JOB PROSPECTS LOOKING UP FOR SPRING GRADS, SAYS CU-BOULDER CAREER SERVICES DIRECTOR
Jan 26th
Job postings and career fair visits by recruiters seeking to hire University of Colorado Boulder graduates in the spring are coming in fast this year, suggesting an improving job market for spring graduates, according to Lisa Severy, director of CU-Boulder’s Career Services office.
“The fact that our career fair is completely sold out and our job postings are also way up tells me that the job market is picking up for this year’s graduates,” Severy said.
The most common major sought by companies looking to hire CU-Boulder graduates this spring is the “all majors” category.
“In other words, companies are looking for talented, educated and motivated leaders from any academic discipline or background,” Severy said. “The companies recruiting our graduates represent a variety of industries and range from small to large organizations.”
The spring career and internship fair for CU-Boulder students and alumni will be held Jan. 26-27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballroom and room 235. The fair is open only to CU-Boulder students and alumni.
Some of the companies attending the fair include Facebook, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Apple Inc., the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Peace Corps, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and Time Warner Cable.
Nationally, the job market for new graduates also shows signs of improving, according to the “Recruiting Trends 2010-2011” survey published by Michigan State University. The survey calls for hiring at the bachelor’s degree level to increase by 10 percent this year.
“The new college graduate market tends to bounce back first because these candidates come at a lower price point and they don’t have to be retrained like those who may be coming from a different company’s culture,” Severy said.
While the job market is showing some positive signs, Severy said students should not wait until the end of the school year to start their job searches.
“Students who will graduate this May should engage the job search process sooner rather than later,” she said. “A career fair is a good place to start, because you get a chance to talk to recruiters face to face and make an impression. At the very least it is good practice for the interviewing process.”
Companies often come to career fairs to find a pool of potential employees and screen them for campus interviews at a later date. Then, if they really like a candidate, they invite them out for an interview at the company location. While every conversation at a career fair does not lead to an interview, students who are job hunting should take advantage of the opportunity to get themselves in front of companies that are hiring.
“Meeting a company representative at a career fair, where they are there specifically to meet potential employees, is a good way to get a foot in the door,” Severy said. “I tell every student I can that they should really take advantage of these opportunities, because these companies have a real interest in CU students.”
For more information about the spring career and internship fair visit http://careerservices.colorado.edu/students/springFair.aspx.
FLASH! Run-a-way Star blasts through spaces Nasa report and photo #boulder
Jan 25th
The blue star near the center of this image is Zeta Ophiuchi. When seen in visible light it appears as a relatively dim red star surrounded by other dim stars and no dust. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
January 24, 2011
A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
The star, named Zeta Ophiuchi, is huge, with a mass of about 20 times that of our sun. In this image, in which infrared light has been translated into visible colors we see with our eyes, the star appears as the blue dot inside the bow shock.
Zeta Ophiuchi once orbited around an even heftier star. But when that star exploded in a supernova, Zeta Ophiuchi shot away like a bullet. It’s traveling at a whopping 54,000 miles per hour (or 24 kilometers per second), and heading toward the upper left area of the picture.
As the star tears through space, its powerful winds push gas and dust out of its way and into what is called a bow shock. The material in the bow shock is so compressed that it glows with infrared light that WISE can see. The effect is similar to what happens when a boat speeds through water, pushing a wave in front of it.
This bow shock is completely hidden in visible light. Infrared images like this one from WISE are therefore important for shedding new light on the region.
JPL manages and operates WISE for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The principal investigator, Edward Wright, is at UCLA. The mission was competitively selected under NASA’s Explorers Program managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, and the spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise, http://wise.astro.ucla.edu andhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wise .
Boulder Police arrest bookkeeper on charges of forgery and felony theft
Jan 23rd
In December 2010, Boulder detectives started an investigation into the embezzlement of funds from Impact on Education, a non-profit organization. During the investigation, detectives learned that the bookkeeper for the organization had stolen approximately $160,000 while working for the organization over the course of several years.
An affidavit was presented to the courts on Jan. 20, 2011, for the arrest of Diana Lynn Lewis, date of birth May 3, 1966, on charges of theft over $20,000, which is a class 3 felony, and several counts of forgery, a Class 5 felony. Bail was set at $100,000.
Yesterday, Lewis was arrested and transported to the Boulder County Jail.
The Boulder Police Department will not be releasing any additional information about this case, as the investigation is continuing.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact Detective Jeff Kithcart at 303-441-3376. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted via the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
