Jane F. Gaertner Promoted To Higher Post in Career Development Services at New Jersey Institute of Technology

NEWARK, March 7--Jane F. Gaertner was recently promoted to associate director for employer relations for the Division of Career Development Services (CDS) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

Gaertner is responsible for developing recruiting and other partnership relationships with companies, government and public sector organizations.

Gaertner began her career at NJIT as an assistant director in CDS managing cooperative education and internships for NJIT. "I had the opportunity to work with students from every major in the university," Gaertner says. Prior to coming to NJIT, Gaertner was employed at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York, New York, and the Foreign Policy Association, New York, New York.

Organizations seeking information about recruiting graduates, establishing student cooperative education and internship programs, or up-to-date salary information, should contact Gaertner at 973.596.5617 or e-mail cds@njit.edu or view .

"The NJIT Career Development Services Website provides an excellent overview of the services we offer to employing organizations" says Gaertner . "Information about on-campus recruiting, posting jobs for students and alumni, and our highly regarded March 27 spring career fair is located on the site."

Career fair participants include Accutest Laboratories, Dayton; Dow Jones & Co., Princeton; Schoor, DePalma Inc, Manalapan; Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA; The Thomas Group, Ithaca, NY; Sordoni Skanska Inc., Parsippany; and Anheiser Busch, Inc., St. Louis, MO.

NJIT is a public, scientific and technological research university enrolling more than 8,800 students. The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to students in 80 degree programs throughout its six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors College and College of Computing Sciences. The division of continuing professional education offers adults eLearning, off campus degrees and short courses. Expertise and research initiatives include architecture and building science, applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering and science, information technology, manufacturing, materials, microelectronics, multimedia, telecommunications, transportation and solar astrophysics. Yahoo! Internet Life magazine cites NJIT as a "perennially most wired" university.

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Sheryl Weinstein Robert Florida Public Relations  (973) 596-3433