Planning Ahead, Job Hunting Resources

As you begin your search for an exciting career opportunity, do consult Steenbock Library’s online guide to Job Hunting.

This guide supplies links to resources for helping you prepare your resume and cover letter, tips for networking and interviewing, sources to help you research potential employers and sources for retrieving current job listings--and finding those opportunities that may not be advertised.

College Library also maintains a Career Collection of more than 1,000 books on writing resumes and cover letters, preparing for interviews, job hunting, and choosing and preparing for a career. This collection is located in the center area of the third floor of College Library.

Call for Course Reserves (Spring 2009)

It's that time of year...time for instructors to submit their course reserve materials to Steenbock Library for processing. To ensure that your reserve materials are available in time for the first day of class, do submit these materials by our deadline date, December 20, 2008.

For more information, visit the Steenbock Course Reserves page, phone 263-8331 or email.

Farewell Union South

Campus will bid farewell to Union South at the end of this semester. For those students and staff accustomed to visiting Union South for its dining options and other services, you may find this modified campus map helpful for sourcing alternatives.

If you are interested in checking on the progress of new Union construction (and to weigh-in on its amenities), take a look at the Union Building Project site, read the blog or sign-on to the Facebook group.

There will also be a fun opportunity to issue a student farewell, this Friday (December 5) with the “Wreaking Ball” schedule of events—dances, karaoke, free snacks and midnight movie.

Second Harvest Donation Event

The campus Visitor & Information Programs (VIP) office will host an opportunity to donate to the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. On December 5, students and staff can bring non-perishable food items to the Red Gym (716 Langdon), between 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM, for this effort. While there, enjoy some hot chocolate, courtesy of University Housing.

Your contribution matters, here, locally!

For some additional information and statistics regarding food insecurity/hunger in the United States, consult the following fact-sheets and studies supplied by Feeding America (parent organization for the Second Harvest foodbanks).

Tree and Wreath Sale

The UW Forestry Club will hold its annual tree and wreath sale, December 5-7 in the Stock Pavilion. Students will be selling fresh trees--Fraser fir ($50), Balsam fir ($40) and white pine ($30) and Fraser wreaths ($22). Proceeds from this sale are used to help subsidize students’ experience at the summer field skills camp, Kemp Natural Resources Station, and to fund travel and registration at professional society meetings.

Hours:

Friday, December 5 8:00 am-8:00 pm

Saturday, December 6 8:00 am-8:00 pm

Sunday, December 7 9:00 am-3:00 pm