NE Tech Career Center works to ensure jobs for students

At New England Tech, the Career Services Center works diligently to ensure all their students are hired within their field.

Pat Blakemore, the Director of Career Services explains that they custom create a plan for each student. “We’ll meet with students one on one. We’ll work out a job search plan for that student, because no two students are the same,” she said.

The Career Services Center teaches students how to write resumes and cover letters and even teaches proper interview techniques. They work with each student until they secure a job. Most students acquire employment before they walk out of the doors at NE Tech.

The Career Services Center holds five formal recruiting events. However, that isn’t the only time an employer can get in contact with one of their students. The center is happy to organize class presentations to show off what their students have to offer whenever an employer expresses interest.

The Center has created a community of contacts and opportunities for all of their students to succeed.

NEIT christens shipbuilding, marine trades program

New England Institute of Technology (NETech) has a new opportunity for the unemployed of Rhode Island. A new program, Shipbuilding/Marine and Advanced manufacturing Institute (SAMI), provides students with a cost free educational experience that provides them with skills necessary to enter and succeed in the 21st century job market.

On Monday NETech officially launched the new program at NETech’s Post Road campus. Numerous government officials, NETech professionals, and industry leaders attended the event to wish the program success.

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Renovated galleries at RISD Museum cast ancient treasures in new light

PROVIDENCE — He was carved nearly 1,000 years ago from the wood of a giant cryptomeria, a type of cypress native to Japan. Since then, he’s been worshiped as a god, survived a devastating fire, endured a lengthy ocean voyage and delighted generations of Rhode Island art lovers.

Still, there’s a good chance the majestic “Buddha Dainichi Nyorai” — better known as the RISD Museum’s big wooden Buddha — has never had it so good.

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RISD Launches Presidential Search

In an email to RISD faculty, Board Chair Michael Spalter has announced that the search for a new president is underway.

The board has appointed an 11-member search committee, which includes representatives from the RISD Museum, the faculty and the board of trustees.

The university has hired executive search firm Isaacson Miller to help with the search.

RISD’s former President John Maeda stepped down unexpectedly in the middle of the academic year to take a venture capital job in Silicon Valley.

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