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City of Seattle Career Fair

Want to build your community while you build your career?

You are invited to the City of Seattle Career Fair!

The City of Seattle offers an amazing array of career opportunities, with more than 1200 job titles and 26 operating departments to choose from. The 10,000+ employees of the City of Seattle enjoy competitive pay and benefits packages, generous leave programs, and the satisfaction of doing work that helps to make Seattle a great place to live, work, and play (including permanent positions as well as temporary positions, work study, internships, and apprenticeships).

NSF Info sessions on graduate fellowships

Graduate Fellowship Opportunities Workshops:
Science, Math, Engineering, Social Sciences & Related Fields
May 20-21, 2008

Program representatives and directors from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Training Programs, the Department of Defense (DOD) SMART Program will be sharing valuable information about their fellowships for graduate studies and research training. Workshops will go beyond providing basic information about the awards to include insights into the writing and interviewing process, how to plan ahead, and what goes into a strong application.

New Engineering Course for Autumn

EE406: Fall 2008
Engineering Design for K-12 Outreach — Prof. Denise Wilson
Are you interested in engineering design but are not quite ready for
capstone design?
Are you curious about K-12 but are unsure how to get involved?
Do you want a challenging but fun engineering experience with direct
benefit to society?

PUBLISHING WORKSHOP: Revising Dissertations into Books

MAY 21, 2008
PUBLISHING WORKSHOP: Revising Dissertations into Books
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
University Tower auditorium (4333 Brooklyn Avenue NE)
University Press staff
This workshop—intended for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty—introduces the process of publishing your scholarly monograph in today’s challenging information marketplace. You will learn what publishers want from authors and how you can prepare a proposal and manuscript that will interest an acquisitions editor, please peer reviewers, and successfully navigate the copyediting and production process.

SUMMER STUDENT POSITION AVAILABLE

(undergraduate or graduate)

The Graduate School is seeking an hourly student assistant (undergraduate or graduate) to work 4-6 hours each day assisting with light administrative support including reception and telephone answering for one hour each day over the lunch period, and miscellaneous office work which may include: archiving files, proofreading, entering data in databases, copying, updating files, making labels, assembling notebook materials, summarizing evaluations from events, running errands on campus, preparing mailing materials, etc. In addition, the student occasionally may be called upon to assist at Graduate School special events as needed.

Zillow is looking for a User Experience Designer

To apply for this position, please apply to: 15397@zillow.hrmdirect.com

Title: UX Designer
Type: Full-time
Location: Seattle, WA

Job Descripton:

Zillow.com is the most trusted online real-estate valuation and listings website; millions of users use Zillow every day.

Fulbright Info Session

UW Fulbright Scholarship information sessions:

Wednesday, May 14, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
389 Mary Gates Hall, Third Floor Auditorium

Friday, August 29, 2008 (time and place TBD) (will be geared toward students finishing up their applications)

Please RSVP at: http://catalysttools.washington.edu/survey/scholarq/36305.

Paid Internship with WhatCounts (an internet marketing software company)

WhatCounts (www.whatcounts.com) is a rapidly growing Seattle-based Internet marketing software company. Clients include Costco, Alaska Airlines, REI, E! Entertainment Television, Perot Systems, and Scotia Bank.

Job Description:

The Deliverability Team at WhatCounts is responsible for helping businesses get their mission-critical marketing, transactional, and triggered email delivered to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The Deliverability Specialist assists the Sr. Deliverability Manager and WhatCounts Client Services Teams by performing investigation and troubleshooting work to help diagnose deliverability problems.

This is a part-time, entry-level intern/contract position reporting to the Sr. Deliverability Manager. 20 hours per week estimated; could increase. It is expected that the selected candidate will work on-site at WhatCounts’ headquarters in Seattle’s International District. Training will be provided by WhatCounts.

Upcoming Career Center Events

Crash Course in Finding a Job
Features recent grads as well as reps from Boeing, C.H. Robinson, Deloitte
Tues. 5/13, 4:30-6:00, MGH 389

Employer Panel - Successful Interviews
Features panelists from Microsoft, Ameriprise, Boeing
Thur. 5/15, 5:00-6:30, Smith 205

E.n.g.a.g.e - it’s time to engage your life!
Sat. 5/17, 10:00-400, UW Career Center – Registration required

First Year on the Job
Features recent grad and local employers
Mon. 5/19, 4:30-6:00, UW Career Center

Ameriprise Financial Planning Workshop
Wed. 5/21, 5:00-7:00, Johnson 102 Please note new time

Grants and Funding Information Service: Spring Workshops

Looking for funding to support your Graduate School tuition or thesis? Need to find support to attend a conference or seminar?

Interested in studying or doing research abroad? Getting ready to apply to Graduate School for the first time?

The Grants and Funding Information Service (GFIS) offers quarterly workshops free of charge to UW graduate students and applicants to UW graduate departments covering methods of searching for funding available outside the university.

Workshop #1: Introduction to Searching covers general principles of searching for funding, print resources, campus resources and the Internet, in a lecture format.

Workshop #2: Database Searching covers the intricacies of two funding databases, COS and Grant Select, in a hands-on computer lab experience.