UMW Career Services- Graduate and adult students

The Department of Homeland Security has just registered to attend the UMW Employer Fair. They also plan on holding on-campus interviews for the Acquisition Professional Career Program (APCP) (on the Fredericksburg campus) for qualified candidates they meet during the fair.
How Does the Program APCP Work?
Acquisition Professional Career Program participants choose between the Business track or [...]

Only seven days left before EMPLOYER FAIR!! Are you ready to meet, connect, and network with the 40 employers that are registered to attend?
Spotsylvania County Public Schools, Impact Innovations Systems, Inc., TANDBERG, and Hanover County Public Schools are only a few of the employers that will be attending. Visit our website (www.umw.edu/careerservices/calendar_events/fair/) for a description [...]

You may want to start your research by visiting the virginiabusiness.com website to review the 2009 list of largest VA companies in 20 popular industries. The list includes organizations in the following fields: accounting, colleges, divisions and subsidiaries, hospitals, insurance brokers, private companies, public companies, etc. The article notes that the accounting industry and information technology [...]

Alyssa Rosenbery recently reported on governmentexecutive.com that the Pentagon, Homeland Security Department, the Justice Department, the Veterans Affairs Department, and areas related to Health and Human Services are all expecting an increase in hiring during the next two years.
Read more about whose hiring and laying off in the federal government by visiting
 http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?ar…

The Partnership for Public Services, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2001, recently completed a survey of 35 federal agencies (representing approximately 99% of the federal workforce) and located almost 273,000 mission-critical positions that agencies were anticipating needing to fill. The positions were based across the U.S. and in all types of fields, but the [...]

Career Services has many online and print resources that you can utilize free of charge. But the resources listed below are the ones that I most often share with students. If you would like more information about our resources and services, contact Career Services at 540-654-1022 to schedule an individual appointment.
UMW’s Job/Internship Database (eRecruiting/Experience)- http://mary-washington.experience.com/
- Students [...]

Attend the UMW Northern Virginia Student/Alumni Networking Reception, Sunday, Jan. 31st; 2-4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 4610 Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203.
Mingle and learn from alumni in diverse fields such as consulting, law, education, nonprofit and government. Light refreshments will be served, so please register on eRecruiting/Experience  http://mary-washington.experience.com/) if you plan on attending [...]

No prior registration is required for any of the events below. For a complete list of UMW Career Services events, visit www.umw.edu . Please contact Career Services if you have any questions or would like to schedule an individual appointment at 654-1022.
• Career Services Information Table; Tues., Jan. 26th, 5 – 6 p.m. (North Building, [...]

Need information about a career field to prepare for an interview or decide on a career path? Check out our new Vault Online Career Library!

The thousands of military jobs coming to the Fredericksburg area could create “a change of the business dynamic,” Joe Grzeika told an audience of area business leaders Thursday night.