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Students may feel a little insecure about their future careers due to the economic consequences of COVID-19. However, Texas Tech professionals reveal the future is still bright, and it is only a matter of how students get creative pushing through the darkness of trying times.
Director of the University Career Center, Jay Killough, said he encourages students to expand their horizons, to look for opportunities whether it is in their field of study or not. As a department of human sciences professor, he has had students who did just this.
He said he had a non-traditional student who got laid off from a 10-year banking job due to COVID-19, but after discussing his goals and interests, they realized that the student thrived on fitness and nutrition, so they explored job prospects in that area. By the end of the semester, the student wrote for his finals paper how he got a job at a wellness clinic.
Spring Semester Update
January 29, 2021 We are excited to continue in-person classes and welcoming students on campus. Grand View will continue to work hard in monitoring the COVID-19 situation and making the health and safety of our students and campus community a top priority. We have learned a lot about HyFlex in practice this fall. We surveyed students, we polled faculty members, we examined class attendance patterns, we analyzed mid-semester grades, we studied progress reports, and we did a lot of listening to individual students and instructors. In response to the research, Grand View has introduced new student tools for the spring semester.
Senior English major Erin O’Connor interned at Common Roots Farm this fall. She is preparing carrots from the harvest to sell at the Common Roots Farmstand in S. Burlington. New remote micro-internship offerings could increase productive partnerships between UVM interns and the Vermont business community. Photo: Sally McCay
The “gig economy” the transition to
short-term, temporary, or project-based work–is here to stay, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend.
Given social distancing imperatives, those who can work from home have established their personal office in an extra bedroom, or at their kitchen table.
The new rules of the workplace have also affected how businesses view the internship, an experience that has traditionally given college students a chance to gain on-the-job work experience, build their resumes, and develop key connections with future employers.
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