At Texas Tech University, there are several really incredible resources completely devoted to helping Texas Tech graduates meet and learn about employers looking to higher college graduates. Texas Tech wants to help students in every way possible to start a career as soon as they graduate. To do this they have an annual career fair with hundreds of employers from around the country that are eager to gather and simply meet and interact with college students. Just in the past few years, the University has opened an entire Career Center dedicated to assisting you in discovering what type of career might be best for you as well as help connecting you with employers within that career interest.
Within the College of Mass Communication, they also have numerous resources to help you decide what you might be interested in doing as a career as well as resources to help connect you with interested employers in that specific field. Marijane Wernsman, the director of The Career Center works specifically with mass communication students to help them compile their resume or portfolio and decide what they might be interested in doing as a career. She also works very closely with several businesses around the South Plains as well as around the country to help connect students with internships or employment opportunities within the mass communication field.
Another great opportunity within the College of Mass Communications is to attend the annual career fairs where employers within the mass communications industry gather to meet students who might be interested or have a talent within their field. They take time out of their day to come and meet new students that might work well in their business and they are very eager to hire interested students.
In my years at Texas Tech, I have had a great time, you start getting to know your professors and become more of a friend than just a student to them. It requires a great amount of hard work, but it definitely pays off in the end. I remember in a summer course on Special Topics of The Blockbusters, which was 2 hours a day for 5 days a week, we learned the reasons behind many film styles and methods. We would watch 1 film a week and completely break it down and analyze it to gain a greater understanding behind everything it took to create and distribute a film from casting, writing, shooting, marketing, editing, to even theater distribution and DVD sales. It was a very interesting course and it would consist a lot of times of just class discussion and interaction. The interesting thing behind it was that so many of us within that class had developed and brought to the table a completely different set of interests and skills that we could sit and just trade thoughts for the entire 2 hours and learn everything from each other. We would have friendly debates over certain topics and gain a greater understanding of each other’s perspective. Dr. Peaslee, the professor of the course, would get so interested and intrigued by our own thoughts and opinions that he himself learned a significant amount from us just based on our discussions. It is an in credible course and I would highly recommend it regardless of your career interest within Mass Communications.
Tags: Dr. Peaslee, Marijane Wenrsman, www.depts.ttu.edu/masscom, The Texas Tech University Career Center,
Keywords: Careers, Career Fair, The Blockbusters, Career Center
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