METRO CHAPTER ALUMNI CAREER NETWORK IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL

THE METRO WASHINGTON ALUMNI CHAPTER'S 2004 JOBFAIR DREW 38 COMPANIES AND PRGANIZATIONS TO TYSONS CORNER IN JANUARY TO RECRUIT JMU ALUMNI AND STUDENTS. The Metro Dukes successful combination of community outreach and fundraising has turned the job fair into a perfect formula for raising scholarship monies.

The Metro chapter provides a venue for national and regional companies to purchase exhibit space and vie for talented JMU students and alumni. Agencies recruiting this year included the CIA, FBI, IRS, NSA, Accenture, Sunrise Assisted Living and NVR Inc. Nearly 300 alumni, students and friends of JMU applied for jobs, and the Metro Dukes added $8,300 to their scholarship endowment.

Mark Chernisky ('92), chair of the Metro chapter's Career Services Committee, says that job fair recruiters expressed high demand for accounting, finance, government contracting for IT services, and commercial and government need for employees with security clearance. Job fair volunteers and alumni business partners included Julia Bergeman, Rob Cortez ('95), Tamara Inunza ('95), Kevin Kelly ('89), Jessie Milloy ('01, '03M), Elaine Oakes ('90), Rob Parrott ('99) and Joy Satterfield ('92).

Metro Washington alumni leaders will award the chapter's third $1,000 scholarship this fall. For more information about the job fair or to contribute to the scholarship fund, visit www.jmu.edu/alumni/jobfair.