Working at Consulting

The Consulting service at Consulting offers students the opportunity to gain valuable work experience as technology consultants and trainers. Consulting with and training UO instructors on the use of instructional and scholarly publishing technologies can be fun, interesting, challenging and look great on a resume.

Most students employed at Consulting work for us for at least a year, at 6 to 10 hours/week.

Why Work at Consulting

We know that first and foremost you are here at the UO to learn, be a student and get your degree. But your learning does not have to be restricted to the classroom. Working at Consulting will provide you not only professional work experience, but also with time to improve your skills, learn the latest educational technologies and expand your understanding of how to communicate and teach effectively.

Working for Consulting is also an opportunity for technology training. We expect that new employees we hire start out with an unusually deep and broad range of expertise, but we don't expect you'll know everything that any faculty member might want help with, and we're planning to offer you extensive training.

What Skills are We Looking For

Student consultants come from a variety of backgrounds, but share many of the same skills. If you have some or a number of these skills, consider applying to join our team.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely with UO instructors.
• Experience with standard document production, communication, and office automation tools and educational technologies such as Word, PowerPoint, and Keynote. Experience with other editing software such as LaTeX and OpenOffice is also particularly useful.
• Experience using Blackboard.
• Familiarity with other Web technologies including wikis, blogs, instant messaging, social networking/collaborative tools, podcasting, etc.
• Web publishing skills including Dreamweaver, HTML, XHTML and CSS.
• Graphic design and multimedia skills. Should include experience with one or all of the following: web design, Photoshop, Illustrator,digital video and audio, Flash, cross-platform/cross-browser design issues, etc.
• Programming skills with widely used languages such as Javascript and PHP.

How to Apply

Qualified applicants can apply at the UO Knight Library's Personnel Office. Please include a resume as well as work samples (or links to work samples) with your application.

For directions or additional information on the application process, please contact Barbara Butler in Library Personnel at 346-1893.