Career Services Online Conference
Conference Sessions
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Opening Keynote Address - 11:00am to 12:00pm EST
Rethinking Employer Relations in the New Age of Internship
Manny Contomanolis, PhD
Associate Vice President and Director
Cooperative Education and Career Services Rochester Institute of Technology
Former NACE President
Never have internships been more important to higher education institutions as they continue to focus on ways to enhance the student educational experience and expand their partnership with the corporate and not-for-profit world. This session will focus on how career services organizations must rethink their employer relations activities in light of increasingly ambitious and aggressive institutional goals and objectives concerning these external partnerships.
Manny Contomanolis, PhD is Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management and Career Services at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has more than 30 years of experience in career services and cooperative education and is active as a speaker, consultant and professional association volunteer. He is Past President of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE). He is also a member of the NACE Academy of Fellows.
Session 1 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment
Paul Leverington, Huston-Tilotson University
Demand for student learning outcomes (SLO’s) and assessment have increased dramatically over the last several years in the higher education environment. This webinar will provide a primer for writing student learning outcomes to describe how you want the student to demonstrate what he or she knows or can do. This program will discuss the three main components of SLO’s and provide specific examples of career services based SLO’s. In addition, assessments should be designed to show proof that specific outcomes are being achieved. This program will provide specific examples of multiple types of assessment strategies that may be employed such as objective, subjective, qualitative, quantitative, performance, direct, and indirect.
Developing an On-Campus Sustainability Fair
Marcia Eagleson, Worcester State University
How can you Increase awareness of the importance of a sustainable lifestyle? Why should Career Services start thinking about Sustainability in their work? Learn how to provide resources, information, and opportunities for work, advocacy, and change; and how you can help encourage your college community and beyond to support cooperation and responsibility for the preservation of the planet.
Session 2 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
Work/Life Balance: Screw You I'm Going Home
Dr. Tom Denham, Careers In Transition
If you feel that you are too busy making a living that you don’t have time to make a life, then this program is for you. Come learn how to analyze your present situation and begin the process toward wholeness. Find out how to set goals with the Triple “P” and the 9 “Fs”. Come learn how the 10 Strategic Action Plan steps can work for you. Discover the important questions that will get you to think. You’re guaranteed to walk away with at least 3 things that you can immediately implement that will have an impact on your life. Join us for this webinar that will help you get clarity on the life you really want. Isn’t the New Year the time to make a fresh start?
The Sophomore Success Internship Conference
Jennifer Pluta, Syracuse University
The Sophomore Success Internship Conference aimed to educate and prepare sophomore students at Syracuse University for the internship search process. The goal of the program was to create awareness on how to obtain an internship to an often overlooked population- sophomores. The Conference topics included information on the benefits of taking an internship, internship search strategies, credit registration process, networking via alumni and social media, resume and cover letter writing, and interviewing 101. Workshops featured a blend of employer, student, and career services professional presenters. The program also provided a unique opportunity for employers to create brand awareness to freshman and sophomores. This program was set-up conference style, which allowed students to customize their experience based on their own interests and needs.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Session 3 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
Networking and Placement: The future of college career services
Dr. Mark Raikes, Taylor University
In today's world career services has morphed from an educational resource center in the recent past to a highly-networked relational endeavor. In order to successfully navigate the entry-level terrain, students must build on relational networks, trust their career networks and advisers, and be willing to adapt to the demands of the hiring environment. Today's successful career centers must strategically leverage their resources and encourage students to build early professional relationships.
Fostering Inter-Generational Connections For Career Development
Rachel Wood, Kalamazoo College
Career centers are under increasing pressure to deliver results, while budgets are tightening, and time in the office is running short. What to do? Learn strategies to engage your alumni and community members in a forum that offers real results: jobs, graduate school advice, even help deciding between career pathways. Kalamazoo College’s “Guilds” do just this for their members on the professional networking platform LinkedIn. The Guilds are not your average mentoring program—they require far less “management”. Learn to put LinkedIn’s 120+ million membership to work for you. We’ll start with the basics, and then answer questions on starting groups, generating content, tracking/reporting, and maintenance/management time. Leave with a step-by-step plan to implement K’s concept at your own school.
Session 4 - 1:00pm EST to 2:30pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
Creating a Strategic Plan in Your Career Center
Russ Faulkner, Your Training Team
Have you ever wondered at the end of the year why you didn't hit your organizational goals? Do you ever look around and see others excelling while your team is executing the status quo? Do you ever feel disorganized, like you are running around putting out fires all day long? If so, you are not alone. We can help. With our program we discuss the importance of planning, provide tools to help the learner work through the process and most importantly tips for keeping the plan alive as they execute it. Let us help you plan for success.
The Resume Revisited – Presenting the Well Rounded Student
Richard Finger and Navisha Maharaj, Lehman College - CUNY
From the Wall Street Protesters to Bankers the economic downturn and slow recovery has hurt most Americans. Getting a job can be described as challenging at best. While the value of networking can never be underestimated, the resume remains the most important element of achieving the initial interview. Increased demands made upon career centers have lead many college career centers to utilize templates and automated resume programs. While adequate, these products do not allow students to highlight their unique experiences causing many exceptional students to be over looked by employers. This presentation focuses on presenting well rounded students using 35 unique resume categories designed to spotlight the client’s background and skill sets.
Session 5 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
Active Interviewing: Branding, Selling and Presenting Yourself to Win Your Next Job
Eric Kramer, Innovative Career Services
Good candidates are losing jobs they should be landing due to poor interview performance. Many candidates try to prepare for interviews but their preparation is inadequate and they make job losing errors or their interview performance is average or poor- not enough to land a competitive job. Active Interviewing is an entirely new, tested, and dramatically effective approach to interviews; treating the interview as a sales call and developing a sales oriented interview presentation. Using a sales approach and developing an interview presentation, has helped hundreds of candidates win their interviews and land the job. This approach is new, innovative, and targeted towards landing a job in today’s hyper-competitive job marketplace.
Creating a Service Member Friendly Career Center
Shanna Fowler, Grantham University
Due to the large number of service members entering the workforce and the rising veteran unemployment rates, institutions of higher learning are receiving more and more service member and veteran students. In order to assist the veteran and service member, the career center must be equipped to handle their unique needs, along with the unique needs of employers that wish to hire veterans and service members. This presentation will educate institutions on how they can create a veteran friendly career center to assist the veteran employment situation in their given area.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Session 6 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
Engaging and Connecting with Faculty
Lynne Orr, William Paterson University
Connections, connections, connections - the keys to nurturing relationships with faculty. An outstanding professional development program started through one simple connection with a career professional and faculty member. Discover how the College of Business’ Enrichment Series was developed, implemented and succeeded. Learn about how this program developed and the current outcomes of success. Discuss the benefits of creating THE connection. In addition, begin a networking list and begin developing an action plan for generating your connections.
Using Experiential Learning to Help Liberal Arts Students Determine a Career Path
Lakeisha Matthews, University of Maryland
Do liberal arts majors on your campus underutilize the career center services or complain that your center does not have resources to address their career needs? If so, attend this session and learn how the career development process for liberal arts students differs from business students. Moreover, learn how experiential learning opportunities can assist liberal arts students with selecting a major and career path. Finally, gain helpful resources and learn how to market career services to liberal arts majors. .
Session 7 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST
Your choice between the following two sessions.
They Don't Know What They Don't Know: Using the The Conscious Competence Ladder Model to Engage Students
Cindy Verduce, Indiana Tech
For some college students, finding a job after graduation is something they’ll think about later, but as career center professionals and our partner employers all know, students need to prepare for the job search process starting day one. However, many students underestimate the amount of time it takes to develop these soft skills, and more importantly, don’t seek out opportunities to work on those skills. They just don’t know what they don’t know. This presentation will discuss the Conscious Competence Ladder Model and how it has been taken to create student programming to awaken student awareness and interest in developing these skills. The benefits to students and how this can translate to other college and university campuses will be discussed.
Got Internships?-Using An Integrated Internship Week Campaign to Increase Awareness
Kathy Tuberville, Dixie Crase, and Kevin Gallagher, University of Memphis
One of the most challenging aspects of a metropolitan university academic internship program is the constantly changing awareness levels of students and participating partners. With multiple program parameters and community involvement levels, the challenge to keep students informed of opportunities requires strategic levels of cooperation from staff, faculty, and community partners. Internship week at the University of Memphis was developed primarily to enhance campus and community awareness of the significance of academic internships.
The presenters developed and implemented a weeklong series of internship-related events which included information sessions, receptions, and workshops. This was the first effort of its kind for large metropolitan state campus. A discussion of the outcomes and “lessons learned” will guide conferees to consider the value of a communication strategy such as an internship week campaign. Presenters will share the experiences of such a program and the preparation required for a successful implementation of an internship week effort.
Closing Keynote Address - 3:00pm EST to 4:00pm EST
The Wake Forest Model for Personal and Career Development
Andy Chan
Vice President for Personal & Career Development
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is re-writing the way that career development is delivered at a liberal arts university and is making it a central component of the student learning experience and the university culture. Learn about their unique vision, innovative programs, faculty and parent engagement, and fundraising strategy from Andy Chan, the university's vice president of personal and career development.
