This information is listed under the 'Spring Schedule' post as well, but here is more specific information about the upcoming meeting on Tuesday, March 17th at 5 p.m.
Second meeting-Tuesday, March 17th at 5:30 p.m. Room 401, Maguire Hall (where most of us have Ivan's class). 'Non-traditional' Social Work paths
Professor Breezer Rickey will be hosting a discussion session of her experiences after graduation in community organizing, international social work and other 'non-traditional' social work arenas. This should be a nice addition to the first meeting's discussion around the job climate, and will hopefully give us more ideas for paths after graduation.
We hope to see everyone there! Please let Corinne Fetter or Laura Vermette know if you have any questions.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Policy Fellowships
So the job market is crazy, as those of you who heard Cam speak a couple weeks ago know how challenging it is out there. One idea I had that may make sense for some people would be to seek out fellowships in policy. There is a great PolicyFellowship posting board at Kaiseredu.org that lists a ton of them. For example, there is the Illinois Early Childhood Fellowship that lasts two years and pays relatively well. Check it out, maybe you'll find something interesting. Or you could always go work at the White House.....
Monday, February 9, 2009
LDSS Spring Schedule
Hello LDSS-ers...
For those of you who are new to this professional development group, welcome! As we intend for this blog to be as informational and helpful as possible, please bookmark this puppy and check it regularly.
Here is our (rough) final schedule for the Spring.
First official meeting-Tuesday, February 17th at 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. Room TBA. The LDSS Job Climate.
Ivan and Cam Helkowski, the Associate Director of LUC's Career Development Center, will be speaking about the LDSS job climate and what to expect when we graduate. We hope it will be a mix of both what kinds of LDSS jobs are out there (which Ivan will address) and how to go about getting them (which Cam will address).
Note: As Kevin mentioned below, for those of us in Evette's class that evening, we have a field trip at the Art Institute. I have already let Evette know that we have this meeting, and that a bunch of us may be late due to travel time. She was cool with it...
Second meeting-Tuesday, March 17th at 5:00 p.m. Room 401, Maguire Hall (where most of us have Ivan's class). 'Non-traditional' Social Work paths
Professor Breezer Rickey will be hosting a discussion session of her experiences after graduation in community organizing, international social work and other 'non-traditional' social work paths. This should be a nice addition to the first meeting's discussion around the job climate, and will hopefully give us more ideas for paths after graduation.
Third and final meeting-Sometime in April (more details TBA). Pathways to Becoming an Executive Director
As we discussed at the pseudo planning meeting last Tuesday, we have decided to scale down this event to just our LDSS professional development group, as opposed to opening it up to a wider audience (we realized that few of us have the time to plan such an event). The idea is to have a mix of executive directors and program managers to talk about their career paths.
That's about it for now! Mark those calendars, and, as always, come to me or Laura Vermette with questions.
We'll let you know once we have a room for next Tuesday's meeting....
For those of you who are new to this professional development group, welcome! As we intend for this blog to be as informational and helpful as possible, please bookmark this puppy and check it regularly.
Here is our (rough) final schedule for the Spring.
First official meeting-Tuesday, February 17th at 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. Room TBA. The LDSS Job Climate.
Ivan and Cam Helkowski, the Associate Director of LUC's Career Development Center, will be speaking about the LDSS job climate and what to expect when we graduate. We hope it will be a mix of both what kinds of LDSS jobs are out there (which Ivan will address) and how to go about getting them (which Cam will address).
Note: As Kevin mentioned below, for those of us in Evette's class that evening, we have a field trip at the Art Institute. I have already let Evette know that we have this meeting, and that a bunch of us may be late due to travel time. She was cool with it...
Second meeting-Tuesday, March 17th at 5:00 p.m. Room 401, Maguire Hall (where most of us have Ivan's class). 'Non-traditional' Social Work paths
Professor Breezer Rickey will be hosting a discussion session of her experiences after graduation in community organizing, international social work and other 'non-traditional' social work paths. This should be a nice addition to the first meeting's discussion around the job climate, and will hopefully give us more ideas for paths after graduation.
Third and final meeting-Sometime in April (more details TBA). Pathways to Becoming an Executive Director
As we discussed at the pseudo planning meeting last Tuesday, we have decided to scale down this event to just our LDSS professional development group, as opposed to opening it up to a wider audience (we realized that few of us have the time to plan such an event). The idea is to have a mix of executive directors and program managers to talk about their career paths.
That's about it for now! Mark those calendars, and, as always, come to me or Laura Vermette with questions.
We'll let you know once we have a room for next Tuesday's meeting....
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Back in the Saddle
Greetings, fellow LDSS students-
We are back for the second semester and made some progress on setting up how the next few months will look for us. It was a good decision to scale back the vision of the April event, as we will all have a good deal on our plates. Shifting the focus to something smaller will give a more focused plan to impart information on those looking to go into program or agency management in the non-profit world.
We heard yesterday that our February 17th meeting date will now be somewhat compromised by a field trip to an awards ceremony at the Art Institute. Frustrating as that may be, it seems like it will be possible to do both things that night and still get something out of both events. It might be a good idea to see if we can arrange some options for getting over to the event quickly after we finish up at Loyola. Cab? Carpool? Ideas welcome.....
We are back for the second semester and made some progress on setting up how the next few months will look for us. It was a good decision to scale back the vision of the April event, as we will all have a good deal on our plates. Shifting the focus to something smaller will give a more focused plan to impart information on those looking to go into program or agency management in the non-profit world.
We heard yesterday that our February 17th meeting date will now be somewhat compromised by a field trip to an awards ceremony at the Art Institute. Frustrating as that may be, it seems like it will be possible to do both things that night and still get something out of both events. It might be a good idea to see if we can arrange some options for getting over to the event quickly after we finish up at Loyola. Cab? Carpool? Ideas welcome.....
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