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Career Management
Career and Student Employment Services
You never know who you will meet by regularly interacting with a wide variety of people. Never lead with your need A proper conversation never revolves around one person. You may need an internship or a job, but that need will not qualify you for one. A professional exchange of appropriate information, however, can lead to new opportunities. Listen If you want to expand your network and benefit from it too, you need to become an active listener.
https://wmich.edu/career/management
Mathematical musician says flexibility of Western's programs is music to her ears
WMU News
And she's calculating a bright future at Western Michigan University. "I would love to be a statistician one day, and I think Western can help a lot," she says. "I know many of their students get jobs in the fields they are studying." Davé, of Kalamazoo, will be a first-year student in the fall, majoring in statistics with a minor in data science.
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/06/64400
Raising the bar in HR: Q&A with Mike Powell
Management
Whether you are a business student or not, there are several career counseling, job interview and resume assistance resources at Western and employers who attend career fairs and registered student organization meetings to offer internships and jobs to students. These opportunities will give you valuable experience and boost your career.
https://wmich.edu/management/powell2021
Digital marketing dream teams: Students launch mentorship program that offers early career preparation
Digital Marketing and eCommerce
Resources for learning about industry news and developments. How to prepare a great resume and get ready for job interviews. Tips for choosing right-fit companies. The teams also participate in virtual job shadowing, and skill building activities like creating advertising campaigns, delivering insights from analytics, writing sponsored content, mock interviewing, budgeting, creating a digital strategy and pitching a business idea.
https://wmich.edu/dme/mentors
Michigan Programs
Student Financial Aid
Vocational rehabilitation Eligibility Educational benefits are available based on financial need for students with physical or mental impairments resulting in a substantial impediment to employment. To obtain further information or an application from, write to: Michigan Rehabilitation Service Michigan Jobs Commission P.O. Box 30020 Lansing MI 48909 For a listing of the MRS district offices, call (800) 605-6722. For more information, please visit their website .
https://wmich.edu/finaid/mi-programs
The Western Years
The Evaluation Center
They became colleagues and when Wiersma retired Stufflebeam engaged him to be an adjunct staff member of The Evaluation Center at WMU. He has done an outstanding job in several capacities, especially as the external evaluator for the Appalachia Regional Educational Laboratory. He excels at applying professional standards to the judgment of evaluations done by that lab and other groups.
https://wmich.edu/evaluation/about-0/founders/wmu
Information Technology
Facilities Management
Our job at Information Technology is to provide technical support to all the departments and divisions within Western Michigan University’s Facilities Management—comprising of at least eight buildings and shops around campus and approximately 500 employees. This includes desktop support, software and hardware maintenance and upgrading technologies being used.
https://wmich.edu/facilities/administration/it
Erica Martinez
College of Education and Human Development
She provides unconditional support and encouragement to her team and always makes herself available to help others. She serves as a committee member on the SCS Job Evaluation committee, is a member of the SRM Development Project Work Group: Training, Process Documentation and Policy, and leads work committed to inclusion and diversity.
https://wmich.edu/education/martinez
WMU Foundation receives historic gift in excess of a half-billion dollars, the largest ever for a public higher ed institution
WMU News
Empowering Futures: Student support at a glance Montgomery describes the gift as "student centered, transformational and responsive to the needs of students today," providing immediate help in the following ways: Western Michigan University Educational Access and Retention: A significant expansion of need-based financial assistance with tuition, room and board and degree-completion support Purpose and Passion: Paid experiential learning for students who rely on jobs to fund their education, as well as new support staff to guide students in their pursuit of a
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/06/64413
Western expert: Pandemic sparked a 'she-cession,' disproportionately forcing women out of the workforce
WMU News
A major driving force is the decimation of the service industry, which shed hundreds of thousands of jobs during mandated shutdowns. A mom talks on the phone while a child jumps and throws papers in the background. A Pew Trust analysis found moms of young kids lost more than 2 million jobs just between February and August 2020. "The COVID-19 crisis is, at its core, a low-wage worker crisis right now, because the unemployment rate is so much higher for low-wage workers," Kimmel says.
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63542