Career Center Winter Newsletter 2/13/2017

Hello everyone,

Today we have an announcement to make regarding an upcoming event with one of New York Times best-selling author and a warning about employment scams:

“Designing Your Life” Career Ideas Festival Seminar

As you shift gears from your winter break to spring semester classes, think about putting a special event on your calendar: March 10 our first Career Ideas Festival where New York Times best-selling author, Dave Evans, will talk about Designing Your Life. You will learn how life design can help you get unstuck, shape career plans, and find direction – look at it as design thinking applied to career development! To learn more, visit: www.designingyour.life.

Refreshments will be served. Signed copies of the newly released New York Times best-seller Designing Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett will be available at the event.

WHERE:          Metropolitan State University, Founders Hall Auditorium,
700 East Seventh Street, Saint Paul
WHEN:            Friday, March 10, 2017
8:30-9 a.m.      Registration and networking
9-10 a.m.         Presentation
10-10:30am     Book signing and networking
FREE! To all Metro State students, alumni, staff and faculty

STUDENTS REGISTER: metrostate.joinhandshake.com > Events > Designing Your Life (You may need to activate your handshake account, if this is your first time using handshake.  You must use your student email.)

FACULTY AND STAFF REGISTER: career-ideas-festival-designingyourlife.eventbrite.com

This event is a golden opportunity to learn a fresh approach to career planning and exploration. It is by far our biggest event of the year and we want as many of our students and alumni to be there as possible. Please register and join us.

Watch Out for Employment Scams!

When you see something online that seems too good to be true, it probably is! You should never have to pay an employer something to accept or start a new position. College students across the United States continue to be targeted in a common employment scam. Scammers advertise phony job opportunities on college employment websites, and/or students receive e-mails on their school accounts recruiting them for fictitious positions.

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