SWAN 218 6:00 PM

We will be address­ing any con­cerns you might have as well as shar­ing our expe­ri­ences. Please arrive with some ideas in hand of how you will advance your posi­tion to make this THE BEST E-BOARD EVER!!!

Jerry White from Gilson Print­ing will be our guest speaker and we will be announc­ing next years e-board

Thurs­day Novem­ber 18th 2009

Bill Jones will be host­ing a mock inter­view sem­i­nar in the

IRC (Star­bucks Build­ing) Room 120 from

7:00 to 9:00 pm

Bring your lis­ten­ing ears and the ques­tions that you fear the most!

On Tues­day, Novem­ber 17th, many of the seniors are expected to attend a field trip to Chro­matic­ity and Fore­moest Graph­ics in Grand Rapids. This will make for a small group dur­ing our reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing time. How­ever, ALL NOMINEES MUST ATTEND THE MEETING AND GIVE THEIR SPEECH. Kameron will be set­ting up the cam­era and record­ing them so that those of us that could not attend will have an oppor­tu­nity to hear what you have to say. Remem­ber, no longer than 3 min­utes on what makes you a good can­di­date for the position.

I’d like to say I’m sorry to all of those peo­ple that hate pub­lic speak­ing, but I’m not. If your going to be on the E-board, pub­lic speak­ing is not only expected, but required,weekly. Nom­i­nees need to pre­pare a 3 minute speech  to give dur­ing Tues­days meet­ing. Be respect­ful, and try not to run over another per­sons allot­ted time. Fol­low­ing the meet­ing Bran­don will make vot­ing avail­able to all GAA mem­bers elec­tron­i­cally, because he is cool like that. Vot­ing will stay open til Wednes­day at mid­night just in case you are hav­ing a dif­fi­cult time decid­ing who the best can­di­date for Com­mis­sioner at Large is.

Speeches shall go in the fol­low­ing order:

Dur­ing this weeks Gen­eral Assem­bly meet­ing we will be nom­i­nat­ing those that we would like to see lead our orga­ni­za­tion towards great­ness. Who will you choose?

Michi­gan has recently launched a new effort to keep local tal­ent here in the Great Lake state.

Some inter­est­ing facts about internships

• Employ­ers rate intern­ship expe­ri­ence as the num­ber one most impor­tant cri­te­ria in the job can­di­date selec­tion process.
• 74% of US employ­ers hire interns through­out the year.
• Stu­dents make good net­work­ing con­tacts dur­ing their intern­ships– which often directly lead to their full-time job after graduation.
• 50–80% of job and intern­ship seek­ers report get­ting work through networking
• Stu­dents who intern typ­i­cally have more inter­views and/or bet­ter job offers than stu­dents who do not take the time to do an internship.
• The fed­eral gov­ern­ment offers an abun­dance and vari­ety of intern­ships to both under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate students.
• 50% of all fed­eral work­ers could be eli­gi­ble for retire­ment dur­ing the next five years.
• Many intern­ship offers are con­tin­gent upon pass­ing a drug screen and phys­i­cal exam.
• Stu­dents who intern have more real­is­tic expec­ta­tions of “life after graduation.”

Intern Michi­gan