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FELLOW ALUMS: ARE YOU READY for THE NEXT STEP?
We update job posts daily. Meanwhile, "Starter Kit" items are refreshed regularly. Use them for your next steps.  The full jobs page is for CURRENT PCW members -- a membership benefit. It lists openings here, some elsewhere. Note: MANY ALUMS are sending us job openings. Send yours (to webmaster@pcw-dc.org).  SEE Career Contacts here....

Thru August, we kept job info viewable to all. As of September, it's for Members Only.  Please join the Princeton Club.
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LATEST JOB TIPS & POSTS ....

COOL JOB SITE of the MONTH...
Young and mid-careers job hunters should glance at this site

ALUMS, TAKE NOTE:
http://www.jobfox.com/Site/Default.aspx

According to INFORMATION WEEK, online job board JOB FOX launched
a feature that matches job candidates with employers in a new way.

The website uses a feature called Jobfox Intros: This gives job-seekers a
virtual “foot in the door,” so they can move on to getting their interviews.

HIGHEST-MATCH JOB SEEKERS go RIGHT to TOP of RESUME LIST
“With Jobfox Intros, high-match job seekers are immediately moved to the
top of the resumé stack,” says Rob McGovern, Jobfox CEO. “Rather than
submitting resumés into a black hole, qualified candidates are personally
introduced by Jobfox, so they can skip directly to the interviewing step...."

SEE JOB POSTS BELOW (updated weekly)...
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LATEST: Program Assistant - Impact Assessment (microfinance) -- in DC  ....AND...

MANY MORE NEW ONES!! ... See page bottom (click on links)....

-- PLUS: Corporate Sponsorship Sales - Washington Freedom (women's pro soccer/WPS)
-- NEW: Marketing Research Manager -- in VA ...
-- NEW: Director - Project Management -- in MD ...
-- AUG:  Marriott International - VP - Food & Beverage Development (Maryland)
-- AUG.: The Media Network: 2 Posts -- Training Manager & Senior Training Specialist (see below)....
-- AUG.: Tetracore - Software Development in R&D at Rockville-based (see below)
-- JULY: Princeton Project 55 seeks Outreach Program Manager (see page bottom)
-- JULY: Georgetown Law Admissions: Admissions Counselor/Oct.-April (see page bottom)
-- JULY: Congressman Lloyd Doggett's office: Legislative Assist. (see page bottom)
-- JULY: Princeton-based energy company: 2 executive jobs (see page bottom)
-- JULY: Princeton campus jobs (2) - research & management (see page bottom)
-- JULY: Young Alum opening (UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND) - see home page
-- JULY: Young Professionals Program (World Bank - in DC) - Closed on July 15

NOTE: LINKS to the items above appear at PAGE BOTTOM....

-- FORUM: "CAREER IDEAS Post-Its" -- http://www.pcw-dc.org/forum.html 

LOCAL CAREER RESOURCES -- See our "Career Area
Contacts" (under "Careers/JOBS" tab, at navigation bar above). OR ...
click here: http://www.pcw-dc.org/article.html?aid=108 

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Visit a Net Night, and you immediately qualify
for a "Net Nights Career Contacts Guide." With 200+ alums, it offers
"quick outreach" for you + their career ideas (yours for joining a Net Night).

See "Networking"/"Princeton Net Nights," for help with the road
ahead for you, or click http://www.pcw-dc.org/article.html?aid=135.

NET NIGHTS target your work issues and get you networking.
You hear experts' views, and you meet EVERYONE in the room.
(We've had nearly 6,000 visitors to Net Nights-DC since '01.)

RECENT NET NIGHT PRESENTERS have included:
- Ted Leonsis, Vice Chair of AOL - on Web 2.0
- David Maister, strategy expert - on professional services firm strategy
- Alex Counts, President of the Grameen Foundation - on global NGOs
- Shirley Sagawa, advisor/non-profit alliances & business-non-profit linkages

FUTURE NET NIGHTS on deck for 2008-09:
- William Ury, Harvard Negotiation Program
- Alexandra Cousteau, Earth Echo - on environmental non-profits
- Mia Farrow on responding to Darfur and Humanitarian crises
- Spotlight: Princeton Educators - The Outlook
- Peter Fiske '88 on Science Careers
- Anne Weisberg (Deloitte) on the NEW corporate careers paradigm

NEW & NOTABLE: Latest Net Night in the 08-09 lineup --

- Leveraging Your Skills for a Federal Job (date TBA)

WATCH for Net Nights schedules in PCW newsletters, and JOIN US.

ONE READY-MADE OPTION for you if you're a career “hunter” primed for
a next step: Set yourself up to get the Princeton Club’s Net Night/Career
Contacts Guide.  Attend one Net Night, and you’ll get the Guide.

For details on Net Nights: http://www.pcw-dc.org/article.html?aid=135.

THE PRINCETON CLUB JOBS PAGE offers postings regularly ...
See brief descriptions at our homepage. Please see separate articles
under “News” when we have new job postings.

KEY CAREER GUIDES: Career development, a pure form of
self-education, remains a lifelong process. Our goal is to provide
helpful guidance for you as you navigate the career management process
and wade through the maze of potential career transitions. There is always a
campus-based array of resources on hand exclusively for Princeton alums.
These key career services (both in person, and online) are available at
www.princeton.edu thru the Career Services office for Princeton alumni.
There, you'll find excellent links to well-researched Internet information
for job listings and career guides (and access to Career Services staff).

For a list of these services available on campus (and online):
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/career/home/services.html

KEY WEBSITE GUIDES - Preliminary List from the Internet …
The internet offers a number of national and international career sites,
many of which allow you to create and save custom searches to hone
in on opportunities matching your areas of interest. Beware, though:
At many of these sites, there is far less than meets the eye.

• CareerBuilder.com & Monster.com -- staples, but offer mixed results
• JobTrack.com -- the "best site for students and recent grads looking
for their first job or internship," says Forbes, and used by many
Fortune 500 and other firms, plus universities and MBA programs
• FinCareer.com - an "insider's" perspective on jobs, careers and
leadership in the global financial markets.
• Wall Street Journal -- especially CareerJournal website (great site)

NEW & NOTABLE: www.glassdoor.com -- salary profiles/company reviews 

LOCAL NETWORKING -- "PRO" GROUPS - Net Nights & Beyond
You'll find many organizations worth visiting, if you want networking in the
Washington Region.  Among them (seachable on the web) --
-- FENG - Financial Executives Networking Group
-- AMA - American Marketing Association
-- GWSAE - Greater Washington Society of Association Executives
-- NVTC - Northern Virginia Technology Council
-- All major engineering societies (esp. IEEE)
-- All major bar groups for legal opportunities
If you'd like to network, this is a great city to find niche groups.

NOTABLE: Northern Virginia Women's Center -- offerings services
on a range of women's issues.  ALSO: For a fee, provides mentoring
with selected high-level women professionals - www.thewomenscenter.org/

Email webmaster@pcw-dc.org if you'd like more details.

FORUMS, ANYONE ... at our PCW website?
After you visit one or more of the sites above, consider doing a posting
at our ONLINE CAREER FORUM on what you learned. Please offer any
useful news -- or career information -- to our regular "News" section of our
website. Simply send your "news note" to webmaster@pcw-dc.org.

What are forums? These offer useful chat boards with many options for
sharing your ideas, resources in a "community post-it board." For that,
click "Networking"/FORUMS (tab above), then "Career Ideas Post-Its."
Click for a sampler here: http://www.pcw-dc.org/forum.html.

REFERENCE TIPS: Reference librarians & Special Libraries
Association members (national offices of SLA are in DC) are terrific
sources for finding information, online/in print and in most media.

ONE MORE STARTING POINT: Consider a Role at PCW
USEFUL TIP: Networking is defined many ways, but it’s certainly "making
friends before you need them,"  To build up your store of “social assets,”
take time to volunteer for PCW and network with us. This step makes all of
your networking go further, and you will find friends before you need them.

TO VOLUNTEER for PCW, know that we have brief and longer options 
-- say, membership, website or events and special projects.  Now you
may think that you can't help much, or don't know how. Please ask
and we'll help. E: webmaster@pcw-dc.org.  We have many ideas for you.

KEY Q: Have 1 extra hour monthly? We room for you, and
you'll enjoy "giving back," directly to the Club and in helping other alumni.

SIMPLE SUCCESS FACTORS for VOLUNTEERS: You need a positive
attitude, a real bias for action, and a willingness to work.  The returns
to you will be many, in your career and personal life.  Try it and see.

FINALLY, IF YOU KNOW OF RELEVANT JOB OPENINGS (now or soon),
TELL US.  Your Tiger colleagues are qualified for many posts, probably
in your own work unit.  (To send posts, email webmaster@pcw-dc.org.)

Keep us updated.  We appreciate hearing from you, and are happy to help.

Lee Dudka *77 - E: webmaster@pcw-dc.org

A NOTE TO REGIONAL RECRUITERS
PCW offers a no-charge option to recruiters with openings for our PCW alums.

BENEFIT TO YOU: A large universe of highly-qualified, degreed professionals.
In fact, we encourage posts directly from companies by contacting us thru our
webmaster at webmaster@pcw-dc.org.  To post a position, please e-mail your
key information to the webmaster with all relevant details. Thanks in advance.

BELOW: Most recent postings appear first....