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BY MARIE LINDBERGFor The Diamondback
Have you ever thought toyourself, “If I could just get ahold of $20, I can definitelymake it through the rest ofthis week?”
There is an easy way forstudents to do just that righton this campus.
Students interested inearning an easy chunk ofchange can sign up for astudy through the linguisticsand sociology departments.
For each hour you work,you can make $10.
Many experiments take 90to 120 minutes, translating toa payoff of $15 to $20.
Setting up a time to partici-pate is simple.
Students need to create ausername and password forthe SONA website, the sys-tem used to track students’hours.
Students can select a timethat works for them, and aftercompleting the study, theyare given cash on the spot.
“People just don’t knowabout it,” said freshman com-munications major HillaryWilk, who said she wouldprobably do a study after find-ing out she could earn money.
“And at the same time, it’slike, ‘What am I gettingmyself into?’” she added.
Jeffrey Lucas, director ofgraduate studies for the soci-ology department, said theirstudies usually involve groupinteractions.
Experiments posted on thelinguistics SONA websiteinvolved listening and identi-fication tasks, reading sen-tences and responding toquestions and brain waverecording with non-invasiveEEG and MEG.
Lucas said all studies mustfollow certain guidelines toprotect subjects: Experi-ments have to be approved bythe Institutional ReviewBoard that oversees issuessuch as participant compli-ance and anonymity.
Students interested in par-ticipating in a study on thecampus can log in towww.umlinguistics.sona-sys-tems.com or www.umsociol-
ogy.sona-systems.com, or theycan feel free to e-mail [email protected].
Students interested inearning a little more cashshould also check out thecorkboard in McKeldinLibrary.
Off-campus researchersoften use it to advertise theirown studies, which pay morethan some on-campus oppor-tunities, but are still just sim-ple exams, interviews andsurveys.
For example, the National
Center for Health Statistics isoffering $40 for participatingin an hour-long survey.
Stephanie Wilson, a surveymethodologist at the center,said their department alonewill call in about 150 paid par-ticipants a year.
“We advertise in the news-paper, like The WashingtonPost, and they give out thatfree newspaper, called TheExpress, and the local library,”Wilson said.
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Surveys offer option to make quick cash
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BY KATE MCGONIGLEFor The Diamondback
David Simon graduated fromthe university in spring 2008with a degree in mathematics.He took a month off, startedworking at a moving companyhe’d worked for during pastsummers, and when the sum-mer ended, Simon began look-ing for a full-time job. He hasbeen looking ever since.
Although Simon graduatedbefore the recession caused mil-lions of workers to lose theirjobs, he is experiencing thesame frustration of laid-offworkers and 2009 graduates
who can’t seem to find a job. “I wanted a break between
college and work, which was abad idea,” Simon said. “Youhave to get a head start on it. Itwas relaxing, but I feel like Imight have missed out on somegood job opportunities that gotfilled. And by the looks ofthings, they were the last onesremaining.”
Simon worked for the samemoving company again this pastsummer, but even it is too shorton resources year-round to hirehim full-time. He has alsohelped out with his father’s busi-ness.
“The work I did paid for them
supporting me while I’ve beensearching for a full-time job,”Simon said.
The economy has forcedSimon to keep his job searchesvery broad, rather than focus-ing on a certain field. He said hehas used job-search websitessuch as Monster.com, Career-Builder.com and Usajobs.gov toland six or seven interviewssince he began his hunt for a jobmore than a year ago.
“Those sites have a lot ofgood leads, but I’ve realized youcan’t rely too heavily on them,”Simon explained. “It’s a goodidea to branch out and searchfor individual companies, go to
their websites and search theiremployment opportunities sec-tions for openings. It’s also agood idea to e-mail a résuméand cover letter to their humanresources representative. I’vegotten a few interviews thatway.”
Simon acknowledged the factthat companies receive hun-dreds of résumés and said he iscareful not to set himself up fordisappointment by expecting aninterview every time he applies.
He also recommended thatstudents enroll in computer sci-ence classes because he hasfound employers are looking forsomeone with that background.
The good news, Simon said,is that the job market seems tobe improving
“Actually, it feels like thereare more job opportunities nowcompared to when I got out ofcollege,” Simon said. “I’m con-stantly hearing about govern-ment jobs looking for people,especially the Census Bureau.The 2010 census is coming up,so they will be hiring like crazy.”
Simon is interviewing withthe Investment Company Insti-tute, which is the national asso-ciation of U.S. investment bankcompanies, on Thursday.
‘It feels like there are more jobopportunities now’
BY LEYLA KORKUTFor The Diamondback
According to an articlereleased by The Chronicle ofHigher Education, five under-graduate majors are rising inpopularity and are expectedto develop at more universi-ties: service science, healthinformatics, computationalscience, sustainability andpublic health.
While some of thesemajors are already offered asclasses at the graduate level,there is growing student andemployer interest in theundergraduate level due tomany different factors.
According to Blakely Pomi-etto, director of student serv-ices at the the public healthschool, the federal govern-ment is looking for studentswith majors such as publichealth due to a shortage ofworkers in the field.
The federal governmentestimates it will need to fill
54,114 positions in the med-ical and public health cate-gory by 2012, said StaceyBrown, a program director atthe University Career Center.
Positions in demandinclude occupational thera-pists, doctors, nurses, phar-macists, medical techniciansand industrial hygienists,Brown said.
According to the Chronicle,bachelor’s degrees in publichealth increased from 1,322in 2003 to 2,639 in 2007. Pomi-etto also attributes the grow-ing interest in Public Healthto a change in perceptionsabout health in general.
“Socially we are seeingmore of a focus on healthimprovement and diseaseprevention. We see a lot ofstudents who interested in ahealthy and helpful preven-tion” Pimietto said.
Health informatics, arelated field, though pro-jected to increase in thefuture due to economic
stimulus funding of $19 bil-lion, is currently at a stand-still. The more technologi-cally based field involvestraining workers to usehealth care databases. How-ever, the only currentlyrelated public health infor-matics field that the univer-sity of fers is the 12 creditpublic health informaticsgraduate cer tificate.
Computational Science issimilarly limited to onlygraduate study in scientificfields like atmospheric andoceanic sciences. Whileskills in computational sci-ence are not required by pri-vate companies, federalorganizations like theNational Oceanic and Atmos-pheric Administrationrequire that workers haveexperience with the field,says professor of atmos-pheric and oceanic SciencesDa-Lin Zhang.
In addition to federal inter-est, private companies are
also a major motivationbehind the growing trend inmajors such as service sci-ence. According to marketingprofessor Roland T. Rust, theservice sector of the U.S.economy has grown from 30
percent to more than 80 per-cent in a span of 100 years.
“Service science is ahugely important topic in the
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see MAJORS, page 11
Five majors in student popularitySKYROCKET
BY BILL BRAUNFor The Diamondback
With great internships comegreat responsibility, and becausethe university is only nine milesfrom the nation’s capital, it is onlynatural to seek out a covetedWashington internship.
This could be a multitude ofthings, from lobbying, to assist-ing a Congressman to writing fora magazine. Though the actualinternships differ greatly, theamount of stress a Washingtoninternship can cause alwaysremains the same.
However, it is easy to avoid the
stress as long as interns remainon top of their responsibilitiesand know how to plan accord-ingly. Things that normally seemso simple, such as dressing prop-erly, taking the Metro and timemanagement can all seem likedifficult problems unless youknow how to avoid them.
If an internship requires a cer-tain dress code, it never hurts toobserve and ask questions. Ifyou are one of those people whocan’t quite understand what itmeans to be business casual orbusiness professional, look at thepeople around you. If you findthat you are over- or under-
dressed compared to yourcoworkers, perhaps a wardrobeadjustment is in order.
For those students who aretoo busy to iron their clothes, analternative solution is in sight.There are dry cleaners in Col-lege Park, including ZIPS DryCleaners, which guarantees yourclothes can be “in by 9, out by 5.”
Most students at this univer-sity have taken the Metro intoWashington at least once. How-ever, what seems like an easygo-ing trip on the Metro can easilyturn into a down-to-the-wire anxi-ety attack if not planned properly.
The easiest way to avoid this isto plan ahead. At any time, multi-ple parts of the Metro can beunder construction. This canlead to extensive delays, whichare definitely not welcome whenone is in a rush.
The Metro’s website,www.wmata.com, gives real-timeupdates about delays on each ofthe different lines. Check thewebsite each day, and your com-mute will be much easier. If pos-sible, try to plan an alternativeway to reach your destination.Having a backup route if one linehas heavy delays can be a life-saver under tight time con-straints. When planning yourroute, give yourself an extra 15 to20 minutes to get to your destina-tion. It’s always better to be 10minutes early than 10 minuteslate.
Students make their springsemester schedules before win-ter break. Remember to keep inmind the internship hours youhope to get when scheduling.Nothing would be worse thanhaving to run to Washington foran internship after completing athree-hour biology lab. Plan yourschedule smartly and, if possi-ble, try and keep afternoons free.Internship advisers would bepleased to know you consideredthese details when making yourschedule.
Going to the university andbeing so close to Washingtonprovides students with a greatopportunity when it comes tointernships. The worst thing onecan do is to pass on or mess up agreat opportunity. So don’t fearthe big, bad city. All it comesdown to is keeping a level headand knowing how to plan ahead.
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Helpful tips to avoid the stress of new internships
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BY KATE RAFTERYStaff writer
When the unemployed orunderemployed research joblistings, the first place most ofthem will go, the Internet,presents almost endless possi-bilities, leaving students andrecent graduates with no obvi-ous guidance on which web-site to use.
National employment web-sites, such as Monster.comand CareerBuilder.com, havedesigned search sites to helpstudents and recent graduateslooking for internships andentry-level jobs.
CareerBuilder.com careeradviser Allison Nawoj said hercompany’s newly openedCareerRookie.com is a goodresource for young people tofind jobs well-suited for stu-dents and require less experi-ence than those listed on themain site.
Carol Monical, programdirector for career resourcesat the University Career Cen-ter, said students often told herthat the national sites’ job list-ings were aimed at people withmore experience.
She recommended websiteslike CareerRookie.com as wellas MonsterCollege and Col-legeGrad.com as placesgeared toward students andrecent graduates.
Career web links is one ofthe most popular sections on
the center’s website, accord-ing to Monical. It includesabout 350 career-related linksthat enable students to definetheir job searches by field,location and level of experi-ence.
Careers4Terps, an onlineservice providing students andalumni access to listings fromemployers seeking workersfrom this university, is anothersearch tool and networkingresource.
However, some studentssaid they would continue find-ing and applying to jobs theold-fashioned way.
“[Job websites are] reallyconvenient and a great idea,”said sophomore civil engineer-ing major Russell Phillips.
“But it’s no comparison towalking in and getting yourface out there,” he added.
But even if students andgraduates have no intention ofapplying online or are over-whelmed by the amount ofinformation they can accessthrough these websites, Moni-cal suggested they still look atonline job listings to get anidea of what skills and experi-ence they should highlightwhen speaking to employers.
“If you want to know moreabout a career field, you canlook at actual job listings to seewhat real employers want,”Monical said.
Job-search sites offer optionsfor students, recent grads
CareerRookie.com is a job-search website with opportunitiesgeared toward students and recent graduates. SCREENSHOT BY
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BY ALLISON LYONSFor The Diamondback
When it comes to Facebookand other social networkingwebsites, it’s helpful to remem-ber grandmothers and potentialemployers have similar values.
“If your grandmother would-
n’t like to see that on youraccount, your employer would-n’t either,” said Wil Jones, spe-cial assistant to the director forpublic relations at the Univer-sity Career Center.
According to Jones, about 44percent of employers use socialnetworking websites, such as
Facebook, to screen prospec-tive employees. This means stu-dents who are seeking employ-ment need to be careful abouttheir online image, Jones said.
“Facebook has changed,”center Assistant Director LindaLeNoir said. “ It is becoming aplace for people to connect topeople on there who may oneday be your coworkers.”
But this isn’t new to students.“When you create an
account, you’re putting yourselfout there,” said Susie Huang, asenior communications major.
The key, Huangadded, is to main-tain privacy anddiscretion whenconstructing pro-files on social net-works.
“I don’t let any-one see my pic-tures, and I keepobscene stuff outof it,” she added.
Other students,according to Jones, are not asnearly as careful.
“We ask a student if we can
look at their account [duringcareer information sessions],”he said. “If they are squeamish,that says a lot.”
Privacy settings can preventsome problems, but aren’t fool-proof. Some government agen-cies are able to look at all pro-files, regardless of settings.Also, Jones said that a companywill often ask other students toconduct reconnaissance onpotential employees’ profiles.
“Employers are becomingyounger and bringing withthem the technologies that theyused as students,” LeNoir said.“They are aware of what is outthere.”
Another thing to be carefulwith is finding jobs onlinethrough websites like Craigslistor Facebook Marketplace.
LeNoir recommends usingLinkedin, “the fastest growingnetwork,” she said. “It wasdeveloped as a professional net-work. That’s the one studentshave a good opportunity touse.”
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Facebook gives employers a look into applicants’ lives
Employers use Facebook to checkapplicants’ personal lives. SCREENSHOT BY
JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY BEN PRESENTFor The Diamondback
As the job market shifts toaccommodate the digital eraand social networking web-sites such as Facebook andTwitter are finding their waysinto the workplace, newopportunities have emergedfor students to strut theirtech-savvy stuff.
Students are looking for-ward to a new line of posi-tions in different fields wherethey can combine skills theyalready use on a daily basiswith those they studied inschool. The result couldmean a match between a well-developed pastime and a suc-cessful career in business.
Rosemary Dorsett, a juniorjournalism major, was a jun-ior team member focusing onfashion at StyleCaster.
Her experience grantedher the opportunity to workwith guest stylists, contributeto the website (www.style-caster.com) and edit articles.
“StyleCaster is a fashiondiscovery platform,” Dorsettsaid. “It’s a hybrid betweenFacebook, your favoriteonline shopping website andyour choice fashion maga-zine.”
Dorsett said StyleCaster,which started up last July, hassucceeded because it bringsthe community, content andconsumer to one central loca-tion. She discovered theopportunity onwww.ed2010.com which pro-vides students and young pro-fessionals interested in maga-zines with internship oppor-tunities.
“It’s good for rising talent,”she added. “I would kill for ajob there.”
Other students know thatsocial networking tools canhelp advance their careers.
“Promoting is a lot easierwhen you have a thousandfriends,” said sophomoreAlexia Smith, who eventuallywants to own a nightclub thathosts live music. “You can getyour message out that muchfaster.”
The international businessand journalism major hasalready started using socialnetworking to promotenightlife in downtown Col-
lege Park.When dietetics major Ilana
Fishof was looking to open upa yoga studio in College Park,which she planned on namingProud Posers, she immedi-ately looked to Facebook toget the word out.
She also created a surveyon www.surveymonkey.com togauge student interest.
“Facebook was very useful
in spreading our word andideas, especially because weplanned on incorporating asocial network feel to ourcompany,” Fishof said. “Peo-ple were even finding outabout it through friends.”
While the project nevermaterialized, mostly due tolack of venture capital, Fishofsaid she will look to the Inter-net again to promote her
future business ideas.Fishof, who currently
teaches yoga at the EppleyRecreation Center, added thatnutrition and fitness willalways be at the forefront ofher goals.
And while the competitive-ness of the dietetics field has
forced Fishof to keep hercareer options open, she willnever rule out the idea ofeventually opening her ownyoga studio.
“Now that’s if we’re talkingdream,” she said.
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As Tyler “Brad Pitt”Durden of Fight Clubsaid: “You’re not yourjob. You’re not how
much money you have in thebank. You’re not the car youdrive. You’re not the contentsof your wallet. You’re not yourf–––ing khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of theworld.”
Unfortunately for Durden,society doesn’t agree. It judgesus by our economic valueinstead of our scholarly questsand humanity.
Ironic, since society’s job mar-ket is abysmal. And on top of stu-dent loans, we’re also inheritinga national debt we didn’t create,but that’s a separate issue.
Take a good look around.This is your competition. Areyou prepared to compete forthe same lower-level, under-paid positions as everyoneelse? FYI: You can’t put indiecritic, vinyl purist or late-nightporn enthusiast on yourrésumé.
So let me help you get to thatplace where you’re sunbathingon your yacht in your Under-roos while Warren Buffett whis-pers sexily in your ear: “Youmake me look like a pauper.”
It’s simple, you just need to ...er, um ... OK, maybe I lied. Ican’t help you get that far. But Ican pretend there’s a silver lin-ing to this situation.
Trust me, I’m a journalismmajor. I know jobs are limited.Want to know a fun drinkinggame? Take a shot for everynewspaper with staff cutbacksand two shots for every news-paper that shuts down. To theperson who found me in myvomit after that Saturday, you
can keep my dignity. I lost allneed for it when I declared mymajor.
Where’s the faux silver lin-ing? We have a simpler plan ofaction than our parents had.
OPTION 1: Move back homeand leech off Mom and Pop, col-lect unemployment benefits and
enjoy. You’ll just have to relin-quish all freedom. Say hello toKnitting Tuesdays with Gran.
OPTION 2: Beg for a job.You’re indebted to someone,but you get to keep your inde-pendence.
OPTION 3: Apply to gradu-ate school or programs such as
the Peace Corps or Teach forAmerica. Warning: Competi-tion will be fierce.
OPTION 4: Actually apply fora job. Go to a career fair, jobhunt online, see your adviserand prepare a résumé. There’sstill hope.
Good luck, my fellow Terps,
and Testudo-speed. Don’tworry, I wouldn’t dream ofcompeting with you. I’m aimingfor that glorious victory lap as afifth-year senior.
Shruti Rastogi is a seniorjournalism major. She can bereached at [email protected].
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business world and they needto hire students who areknowledgeable about it,” Rustsaid. “The vast majority ofjobs are towards service; a lotof large companies like IBMare pressing universities tohave more training.”
The university does notoffer an official major in serv-ice science. However, theCenter for Excellence in Ser-vice, which was establishedin 2000, aims to educate stu-dents in the service sciencesector with workshops, con-ferences, research and otherprojects. Furthermore, thebusiness school offers curric-ula that are directly involvedin service science like serv-ice marketing, customerequity management and e-commerce.
Rust added that businessclasses have accommodatedthe growing need for knowl-edge in service science by
including relevant topics intheir regular curricula.
Student interest is not solelyguided by employmentprospects, however. In majorsrelated to sustainability, theinterest can be attributed to anoverall change in behaviortoward the environment, saidMark Stewart, university sus-tainability coordinator at theoffice of sustainability. In fact,the department of environ-mental science and technologyhas seen a boost in enrollment.
“There’s a lot of interest insustainability — students yearby year are becoming moreinterested in this. We weretalking about data … studentparticipation in sustainabilityare all trending in the rightdirection, people are moreconscious of these things.”
Though the university doesnot have an official “sustain-ability” major, colleges dooffer majors that are heavilyinvolved with the environ-ment. The majors are appliedand range from agriculturalstudies to biochemistry toenvironmental science and
policy. There are also a widevariety of minors and certifi-cates that students can applyfor if they are not interested inpursuing a full-time major.
All of the majors that areprojected to increase indevelopment and studentenrollment are appliedmajors and offer workerswith degrees in these fieldsan additional advantage inthe hiring process.
“Employers are looking forentry-level hires who possessskills that match their organi-zation’s needs, regardless ofmajor,” Brown said. “Manyemployers have shared thattheir minimum qualificationsfor positions is holding abachelor’s degree. However,employers are willing to trainnew hires for the job that theywould like for them to do. Stu-dents who possess an open,flexible mind and who recog-nize their transferable skillsplace themselves in positionsthat are marketable toemployers.”
MAJORSfrom page 4
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BY EMAUN KASHFIPOURFor The Diamondback
Career fairs are a great wayfor students to get theirnames out into the profes-sional world.
Each year, the universityhosts two large all-majorcareer fairs: one in the falland one in the spring.
This semester, the FallCareer Fair is a three-dayevent starting tomorrow andending Thursday.
During the fair more than270 employers will be lookingto hire students for intern-ships and full-time positions,including more than 50 gov-ernment organizations andmore than 30 nonprofit organ-izations, according to WilJones, special assistant to the
director of the UniversityCareer Center and FallCareer Fair co-chairman.
“Students who participatein our fairs report higher joboffer numbers than thosewho do not as indicated bythe UM Graduation Surveythat the Center conductseach year,” Jones wrote in ane-mail.
Students can research thecompanies that will be pres-ent at this semester’s fair atthe Career Center’s websitefor the fair, www.career-center.umd.edu/fairprep.
“The No. 1 piece of feed-back we receive from employ-ers about our students beingprepared is the need toresearch the company priorto the event,” Katie Ryan,public relations and market-
ing advisor, said in a letter tostudents.
Ryan also advised studentsto bring many copies of theirrésumé, dress for success,not be discouraged if theemployer asks for an online
application instead of arésumé and relax becausestudents who participated inthe fair get a “leg up” in thecompetition.
For students who are look-ing into finally finishing col-lege and joining the work-force, applying for intern-
ships or just learning moreabout their fields, the fair is agreat place to get started.
Jones said he encourages“all students to prepare forthe career fair because youcan’t stay in school forever.”
“Students whoparticipate inour fairs reporthigher job offernumbers thanthose who donot.”
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