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Thursday, September 4, 2003
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Career Services moves into new facility
By Danny Gillham
Staff Reporter

After spending the summer in the Student Center Reading Room, University Career Services is back in its own building, executive director Patricia Bergmaier said.

Career Services provides information about majors, internships and job opportunities to TCU students, faculty and alumni, Bergmaier said.

Bergmaier, who took the executive director position on May 19, said the expansion will allow Career Services to better serve students and faculty on campus.

“We needed to have enough room to provide space for our staff, and adequately serve our faculty and students,” Bergmaier said. “The more room we have, the more staff we can properly hold. I couldn’t do it alone.”

Amy Render, who graduated from TCU in May 2003 with a marketing degree, said she used Career Services her senior year for job searches, and attended Senior Conference,a workshop designed to help students prepare for their careers and life after TCU.

“It was beneficial to me,” Render said. “Senior Conference was great, and everybody should go. The one-on-one time they provide works well.”

Bergmaier said Career Services currently employs seven full-time employees and are hiring two more. She said seven student employees and one intern also work for Career Services. More books and files are being added to the database to provide additional information for decision making, she said.

Bergmaier said companies send recruiters to campus to look for possible job candidates.

Expanding the facility has increased the number of interview rooms from one to five, she said.

Jill Somerville, human resources manager for the Fort Worth division of the Cintas Corporation, said Cintas has been using Career Services for four years with good success.

“They are very, very helpful in providing us with top-caliber candidates on campus,” Somerville said. “We interview with management and marketing students that we feel fit well in our management trainee positions.”

Somerville said four management trainees with Cintas were found through Career Services.

Danny Gillham

Career Services

Ty Halasz/Staff Photographer
Executive director of Career Services Patricia Bergmaier assists a student in finding a job in the newly renovated Career Services office.

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