Find information below on the following topics:
S-CAR Career Development Events
Search for Jobs/Internships
Mason Career Services
The John Burton Library and Resource Center
Networking
Career Advising and Resources
S-CAR Career Intensives
S-CAR Career Development Contacts
Fall 2011
- September 10 S-CAR Annual Welcome Dinner, Founders Hall, Room 126, 5:30pm, RSVP required
(Networking Opportunity)
- September 12 Presidential Management Fellows Information Session, Founders Hall, Room 134
5:00pm-7:00pm. If applying to the PMF, please send your nomination form,
transcripts and resume to Erin Ogilvie (eogilvie@gmu.edu) or fax to 703-993-1302
by September 26, 2011.
- September 22 Brown-Bag S-CAR Resume Clinic, Truland Building, Room 540, 12:00pm-1:30pm
- September 27 Graduate Fellowships Information Session, Founders Hall
- October 5-6 GMU Fall Career/Internship Fair, Fairfax Campus
- October 11 S-CAR Resume Clinic, Truland Building, Room 540, 3:30-4:30pm, RSVP encouraged
(scarjob@gmu.edu)
- October 18 Graduate Integration Options Session, 5:00-7:00pm, Truland Building, Room 555
Learn about APT, Thesis and Internship. Which one is right for you?
- October 21 S-CAR Career Intensive, Organizational and Community Conflict, 10am-4pm,
Truland Building, Room 555, space limited, RSVP required (scarjob@gmu.edu)
- October 25 S-CAR Annual Lynch Lecture (Networking Opportunity), 7pm, GMU Arlington Campus,
Founders Hall, Room 125. RSVP to lynch@gmu.edu
Spring 2012
- January 31, S-CAR Career Fair Prep 101: A presentation on how to prepare for career fairs. What
are your intentions at the next job fair you attend?; Room 555, 5:00-6:00pm, Truland Building, open to all students that are interested.
- February 9 Spring 2012 Graduate Conference, "Working in the Field (If They Let You In): The Many Challenges Conflict Resolution Professionals Face Practicing or Conducting Research in the Field", Feb. 9, 9am to 5:30pm, Arlington Campus, Founders Hall, Room 113. For further information please contact Linda Keuntje, lkeuntje@gmu.edu. You can find directions to campus and register for the event at http://scargraduateconference.eventbrite.com/.
- February 15 S-CAR/SPP Spring Career and Internship Fair: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm on the Arlington Campus. Closed to S-CAR and SPP graduate students and alumni. S-CAR undergraduate seniors and alumni are encouraged to attend. Location: Arlington Campus, Founders Hall, Multipurpose Room. To Register for the Graduate Career and Internship Fair, please go to the: Registration Page. Then click on the Student Registration. If you are a S-CAR alumni member, please register under Student Registration.
- Feburary 15 S-CAR After the Fair Happy Hour. Meet and network with other S-CAR students and
S-CAR alumni after the career and internship fair on Wednesday February 15, from 5pm
to 7pm at O'Sullivans Irish Pub in Clarendon (right down the street from S-CAR). Please
email scaralum@gmu.edu if you plan on joining us.
- CANCELLED DUE TO CHANGES TO RECRUITING NEEDS: February 27, Employer Recruiting Event with The Department of Defense (DoD)! DoD is interested in hiring S-CAR students, primarily graduate students. The division is the Investigations and Resolutions Division within Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service Agency. Event will be 5:00-6:30pm, Arlington Campus, Truland Building, Room 555.
March 20 S-CAR Student Services and Arlington Campus Library: Three-Part Thesis & Dissertation Workshop (to attend all three, you must register for all three or just sign up for what you need).
Part 1: University Dissertation and Thesis Services session is designed to inform GMU students of University requirements for submitting dissertations, theses or projects to GMU, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM.
Part 2: Training & Certification unit will lead a session on formatting your thesis or dissertation using the Interactive Template, which makes creating and formatting your document easier than ever, 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM.
Part 3: Mason libraries will introduce you to Zotero, a research tool that helps you gather and organize your sources and make them work for you, as citations, references, footnotes, etc., 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM.
Please register for the workshops at the IT Training website: http://ittraining.gmu.edu/workshops.cfm?function= calendar. First come, first serve basis. Space is limited!
All workshops will take place on the Arlington campus, Founders Hall, Room 307.Important Note: If you are unable to attend, this event will be available on live stream at this channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/school-for-conflict-analysis-and-resolution.
Mason Career Services (Fairfax Campus)
Find a variety of different career resources including:
Resume and Cover Letter Tips
Interviewing Strategies
Campus Wide Job/Internship Fairs
Exploring Graduate/Professonal School
Career Panels
Workshops and Webshops
Job/Internship Postings
Negotiating Your Salary
Connect with the S-CAR Community
S-CAR Community Network and Forum (Open to S-CAR students, faculty and staff only)
S-CAR Events
Attend varous S-CAR Events. You will find panels, conferences, presentations and other social gatherings happening at S-CAR on a weekly basis. Check the full listing of events on the S-CAR Events Web Site.
Join other Conflict Resolution Communties
S-CAR Info Wednesdays for S-CAR Graduate Students
Drop-in from 1-4 pm at the S-CAR Graduate Program offices at the Arlington Campus, Truland Building, 7th Floor, for career and/or advising questions. Have your resume or cover letter reviews and feel free to request an Individual career advising appointment by emailing us at scarjob@gmu.edu. Please use the subject lines: Resume Review or Career Advising Appointment
Essential Readings: Skills, Networks and Knowledge: Developing a Career in International Peace and Conflict Resolution (A guide provided by the Alliance for Conflict Transormation)
International Public Service Skills
International Public Service (Development)
Sample Listing of Conflict Resolution Related Organizations
Resume Checklist
Purpose
We want to help S-CAR students get the job they're looking for. So we are offering an intensive career training process that is specifically tailored to S-CAR students’ fields of interest. This career intensive process will help S-CAR students articulate how the conflict resolution field is applicable to various fields and careers, e.g. development, security, policy, etc. and prepare them for the resume, application, and interview process.
Registration
S-CAR students must register in advance for each all-day career intensives by emailing scarjob@gmu.edu. Intensives will be pre-scheduled, space intermittently throughout the school year. Each intensive will feature only one career track. Registration will be limited to around 15 students per intensive. This will allow for a more intimate interaction with our featured career professionals.
Activies
BEFORE the all-day career intensive, S-CAR students will receive a sample resume template that reflects the resume most frequently used by professionals and applicants in that career track. S-CAR students then draft or revise their own resume to mirror this template. S-CAR students will then work with S-CAR staff to ensure that the resumes are appropriately edited before the all-day career intensive begins.
During the all-day career intensive:
• Morning session, S-CAR students work with S-CAR staff in mock interviews, exercises and scenarios that will offer students an opportunity to articulate how their conflict resolution training is relevant to the field/career. Discussion of job search strategies will also occur.
• Afternoon session, 2-3 professionals from the specific field/career will share about their work, the opportunities for S-CAR students to engage in the field, how S-CAR students should market themselves to professionals in the field, etc. At the end of the afternoon session, S-CAR students will have an opportunity to engage in a Q&A with the professionals.
Fall 2011 Career Intensive
Careers in Community and Organizational Conflict
Friday, October 21: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Registration Due Date: October 10, 2011
Featured Professionals (each one is an S-CAR alumni member):
Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah
Bill Potapchuk
Samantha Levine-Finley
***Please see below for their bios***
To register for this career intensive, please send an email to scarjob@gmu.edu by October 10, 2011.
Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Ph.D.
Alma.jadallah@gmail.com
Dr. Alma AbdulHadi - Jadallah is founder, President and Managing Director of the award winning woman firm - Kommon Denominator, Inc. In that capacity, she advised, designed and delivered highly successful small and large-scale interventions in corporate, community and international settings on strategic projects related to conflict prevention and mitigation, training and education, women’s leadership development, and capacity building on the national and international levels. As an educator, she teaches graduate level courses on conflict resolution practice and theory, and protracted conflicts in lead academic institutions in the US and around the world.
Dr. AbdulHadi-Jadallah earned her Ph.D. from the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and currently serves as a member of the Institute’s advisory board. Her dissertation research titled “Reflections on Practice: The Impact of 9/11 on Conflict Resolvers” focused on the impact of a critical event – 9/11 - on the practice of conflict resolvers.
Bill Potapchuk
Bill Potapchuk is President and founder of the Community Building Institute (CBI). CBI works to strengthen the capacity of communities to conduct public business inclusively, collaboratively, and effectively with the goal of building healthy, sustainable and equitable futures. Potapchuk has worked with states and communities around the country as well as a number of foundations, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations. He is an experienced trainer and an accomplished public speaker, delivering workshops and speeches for local and state leaders. He also has served as a facilitator and mediator in a wide range of settings, including successful efforts to merge school systems in Durham, North Carolina; build a new zoning ordinance in Loudon County, VA; strengthen affordable housing policy in Arlington, Virginia, and build consensus on a green building ordinance for Washington, DC. He has led strategic planning processes for the Coalition for Community Schools, PreK Now, and the District of Columbia Public Schools. Believing that communities need to build their capacity to work across differences, he helped found Collaboration DC, an initiative working to support the use of collaborative practices to address tough issues.
Potapchuk has worked on major projects for the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the District of Columbia; Montgomery County, Maryland; the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region; the Maryland Governor’s Office for Children, Youth, and Families; the DC Children Youth Investment Trust Corporation; the Federal Transit Administration; the Community Building Initiative in Multnomah County, Oregon; and the Healthy Neighborhood Initiative in Hampton, Virginia; among others. Potapchuk served for almost ten years as Executive Director of the Program for Community Problem Solving (PCPS), a partnership of the National League of Cities, International City/County Management Association, National Civic League, American Chamber of Commerce Executives and other national organizations. He also served as Associate Director of the Conflict Clinic, Inc. A native of Cleveland, Potapchuk received his BA in Urban Studies from Case Western Reserve University, his MA in Political Science from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and his MS in Conflict Resolution from George Mason University. Potapchuk completed a nine-month, post-baccalaureate Public Affairs Fellowship with the Coro Foundation in 1983.
Potapchuk is widely published. He has worked with co-authors on Learning from Neighborhoods: The Story of the Hampton Neighborhood Initiative, 1993-2003, Community Development: A Guide for Grantmakers on Fostering Better Outcomes through Good Process, Pulling Together: A Planning and Development Consensus Building Manual, Negotiated Approaches to Environmental Decision Making in Communities: An Exploration of Lessons Learned, and Building Community: Exploring the Role of Social Capital and Local Government; written numerous articles; and edited an issue of the National Civic Review focused on social capital. He has co-authored chapters for the Deliberative Democracy Handbook, Consensus Building Handbook and the Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook.
Samantha Levine-Finley, M.S.
Samantha Levine-Finley has been an associate ombudsman since 2008 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s premiere medical research agency. Samantha earned a Masters Degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and has interests in interpersonal dynamics, psychology, and coaching. As an organizational ombudsman, Samantha serves as an independent, neutral and confidential resource to help NIH employees resolve work-related conflicts and concerns through mediation, facilitation, training, group interventions and other alternative dispute resolution techniques.
Samantha has served as a General District Court small claims mediator in Alexandria, VA, and is an active member of the International Ombudsman Association (IOA). She is currently co-chair of the IOA Communications Committee and co-editor of association’s Independent Voice newsletter. Samantha is also a reviewer for the Journal of the International Ombudsman Association. She co-authored an NIH publication entitled "Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide" and an article on the history of the organizational ombudsman profession for Conflict Resolution Quarterly. Before becoming an ombudsman, Samantha was a print journalist for more than 10 years in the Washington, D.C., area covering national issues, politics, and breaking news for several leading publications. Samantha earned a B.S. in environmental science from the College of William & Mary in 1997.
Graduate Program
Graduate Career Development (General)
scarjob@gmu.edu
Erin Ogilvie
Director of Graduate Student Services
eogilvie@gmu.edu
Skype: ogilvie.icar
Tammie Howell
Assistant Director of Graduate Student Services
thowell3@gmu.edu
703-993-9683
Lisa Shaw
Director of Field Experience
lshaw2@gmu.edu
703-993-7130
Undergraduate Program