Soon students will be registering for the 2007 Department of Meteorology Career Days. By Wednesday, March 21, I will begin to prepare the final interview schedules. By registering, students were asked to prioritize the companies they’d like to interview with during Career Days and I’ll use those preferences to schedule the individual interviews. Your interview schedule will be available online prior to your trip to Penn State and it will also be available at the Career Center when you arrive there. I’ve asked the students to take an original copy of their resume to each interview. For those who are not interviewing until Wednesday, I’ll have a copy of your final interview schedule on hand at the Tuesday evening reception.

VIEWING YOUR INTERVIEW SCHEDULE ONLINE: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/2007CareerDays/recschedules/access.htm
Login and password were communicated in an email from Lynn Persing on 3/16/2007.

VIEWING STUDENT RESUMES:
http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/2007CareerDays/StudentResumes07/student_resumes07.html
Login and password were communicated in an email from Lynn Persing on 3/16/2007.

ABOUT THE INTERVIEWS:
A link to campus maps is at the bottom of this letter to aid you in finding the Career Services Center interview rooms (Bldg. #19, F-7 on the CAMPUS GUIDE map). They are located on the second floor of the Bank of America Career Services Center. If it’s a nice day, you may want to walk to the Career Services Center. If you are driving and you want to park at the Eisenhower Parking Deck (Bldg. #65, F-6 on the CAMPUS GUIDE map), you will need to pull up in front of the Career Center first, and then run inside and buy a parking pass from the receptionist. Alternatively, you may buy a pass from the Eisenhower Parking Deck Office. The permit will allow you to park at the Eisenhower Parking Deck and you will not have to feed the meter. Cost for a one day parking pass is $6.

Interviews commence at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 27 at the Bank of America Career Services Center. Many students are scheduled for back-to-back interviews so please try to keep the interviews within the half-hour time slot allotted. You are on your own for lunch. You are within walking distance to downtown, but the Career Center has a small eatery, and you are also within close proximity of the HUB, which has been recently remodeled and houses several eateries.

TUESDAY EVENING RECEPTION
Tuesday night’s reception will start at 5:30 p.m. in the Ballroom A & B of the Nittany Lion Inn. I’m working on a final presentation schedule for Tuesday night, but I’ve yet to fine-tune it. Due to the high number of companies attending this year, you will only have five minutes for your presentation. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the time that you’d like to be scheduled, just let me know. You may visit the “recruiter information” section of the Career Days website to print a final version as soon as it is posted, but I will also send you an email copy of it. A laptop (with PowerPoint) with a projector will be available for presentations. The laptops will accept a flash/jump drive or CD. We’ve had some trouble reading certain jump/flash drives in the past, so a backup of your presentation on CD might be wise. If you have other needs (slide projector or TV/VCR), just say the word and I will make arrangements. There will also be a table in the room if you have any promotional materials that you’d like to bring along. Light snacks will be served in the Ballroom during the presentations. Additional hot hors d’oeuvres will be served afterward in the atrium area outside the ballroom, with a chance for recruiters to informally interact with meteorology students and faculty.

If you have any questions while you are conducting the interviews, you may reach me in the office at 863-8568. Hopefully we won’t have any logistical problems with the interview schedules, but with a large number of schedules to jockey around I guess anything is possible. I hope your visit is productive for both you and the students!

CAREER DAYS WEBSITE: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/2007CareerDays/
CAMPUS MAPS: http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/print/

CAMPUS MAPS: http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/print/

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