Jo Anne Cottrell

Role at the UMBC Career Center: Office Manager

Q:Where have you earned your college degrees?

A: Towson University

Q: What program(s) did you study? How did you choose your major?

A: I studied 3 languages in High School and knew that I wanted to pursue languages in college.  I graduated with a BA in Spanish.

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

A: Think for yourself

Q: Why should students visit the Career Center?

A: Students should visit the Career Center to explore the range of possibilities that they can pursue with their education.

Q: What is your favorite aspect about UMBC?

A: UMBC is a very supportive environment which encourages participation at all levels on campus.

Q: What is one item on your bucket list?

A: I have always wanted to live in a foreign country.  Someplace in Europe would be ideal for the travel opportunities it would present.

Want to connect with Jo Anne or any of our great Career Center team? Call our office at 410-455-2216 or check out our contact us page here: http://careers.umbc.edu/aboutus/

PROMISE@UMB presents a workshop on coping with stress on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, at 10 AM.

Location: SMC Campus Center, Room 311: http://www.umaryland.edu/smccampuscenter/, Directions: http://www.umaryland.edu/smccampuscenter/building/index.html

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-with-stress-at-the-graduate-level-tickets-13285644721

PROMISE@UMB presents a workshop on coping with stress on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, at 10 AM.

Location: SMC Campus Center, Room 311: http://www.umaryland.edu/smccampuscenter/, Directions: http://www.umaryland.edu/smccampuscenter/building/index.html

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-with-stress-at-the-graduate-level-tickets-13285644721

At the Fall Career Fair next week you are going to need a resume. You will probably find a company that will want to give YOU an internship or a job. The first thing they might ask you for is your resume. If you don’t have your resume updated, don’t panic. I have some tips on how you can show your already impressive accomplishments.

Your resume gives you 30 seconds to grab the reviewer’s attention and get into the yes pile.  You might be thinking: “That sounds impossible!”

It’s not impossible. There are actually a few easy steps that you can take that will place your resume in the YES pile. 

STEP 1:  Create a list of all relevant coursework, projects, work/volunteer experiences, and organizations in which you have participated. All of these things add significant value to your resume.

STEP 2:  Identify the important skills, achievements, and interests that you want to highlight on your resume.

STEP 3:  Develop descriptive phrases for your experiences. Qualify and Quantify what you accomplished on a daily basis. Develop statements like these for your course projects also. Start these phrases with strong action verbs.

STEP 4:  Put your resume into an organized format. Keep your formatting clear and consistent throughout the document. Your font can be between 10.5 and 12pt. and margins can be between .5 and 1 inch.

STEP 5:  Upload your resume to UMBCworks for review. Then come to drop-in hours or schedule an appointment with your career adviser.

Here are some additional Do’s and Don’t’s of resume writing:

Do:

Don’t:

The resume is not the only thing employers at the Fall Career Fair will be looking for. Here are some tips for Job Fair Etiquette. 

My last tip to prepare for this Career Fair is to start researching the employers who will be in attendance now. You can find the list at the bottom of the page HERE. Identify what skills you have that these companies need and make sure those skills are highlighted on your resume.

The Career Center has a lot more tips to resume writing. Check out the UMBC Career Guide for resume tips specific to UMBC students! If you are having trouble with starting your resume, have additional questions, or want to get your resume approved the Career Center has drop-in hours from 2 – 4pm Monday – Friday at the Career Center in Math/Psych 212, and 6 – 8pm Tuesday and Wednesday in the Library at the Writing Center. 

American University

11th Annual Public Anthropology Conference

"Violence, Resilience, and Resistance"

Mary Graydon Center 2nd Floor

October 4-5, 2014

4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20016

Join us at American University for the 11th Annual Public Anthropology Conference! We invite students, activists, academics, and community members to come together to critically examine topics central to the work of both scholars and scholar-activists. We seek to provide a space to share and engage with innovative ideas for conceptualizing and confronting violence, encountering resilience, and practicing resistance.

Saturday Keynote Address, 5:00pm: Dr. Carole McGranahan (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Sunday Keynote Address, 5:45pm: Dr. Charles Orser (Vanderbilt University)

It all started in September 1921 with 1,500 children.

Dr. Lewis Terman of Stanford University met with children to find signs of future potential. Little did he know what would happen eight decades later. 

Today, a new look at that project is giving us hints on how to live longer… and the hints might surprize you.

We have all heard what keeps us healthly- eating well, exercising. losing weight, watch less TV, the list goes on and on. 

Well everyone, grab a burger and some fries because it turns out that the single most important factor for living a long life is having strong relationships. 

George Vaillant, a Harvard psychiatrist, created a single yes or no question that will determine whether you will live to 80.

“Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to?”

Connecting and helping others is more important than eating your daily dose of veggies or hitting the gym. 

For example, moderate drinkers live longer than those who don’t drink because drinking is usually in social scenes. Heart attack patients who own dogs lived longer than their non-dog loving counterparts. 

Sorry Billy Joel, looks like the good don’t always die young. 

(Noon, University Center 310) 

Shelly Blake-Plock is the CEO & Co-Founder of An Estuary. He will be speaking to our students about the art of self re-invention. 

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Have an idea on how to improve or change the world? Burning up with ideas to help the environment, society, business, your friends, social media or anything else you can dream up? UMBC wants to give you $750 for telling us your idea! How can you win cash for your innovative solution? 

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(Noon, entreSpace) 

[entreSpace is in the old theater building, next to the commons garage. Room 139]

Taught by: Jamie McDonald (Chief Giving Officer at Network for Good)
The details of this talk are still being determined, but I can assure you Ms. McDonald is an enthralling speaker and you will come away ready to make change in the world. 

(Noon, entreSpace) 

[entreSpace is in the old theater building, next to the commons garage. Room 139]

Taught by: Jason Pappas (Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Antson Capital Partners, and Entrepreneurial Instructor at UMBC)

If you have an idea for a business and are looking for ways to fund it beyond asking your friends and family, this is the workshop for you. Jason is a wealth of knowledge and experience (pun intended) and will help you figure out your next steps. If you aren't sure of an idea, just love numbers and getting to know people, this will also be worth your time. 

Sexual assault on college campuses has been receiving a lot of attention lately, and one state has decided to take the lead to make a change.

California’s Gov. Jerry Brown just signed the nation’s first “yes means yes” law. This means silence or lack of resistance does not equal consent. Also, someone cannot give consent if they are drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep.

Some have claimed this is the beginning of a paradigm shift from “no means no,” the popular phrase that suggests a firm rejection is required for an act to be considered sexual assault. 

As students in California celebrate, Emma Sulkowicz and supporters at Columbia University are still carrying their mattresses around in protest. 

US Democrazy asks: Will the winds of change blow east?