October 2025 Newsletter

Career Center seminars, announcements, and videos for October 🎃

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Career Center
October 06, 2025

We have four seminars for you this month!

Links to information about each seminar are below, and more detailed information can be found further into our newsletter:

If you want to see our upcoming videos when we post them:

All careers go up and down, like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.

JULIE ANDREWS

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

September Seminars


PRODUCTIVITY HOUR
EVERY MONDAY IN OCTOBER 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Main Library at Goodwood
Room A or F, Second Floor

The Career Center’s Productivity Hour is for workers of all stripes – even students and hobbyists and non-busy-bodies. Bring your laptop, literature or project and join us for an hour-long session of productivity. Participants are expected to work quietly, but at the end of the session will be asked to share their progress.

Free Wi-fi access will be available, along with pen and paper, and light refreshments. Laptops are available upon request. Ages 16 and up are welcome to attend.
No registration required - just show up with your project!


MASTERING THE INTERVIEW
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Main Library at Goodwood
Room B, Second Floor

Are you searching for a new job?
Your performance during an interview can land you – or cost you – your dream job.

Learn to perfect your job interview skills through this seminar. The Career Center will present tips for a great interview, common traps and pitfalls to avoid, and interactive demonstrations for answering the most common interview questions.


GET HIRED IN HIGHER ED
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Main Library at Goodwood
Large Meeting Room, Lobby

Come meet those in charge of hiring for the 3 universities in Baton Rouge. Representatives from LSU, Southern and BRCC will be available to discuss:

  • current jobs available

  • how and where to apply

  • compensation and benefits

  • career paths

  • what they are looking for in applicants and employees

Please note that this is an informational session, not a job fair.


SALARY NEGOTIATION: GET PAID WHAT YOU’RE WORTH
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Main Library at Goodwood
Room 102, Lobby

Do you feel you deserve a raise or a promotion but don’t know how to ask?
Are you applying for a new job and don’t know how to negotiate your salary?

Come and attend this workshop on Salary Negotiation.
You will learn the rules governing salary negotiations and techniques to
conquer them and ask for more money and other benefits.

This session is presented by Certified Career Coach and
Head of the EBRPL Career Center, Anne Nowak.