Student Finances Help Offered for the Remainder of the Semester

Along with jobs comes the responsibility of being able to keep track of ones money and a great way to learn how to do this is through the University of Maine's Financial Eduction program put on by the school of Economics. This is a series of workshops held throughout the month of March. Topics that are gone over include Budgeting and Finance, Debt, Management, Restructuring, Efficiency, and Investing in Your Future. All workshops will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursdays in March and April in the Walker Room of the Memorial Union.

There will be one on one sessions available to students and light refreshments. This event is used for students to pick up good skills when they are on their own in the world outside college and living at home.

Hit New Place to Work on Campus-For Recreation

Ever since the new Recreation Center has been built, it has been one of the most popular places to go to and one of the most popular places to work at. Currently, all job positions have been filled. Every semester so far, jobs have filled up faster than any other employment place on campus. With new programs being offered every week, students find it beneficial for themselves and for work related purposes just to be there. For the next semester, it is essential that students employee now for work in the fall.

Positions that the facility has to offer include assistant for desk entry, assistant for equipment room, assistant for fitness, assistant for group exercise, personal trainer, assistant for marketing, assistant for membership and program sales, assistant for operations, lifeguard for aquatics, official for intramurals, assistant for intramurals, and assistant for the climbing wall.

There are a lot of positions to fill and it is good to see that students are that responsive when it comes to a place strictly for health and fitness.

Career Center Provides Speaker to Highlight Available Jobs in the Government Workforce

The Career Center is providing guest speaker Julie Saad, federal human resources specialist, to the UMaine community to talk about government related jobs. Within the next seven years it is estimated that 2 million federal workers will be leaving their jobs to pursue other careers and Saad is providing he opportunity for students to be knowledgeable of these opportunities before we run into a shortage.

Sherry Treworgy, associate director of the UMaine Career Center, says, "I think the program is going to be even more important to students this year with the challenging economic climate. The federal government remains the largest employer in the U.S. and they are still trying to attract graduating college students in a multitude of career fields. In spite of rising unemployment, the federal government does have good jobs and internships."

Julie Saad is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall and the event is free to the public to attend.

http://www.umaine.edu/news/view_release.php?x=1236955974

New York Times Journalist Visits UMaine

Abby Goodnough, Boston bureau chief of the New York Times, is coming to UMaine next week to discuss what she does for work and to offer career advice to students. Her presence in the UMaine community is made possible due to the Alan Miller Fund, which is strictly designed to bring professional journalists to UMaine classrooms to share their experience. She will be available to students March 30th and March 31st.

Michael Socolow, coordinator of the Alan Miller Fund and assistant professor in the Department of Communications and Journalism stated, "We are enormously grateful for this opportunity, and I know our students are looking forward to it."

For more information on this event, call Professor Socolow at 581-1941.

http://www.umaine.edu/news/view_release.php?x=1237809915

Volunteer Work vs. Work

Not all jobs on campus are paid. There are a lot of jobs in which students can volunteer their time with the reward that they have done something for someone else. These tasks can also be really fun and one of the newest upcoming volunteer events at the University of Maine is the Sex Carnival. This event will be held April 5th from 2-6pm.

The Sex Carnival is an awareness event that students can learn about safe practices of having sex or just general information about Sex. The Carnival is run primarily by students and is put on by the FYRE program. There are somewhere in the proximity of 30 stations in which students set up games, have food, or give out prizes.

The whole process of setting up for the event includes weekly meetings, making advertisements, setting up budgeting, purchasing of necessary articles, and the set up of the event itself. The event requires a lot of help and is a lot of fun for students to interact and learn.

Facts About Student Jobs at the University of Maine

All jobs are different from one another and what exactly sets apart a campus job from one off campus? There are criteria for a lot of jobs on campus that outside jobs don't have and there is a standard set up schedule that is held for most paying jobs at the University.

One of the standard requirements across the board for jobs on campus are that they are provided only to students. These students must also have more than six credits. Another requirement is that a students GPA must be above a 2.5. The reason for this is so that the employer knows the student will be able to handle a job on top of school. If the student is struggling with school, then they must continue working diligently in school before they can apply for a job.

Working hours are accounted for on a trust basis. Student will log onto their MaineStreet account and plug in their hours after their shift of that day. There is also usually a paper copy in the workplace. Paychecks are processed and go directly into a students bank account every two weeks.

Students can work in more than one department, but their total hours can not exceed more than 20. As long as the employment schedule fits within the class schedule, then the student may work more than one job. For more information on the requirements of students working on campus, you can visit the link on the bottom of the page to get a broader image of what to expect while working on campus.

http://www.umaine.edu/studemp/content.asp?id=27

Current Jobs on Campus

Looking at the University of Maine website, there are a lot of jobs still open for the current semester and they are very flexible. Most of the jobs are by department and seem to be needed most in the Biology department, according to the website. Other departments include, the Tutor Program, IT, and the Career Center.

The biggest listing is by the Collins Center for the arts. They are looking for 30 stage technicians for Monday March 30th over a 20 hour period to help with setting up for the sold out show Hairspray.

There are jobs all over campus and over the summer, hours open up and are more flexible. Students can live in the dorms and work on campus for the departments that are open over the summer.