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PennLink and You: New Online Tutorials
New Year’s Resolution season creates a sense of urgency to search PennLink and hope to find a job or internship. As a result, there are many new users, or users who haven’t logged in for a long time and need a refresher on how to navigate the system. Well, I’m excited to announce there’s a new line of help for all of you PennLink job seekers – old and new. There is now a PennLink channel on our Vimeo video site – PennLink FAQs for Job Seekers!
These videos walk you through step by step, screen by screen, mouse click by mouse click to answer all your questions about navigating PennLink. New videos will be added frequently, so keep checking back. If you have any questions or issues with the system, email me at pennlink@pobox.upenn.edu or leave a comment here.
Going Mobile!
by J. Michael DeAngelis, Information Specialist
You asked for it, you got it! PennLink, the Career Services job board and OCR manager, is now available in a mobile version! Whether you’re on an Anroid, an iPhone, a Windows 7 phone, a tablet computer, ebook reader or any other portable device, you can now access and use PennLink easily!
The mobile version of the site activates automatically when you visit, instantly detecting your mobile device. There’s no special app to install and one particular kind of phone or tablet is not favored over the other. Though the screenshots below are from an iPhone and an iPad, your mobile PennLink experience should be the same across devices.
Because the main Career Services website isn’t totally mobile friendly yet (But trust me, I’m working on it for 2012!), I’ve created a shortcut to our mobile portal for you here and on our homepage, so you don’t have to navigate through a lot of layers. I highly recommend bookmarking this page on your device or adding it to your homescreen so you can quickly return whenever you want.
From our mobile portal, follow the link to the PennLink log-in page. Just like on our desktop version, you have the choice between logging in using your PennKey (most current students) or using your e-mail address (mostly alumni). Be sure to select the proper entryway, just as you do on the regular site:
Important tip!
Our good friend at Simplicity, who created and maintain the PennLink software, have thoughtfully included a way for you to add a shortcut straight to the PennLink log in screen from your home screen and you may get a pop-up bubble asking you to do so. DON’T DO IT! As great an idea as this may sound, that particular shortcut is not currently compatible with our PennKey system. Technicians are working on this bug and we’ll let you know when it’s resolved. In the meantime, bookmark our mobile portal as suggested above.
Once you are logged in, nearly all of PennLink is at your fingertips!
Want to see the schedule of upcoming Career Fairs and who’s attending? Check. Want to find out which Employer Information Sessions are coming up soon? Check. Want to add those information sessions to your mobile calendar? Check.
Of course, what a lot of you want to do is be able to search and apply for jobs. We’ve got you covered. The PennLink mobile site has a complete listing of OCR and non-OCR job postings! You can search for jobs just like you can on the desktop site (all your jobs and employers previously marked as favorites will be intact too) and submit your application directly from the mobile site using the resumes and cover letters you already have uploaded to your “Documents” tab.
Note: PennLink Mobile does not currently support uploading new files to your Documents tab, so make sure that you have already uploaded your most up to date documents!
The PennLink Mobile site is just the first phase of an ongoing effort by Career Services to completely revamp our online resources and make them accessible in the way you want them to be. If you have suggestions about the PennLink Mobile site, please let us know in the comments below. We’ve only been live for about four days, so if you find any bugs or note that something is not as intuitive as it should be, tell us! We hope that come the spring semester, the mobile version of PennLink will be a popular and easy resource for students on the go.
The PennLink Job Search – Fairy Jobmother Style
By Claire Klieger
Wouldn’t it be nice if PennLink job or internship announcements that interest you magically appeared in your email inbox? Seems too good to be true, right? Wrong! This wish can come true with PennLink’s very own Fairy Jobmother, or “search agent” (personally, I like “Fairy Jobmother” better—it’s a little snazzier, don’t you think? Or maybe it’s just because with a 3 year old daughter, Disney princess references are never far from my mind).
In your “jobs” tab, if you open an advanced search, there is the option for you to save that search as a search agent. You can create as many different ones as you have areas of interest. Once you’ve saved a search agent, it will appear on your search agents sub tab and you can enable it (with a virtual wave of your magical mouse) to run the search however often you want (once a week, every day, whatever) and PennLink will then email you the results of this search. It’s as simple as bippity boppity boo! (If only getting the jobs were that easy…)
Visions of sugarplums… For December grads and alumni
To the tune of White Christmas…
I’m dreaming of a job market,
Just like the ones I used to know.
Where the postings glisten,
Employers listen,
To hear – all I have to show.
I’m dreaming of a job market,
With every letter that I write –
May you find me merry, and bright,
And may you, please, hire me tonight.
All of us in Career Services send our sincerest congratulations on your graduation! We know that these are anxious times, but we want to reassure you that Career Services is available to you. Did you know that as an alum, virtually all of our services are available to you? Here’s a list of services that you can use whenever you need them – right now, or in the future. You are welcome to:
1 – Make an appointment with a counselor (in person, or on the phone) to talk over career issues;
2 – Talk with a graduate study advisor whenever you are thinking about getting an additional degree;
3 – Send in a resume, cover letter, personal statement or other graduate school essay for critique;
4 – Obtain a lifetime @alumni.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania e-mail address go www.alumni.upenn.edu to and click on “Quakernet” for complete information.
5 – Attend most Career Fairs, Graduate School presentations, and any other workshops, seminars or presentations offered through Career Services – our Spring Career Fair is coming up in Feb!;
6 – Join the Career Services “LinkedIn” group and follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!
7 – Access PennLink where we post individual job announcements we receive from employers;
8 – Sign up for one of our many alumni e-mail job posting lists (yeah – more e-mail from Career Services!). For complete information, check our Web site for your school;
9 – Access our extensive on-line job subscriptions through the Career Services library – and click on “on-line subscriptions”; (note: these are different from PennLink listings)
10 – Connect with Penn alums through the Penn Alumni Career Network (PACNet).
11 – Continue your personal career exploration through the “Career Exploration” section of our Web site. For a modest fee, a Career Counselor will critique career inventories (Myers-Briggs and Strong) for you;
12 – Use On-Campus Recruiting for one semester/year after your graduation. NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE IN PHILADLEPHIA AND AVAILABLE TO COME TO INTERVIEW.
ONE FINAL WORD: remember your Pennkey and Password – since you’ll need them to get into our protected job sites!
From all of us in Career Services: congratulations, have a very happy holiday and wonderful 2011! And let us know if you need our assistance – we’re here to help.