, but they still need to work on the interactive part that makes any web site stand out. I was impressed by some of the basics: good definitions for words and concepts that those of us who’ve been working for years may forget we weren’t born knowing, and lots of Q&A help, 5 worksheets, tips and notes. Obviously meant for a younger audience, Career Centre looks closely tied to VSB Career programs, but might still be a good place to start for students who didn’t get that information in high school. Quintessential Career and Job- Hunting Resources Guide http://www.stetson.edu/~hansen/ careers.html Geared for current job seekers, this site has a variety of tools for improving your resume, cover letters, interviews and job search skills. If you don’t know the Domino Effect for a successful job search, you can learn it here. I found the Test of Marketability for cover letters to be helpful for focussing on areas that may need improvement. Of course, the real reward is getting the job you want. Personality: Character and Temperament Official Web Site for the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and Temperament Theory http://www. keirsey.com/ Personality theory says that individuals are different in fundamental ways. If we can identify our basic characteristics, we can determine what we need to make us happy, including work. You can take the test at this site and use the results to find out if you’re a Guardian, Artisan, Idealist or Rational, then read up on the attributes of each. It won’t tell you precisely what career to prepare for, but if you’re suited to supervisory or hands-on work, or if you would be happier in the sciences or the arts. As with all tests, remember that no answer is definitive.