Employment Fair

Hello,
Today, I will present for you an audio feature about the American University in Cairo Employment Fair for the semester Fall 2010. This feature will focus on questioning the effectivity of the employment fair to AUCian students, with some describtion for this fall employment fair...
Hope you enjoy it and waiting to hear from you...



Employment Fair - Audio feature by Maramero

EMPLOYMENT FAIR, FALL 2010 WRAP

MARY & RANIA

21 – 11 – 10

LEAD-IN:
Although, the AUC Employment Fair became the region’s leader in university careers and placement services. Many students and alumni question the effectiveness of the employment fair and whether it is the best way to get employed or not. A-U-C’s Mary & Rania report.

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In 1986, the American University in Cairo introduced the idea of the Employment Fair as the first event of its kind in the Middle East. It is a one day event that aims at providing job opportunities for all AUC students according to their choices. Also, it helps integrating the employers’ recruiting needs with the skills and qualifications of AUC graduates. 

Famous international companies seek to participate in the employment fair, because it gives them the opportunity to build good image among AUC students and alumni. So, more than 140 multinational and local corporations participate in the Fair.

The American University in Cairo offers each company a booth for USD 1000 as an early registration fee.

Career Advising and Placement services (CAPS) office publishes an employment fair booklet which provides information about the participating companies and the available vacancies. Interested students and alumni apply in person to company representatives at the Fair.

However, many controversies arose among AUC students and alumni on the effectiveness of the employment fair. Some students argue that the employment fair became less effective since moving to the new campus.

AHMAD RADWAN:” I graduated fall 09. And I am employed for four month now. I didn’t get the job from the employment fair. And I think it isn’t worth it even to go there even, because they publicize for themselves. It isn’t the point to get students employed. Their sweet gifts and stress balls are only to  publicize themselves not to employ. Even my brother went there, but he didn’t get the job from there; as well as my sister, not only me.” (:20)

Others claim that most companies require experience which makes the fair not useful for fresh graduates. 

RAMADAN: “The employment fair didn’t help me to get a job. The job requirements or perquisites are needed out of many years like average from 7 to 10 years. And they come for fresh graduates while they need 7 years of experience, what is the point of these jobs.” (:18)

Also, some students claim that they applied for lots of companies during the fair and were never called for an interview.

RAGIA MOSTAFA: “I applied in the employment fair, but they didn’t contact me. Most of the jobs I got were from the CAPS website.” (:6)  

The employment fair is an opportunity that must be wisely captured. As the physicist William Pollard said: "It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute."

Mary & Rania, A-U-C Feature.

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EMPLOYMENT FAIR, FALL 2010 VOICER

MARY & RANIA

21 – 11 – 10

In 1986, the American University in Cairo introduced the idea of the Employment Fair as the first event of its kind in the Middle East. It is a one day event that aims at providing job opportunities for all AUC students according to their choices. Also, it helps integrating the employers’ recruiting needs with the skills and qualifications of AUC graduates. 

Famous international companies seek to participate in the employment fair, because it gives them the opportunity to build good image among AUC students and alumni. So, more than 140 multinational and local corporations participate in the Fair.

The American University in Cairo offers each company a booth for USD 1000 as an early registration fee.

Career Advising and Placement services (CAPS) office publishes an employment fair booklet which provides information about the participating companies and the available vacancies. Interested students and alumni apply in person to company representatives at the Fair.

However, many controversies arose among AUC students and alumni on the effectiveness of the employment fair. Some students argue that the employment fair became less effective since moving to the new campus.

Others claim that most companies require experience which makes the fair not useful for fresh graduates.

Also, some students claim that they applied for lots of companies during the fair and were never called for an interview.

The employment fair is an opportunity that must be wisely captured. As the physicist William Pollard said: “It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”

 
Mary & Rania, A-U-C Feature.          
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EMPLOYMENT FAIR FALL 2010 CUT and COPY

MARY & RANIA

21 – 11 – 10

·   In 1986, the American University in Cairo introduced the idea of the Employment Fair as the first event of its kind in the Middle East.

·   It is a one day event that aims at providing job opportunities for all AUC students according to their choices.

·   Also, it helps integrating the employers’ recruiting needs with the skills and qualifications of AUC graduates. 

·   Famous international companies seek to participate in the employment fair, because it gives them the opportunity to build good image among AUC students and alumni.

·   So, more than 140 multinational and local corporations participate in the Fair.

·  The American University in Cairo offers each company a booth for USD 1000 as an early registration fee.

·  Career Advising and Placement services (CAPS) office publishes an employment fair booklet which provides information about the participating companies and the available vacancies.

·   Interested students and alumni apply in person to company representatives at the Fair.

·   However, many controversies arose among AUC students and alumni on the effectiveness of the employment fair.

·   Some students argue that the employment fair became less effective since moving to the new campus.

·   Others claim that most companies require experience which makes the fair not useful for fresh graduates.

·   Also, some students claim that they applied for lots of companies during the fair and were never called for an interview.

·   The employment fair is an opportunity that must be wisely captured.

·   As the physicist William Pollard said: “It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”

CUTS

Around 70% of participating companies are returning participants that have joined at least one of the previous Fairs

Ramadan Ahmed, AUC Graduate student in fall 2009

“I graduated last fall 09. Yes, I have been employed working as a TA and researcher. I have been employed for almost a year now.” (:10)

“Most of the jobs were not good enough and their payment wasn’t great” (:5)

The Life of Thanksgiving

Dear all,

   Thanksgiving is coming soon... Do you know how it began?

Thanksgiving is mainly a day to thank God for everything. And from the Old Testaments, we can see that God ordered his people to have a feast to thank him:
           "Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days" (Lev. 23:29)

However, US is celebrating the Thanksgiving day, because of the famous story of the Pilgrims who escaped away from England to Holland due to religious persecution. They settled in Plymouth Rock and they began planting and harvesting with the help of some Indians... Instead of losing a big number of them while they are sailing to save their lives, they celebrated the harvest as their first surviving year...    

Then, the years round and the US presidents changed Thanksgiving date till it settled down on the forth Thursday in November... 

That's how the pilgrims celebrated to thank the Indians who saved their lives... Nowadays, we celebrate thanksgiving as a day to thank God for all the things he gave us and to remember how he loved us...

Here is a part of His holiness Pope Shenouda III, pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of all Africa on the holy apostolic of Saint Mark the evangelist, book about "The Life of Thanksgiving"

Happy Thanksgiving... Hope you enjoy the book, and waiting for your comments... 

Thanksgiving by Maramero

One of your biggest problems in the life of thanksgiving is holding to your personal thinking rather than the divine planning. We would like to arrange our affairs with our human thinking, and according to our own methods. God might have another plan which we do not understand, so we become angry and do not give thanks! For example: if our demands are not met we are angry. Sometimes we go up a step, and do not get angry, but at the same time we do not give thanks.

Our endurance means that there is distress which we do not grumble about, but we bear in patience. While our thanksgiving means our confidence that this incident is good, for which we give thanks to God. Here, we are moved from seeing to believing and by faith we see the good in all what God does to us, not relying on human judgments which decide on the outside.

If the Divine inspiration says, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17).

More truly that God does the good because He is able to do so. Of necessity, I must believe that God does the good with me, because by nature He is beneficent and actually He does so.

 If my condition was bad, it could have been worse without God’s grace, but thank God He did not abandon me. Probably, my bad state is a result of my faults and I must blame myself.

As for God, I have to thank Him because He is not angry with me for my faults, and by all means He will help me to come out of it.

Then, I must have confidence in God’s wisdom and planning and do not rely on my human thinking and limited understanding. In all what happens to me I should say: There must be a divine wisdom behind this affair which will be revealed in time, and whether God revealed it or not, His wisdom exists and we thank Him for it. “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”(John 20:29).

This belief in the wisdom of God leads us to the life of submission, and the life of submission entirely agrees with the life of thanksgiving.

In this life, I say to the Lord: I thank you Lord because if you have found me a better position than my present one, you could have transferred me to it. Or, if I deserve more, you could have given me. Truly, you are always giving me more than I deserve. Enough for me to believe in your wisdom and love, in disposing my life and this deserves thanksgiving.

There are many normal matters in our life which really need thanksgiving.

The History of AUC Desert Development Center (Interview 1 + transcription)

Dear all,

   Again, you can find here the whole interview with Mr. Mahmoud Badran, the training manager of DDC...
And followed by the transcription for what he said...

Transcription whole interview by Maramero

Interview Script:
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Announcer: The AUC Desert Development Center was established in 1979 as a center of excellence in applied research and training promoting sustainable desert development.  
Mr. Badran: Egypt’s problem is the limited resources. Population lives on 4% of Egypt’s area, and 96% is desert. There is a huge overcrowding in population in the Delta & Valley. So, the Egyptian government strategy in the last decades was to reclaim the desert and move the population from the Delta & Valley to inhabit the desert. The American University in Cairo decided to help in this field, and to insure that the university is helping the whole society not only to educate the rich, but also to contribute in service Egypt.   

Announcer: Who started the idea?

Mr. Badran: It was the idea of Mr. Adly Beshay, the AUC physics professor. He thought that AUC should have an active role in developing the Egyptian desert. He presented his idea to AUC board of trustees. They accepted and contacted the Egyptian council of ministries to take the action. They issued the case no. 37 for the year 1979, to specify an area of 500 acres in south Tahrir directorate to establish the “Desert Development Center.”  

Announcer: What was the first aim behind its establishment?

Mr. Badran: The main philosophy of DDC is to make the desert an attractive place for life and to help in solving the desert habitants’ problems. So, this project is mainly based on three axes; the services, applied research and training.

Announcer: What activities did DDC get engaged in since its establishment?

Mr. Badran: AUC Desert Development Center is a non-profit institution that depends on self-financing under the AUC. We have three research centers; South Tahrir research center “on 575 acres,” Sadat City research center “25 acres,” and the head office in the main campus. The most important research that has been done since the establishment of DDC is in the field of Animal Production. New ways are introduced to improve the product of Egyptian cows from both meat and milk through the Hybridization of European cows with Egyptian ones. This research brought great results and was traded to farmers all over Egypt.

Another project was the analysis of crops remains like beans chaff and wheat hay to be used as animal’s feed. This research decreases the import of feeds and made use of the farm land remains.  

Citrus development was one of the researches that longs to 15 years in DDC labs.

Announcer: What did DDC offered to AUC departments?

Mr. Badran: We have been worked with the AUC science department in the renewable resources researches. Also, the AUC physics department searched in the wind energy and solar energy with the help of DDC. All of these researches were supervised by Dr. Salah Hagar.

Announcer: What did DDC offered to Ain Shams University?

Mr. Badran: We have worked with Ain Shams University, microbiology department, on a type of bacteria called Frankia. These bacteria absorb the Nitrogen and fix it in the soil that plant needs for feeding and growth.

Announcer: Do you want add any other comments about DDC?

Mr. Badran: The program was very successful, and the proof is its continuous operating since 1979 till now.

Announcer: Thank you very much about your time and about the great information you had given. Thanks Mr. Mahmoud Badran

Mr. Badran: Thank you. You are welcome.
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Credit for: Gaser El Safty for over transcription voice...