1st Annual Graduate Student & Alumni Networking Event - 9/26/13, 6-8 PM

Over 100 John Jay graduate students and alumni joined us to hear our keynote speaker, Ms. Marianna Belyavskiy, MPA '08, CFE, a Senior Fraud Auditor at Columbia University and Medical Center speak about her career path in healthcare investigations and oversight.  Thank you to all those who joined us, and we hope you enjoyed the keynote and meeting fellow students and alumni!

We hope you can join for our next one on Tuesday, 10/29, Employer Networking Night for Graduate Students.

Thank you to our Office of Graduate Studies, Alumni Relations, and MPA Student Association for your generous co-sponsorship. 

 (Ms. Belyavskiy giving her keynote address)

John Jay Senior Edge!

Preparing for life beyond graduation can be challenging. The John Jay Senior Edge program can help.  Senior Edge assists undergraduate and graduate students in their final semester at John Jay College in their search for employment options after graduation. The program will equip students with the core skills, tools and resources they will need to conduct a successful job search. Eligible students will be in their final semester at the college and available for all 4 sessions.

Professionalism in the Workplace!

During the week of September 2^nd, nearly 200 Federal Work Study students attended 6 professionalism workshops spread out over 4 days in North Hall’s cafeteria. Group discussions included topics related to workplace expectations, office attire, punctuality, and appropriate behavior. 

After attending the workshops students were then given permission to begin working on the John Jay campus. Much rejoicing occurred.

Welcome Week 2013- Build your Own Ice Cream Sundae Event

We were very pleased to welcome over 240 students to the Center for Career & Professional Development on Monday, 9/9 during community hour for a Build Your Own Ice Cream Sundae Event to kick-off our fall semester and welcome many new students to the center!

Hope you can join us again soon for one of the many services we offer including career counseling and professional development opportunities such as employer information sessions, career panels, networking events,  and many more! A big thanks to one of our community partners, the Baskin Robbins store on 815 10th Avenue (between 54th & 55th Sts) for their generous partial sponsorship of delicious ice cream!

Anna and Fatime say "because you have chocolate we'll come back!"

 

                            (The ice cream scooper staff !) 

                                                              (We had a big crowd!)

All of our staff members have recently been Safe Zone certified by John Jay's Counseling Department! All of the staff members participated in a training in order to help create a more inclusive environment for our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students. We hope to serve all our students to the best of our ability regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, and ability.

Are you interested in LATINO LEADERSHIP? What about JOURNALISM or PUBLIC SERVICE?

We are excited to announce that one of our John Jay alumni, Jeffrey Jimenez, has been one of the first winner's in the national City Year Twitter contest! Jeffrey Jimenez was born and raised in Manhattan eventually deciding to pursue his bachelor's degree at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Here he discovered his passion for the sociology of crime. He took particular interest in the general lack of quality education in low income areas. As an undergraduate he addressed these issues by volunteering with several offices on campus. He graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and minors in philosophy and economics.

Post-graduation Jeffrey decided to get involved in City Year in order to give back to his community and further involve himself in working on educational access issues. In this role he has been able to make positive changes in children's lives. He has been tweeting about this experience as part of the #makebetterhappen campaign. The #makebetterhappen campaign is an integrated marketing campaign rooted in Twitter that features actual City Year corps members in and around the schools they serve. Click here to check out a video PSA from the campaign. Because of Jeffrey's impact and the stories he's shared over Twitter, he was selected out of 2500 corps members to fly to City Year Los Angeles to engage in best practice sharing with corps members at that site.

We are very excited to see our alumni succeeding and continuing their work towards social justice. We wish Jeffrey all the best as he continues on his academic and professional journey. For those of you interested in working with City Year you can gain more information by visiting their website at www.cityyear.org.