An archive of articles and media featuring the Pomerantz Career Center.
Author: Rachel Nolan
It’s just winter, but University of Iowa student Linsey Strittmater already has her summer job lined up. It’s not lifeguarding, nor is it waiting tables. Strittmater has an internship that could advance her professional career.
“I have been planning on attending a career fair since I was a freshman," Strittmater says. “The university brings in a...
Author: Lin Larson
When Josh Frahm talks with his students about work, he’s not shy about sharing his own story, warts and all.
“Coming out of college, I wasn’t prepared for some of the basics, like selling my experience,” he says. “I harp on students to get involved in class, on campus, on the job, building their background and learning how to talk about it.”
Author: Unknown
State and national employers are showing an increased interest in Corridor college career fairs.
At the University of Iowa, 136 employers have signed up to take part in the Pomerantz Career Center's Fall Job and Internship Fair next Thursday, said Angi McKie, the career center's marketing director.
This maxes out the Iowa Memorial Union and...
Author: Daniel P. Finney
The employment picture for college graduates this spring will be brighter than it’s been at any other time since the economic downturn began in 2007, economists and Iowa university career counselors say.
The upswing is part of the continued, though sluggish, recovery nationally, but is stronger in Iowa and the Midwest, where employment did not...
Author: Jill Kasparie
Author: Emily Drees, Sarah Hadley, Lauren Horsch, Taylor Grangaard, Melanie Mackey and Nora Heaton
A few weeks shy of graduating in May, Brandt Heitman is ready to take a mechanical engineering degree from Iowa State to a job at AllSteel in Muscatine, debt free.
“Engineering is a tech field, and everyone needs engineers,” a confident Heitman, 23, said about working at...
Author: Jonathan Solis
Outside the Iowa House chambers, a small group of University of Iowa students filled out pink slips requesting an audience with Rep. Dave Jacoby D-Coralville, one of their local representatives.
They handed the slip to a page, who disappeared into the throng of officials, tourists, students, and photographers. A few minutes later, Jacoby...
Author: Jill Kasparie
Author: Brianne Richson
Having to worry about your mom, or even grandma, creeping on your Facebook or Twitter accounts is enough, but in the social-media age, this isn’t the only anxiety held by college students nearing graduation; many potential employers screen job applicants’ social-media accounts as well.
Thankfully, 28 states have currently pending bills for 2013...
Authors: Emily Drees, Sarah Hadley, Lauren Horsch, Taylor Grangaard, Melanie Mackey and Nora Heaton
A few weeks shy of graduating in May, Brandt Heitman is ready to take a mechanical engineering degree from Iowa State University to a job at AllSteel in Muscatine, debt free.
“Engineering is a tech field and everyone needs engineers,” a confident Heitman, 23, said about...
Author: Brianne Richson
Many UI students don’t know what they are missing when they don’t participate in the University of Iowa Honors Program.
Author: Cassidy Riley
Many students enter the University of Iowa unsure of what their next four years will hold. However, one newly created program may help these students find a path to follow.
The UI Career Center recently launched a new program called Find Your Focus this semester, designed to help students who have declared an open major to explore...
