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As a deputy U.S. Marshal, Michael Leigh, ’07, also serves as a recruiter for the Marshals’ Centralized Student Career Experience program.
Many students—particularly those in fields such as nursing, social work and psychology—complete structured and supervised practicum coursework at social-services agencies and health care facilities in the Seattle area. In social work, as in nursing and psychology, the practicum is part of their required curriculum and can involve 450 or more hours over several quarters. By the time Samantha Stork, ’10, signed on to complete her required social work practicum at First Place, she already had a taste of her future. She had been a volunteer there as part of her service learning at SU. First Place serves Seattle-area families in crisis with young children. Today, Stork is a First Place case manager. “I enjoy working with parents and seeing progress as it happens because the children can feel it, too.” Stork credits her internship there for her eventual hiring. “I treated my internship like a nine-month long job interview. …By being an intern, the staff and directors had already worked with me, saw how I worked with others and saw what I was capable of,” she says. Few internships are open to graduates, although Career Services assists not only current students but also alumni with job searches, one-on-one job
“Whatever you do… do it with passion and enthusiasm.” Beth Oretsky, ’03 OSR student Wells Fargo Bank recruiter
advising, career changes, workshops and networking. SU’s free, web-based Redhawk Network [www.seattleu.edu/ redhawknetwork/] is the primary tool to offer employment opportunities for students and alumni. This past spring, Career Services launched a four-part job seeker career transitions series aimed at alumni, with a webinar version in the offing. At the spring Career Expo, Beth Oretsky, ’03, currently a student in SU’s Organization Systems Renewal master’s program, had some advice for the Career Expo crowd at Campion Ballroom. “Whatever you do…do it with passion and enthusiasm,” says Oretsky, a recruiter for Wells Fargo Bank. “I didn’t have an internship and I really wish I did.” Laura Paskin, director of communications and marketing in the College of Arts and Sciences, contributed to this story.
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