so met my neighbor's parents last night. nice people....they're passing my resume on to some people they ride with. yeah...the father wants to buy a new BMW motorcycle. what I find interesting...the one person works with prison populations and such as a psychiatrist. the other one...he's a psychiatrist...and his wife is an administrator for a local county's mental health organization...cha-ching! so hoping for something there!
and the job I applied for...it looks like I might know the new Area Director they hired. I used to work with him when he was a graduate student. nice guy.....and after he got his Masters degree, got caught (mind you, he was acting as a Resident Director basically) smoking up in his apartment on-campus. whoops. and that was after I told him "Now you got your Masters....means people expect a wee bit more from you, more professionalism and such. keep that in mind!" oh well, if he is working at this college, might be able to use him as a way in. they do have a nice position I would be interested in...working with the 1st year students, including teaching a class. I can see the question now..."What sets you aside from the other candidates?"
my response...."While I may not have as much recent experience as some of the candidates with college students, I do have extensive experience as a substitute with the incoming first year students you're asking me to work with. I understand the school systems they are coming from, as a former school counseling student who took classes about these topics, and understanding this, have a good idea of some of the potential pit-falls these students may encounter that can be remedied with some proactive actions on my part in both the classroom setting, RA programming, and my own interactions."
you know....things like how to talk to people without a computer, the idea that you have to seek out help in college (while in High School it quite often was pushed on you) and that in college, you are allowed to fail (which seems to have become another 4-letter word in High School...thanks No Child Left Behind).
now all I need is a job opening and an interview!
and it looks like the college has not filled the open positions I got rejected for yet either....
and the job I applied for...it looks like I might know the new Area Director they hired. I used to work with him when he was a graduate student. nice guy.....and after he got his Masters degree, got caught (mind you, he was acting as a Resident Director basically) smoking up in his apartment on-campus. whoops. and that was after I told him "Now you got your Masters....means people expect a wee bit more from you, more professionalism and such. keep that in mind!" oh well, if he is working at this college, might be able to use him as a way in. they do have a nice position I would be interested in...working with the 1st year students, including teaching a class. I can see the question now..."What sets you aside from the other candidates?"
my response...."While I may not have as much recent experience as some of the candidates with college students, I do have extensive experience as a substitute with the incoming first year students you're asking me to work with. I understand the school systems they are coming from, as a former school counseling student who took classes about these topics, and understanding this, have a good idea of some of the potential pit-falls these students may encounter that can be remedied with some proactive actions on my part in both the classroom setting, RA programming, and my own interactions."
you know....things like how to talk to people without a computer, the idea that you have to seek out help in college (while in High School it quite often was pushed on you) and that in college, you are allowed to fail (which seems to have become another 4-letter word in High School...thanks No Child Left Behind).
now all I need is a job opening and an interview!
and it looks like the college has not filled the open positions I got rejected for yet either....
Ah, talking to someone without a computer. A dying skill.