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| Kind of meeting | Days | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Office Hours | ||
| M–W, F | 8:30a – 5:00p | |
| R | 8:30a – 7:00p | |
| Drop in | M | 1:30p – 2:30p |
| T | 2:00p – 3:00p | |
| W | 1:30p – 2:30p | |
| R | 10:00a – 11:00a | |
| F | 3:00p – 4:00p | |
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There are over 1000 books and binders within the CDO, categorically separated to help your internship, job, or post-graduate search. Some of the resources are career specific, broken down into particular fields of interest, while others are more general career reference materials. There are domestic and international listings, with tips on interviewing, finding housing, researching prospective companies or colleges, and study guides for standardized graduate school tests. You are encouraged to make full use of the assistance provided by the counselors and CDO peer advisers.
This site is a diversity career portal for minorities, women and other job seekers and diversity recruiters.
This website has resources for special populations including African Americans, Asian Americans, disabled, gay & lesbian, Hispanics, Native Americans, and women. Their mission is to “facilitate excellence in diversity recruitment by bringing together human resources professionals with quality, prescreened, multicultural and/or bilingual professional candidates from diverse backgrounds.”
Bilingual job opportunities for English-Spanish-speaking professionals ranging from entry level to executive level.
Leadership for Change encourages an inside-out development process to enhance the way each participant views themselves, the Vassar Community, and the world beyond. Consisteing of a series of workshops, this cross-campus initiative strives to meet a variety of needs, including fostering leadership skills of emerging leaders, instilling current leaders with practical techniques, and encouraging advanced leaders to become effective change agents beyond Vassar’s walls. Participants will engage in a track-based series of workshops designed to enhance skill and promote personal development. The three tracks of this program represent the levels and perspectives of leadership development as expressed in the Social Change Model of Leadership: the individual (Emerging), the group (Student Organizations), and the community/society (Social Consciousness).
Monster.com’s career website specifically focused on promoting equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.
Publishers of a downloadable resource guide that contains an assortment of internships, research opportunities and leadership development programs for undergraduate minority students.
WorkplaceDiversity.com, the source for diversity talent, is the central job search web site for Corporate recruiters who want to make a good faith effort to reach experienced diversity talent.