Careers

Medical school

4 p.m. Oct. 13, 239B Hanes Hall

Social networking Web sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are becoming increasingly useful not only in staying connected with friends, but also in promoting job skills and exploring career options.

Gary Allan Miller, University Career Services assistant director, said students should figure out which medium works best for them and establish an online presence, which could help them in securing a job in the future.

Miller said about 80 percent of hiring managers are using social mediums to screen job applicants.

PBS’s “Roadtrip Nation” will make a pit stop at UNC-Chapel Hill on Friday, Oct. 16.

The show, beginning its sixth season, is including UNC-CH  on its fall tour along with other East Coast universities.

The premise of the series is to inspire college-age students to pursue their passions and talents.

“As a generation, we need to need to get back to focusing on individuality. Self-construction rather than mass production,” the show’s online manifesto proclaims.

Central also is the notion of weeding out what they refer to as “the noise.”

Taking your work from the studio or the stage to the rest of the world can be daunting. But by making moves now, students will have a leg-up after graduation.

Laura Ritchie, a senior studio art major with an emphasis in art history, was having just such a thought last year.

“It got to be my junior year and I realized I wasn’t really involved in the arts at all,” she said.

So she went to the Ackland Art Museum and the Carrboro ArtsCenter and asked if they needed volunteers.