The Mouse Trap
A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package.
"What food might this contain?"
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning."There is a mousetrap in the house!; there is
a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house" The pig sympathized but said, "I am so very sorry Mr.. Mouse, But there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow. She said, "Wow, Mr.. Mouse.
I'm sorry for you. But it's no skin off my nose."
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital and she returned home with a fever.
Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well. She died; And so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
So next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it doesn't concern you, remember that when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and be willing to make that extra effort to encourage one another.
ECAMPUS RECRUITER
- Similar to MonsterTrak and other web based recruiting tools that gives you the ability to post your resume and look for jobs locally or nationwide.
- Employers who visit campus will be able to review your resumes from this database as well as post their jobs to it.
- We recommend you sign up with ecampusrecruiter as a way of getting connected to many greater opportunities that will come available to you.
NACELink
- Similar to Ecampusrecruiter but is another source for you to find other openings.
- Career Services belongs to NACE - the National Association of Colleges and Employers - and also has thousands of job opportunities nationwide.
Assessment Instruments
Career Services administers both the Myers Brigg Type Indicator and Strong Interest Inventory as we help students, alumni, staff and faculty try to figure out what career steps and strategies they should take.
We have access to the followeing on line instruments
DoWhatYouAre - is a personality type based instrument, using the coding of the Myers Brigg Type Indicator which also matches careers to your personality
CareerWay: uses the theories of John Holland whose work is also used on the Strong plus it incorporates O*Net - The Occupational Information Network - to help you find, research and decide upon potential careers that meet your areas of interest.
Motivational Appraisal of Performance Potential - this instrument looks at the areas that motivate you and helps to fit careers by skills that will encourage and excite you.
Career Liftoff - Much like the Strong Interest Inverntory, this is an updated instrument that gives its users knowledge on what interests they share with others in similar lines of employment.
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