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Job-Hunting Tips Can Benefit Norfolk, Va.-Area Graduates.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2001
By Philip Walzer, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 9--Join the student organization in your specialty. "Normally, a national student-level organization will have a good network with companies in the career field," said Benjamin F. Ellis Jr., director of career services at Norfolk State University.
Get summer internships before you're a senior. "Some of those employers not coming to campus to recruit are, in fact, making offers to last summer's interns," said Mary E. Schilling, the director of career services at the College of William and Mary.
Allen Moore, a 21-year-old ODU senior specializing in computers, had an internship with ExxonMobil Corp. in Fairfax last summer and was told he has a "pretty...
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