ALUMNI
New York City Chapter
The New York City Chapter of the St. John's College Alumni Association facilitates social, educational and professional contact among alumni living in the New York metropolitan area.
Still the best site for on-line postings for jobs and for questions to other Johnnies, also known as the St. John's College Unofficial Bulletin Board. JohnnyXpress "is the unofficial bulletin board/email list for the St. John's College alumni community. It is for announcements and queries, not discussion; hence it is the 'Xpress' of Johnny email lists. It is a planet-wide bulletin board for the SJC community." JohnnyXpress is an independently operated group. You must give correct answers to a few simple Johnny-oriented questions to be admitted to the list.
| Annapolis: |
Ms. Shahrzad Arasteh
Director of Career Services St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404-2800 410-626-2500 | |
| Santa Fe: |
Ms. Margaret Odell
Director of Career Services St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca Santa Fe, NM 87505-4599 505-984-6067 |
Both Career Services Offices have a lot of information available in printed form. If you call them, they will ask you some questions regarding your search, and depending on your need, will send you information by email and regular mail. The Annapolis Office is the only one of the two that seems to have any on-line resources readily available.
Helpful Websites
The college has a page of career links: .
The Alumni Association has plans to make this site fully useful for career growth and job searches, although it is still in its infancy. Meanwhile, we encourage you to register so that you can use all of the site's features to keep up with other alumni and learn what other chapters are doing. We are told that you can expect further updates soon. If anything, it is worth registering because we use the Alumni Office lists when we need to contact alumni for various chapter activities. If you find that your occupation isn't listed, the webmaster, Victoria Smith will make sure it is. .
The Alumni Association is also working on a new project called Communities of Practice. You can find it in the On-Line Register at .
The Communities of Practice are discussion and networking groups organized around particular topics of professional or personal interest. Right now, there are only two set up. They are intended to provide a medium for dialogue, information sharing and networking.
According to the Alumni Association,
"Each Community of Practice is founded as a virtual community, complete with an on-line bulletin board for categorized discussion threads, job and resume postings, links to relevant on-line resources, announcements for periodic seminars (on-line or by conference call), and search capabilities. Communities of Practice provide resources to alumni and current students looking for jobs, internships, employees, information on local or online resources, or just a good place to eat.
"Each Community of Practice is lead by an 'archon,' alumnus/a immersed in that field who provides periodic seeds of dialogue (a/k/a opening questions) and lends structure to the on-line and/or conference call conversations that follow. Archons may volunteer either in an ongoing capacity or on a rotating basis, alternating with other active members in the Community of Practice."
JohnnieNet: Psychology Group
"A forum for St. John's College Alumni who work in or are interested in the 'helping professions'."
SJC Unoffical Alumni Career & Job Networking Group
"This is a Networking Group open to St. John's College ALUMNI regarding employment, careers, and graduate programs."
Pace offers excellent resources for jobs and careers in the New York metropolitan region through their website. The site is extensive and you could spend hours going through all the links.
NY Metro Area Job Search
Pace has an entire section on jobs just in the Tri-State Area, including opportunities in New York (New York City, Westchester, Nassau and Rockland Counties) New Jersey, Connecticut and even Philadelphia.
Here is a sampling of what you can find at this link:
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Careers.org: Connecticut — An enormous database of employment resource links in Connecticut. Da Vinci Jobs.com — Search for jobs in 8 different regions of New York State. Long Island Works — Find out about internships available on Long Island, information on the latest job trends, career opportunities, and career networking programs. New Jersey Jobs — a premier website for postings and advertising employment opportunities in the state of New Jersey. New York Job Source — An excellent site that lists hundreds of New York job search sites as well as a separate search engine that allows you to search through jobs in New Jersey and Connecticut. WestchesterJobs.com — This site contains a listing of current job opportunities. Special features include Situations Wanted, which allows employers to contact you. |
St. John's University offers an excellent set of career and graduate school resources that should not be missed.
The site includes a section entitled "Popular Internet Sites for Career Information." Some of the information available at this link includes guides to careers by industry and by different fields such as business, human and public service, technology, sciences, the arts, health services and more.
You can use this site to research the companies that you might want to work for and get all kinds of tips on deciding what career to pursue, how to interview, what kind of salary to ask for, etc.
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Please feel free to contact any of us at the following email addresses. And remember that we're only one chapter of the — so don't forget to visit their site as well.
Click this button to pay your dues using PayPal, or if you prefer to pay by check. Suggested donations are only $10 a year for the five most recent graduating classes, $20 for those who have been out from five to ten years, and $30 if you've been out of school for more than ten years.