trachtenberg school of public policy and public administration
Exciting Changes in Career Services, continued from page 4
CDS encourages all alumni to join the TSPPPA LinkedIn Group,
and help us meet our goal of 500 members on LinkedIn by the
end of the 2009–2010 school year LinkedIn is a professional
networking website that provides the ability to connect to only
those people who interest you the most and to expand your
own network… all for free! You can find more information at
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• Networking Week 2010
Professor Dudik-Gayoso and CDS Director Paul Binkley at a weekly
career forum.
The Fourth Annual Networking Week will take place
the Department of State, USAID, and the Peace Corps, Profes-
February 22–26, 2010, and will include the Job Shadow Program,
sor Dudik-Gayoso will support the work of CDS by advising
employer site visits, and the Student-Alumni Reception on
students on career alternatives and assisting them in assessing
Friday, February 26, where the TSPPPA Distinguished Alumni
their skills/experiences in relation to the job market and their
Award will be awarded If you are interested in hosting a
career objectives Professor Dudik-Gayoso will assist with resume
student or a group of students at your office for the Job Shadow
reviews and help students expand their networks, especially
Program, or if you would like to attend the Student-Alumni
with organizations involved in international economic and
Reception, please email tscareer@gwu edu
social development Professor Dudik-Gayoso has taught
development-related classes in both TSPPPA and the Elliott
• Keeping in Touch
School for several years, and was an advisor for the International
Many of the programs and activities over the past year would
Development Studies Capstone teams last year In addition to
not have happened without the generosity of TSPPPA Alumni
being a wonderful resource to CDS, Professor Dudik-Gayoso
CDS would like to thank all of the TSPPPA Alumni for their con-
will teach PAD 217 (International Development Administration)
tinued support of the Trachtenberg School
for the third time during the spring 2010 semester
Alumni interested in becoming more involved with career
• Strengthening and Supporting the TSPPPA Community
activities, programs, or the school in general are invited to contact
One of CDS’s primary initiatives for this year is to expand the
Paul Binkley, Director of Career Development Services, by email at
size of the TSPPPA alumni community To kick off this initiative,
pbinkley@gwu edu or by phone at 202-994-8475
Soaring Site Surfing Stats!
By Bill Adams, Professor, Trachtenberg School
Traffic to the Trachtenberg School’s web site keeps soaring Once people arrive at the TSPPPA home page, where do they
Throughout the month of January 2008, a total of 3,637 separate go next? Not surprising, the key admissions and academic pages
computers visited us online at least once, and that number has are the biggest targets Our alumni newsletters are popular, too,
since doubled During January 2009, 7,873 distinct computers with so many hits that it’s a good guess that they are probably
went to our site, most of them repeatedly, cumulatively viewing read by many prospective students Even our more obscure
our various individual web pages a total of 126,609 times that pages get some hits, with faculty profiles garnering a surprising
month Even in the “slow” month of June 2009, our site was degree of interest
accessed from over 5,750 different computers
Special request to alumni: Please add a link to the Trachtenberg
About a quarter of the visitors get to us via Google, about half School (www tspppa gwu edu) on your blog, Facebook page,
from a search or a list at the GWU web site, and the rest come MySpace page, or other home page! Many thanks!
from an incredibly wide variety of originating pages
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