Morningside Connect

It has been a whirlwind academic year filled with events, programming, resume reviews, employer outreach, and much more!  May is a great time for me, personally, to reflect on the previous year, as well as to begin looking forward and making plans and goals for the next academic year.  The end of the fiscal year for many organizations is when you may be expected to monitor and evaluate your own job performance and start thinking about your own professional development, career development plan, and work-related goals for the future.

Updating your resume is a great way for you to not only keep and maintain a current professional document, but it can also be helpful in evaluating your own work performance on the job.  When updating your resume, you will obviously describe the job that you do, but you should also try and identify some accomplishments or goal-driven initiatives you have experienced in your tenure.  These kinds of statements show employers that you are familiar with setting and reaching goals, and can be indicative of your work motivation and experience with goal achievement.  By doing this every year, your resume will remain fresh and current, should you ever need to use it to apply for different opportunities or advancements in your current organization.  Furthermore, by updating the resume before you actually plan to use it, you may find your creative juices are less stifled by not being under time or stressful constraints associated with the job search/application process.

I’m happy to announce that the Career Services Office will be open this summer!  I will maintain normal summer hours (M-F 8:00am-4:30pm), and will be open to students for individual appointments or e-mail consultations.   If you would like another pair of eyes to take a look at your resume, have career development questions, or if you have job opportunities for students or graduates, please feel free to contact me at hays@morningside.edu or (712) 274-5032.

Stacie Hays

I’m sitting in my office in Lewis Hall, gazing out the window – reminiscing in my mind about all the fun and laughs I’ve had with the 2015 graduating class of Morningside College. I have been often asked – what advice would you give the class as they venture out into the workaday world?

I am reminded of the graduation speech that Alan Alda, star of the CBS Television series M*A*S*H, gave at Connecticut College a number of years ago. Rather than me paraphrase it I offer this link: http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0020-alda1.htm

Please take time to read it. It is one of the most powerful graduation addresses ever given. He speaks to all of us about what this day has come to mean. I urge you to read it and give me some feedback once you have completed it. What do you think?

Gene Ambroson