AUSTIN, Texas — The Engineering Assistance Center and the Faculty Innovation Center have created a way for the iPod generation to receive tips on job hunting through their headphones.
Oook. So, what do these podcasts offer?
The podcasts include counselors giving students information and tips about job opportunities, interviews and career fairs
Hmmm. Nope, don't get it. I think that one of the areas where text trumps audio or video is where tables of data is present. The best way to provide dates of career fairs, job opportunities, or interviewing techniques is via text. Sitting on the bus trying to scribble down interview dates doesn't seem like all that fun to me.
I will say that it sounds like there might be a little more to it than I'm making out, though:
The assistance center podcasts are different from audio podcasts because they offer other features, such as a slideshow presentation with graphics and hyperlinks,
I'm just not convinced that this is a good candidate for a podcast.
While I agree that career fair dates and times are not good candidates, but I disagree on your position. Podcasts make a great media for distributing job seeking, interview and etiquette tips. The timeshifting nature of a podcast allows the job seeker to gain access to the content when they need it, not at a prescribed time when the presenter wants to distribute it.
Just my 2 cents.
Posted by: Michael Specht | September 25, 2006 9:02 PM | Permalink to Comment