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Graduate was no chicken when it came to getting a job
When it comes to creativity in getting a job upon graduation, Cori Gilbert stands apart from the flock.
A master's degree student in communication studies at the University of Kansas, Gilbert had her eye on the big Houston public relations firm, The Richards Group. "I knew the job market was really bad right now, so I had to find a way to stand out," she said.
In doing extensive research on The Richard Group she learned that one of its clients is Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chicken restaurant chain. So Gilbert wrote a cover letter salted with numerous chicken references. Then she sealed her resume inside a chicken-shaped pinata and sent both off to Texas.
Soon Gilbert will be winging her way to Texas as well to work in The Richards Group's account service department doing brand management.
Contact Cori Gilbert at (785) 218-0576.
A lawyer on a path to becoming "CSI"
As a special assistant attorney general in Nebraska, Lisa Swinton McLaughlin used her legal skills to solve child abuse cases. Now she is adding a medical degree and dreams of putting her newly acquired medical skills to solve the kinds of cases featured on TV crime-scene investigator dramas "CSI" and "Crossing Jordan."
As a lawyer, McLaughlin dealt with children who developed major medical problems or psychological problems as result of abuse. While she could save them from their abusers, she was frustrated she didn't have the skills to also solve their medical or psychological trauma.
So after 13 years as a lawyer, McLaughlin went to KU medical school with plans to become a family physician. However, she soon discovered her problem-solving skills honed as a lawyer would be best applied as a forensic pathologist. After graduation this May, she will begin a five-year residency and fellowship program in anatomic and clinical pathology and in forensic pathology and begin training as a medical examiner.
Contact Lisa Swinton McLaughlin at (816) 361-5728.
Note: Father was former Missouri state Sen. Lee Swinton; mother Grace Swinton taught in Kansas City, Mo., School District for 35 years.
A medical degree, 30 years delayed
Thirty years ago Patricia Callaway Daniel was accepted to attend the prestigious Vanderbilt University medical school. Her course in life seemed assured. But life intervened.
She married her skydiving instructor and began raising their daughter. That marriage failed and it was 10 years later, as a single parent, that she earned a doctorate in biochemistry, finally completing her schooling -- or so she thought.
Even though she developed a successful career as a biochemist, rising to senior vice president of the medical testing service Lab One, medical school still called to her.
Four years ago, the same year her daughter graduated from college, Daniel finally entered medical school. This month, Daniel will finally complete medical school as a graduate of the University of Kansas. She now begins residency training to become a pediatrician and child psychiatrist at the University of Utah.
Contact: Patricia Callaway Daniel at (913) 894-1661 or pdaniel@kumc.edu.
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