Brown Mackie College's Career Services team introduces new resume building tools through a partnership with OptimalResume.com. Students can now easily create professional resumes and other online career profiles through an intuitive online system. This will help students strengthen their job search and interview skills. A graduate profile highlights how one student utilized their degree in electronics to obtain a position diagnosing and repairing televisions. The Career Services team welcomes a new member and several graduates share how they obtained careers through utilizing the support of Career Services.

1. 1st Quarter
2010
Brown Mackie College Career Services “Let’s Get To Work”
Career Services Offers Students Exciting New Meet your
Resume Builder - OptimalResume.com Career Services Team
Brown Mackie College has just subscribed to the leading OptimalResume.com is the new technology leader at CHASITY TRZOP
online service for university students to build top qualitycollege career centers. Optimal Resume has partnered Director of Career Services
resumes, OptimalResume.com. with over 600 career centers to deliver an array of T: 502.810.6032
Students now have the ability to easily create, customize, value-added, online career tools that have fundamentally E: ctrzop@brownmackie.edu
and distribute resumes, including the ability to create transformed the way college students approach the job
Licenses Practical Nursing
an interactive personal resume web site that could be search process.
Occupational Therapy Assistant
shared with an employer. Our online suite can help you find a job! Check out the Pharmacy Technology
Creating a resume with OptimalResume.com could current tools we offer: Surgical Technology
not be easier and is accomplished with step-by-step • Resume Builder. This online tool is accessible to
JENNY SPALDING
instructions, intuitive examples, career exploration students any time day or night and walks them Career Services Advisor
tools, action words, automatic spell checking, and a through the entire resume building process with tips T: 502.810.6058
myriad of styling options to make each resume the best on everything, such as what to include and how E: jspalding@brownmackie.edu
presentation possible. to phrase experiences in the most
powerful way. Accounting
The easy yet sophisticated resume Business Management
builder provides a flexible structure • Interview Builder. Are you nervous Criminal Justice
tailored to a wide variety of about the coming round of job Early Childhood Development
educational backgrounds, each of interviews? Prepare to ace the Paralegal
which can be changed in any way to interview with real-to-life multi-media Veterinary Technology
fit the individual’s goals and career interview scenarios through this
interests. module. LAUREL HUNT
Career Services Advisor
The process is further enhanced • Web site Builder. Once your
T: 502.810.6113
with the ability to perform career resume is approved by your
E: lhunt@brownmackie.edu
exploration using a database from career services advisor, create a
the U.S. Department of Labor, which resume web page which includes Biomedical
gives critical information like skills, tasks, knowledge, a personalized link you can send to potential Computer Networking
abilities, work activities, work styles and even wages and employers. A great way to wow employers and Electronics
trends for any given occupation. It’s even possible to look show your technical savvy. Graphic Design
at growth projections for the occupation being sought. All Health Care Administration
It’s never too early to start creating a resume, and the
of this can be accessed in an easy interface and helps to Medical Assisting
process is much easier with OptimalResume.com.
focus and refine the resume for maximum effectiveness.
Having a well written resume is extremely important and ALIE FAULKNER
The Career Services Center encourages students to all students are invited to start using this system. Student Employment Advisor
use the program, “because it creates a great resume T: 502.810.6136
The best part of this service is that it is free to all
while teaching valuable resume-writing skills that are E: afaulkner@brownmackie.edu
currently enrolled students. Stop by Career Services to
useful for everyone. And if students create a resume web
learn more about this new tool, today. You can also visit Supporting Career Services by
site, all they need to do is share the link with a potential
https://brownmackie.optimalresume.com to try it out. attending to the needs of active
employer.”
students.
Daniel Williams, 2009 Electronics Graduate
Employer: Geek Squad City these boards, I received the Employee of a lot people can do and I am proud to be
the Month and the Mayor’s Awards for the one of the two people in this program that
Job Title: TV Reclamation Agent
work I did in the piloted program. can.
My primary job responsibilities:
I was hired as a Solder Technician and The most I enjoy about my job: I enjoy My future plans are: Now that I have
working on the diagnostic aspect of the gotten the hard part out of the way, I see
after I finished my degree, I was asked
to try Advance Diagnostics on the job the most. Taking something that myself going a long way in the field of
main boards that were removed from doesn’t work, tracing the problem down electronics and with my desire to succeed
to a single microchip, and replacing it is and my willingness to learn I now know
televisions that didn’t work correctly.
Within the first three months of working on a great feeling. This is not something that that I can go as far as I want.

2. It can take a Our Newest Career Services Team Member
graduate 1-6 Please welcome Alie Faulkner, our Association at the University of Louisville.
months to gain a newest Career Services team member. Alie brings with her experience in non-profit building teams
Alie has joined us as a Student
position in their Employment Advisor where she will
and recruiting for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana and
chosen field. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
support Career Services by attending to
the needs of active students. Alie started She also has her own team for Making Strides, called
Graduate January 4, 2009. Alie’s Pink Diamonds, raising over $2,500 for breast cancer
awareness in 2009.
Alie graduated from the University of
Employment Louisville in May 2008 with a Marketing Degree. During her Please stop by the Career Services Center anytime and
welcome Alie to Brown Mackie College Louisville.
Success senior year, she was Vice President for the Student Marketing
Congratulations to the following Winter 2008 Career Services Partnerships
graduates who have successfully utilized their
JOEY BUDD we do every day in our life. Learning involves all aspects of
Senior Faculty of Legal Studies work, play, and education,” says Joey.
degrees and gained a career! Since joining Brown Mackie College Since being asked to obtain responsibility for the externship
Louisville, Joey has been instrumental process all soon-to-be graduates are involved with, Joey
Business Management in providing excellent services to faculty created a partnership with Career Services to help streamline
India Bridgewater and students in the criminal justice the externship process. His straight-forward, no-nonsense
Brandan Denkler programs and the externship program. approach has helped guide students to better prepare
Carrie Grady Joey draws on his experiences from themselves to become professionals as they are about to
Cheryl Rauen the Air Force and prior law enforcement positions and uses embark on the career paths.
Sherise Struggs them in his everyday instruction in class and as the acting Thank you, Joey Budd, for being such a great asset to Brown
Cheryl Yates externship coordinator. From these experiences, Joey has Mackie College Louisville faculty and students, and to the
defined a simple definition of learning. “Learning is something Career Services Department.
Computer Networking
Adeleke Adeniyi
Andrew Raley Events and More!
Congratulations to our 2009 Graduates!
Criminal Justice We are proud of our graduates’ academic success. We encourage our graduates to remain
Joseph Brown accomplishments and celebrate their lifelong learners and to be active and caring participants in a
achievements. We join with staff, world that they will help design and a world that very much
Graphic Design family, and community in recognition needs them.
Michael Winburn of their successful academic journey.
This is our biggest graduating class yet - over 100 graduates
Our graduates have begun a legacy will be walking in this ceremony! Graduation will be held at
Healthcare Administration of success, having reached a significant milestone in their The Louisville Palace Theatre on Wednesday, January 27,
Sharica Brackens triumphant journey. We wish them continued personal and 2010 at 7:00 PM.
Medical Assisting Calling All Graphic Design Students!
Vildana Ahmic We are searching for the best 24 in (with 0.125 in bleed on each side). Resolution should be
Erin Goodlett-Bertholf Portfolio Design Review Show as high as possible.
Brenda Lowry Invitation & Poster - open to all The Brown Mackie College logo is required and can placed
Meredith Wadman graphic design students. Winner will anywhere on the piece in a professional manner.
Crystal Yocham receive a $25 gift card and have the
delight of seeing their work displayed To submit: All work must be submitted before March 26,
on different media types. 2010 at the following address: lhunt@brownmackie.edu. It
Paralegal should be in .pdf format and smaller than 5 MB.
Jessica Sanders Format requirements:
8.5 in x 5.5 in (with 0.125 in bleed on each side). This should The contest winner will be notified by email or by phone.
Surgical Technology be adequate for use on the web and for a big poster of 18 in x For help, see Mr. George Fisher or Laurel Hunt.
Paula Bennett
Nancy Cox Job Board Links
Leteah Price
There’s a flood of search engine spam out there, so avoid posting your resume to the first place you come to. Here are a few job
board web sites that will assist you in your job search.
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accountingjobstoday.com craigslist.com insurancejobs.com nonprofitjobs.org
Brittany Bell
Katrina Ripley alliedhealthservices.com employmentguide.com justtechjobs.com nursingjobs.com
Rebecca Stull biohealthmatics.com governmentjobs.com lawenforcementjobs.com printworkers.com
callcentercareers.com greaterlouisvilleworks.com lgda.com rxcareercenter.com
careerbank.com healthcareersweb.com louisvilleadfed.org/jobshop taxtalent.com
careerbuilder.com healthjobsusa.com marketingjobs.com usajobs.com
collegegrad.com hotjobs.com militaryjobzone.com works.com
computerjobs.com indeed.com monster.com 911hotjobs.com