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DIVERSITY RESOURCES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS

Permanent Recruitment | Networking | Recommended Reading

Use these resources in conjunction with those outlined in the undergraduate index that deal with career exploration, internships, permanent positions, job search skills development, networking, and the information resources that impact all these areas. Students should examine the other diversity sections if they share one or more characteristics with the other targeted populations.

Counselors at the Center for Career Services are available for discussions on how these resources can be used effectively. Suggestions for additional resources should be emailed to Chuck Reutlinger, the center's Associate Director for Information Resources and Services.

DISCLAIMER: Providing links to these resources in no way constitutes an endorsement by the Center for Career Services of the accuracy, currency or reliability of these resources or those to which links may be made.

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Permanent Recruitment

Tribal Employment Newsletter
Also known as NativeJobs.com, a job board bringing employers and Native Americans together.

Native American Jobs.com
A site created by an Assiniboine Sioux Tribal Member (and his wife) from Montana as an answer to frustrations of trying to find job and career opportunities for Native Americans and others.

American Indian Program Council
An organization dedicated to the recruitment and retention of Native Americans in the Federal government.

AISES Career Center
Job listings, resume database and other career resources from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

Bureau of Indian Affairs Educational Employment Board
The Educational Employment Board has the most comprehensive list of teaching, administrative, and other school support staff positions available in most of the 23 states where BIE funded schools are located. The goal is to provide useful information on a possible teaching career with one of the 184 schools located on or near the Indian reservations. The Bureau of Indian Education operates 60 schools while 124 operate as grant schools which tribes operate under grants or contract.

Companies Actively Recruiting, Fall 2006
Links to employers provided by Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Technology.

Networking

American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
The AISES mission is "To substantially increase the representation of American Indian and Alaskan Natives in engineering, science and other related technology disciplines."

Society of American Indian Government Employees
An association "formed to promote recuitment, hiring, retention, development and advancement of American Indians in the Government workforce."

Native American Journalists Association
Job, internship and fellowship listings as well as great networking opportunities.

Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Networking, job listings, fellowships, internships, postdocs and more.

Recommended Reading

Native Americans Find Their Niche in Technology
An article from Diversity Careers in Engineering and Technology.

Diversity Issues in the Workplace
A collection of articles from CareerJournal.com.