Real Life 101
From a "Real Life 101" session conducted by alumni for students, these links provide information on business dinner etiquiette and moving to a different city as well as information on interviews conducted during meals.

Introduction: Career Development Resource
The popular Zagat’s guides offer reports on restaurants, culled from dispatches from discerning diners. What is the best time to visit Chez Hetzel? Should you avoid the hoagie potage? Can any restaurant that limits its wine list to vintages from Bellefonte be considered haute cuisine?

Consider this career overview a Zagat’s guide to careers in the communications industries. Successful graduates of the Penn State College of Communications were asked to provide their insights into careers in their areas – what jobs are available, what the jobs are like, how students should prepare themselves for careers and how they should go about their job search.

This guide has been assembled by the College of Communications Alumni Society. We make no claim that it is comprehensive; there are more careers in communications than any simple guidebook could discuss, and more ways of reaching career goals than we can imagine. But there is a lot of good advice here, and it comes from people who have a Penn State education like yours, who have gone on to do pretty well in this fascinating and rewarding world.

It might be worth your while to read through all the sections – advice on things like interviewing and networking, while offered in specific industries, often apply across the board. And perhaps you’ll surprise yourself with your interest in occupations that you had not considered.

Bon appetit.

Click here to see the guide in a Web format.
Click here to see and/or print the guide in a PDF format.

In addition, the Alumni Society Board of Directors has compiled a list of career-related Web sites as resource for students and alumni.
Please click here to access that list.

For a complete list of contributors to the resource, click here.

Contact information:
Mike Poorman ('82)
Manager of Alumni Relations
302 James Building
University Park, PA 16801
Phone: (814) 865-3938
Email: mqp7@psu.edu

To purchase a DVD version of the Career Development Resource, please send $10 to:
College of Communications
Career DVD
301 James Building
University Park, PA 16801