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The College and Career Guidance Center, sharing space with the Leadership Academy, hosted an open house last spring to show off their new offices, reception area, and Resource Lab. Celebrating the day were (L to R) CCGC director John Brown, Leadership Academy director Dr. Connie Sjoberg, administrators Dr. Jeff Ogle and Dr. Ralph Fagin, and CCGC staff members Donna Bratschun and Marcus Jackson.
The College and Career Guidance Center, sharing space with the Leadership Academy, hosted an open house last spring to show off their new offices, reception area, and Resource Lab. Celebrating the day were (L to R) CCGC director John Brown, Leadership Academy director Dr. Connie Sjoberg, administrators Dr. Jeff Ogle and Dr. Ralph Fagin, and CCGC staff members Donna Bratschun and Marcus Jackson.
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Besides assisting students, director John Brown offers ORU alumni career transition services such as counseling, repackaging, and benefit advice -- services offered, for example, to 300 Tulsa-area alumni who didn’t want to transfer with their former employer to Dallas.
Besides assisting students, director John Brown offers ORU alumni career transition services such as counseling, repackaging, and benefit advice -- services offered, for example, to 300 Tulsa-area alumni who didn’t want to transfer with their former employer to Dallas.
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In the Resource Lab, Brown readies students (L to R) Michael Moreo, Manuel Rodriguez, and Maureen Obudho for job searching and employment through workshops in networking, interviewing, résumé development, and employment skills.
In the Resource Lab, Brown readies students (L to R) Michael Moreo, Manuel Rodriguez, and Maureen Obudho for job searching and employment through workshops in networking, interviewing, résumé development, and employment skills.
Now located on LRC 5, the College and Career Guidance Center has twice as much space to help students and alumni land quality jobs with the 600 employers currently seeking ORU’s product. Employers and job-seekers alike are finding excellent service and results.

In an earlier interview, John Brown, the center’s director, said, “As a former businessman and manager, I understand how difficult it can be to hire the right employees, ones who will do the job well and be satisfied enough to stay for longer than a year or two. I tell businesses that ORU is like a very, very well-stocked pond of top-quality fish. Sure, you may find a larger number of fish in the ocean, but it’s much easier to come here and find, well, better fish!”

Out-of-work or curious alumni are welcome to come in and take a career assessment test, get help in planning a job search, attend workshops on résumé preparation and interviewing skills, or even have their résumés reviewed. Additionally, if alumni are looking for mature, ethical, hardworking employees to hire, CCGC is happy to pre-screen and pre-qualify job candidates from their bank of ORU students and alumni.

Alumni can help current students and fellow ORU graduates by working with CCGC in everything from becoming a mentor to passing on internal contacts who might be hiring within the companies where they work. “We have many alumni who work for Fortune 500 or Fortune 1,000 companies. If they would just give me the name of someone they know in Human Resources, I will bend over backwards to make contact with them and connect them to excellent job candidates,” Brown says. “For so many jobs, all it takes is an edge like that.”

For more on CCGC, visit their Web site.

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Renovated Center Helps Job Hunters


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The College and Career Guidance Center, sharing space with the Leadership Academy, hosted an open house last spring to show off their new offices, reception area, and Resource Lab. Celebrating the day were (L to R) CCGC director John Brown, Leadership Academy director Dr. Connie Sjoberg, administrators Dr. Jeff Ogle and Dr. Ralph Fagin, and CCGC staff members Donna Bratschun and Marcus Jackson.
The College and Career Guidance Center, sharing space with the Leadership Academy, hosted an open house last spring to show off their new offices, reception area, and Resource Lab. Celebrating the day were (L to R) CCGC director John Brown, Leadership Academy director Dr. Connie Sjoberg, administrators Dr. Jeff Ogle and Dr. Ralph Fagin, and CCGC staff members Donna Bratschun and Marcus Jackson.
Click Photo to Enlarge
Besides assisting students, director John Brown offers ORU alumni career transition services such as counseling, repackaging, and benefit advice -- services offered, for example, to 300 Tulsa-area alumni who didn't want to transfer with their former employer to Dallas.
Besides assisting students, director John Brown offers ORU alumni career transition services such as counseling, repackaging, and benefit advice -- services offered, for example, to 300 Tulsa-area alumni who didn't want to transfer with their former employer to Dallas.
Click Photo to Enlarge
In the Resource Lab, Brown readies students (L to R) Michael Moreo, Manuel Rodriguez, and Maureen Obudho for job searching and employment through workshops in networking, interviewing, résumé development, and employment skills.
In the Resource Lab, Brown readies students (L to R) Michael Moreo, Manuel Rodriguez, and Maureen Obudho for job searching and employment through workshops in networking, interviewing, résumé development, and employment skills.
Now located on LRC 5, the College and Career Guidance Center has twice as much space to help students and alumni land quality jobs with the 600 employers currently seeking ORU's product. Employers and job-seekers alike are finding excellent service and results.

In an earlier interview, John Brown, the center's director, said, "As a former businessman and manager, I understand how difficult it can be to hire the right employees, ones who will do the job well and be satisfied enough to stay for longer than a year or two. I tell businesses that ORU is like a very, very well-stocked pond of top-quality fish. Sure, you may find a larger number of fish in the ocean, but it's much easier to come here and find, well, better fish!"

Out-of-work or curious alumni are welcome to come in and take a career assessment test, get help in planning a job search, attend workshops on résumé preparation and interviewing skills, or even have their résumés reviewed. Additionally, if alumni are looking for mature, ethical, hardworking employees to hire, CCGC is happy to pre-screen and pre-qualify job candidates from their bank of ORU students and alumni.

Alumni can help current students and fellow ORU graduates by working with CCGC in everything from becoming a mentor to passing on internal contacts who might be hiring within the companies where they work. "We have many alumni who work for Fortune 500 or Fortune 1,000 companies. If they would just give me the name of someone they know in Human Resources, I will bend over backwards to make contact with them and connect them to excellent job candidates," Brown says. "For so many jobs, all it takes is an edge like that."

For more on CCGC, visit their Web site.
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