Conference Presentations | 2023 SoACE Conference

Session Menu:

Monday, December 4:

Tuesday, December 5

Monday, December 4 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Monday, December 4 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  • A Dash of Cultural Lagniappe: Coaching and Recruiting Students with Empathy and Cultural Awareness - Description
  • A Regional Approach to Work-Based Learning - Description
  • Careers + Wellbeing Webinar Series: Create a space to empower your students' wellbeing in the context of their careers - Description
  • Lagniappe for Career Center Offices: Insights into renovating current and designing new career center space - Description
  • Leveraging the Power of Big Data: Capturing Career Outcomes, Supporting Students & Transforming the Campus Ecosystem - Description
  • Something a Little Less Extra: Navigating Boundaries as New Career Professionals - Description
  • Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Exploring the Critical Collaborations Between Faculty and Institutional Career Centers - Description
  • Winning the War on Talent: Underrepresented Talent is the Key - Description

Monday, December 4 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

  • [LEAN] into Continuous Improvement in Employer Relations - Description
  • Career Success for College Students: A NACE Research Story - Description
  • Embracing Change with a Lagniappe Attitude: Surprises and Success - Description
  • Gifting Students EXTRA Experiences: Career Exploration Initiatives - Description
  • Ready Day 1: Elevating Career Readiness - Description
  • Understanding Hispanic STEM Student's Social Network and its Relations to Their Career Development - Description
  • University Sponsored Internships: Lagniappe for Students and Community Partners - Description
  • Using AI to Predict Student Success - Description

Monday, December 4 | 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

  • AI/Automation Best Practices for Career Development in Higher Education - Description
  • Empowering First-Year Success: Strategies for Early Career Engagement - Description
  • Gift 'Em a Little Extra: Impactful Strategies for Career Advisors and Counselors to Utilize to Better Serve Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Description
  • How to Students can Communicate their Skills and Competencies to Recruiters and Employers - Description
  • Jazz It Up: Reinvigorating Your Student Leadership Program - Description
  • Lagniappe! Career Services and Academic Affairs Join Forces to Journey Beyond the Classroom to Prepare Students for Experiential Learning - Description
  • The Rise of Independent Work: Supporting the Next Generation of Freelancers - Description
  • What is "professional" dress, anyway? - Description

Tuesday, December 5 | 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

  • Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Finding Creative Wording to Continue Inclusive Practices - Description
  • Capitalizing on LMS: Bringing Career Education Where They Are - Description
  • ChatGPT: The Game Changer You're Loving to Hate - Description
  • Disney Future Storytellers - Description
  • Empowering Students: Navigating the Federal Job Search with Confidence and Success - Description
  • Other Duties as Assigned: Giving Extra to Get Extra - Description
  • Ready For Your Next Adventure?: Career Stories in Early Talent Acquisition and Career Services - Description
  • The HSI Career Collaborative - Description

Tuesday, December 5 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

  • A Degree and a "Little Something Extra": The intersection between the NACE competencies and the Liberal Arts - Description
  • Building the Safety Net: Deepening the Student Mental Health Support System within Career Services - Description
  • It's Giving Career Resilience: Supporting Alumni in a Changing Job Market - Description
  • Job Shadow Experience - Connections that Make an Impact - Description
  • Leveraging Economic Development Partnerships in Employer Relations - Description
  • Retaining Talent the Marriott Way - Description
  • Secure Your Dream Interviews - Help Your Students Create Powerful Resumes Using AI Tools and Best Practices - Description

Tuesday, December 5 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

  • Career Center Blogs: A Little Something for Extra Scalability - Description
  • Doing the Work: Students' Conceptions of an Antiracist Professional Identity - Description
  • Explore First: Transformational International Career Development Experiences for First-Generation Students - Description
  • From Numbers to Narratives: Using Numbers to Inform Best Practices and Tell a Story - Description
  • Launching a DIY Mentor Program - Description
  • On-Campus Internships: Launching and Managing a New Program - Description
  • Stone Soup: A Recipe to Maximize Internal and External Partnerships for Student Success - Description
  • When Robots Write Resumes: Coaching Students on utilizing AI in the Job Search - Description

Session Descriptions

A Little Extra Data: Challenges, Wins, and Lessons from an Internally-Conducted Alumni Career Survey

Description: Auburn University's Office of Academic Insight was recently charged with facilitating the institution-wide Alumni Career Survey to graduates. In this session, you will hear from AU's team on lessons learned from their efforts to pivot and develop an internal survey after not seeing desired results from an external vendor survey. Be ready share best practices and ideas on ways to implement a similar survey on your campus!

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Assessment and Data Analytics

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Attendees will compare and contrast using an external vendor for an alumni career survey with developing and implementing an alumni career survey in-house.
  2. Attendees will be able to describe the process of developing and implementing an alumni career survey with particular emphasis on gaining buy-in from academic units.

Presenters:

  • Charlie Wilder, Auburn University
  • Rachel Whitman Rotch Auburn University
  • Stuart Miller Auburn University
  • Anna Claire Stinson Auburn University

 Developing a Dynamic Faculty/Staff Engagement Program to Promote Engagement & Collaboration

Description: Career centers nationwide are challenged with forming strong collaborations with faculty/staff across campus in an effort to best support students' career development. The UNC Charlotte Career Center has built a dynamic faculty/staff engagement program, which continues to increase engagement and collaboration, creating a campus culture of "career everywhere." In this session, participants will learn about how to structure a faculty/staff program on their campus to increase faculty/staff engagement.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) Faculty/Staff on-campus engagement

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will learn about a structural program model for faculty/staff engagement utilized at UNC Charlotte
  2. Participants will gain an awareness of the type of programs, events, and resources that are most beneficial to faculty/staff on most college campuses
  3. Participants will have time to process their own faculty/staff engagement and develop action steps towards implementing their own program

Presenters:

  • Suzanne Voigt, UNC Charlotte Career Center

Does Lagniappe Matter? How Creating an On-Boarding Process with a Little Extra Can Affect Staff Satisfaction

Description: It's expected that entry-level or junior-level staff turn over every 2-3 years. The Texas A&M University Career Center is no exception to this trend. Because of this, we are working to understand the impact of effective onboarding processes and fostering a culture of appreciation within our center. Attend this presentation and explore the critical role of staff onboarding in addressing turnover and gain actionable recommendations for approaching staff engagement to reduce attrition rates.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Administration

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Attendees will be able to learn how to implement plans for staff engagement that assist in creating a culture of appreciation within their organization.

Presenters:

  • Caitlin Dartez, Texas A&M University Career Center
  • Amarette Renieri Texas A&M University Career Center
  • Whitney Hinze Texas A&M University Career Center
  • Michael Shehane Texas A&M University Career Center

Enhancing Your Peer Education Programs with ChatGPT: Using Artificial Intelligence for Guidance and Support

Description: At the University of Miami, we recognize that it is crucial to adapt our peer education programs to emerging technologies. Implementing comprehensive tools such as ChatGPT allows us to provide personalized guidance and support to students throughout their career preparation process. Career centers will now be able to enhance career exploration, professional document writing, interview preparation, and overall career development needs.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Attendees will gain an overview of ChatGPT and ways to implement its use into peer education programs in a career services setting.
  2. Attendees will understand how to use ChatGPT when exploring career paths with students.
  3. Attendees will understand the ethical concerns of utilizing ChatGPT in educational settings to ensure the responsible use of the technology.

Presenters:

  • Oluwajoba Odediran, University of Miami, Toppel Career Center
  • Marlon Bermudez University of Miami, Toppel Career Center

ePortfolios: The Lagniappe Advantage in Career Development

Description: Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences are often told they are developing "transferable skills," but many find it challenging to showcase or communicate those skills. LSU has implemented an ePortfolio requirement in a Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Introduction to Career Course to help students communicate and demonstrate their diverse skill set. This session will discuss ePortfolio implementation best practices, data and student feedback, and recommendations for integrating ePortfolios into institutional foundational courses.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Technology

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Understand the importance of ePortfolios and how they can assist students in showcasing and communicating their transferable skills
  2. Identify advantages and challenges in developing an ePortfolio process in foundational courses
  3. Share best practices and student feedback

Presenters:

  • Alyson Enk, LSU Olinde Career Center

From None to One: Creating an On-Campus Co-op Program

Description: Let's create an on-campus co-op program. One where departments can hire students full-time to support their employment needs AND contribute to the experiential learning of students. Easy, right?  Not quite.    Learn about the challenges, key players, and vital components of creating a traditional co-op program on a Higher Education campus.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Experiential Education

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Awareness of challenges to creating an on-campus co-op program
  2. Strategies to consider in developing a program on-campus
  3. Identify the positive outcomes of creating an on-campus co-op program

Presenters:

  • Amy Ratliff

Open Access for your students by integrating DEI&B into Career Programming (The State Way)

Description: More and more companies have made diversity and inclusion a business priority. As a large and diverse institution, we asked how can we as career services professionals help companies diversify their workplace as well as help our students showcase themselves so that companies will take notice.  Come learn how our career services team at Georgia State University integrated topics such as diversity, inclusion and belonging into career programming and recruiting events.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Employer Relations
  • Small Colleges and Universities

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will learn how best to identify the gaps in existing career development and recruitment for career and internship opportunities.
  2. Participants will explore how to bridge the gaps and leverage resources.
  3. Participants will establish ways to connect DEI Initiatives with students and employers.

Presenters:

  • Ramona Simien Georgia State University

The Business of Employer Relations

Description: Professionals with an entrepreneurial mindset possess unique, future-forward qualities like the finest cajun seasoning, one that keeps your taste buds coming back for more!  Join the FSU Career Center employer relations team to flavor your entrepreneurial cookbook. We'll throw in cayenne to heat up ROI for career events, paprika to spice up employer programming, and hot sauce to top off a high performing team. This presentation will get your mouths watering with flavorful innovative practices!

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will learn how to apply the characteristics of an entrepreneurial mindset to the business side of employer relations.
  2. Attendees will learn innovative practices for applying cost-savings methods to career event budgets while delivering a quality experience for all.
  3. Attendees will walk away feeling empowered to make data-driven decisions that create a culture of critical thinking and curiosity.

Presenters:

  • Christy Mantzanas, Florida State University
  • Abbey Hale Florida State University
  • Jamie Butler Florida State University
  • Tori Andrews Florida State University

A Dash of Cultural Lagniappe: Coaching and Recruiting Students with Empathy and Cultural Awareness

Description: Join us for an engaging journey as we explore the power of "A Dash of Cultural Lagniappe: Coaching and Recruiting Students with Empathy and Cultural Awareness".  Unlock the secret ingredient to elevate your career coaching and recruiting. Discover how adding a little something extra in the form of cultural empathy and awareness can make all the difference in creating inclusive and supportive environments for students from diverse backgrounds.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Develop an understanding of the importance of cultural empathy and awareness in career coaching and recruitment.
  2. Understand the influence of cultural factors on student motivation, behavior, and career success
  3. Learn strategies for fostering an inclusive and culturally sensitive environment

Presenters:

  • Courtney Pelzer, University Of Tennessee
  • Jay Cannon Campus Greensboro

A Regional Approach to Work-Based Learning

Description: The Virginia Talent + Opportunity Partnership launched a regional collaborative approach to promote work-based learning and internships statewide. Three of the nine collaboratives are in their second year. The V-TOP team will discuss the benefits and lessons learned from these collaborations while focusing on talent retention.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Experiential Education

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Learn how to create a regional collaborative to engage institutions, students, and employers
  2. Learn how to utilize key stakeholders throughout the state to build relationships
  3. Learn the best practices in managing and coordinating regional collaboratives

Presenters:

  • Alisha Bazemore, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
  • Ashley Crute State Council of Higher Education for Virginia

Careers + Wellbeing Webinar Series: Create a space to empower your students' wellbeing in the context of their careers

Description: Join the University of Georgia (UGA) Career Center to learn about our innovative Careers + Wellbeing webinar series. In response to an executive-level directive to integrate student wellbeing throughout the University, as well as student requests for more mental health-related topics, we assembled a team to create an approachable and inclusive workshop series that empowers students to care for their wellbeing throughout their career journeys.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify benefits to integrating key aspects of wellbeing into career services
  2. Understand best practices for leading careers + wellbeing programs
  3. Identify first steps to launch your careers + wellbeing programming

Presenters:

  • Megan Elrath, University of Georgia
  • Jessica McLeod-Waddell University of Georgia

Lagniappe for Career Center Offices: Insights into renovating current and designing new career center space.

Description: A new generation of students and evolving technology require that Career Centers be retrofitted to best provide the best level of service. This session will explore how four different institutions redesigned their space or built new space to optimize functionality, incorporate new technology, and create collaborative environments.  Explore lessons learned, best practices, and tips and tricks for re-envisioning Career Centers.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Expert

Topic(s):

  • Administration

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Gain insight into successful ideas and strategies to transform current or new space into a dynamic student-centered hub.
  2. Recognize key considerations in office renovation and design such as: optimization, functionality, technology utilization, and collaborative environment.
  3. Discover practical tips, advice, and resources to consider when designing space.

Presenters:

  • Tim Harding, University of Tampa
  • Mark Colvenbach University of Tampa
  • Robert Vega Texas Career Engagement
  • Mike Caldwell Texas Christian University
  • Ray Rogers Texas State University

Leveraging the Power of Big Data: Capturing Career Outcomes, Supporting Students & Transforming the Campus Ecosystem

Description: Big data is known for generating valuable insights and revolutionizing decision-making. In career services, big data can empower students, and the institutions that serve them, in unprecedented ways.   Learn how the University of South Carolina has leveraged the acquisition of big data on the career outcomes of close to 200,000 of their graduates to enhance student career development, strengthen campus partnerships and surface critical information that supports institutional efforts across a wide range of functions.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Assessment and Data Analytics
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Technology

Learning Objective(s):

  1. To enhance participant understanding of the potential of big data tools in career exploration and decision-making processes.
  2. To enhance participant understanding of the potential of big data tools supporting institutional efforts across a wide range of functions (use cases) in ways that elevate career services.
  3. To enhance participant understanding of the opportunities that big data has to deepen campus partnerships and cultivate the campus career ecosystem.

Presenters:

  • Vicki Hamby,
  • Helen Powers University of South Carolina
  • Silvia Patricia Rios Husain University of South Carolina

Something a Little Less Extra: Navigating Boundaries as New Career Professionals

Description: Do any of the following sound familiar? Feeling tired despite getting enough sleep; experiencing guilt when you set boundaries; everything feeling urgent; or saying yes when you'd rather say no? Join us for a practical, solution-focused workshop on the nature of burnout and compassion fatigue. We'll cover advising during an ever-changing economic and political climate, and consider how a values-based approach of advocating for your needs and setting clear boundaries can help you prevent burnout.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Learn how to apply and utilize practical and effective communication to establish concrete plans for preventing burnout in the upcoming semester.
  2. Describe one effective way to use reframing to navigate the guilt that accompanies boundary setting.
  3. Clearly articulate three personal/professional values to inform your practice of preventing burnout.

Presenters:

  • Becca Steinbach, Trinity University
  • Sinclair Ceasar Trinity University

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Exploring the Critical Collaborations Between Faculty and Institutional Career Centers

Description: Career centers face various struggles trying to collaborate with faculty in order to increase student engagement with their services. This session with discuss results from a study where faculty share their thoughts on collaborating with their career centers, including what motivated them to work with their career centers, how they prefer to collaborate, and what both they and career centers perceive as obstacles to these collaborations, as well as future recommendations to enhance these collaborations.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Small Colleges and Universities
  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) One topic I think is vitally important when it comes to career services in higher education is collaboration with other key stakeholders and how to successfully build/sustain/be creative in these key collaborations for increased student retention and pers

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify what does and does not motivate faculty to decide to collaborate with their career centers
  2. Understand the collaborative methods preferred by faculty when working with their institutional career centers in order to increase future collaborative efforts
  3. Recognize what both faculty and institutional career center staff view as the biggest challenges to these collaborations

Presenters:

  • Heather McIntosh, Middle Georgia State University

Winning the War on Talent: Underrepresented Talent is the Key

Description: As employers continue to face challenges with attracting and hiring qualified talent, they must consider alternative talent pools as the traditional talent pools are not sufficient. Why? There are simply not enough people in the population and in the job market to fill the current or future needs. Employers who redefine their talent attraction and recruitment strategies to include overlooked populations are more likely to win this war and meet their hiring targets

Audience: Employers
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Employer

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Discuss current employment trends.
  2. Identify underrepresented talent pools and the opportunities the barriers they face to finding employment.
  3. Introduce strategies to attract underrepresented talent

Presenters:

Monique Jenkins, Georgia Department of Administrative Services


[LEAN] into Continuous Improvement in Employer Relations

Description: Do you feel yourself weighed down by the number of emails in your inbox? Do you struggle to keep up with the details when scheduling employer events and the constant communication it takes to plan one event? Join us to learn how developing and implementing lean processes can positively impact the services you offer to employers and students.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Assessment and Data Analytics
  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Recognize basic concepts of lean thinking and how those concepts can apply to employer relations services.
  2. Identify projects/processes within your current work environment that need improvement.
  3. Think critically about improvements that can be made to the system, and develop a plan of small improvements to the system, including ways to measure and assess.

Presenters:

  • Apryl Mullins, Auburn University, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Career Success for College Students: A NACE Research Story

Description: As we emerge from the global pandemic and adapt to the changing economic and workplaces, Matthew Brink, Assistant Executive Director at NACE will share, in story format, the key trends and insights we are learning about the job outlook for students, lived experiences of students in internships and in their first destinations, and the impact of career services and employers on equity.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Expert

Topic(s):

  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) The presentation paints the story of career success for college students, based on NACE research findings, detailing the impact and role career service and employer professionals have on supporting students' journeys from college to career.  If the commit

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Strategies and practices to support the career development of students.
  2. Strategies and practices for employers in recruiting students both for internships and entry level positions.
  3. Strategies and practices for advancing equity in student engagement for career services and employers.

Presenters:

  • Matthew Brink, National Association of Colleges and Employers

Embracing Change with a Lagniappe Attitude: Surprises and Success

Description: This session will offer practical tips and strategies for effectively managing change in our work. You will actively participate and learn through reflection questions and small group discussions. You will be encouraged to share your  own experiences with embracing change, relating them to the key aspects of change management. This interactive exchange of ideas will empower you to stay curious, explore new perspectives, cultivate resilience, and embrace a growth mindset.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Change Sustainability and Continuous Improvement: By attending this session, learners will recognize that change is an ongoing process rather than a one-time event. They will understand the significance of embedding change into the organization's culture
  2. Change Readiness Assessment: Learners will develop the skills to assess an organization's readiness for change. They will recognize the importance of evaluating factors such as organizational culture, employee engagement, leadership support, and resource

Presenters:

  • Tom Halasz, East Carolina University
  • Ja'Net Glover University of Florida

Gifting Students EXTRA Experiences: Career Exploration Initiatives

Description: This presentation provides an overview of various career exploration initiatives implemented by Career Services at Texas State University, starting with career assignments in first-year seminar. Then, we'll gift participants a little something EXTRA - a taste of our new career exploration programs we brought to life this fall! We'll highlight helpful tips and share lessons learned when creating a job shadow program, a major and career exploration living learning community, a Canvas site, and more!

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  •  session level beginner/intermediate

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will become familiar with various examples of existing and new career exploration programs implemented at Texas State University, including the details of how they were brought to life.
  2. Participants will gain knowledge of beneficial strategies to apply and common challenges to address while creating and implementing new career exploration programs.
  3. Participants will be equipped to brainstorm practical applications of the material while designing plans for similar career exploration programs on their campuses.

Presenters:

  • Madyson Flint, Texas State University
  • Payton Kisner Texas State University
  • Yakima Anderson Texas State University

Ready Day 1: Elevating Career Readiness

Description: The new Ready Day 1 initiative at Georgia Southern University has allowed the opportunity to incorporate career-related content into the curriculum in efforts to increase career readiness. We will discuss how we developed learning modules that are taught to all students in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and will share information about additional resources and programs that can be utilized to further embed career readiness into the university culture.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Career Advising/Counseling

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify best practices used across the university to have consistent career readiness concepts delivered to students.
  2. Describe career readiness modules used to develop students' career readiness and how modules were integrated into the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
  3. Discuss additional resources for students and faculty to elevate career readiness at your institution.

Presenters:

  • Amy Rowell, Georgia Southern University

Understanding Hispanic STEM Student's Social Network and its Relations to Their Career Development

Description: This presentation could help career services practitioners understand the influences of social networks and their relation to hispanic students and critically examine how one could create opportunities and support for these students' social networks. Through the empirical data, individuals attending will take away tangible tools to comprehensively impact and support students' social networks and their relations to career development.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer
  • Experiential Education

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Individuals will receive empirical data regarding social network connectedness to Hispanic students' career development.
  2. Individuals will engage in the community to expand their intellectual property and how this data could create best practices.

Presenters:

  • Trevor McCray, University of Wisconsin-Madison

University Sponsored Internships: Lagniappe for Students and Community Partners

Description: The number of students participating in sponsored internships at Trinity University, an urban liberal arts university of 2500 students, has increased annually, to a high of 60 in summer 2023.  In this session we will discuss leveraging partnerships on campus, with alumni, with business partners, and through grants to support unpaid interns with funds and housing. We will also share the structure of our program, which includes faculty mentorship, academic credit, and a student showcase.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Experiential Education
  • Small Colleges and Universities

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will understand the structure of sponsored internships at Trinity University.
  2. Participants will create a plan for expanding or starting a sponsored internship program.
  3. Participants will identify key stakeholders to ensure institutional buy-in and support.

Presenters:

  • Jennifer Rames, Trinity University
  • Katie Ramirez Trinity University

Using AI to Predict Student Success

Description: Explore an innovative application of AI at Baylor University's career center, where logistic regression helps to predict post-graduation success. This homegrown predictive tool empowers career coaches to customize their guidance, enhancing Baylor's 99% knowledge rate and 92% placement rate in FDS. The presentation underlines the potential of AI in optimizing resources and personalizing student support, embodying Baylor's commitment to educational innovation and career readiness.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Assessment and Data Analytics
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Technology

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Apply AI to helping students achieve success upon graduation

Presenters:

  • Andrew Boles, Baylor University

AI/Automation Best Practices for Career Development in Higher Education

Description: With the rise in popularity of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and more, higher education professionals need to be aware of how students are using these tools. Focusing on career development, we will dive into the best practices for generative AI and how to empower staff who are unfamiliar with AI/automation tools.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Technology
  •  Generative AI (ex. ChatGPT) and how it affects the career development of college students

Learning Objective(s):

  1. The first learning objective is share the basics to career professionals on how AI tools can be used by students to help them with their career. This includes best practices on generating email templates for networking, practicing interview questions, cus
  2. The other learning objective is to promote best practices and avoid students simply using these tools to avoid putting in the work for their job search.

Presenters:

  • Byongho Lee, Vanderbilt University

Empowering First-Year Success: Strategies for Early Career Engagement

Description: Discover how the University of Florida Career Connections Center has provided 'a little something extra' in the student experience through their commitment to prioritize career development of first year students. Explore our range of initiatives designed to empower first year students to strategically maximize their time at UF.  Join this session to gain valuable insights on creating an early engagement strategy, developing resources, and expanding access and opportunities through collaboration with campus and industry partners.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Attendees will learn how to create a scalable early engagement strategy.
  2. Attendees will learn about early engagement resources, support, and opportunities to consider when connecting with first year students.
  3. Attendees will discover new ideas and benefits for collaborating with campus and industry partners to expand access and opportunities for first year students.

Presenters:

  • Alison Noonan, University of Florida

Empowering First-Year Success: Strategies for Early Career Engagement

Description: Discover how the University of Florida Career Connections Center has provided 'a little something extra' in the student experience through their commitment to prioritize career development of first year students. Explore our range of initiatives designed to empower first year students to strategically maximize their time at UF.  Join this session to gain valuable insights on creating an early engagement strategy, developing resources, and expanding access and opportunities through collaboration with campus and industry partners.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Attendees will learn how to create a scalable early engagement strategy.
  2. Attendees will learn about early engagement resources, support, and opportunities to consider when connecting with first year students.
  3. Attendees will discover new ideas and benefits for collaborating with campus and industry partners to expand access and opportunities for first year students.

Presenters:

  • Alison Noonan, University of Florida

 

To Utilize to Better Serve Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Description: Career Counselors from Texas State University will provide participants with an extensive exploration of effectively serving college students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The session will include an overview of ASD and its impact on employment. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to hear personal accounts of young working adults diagnosed with ASD. Lastly, presenters will provide tangible strategies that career advisors and counselors can utilize to better serve students with ASD.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of ASD, including characteristics of it and its impact on employment.
  2. Participants will be exposed to personal insights from young working adults diagnosed with ASD to learn more about their unique perspectives and their experiences with employment.
  3. Participants will gain tangible strategies that they can implement in their own meetings with students with ASD to better support them.

Presenters:

  • Aubrey Trujillo, Texas State University-Career Services
  • Mason Murphy Texas State University-Career Services

How to Students can Communicate their Skills and Competencies to Recruiters and Employers

Description: Join our session on skills and competencies, exploring their crucial role in shaping career opportunities. Throughout students' lives, they acquire diverse abilities, but what sets them apart is effectively communicating these to recruiters. We'll analyze how students from various states showcase their unique competencies on resumes.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Assessment and Data Analytics

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Learn how to help students effectively communicate their competencies and skills to Employers and Recruiters.
  2. Learn how students perceive their skills and competencies differently at a National, State, and even college level.

Presenters:

  • Himal Ahuja, Quinncia
  • Christina Bevilacqua University of Tampa

Jazz It Up: Reinvigorating Your Student Leadership Program

Description: Not all student leadership programs are created equal. During this session, attendees will learn how the Team Leader Program in the Bryan School of Business and Economics employs holistic leadership experiences to improve students' career readiness skills acquisition. In addition to discovering how the Team Leader Program earned a 95% student approval rating, attendees will explore opportunities to " jazz up" their own student leadership programs by infusing immersive classroom leadership, industry mentorship, and more.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Small Colleges and Universities

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will identify 1-2 new ideas for accelerating the career readiness of the students in their leadership programs
  2. Participants will learn how to create a meaningful student leadership experience that encourages students to stay engaged over several semesters

Presenters:

  • Maggie Breitenbach, UNC Greensboro - Bryan School of Business and Economics

Lagniappe! Career Services and Academic Affairs Join Forces to Journey Beyond the Classroom to Prepare Students for Experiential Learning

Description: This session will demonstrate how student service and academic areas can cross campus barriers to develop and deliver unique programs and services.  During the past four years, the UA Career Center and the College of Arts & Sciences ICUE Connector combined forces to attract and prepare students for a week of professional development and subsequently internships in Washington, DC.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Experiential Education

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will learn the benefits of utilizing campus resources to create unique programs and services in order to better serve students by providing creative experiential learning opportunities.
  2. Participants will learn about the unique process of working with government agencies.
  3. Participants will learn necessary details about programs involving travel.

Presenters:

  • Schernavia Hall, The University of Alabama
  • Pamela Derrick The Universit of Alabama
  • Tammy Donaldson The University of Alabama

The Rise of Independent Work: Supporting the Next Generation of Freelancers

Description: The future of work is transforming, with professionals seeking out opportunities for greater freedom, control and flexibility in their work lives than ever before.  For 60 million Americans, this is achieved through freelancing (Upwork, 2022).  As more and more traditional workers and college students consider independent work, this presents a new challenge to university career centers: how can we best prepare students to navigate the gig economy and be their own boss?

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Examine the growth of freelancing and the pros and cons of project-based work for individuals and employers
  2. Gain insight into the essential skills students can develop to succeed and support themselves as freelancers
  3. Consider how university career services can adapt to the freelance market and educate students through events, programs, and resources

Presenters:

  • Alison Doherty, Elon University

What is "professional" dress, anyway?

Description: Do you find yourself wearing jeans to work more often now than before the pandemic? You're not alone! Ideas of what constitutes "professional" dress have changed significantly in the past few years, but do your office policies reflect that?  In this interactive workshop, you'll work together with other attendees to examine your offices' professional dress guidelines and determine how they can be updated.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. By participating in the session, attendees will be able to interpret federal and state laws around self-presentation, and apply them to their offices' professional dress guidelines.
  2. After participating in the session, attendees will have examined and updated their offices' professional dress guidelines to be aligned with today's standards.

Presenters:

  • Rachel Van Middlesworth, The University of Texas at Austin

Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Finding Creative Wording to Continue Inclusive Practices

Description: This presentation aims to bring awareness to Senate Bill (SB) 17 from three career services professionals, its impact on state-funded institutions and career services operations, and their perspectives on effectively and efficiently moving forward through the art of language. Through these unique perspectives, individuals will find avenues to continue implementing inclusive practices while abiding by SB17 going into 2024.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer
  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Individuals will receive tangible tools, language, support, and confidence that could help implement SB17 specifically for colleagues in Texas.
  2. Individuals will gain a community that could provide proactive assistance with future legislation implementation within their respective offices.

Presenters:

  • Trevor McCray, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Kamara Jackson University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Jabot' Colvin Texas A&M University

Capitalizing on LMS: Bringing Career Education Where They Are

Description: The purpose of this session is to share an innovative strategy to integrating career education within a high traffic space, the university's learning management system. The course is modeled after the NACE 8 Career Readiness competencies and utilizes the expert informationals found in LinkedIn Learning. In this session, the presenter will share successes of this technological integration, lessons learned through this partnership, and the impact this strategy has had on career education within the university.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Technology

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Apply the philosophy of teaching students where they are to the promotion of career education.
  2. Receive step-by-step instructions for getting started with their own LMS based career readiness course.
  3. Explore challenges and possible solutions for implementing a similar integration at their institutions.

Presenters:

  • Courtney Wilson, Sam Houston State University
  • Benji Cantu Sam Houston State University

ChatGPT: The Game Changer You're Loving to Hate

Description: ChatGPT: The new AI kid on the block that you love to hate.  In this interactive session will unpack and demonstrate the potential of ChatGPT to revolutionize career planning in today's fast-paced job market. Participants will view live demonstrations on how career coaches can use ChatGPT in their work with students and walk away with a practical understanding of how ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for helping students manage the rapidly changing career landscape.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Assessment and Data Analytics
  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Experiential Education
  • Small Colleges and Universities

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Better understand the role of ChatGPT in students' career planning and its potential benefits for career center professionals through demonstration and practical exploration.
  2. Acquire insights from live demonstration of possible student scenarios that demonstrate the successful implementation of ChatGPT in career centers.

Presenters:

  • Katie Bandy Krikorian, Loyola University New Orleans
  • Rochelle Cooper Loyola University New Orleans

Disney Future Storytellers

Description: Disney Future Storytellers is The Walt Disney Company's commitment to empowering the next generation of storytellers and innovators. Through social investments and programs that provide inspiration and hands-on experience, we're increasing access to careers in media, entertainment, technology, hospitality, and helping ensure that our storytelling reflects the lives and experiences of the many communities we serve. Learn how Disney is intentionally helping the next generation of leaders become who they imagine they can be.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Gain a broader understanding of the various scholarship programs we support, specifically focused on historically under-represented communities. Programs include American Indian College Fund, Asian Pacific Islander American Scholars, Hispanic Scholarship
  2. Understand the impact Disney Future Storytellers effort is having across The Walt Disney Company.

Presenters:

  • Wayne Hampton, The Walt Disney Company
  • Khalifah Nailor The Walt Disney Company

Empowering Students: Navigating the Federal Job Search with Confidence and Success

Description: Learn about our experience in the Call to Serve Network's Federal Advising Certificate Program and how we've successfully implemented federal job support at the University of Tennessee. Learn about our implementation plan, including peer training, programming, and ta guide to federal resumes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how we can empower students to confidently navigate the federal job search and gain a competitive edge in the market.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Acquire practical knowledge and resources to assist students in navigating the intricacies of the federal job and internship search process, including mastering the art of federal resume building and utilizing federal resume resources as a tool for crafti

Presenters:

  • Amanda Yother, University of Tennessee
  • Bukky Abdul University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Alexis Andershock University of Tennessee Knoxville

Other Duties as Assigned: Giving Extra to Get Extra

Description: As working professionals, we all have a job description that outlines the responsibilities of our roles. However, those 6-8 bullet points don't quite define how to get the job done efficiently. In this session, the presenters will discuss how they've given a little extra to get extra as career liaisons/specialists, for their professional and personal development. The presenters will coach participants how to make "other duties as assigned" work for them, and not against them.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Employer Relations
  • Experiential Education

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will leave with a growth mindset to apply to the work in their respective professional roles
  2. Participants will learn how to create an effective resume bullet point based on other duties as assigned
  3. Participants will learn about engagement initiatives to incorporate as career coaches, employers, and other higher education professionals

Presenters:

  • Desiree George, Florida Atlantic University Career Center
  • Kelly Nielsen Florida Atlantic University Career Center

Ready For Your Next Adventure?: Career Stories in Early Talent Acquisition and Career Services

Description: Join this highly interactive session where career stories will be shared from presenters who made career changes within the intersection of early talent acquisition and higher education. The presenters will also look for audience participation to compliment the conversations.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) Personal Professional Development

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will be able to assess and plot out some next steps in furthering their careers. Participants will be able to learn from and share stories that inspire them to focus on what is most important about their career.
  2. Participants will be able to start exploring why they are in early talent/career development and how that plays into fit.
  3. Participants will be presented with best practices on professional behavior during the resignation notice period.

Presenters:

  • Ralph Leal, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
  • Jill Boatright Loyola University New Orleans
  • Rachel Brand Cintas
  • Alicia Smyth Boeing

The HSI Career Collaborative

Description: Join us for an innovative session titled "The HSI Career Collaborative." This session explores a groundbreaking initiative, the HSI Career Collaborative, which brings together 14 leading Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSls) to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

Audience: Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Administration
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer
  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Increased advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
  2. Practical strategies for effective recruitment from Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSls) and diverse institutions.
  3. Tools to implement inclusive practices and attract diverse talent. Participants will leave with a renewed commitment to fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, equipped with actionable knowledge and strategies to drive meaningful change in their recru

Presenters:

  • Mario Vela, University of Texas at San Antonio

A Degree and a "Little Something Extra": The intersection between the NACE competencies and the Liberal Arts

Description: Many students struggle to appreciate the skills they develop throughout the Liberal Arts curriculum, and at UNCA we have partnered with faculty to better scale our ability to help students understand this. This session will explore how UNC Asheville has increased buy-in with liberal arts faculty around the NACE competencies and explore strategies to help students identify and articulate the value of their Liberal Arts education by making connections between their academics and the competencies.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) Faculty and Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify the skills that overlap with the core values of a liberal arts education
  2. Learn activities to help students communicate the value of their education
  3. Identify strategies to help faculty buy into the value of the NACE competencies

Presenters:

  • Lauren DeHaan, UNC Asheville

Building the Safety Net: Deepening the Student Mental Health Support System within Career Services

Description: There is a mental health epidemic happening on college campuses right now, and counseling centers can no longer be utilized as the only space where student mental health is supported. In this session, Nathan Langfitt (director of career education, Texas Career Engagement) and Adria Villarreal (assistant director of career counseling, Texas Career Engagement) will share research, goals, and strategies for better aligning college career services with student mental health care efforts.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Understand the depth and breadth of the college student mental health crisis
  2. Learn about the Surgeon General's Framework for Mental Health & Well-Being in the Workplace and how this can inform college career services
  3. Discuss how student programming and services can be used to explore the intersection of mental health and career development

Presenters:

  • Nathan Langfitt, UT Austin - Texas Career Engagement
  • Adria Villarreal UT Austin - Texas Career Engagement

It's Giving Career Resilience: Supporting Alumni in a Changing Job Market

Description: Are the job roles for your alumni truly giving? Join this session to explore real alumni cases that unveil strategies for navigating career transitions effectively. This session covers advising approaches and tools, obstacles to changing careers, and stages of grieving a job loss. Engage in interactive small group discussions and leave with valuable takeaways that you can apply to your advising appointments.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will identify effective tools to support alumni seeking to change careers.
  2. Participants will recall one of the eight obstacles alumni may face when switching career paths.
  3. Participants will examine through small groups what gaps in support for alumni they have seen at their respective campuses.

Presenters:

  • Raylea Rideau, Rice University

Job Shadow Experience - Connections that Make an Impact

Description: Do you want to start a shadow program but don't know where to start? Do you get emails from Career Centers about participating in shadow programs and wonder if it's worth your time? If you answered yes to either of these questions, join this session to learn how Georgia Tech launched a pilot for a shadow program for first-generation college students as well as the employer perspective for serving as a host.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Best practices and strategies for a shadow program
  2. Return of investment from an employer's perspective for participating as a host.

Presenters:

  • Camille Liverpool, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Karen McGrath Mansfield Energy

Leveraging Economic Development Partnerships in Employer Relations

Description: Universities and career centers are an integral part of economic and workforce development. In this session, add ''a little something extra'' to your employer development strategy by partnering with local chambers and economic development organizations. Learn strategies to engage with chambers through innovative programming, continuing education, and marketing. Create goals for connecting with economic development organizations, and learn from your peer institutions during the discussion part of this session. Lagniappe for our students and communities!

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Demonstrate the benefit of partnering with economic development entities for both career centers and students
  2. Explore 3 main strategies to engage with economic development partners and their outcomes
  3. Define economic development, workforce development and similar community organizations to partner with in your community

Presenters:

  • Leslie Walton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Retaining Talent the Marriott Way

Description: An interactive presentation will be provided on the 'Marriott way,' other companies that enact best practices in employee retention, and Herzberg's two-factor theory of motivation as related to employee satisfaction and retention. Participants will discuss how best to keep premium employees, leaving them with a greater understanding of the keys to holding onto good employees and how to coach manager job candidates on employee retention best practices.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Employer
  •  The session has a focus of retaining quality employees, thus is applicable to employers. However, it also provides useful information for career services staff in coaching students for interviews and even for teachers in prioritizing factors in the classr

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will take away key practices for retaining quality employees.
  2. Participants will leave better informed on ways to coach students before interviewing for management positions.
  3. Educators and employers will learn about Herzberg's hygiene and motivation factors and how they apply to employee satisfaction.

Presenters:

  • Joan Ledbetter, University of Tampa

Secure Your Dream Interviews - Help Your Students Create Powerful Resumes Using AI Tools and Best Practices

Description: This session explores the use of  AI tools and ChatGPT to enhance students' chances of securing interviews. We delve into successful navigation through ATS while emphasizing the importance of personal branding and impactful representation. These strategies have been pivotal in achieving a 92% placement rate and a 99% knowledge rate among graduating Baylor students in 2022. Attendees will gain insights into technology and strategy that empowers students to excel in the competitive job market.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Expert

Topic(s):

  • Technology

Learning Objective(s):

  1. To better understand and apply current AI techniques and best practices to improve student resumes
  2. To equip attendees with a scalable, efficient, and effective AI-based resume-creation process they can implement

Presenters:

  • Michael Estepp, Baylor University

Career Center Blogs: A Little Something for Extra Scalability

Description: Spice up your career services office with the perfect addition! Career center blogs are the secret ingredient to serving up rich content that captivates students. Infused with the spirit of social media, blogs provide the reach, versatility, and collaboration that career services professionals desire. Join this session to savor the UGA Career Center's strategies for scalability, enticing blogs on career development, and a routine for consistently delivering high-quality content that leaves students craving more.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Employer Relations
  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) Alumni Engagement

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify elements of successful blog webpages and brainstorm topics based on career development needs unique to their student population.
  2. Create collaboration and communication within the blogging team to plan and execute the content calendar in a coordinated and efficient manner.
  3. Develop strategies for marketing blogs on current social media platforms, maximizing the reach and impact of career services.

Presenters:

  • Kristina Rust, University of Georgia Career Center

Doing the Work: Students' Conceptions of an Antiracist Professional Identity

Description: This session presents research conducted as a part of the SoACE Research Fellowship Program – exploring the qualitatively different ways students conceive of an antiracist professional identity after taking an undergraduate honors course with racism and antiracism as its central themes. This interactive session pushes attendees to consider the role of career services and higher education in preparing antiracist professionals and the challenges inherent to taking up this charge.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Diversity and Inclusion

Learning Objective(s):

  1. After participating in this session, attendees should be able to foster the development of an antiracist professional identity in students and anticipate the forms this identity might take within students.
  2. After participating in this session, attendees should be able to articulate the role of career services and higher education in developing antiracist graduates.
  3. After participating in this session, attendees will understand the value of phenomenography and critical race phenomenography as methodologies for higher education/career services research.

Presenters:

  • Matthew Cowley, Virginia Tech (as of July 2023)

Explore First: Transformational International Career Development Experiences for First-Generation Students

Description: An increasingly global and interconnected labor market and world places a premium on global/intercultural fluency, international experience, and cultural capital. Join us for an introduction to the University of Kentucky's (UK) 'Explore First' program, an initiative that provides first-generation college students an opportunity to participate in education abroad experiences while developing career readiness competencies and cultural capital through participation in site visits and activities with UK employer partners in Dublin, Ireland and London, England.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer
  • Experiential Education
  •  The program being presented involves an experiential education collaboration with university career services and employers, with a concentrated focus on first-generation college students. in the spirit of lagniappe, we believe that there is something of b

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Session attendees will learn about the ways in which international experience and global/intercultural fluency can help first-generation college students gain access to cultural capital and be better positioned for career success.
  2. In the spirit of lagniappe, session attendees will learn about not only the program architecture and scaffolding, but will also learn about the program cost structure and the research study that was conducted in concert with the program.

Presenters:

  • Ray Clere, University of Kentucky / Stuckert Career Center
  • Niamh Larson University of Kentucky / Education Abroad & Exchanges
  • Beth Hanneman University of Kentucky / Stuckert Career Center
  • Jacob Murphy University of Kentucky / Stuckert Career Center
  • Rachel Brand Cintas

From Numbers to Narratives: Using Numbers to Inform Best Practices and Tell a Story

Description: The workshop will highlight how the University of Florida-Career Connections Center has used many different types of data to scale services to reach more students, structure workshops and course offerings, retool orientation, guide marketing and outreach, and types of student appointments. The data has guided practices but also enables the center to reach more stakeholders and tell their story.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Assessment and Data Analytics
  • Other (please explain in "comments" box below) My session will show how data has been used at all levels of a career services office to influence best practices and meet stakeholder demands.

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify data collected or accessible to career centers that can shape practices
  2. Learn how one career center used data to shape their practices from outreach, services, workshops, marketing, and student appointments and share their mission with stakeholders
  3. Generate ideas of how they can do something similar to tell their center's story to a larger audience

Presenters:

  • Jessica Hendrick, University of Florida-Career Connections Center

Launching a DIY Mentor Program

Description: Mentor Programs are a wish list for many career centers. A mentor program supplements a unique career readiness programing element to a career center, it attracts alumni and employers and brings added value to career readiness success. The question is how does your office launch it and with minimal resources at hand and a zero budget? Attend this session to learn how to develop and launch a mentor program with minimal resources.

Audience: Both Colleges & Employers
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Employer Relations
  • Experiential Education
  • Small Colleges and Universities

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Identify how to develop a mentor program utilizing a strategic plan that includes goal setting and steps to attain the goals.
  2. Participants will learn how to create a Mentor/Mentee Manual, Matching Tool Excel File and Presentation to welcome the mentors and mentees (Orientation).
  3. Participants will learn how to match mentors and mentees manually and identify  how to collect outcomes utilizing survey and mid-year review sessions.

Presenters:

  • Nelly Leon, Florida International University

On-Campus Internships: Launching and Managing a New Program

Description: In Fall of 2021, Virginia Tech Career and Professional Development (CPD) launched Campus internEXP with the hope of providing students with quality work integrated learning experiences. In our first two years, we learned a great deal about the ups and downs of piloting an on-campus internship program. The presenter will share information on how CPD launched and manages Campus internEXP, how to gain buy-in from faculty and staff, and how on-campus internships support DEI efforts.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Employer Relations
  • Experiential Education

Learning Objective(s):

  1. The foundations of launching and managing a new on-campus internship program.
  2. How to gain initial buy-in from faculty and staff.
  3. How on-campus internships support diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

Presenters:

  • Julia Ward, Virginia Tech

Stone Soup: A Recipe to Maximize Internal and External Partnerships for Student Success

Description: As career services professionals in higher education, often the secret sauce of our work requires doing "a little something extra" with less. This session will discuss how Florida State University Career Liaisons developed creative, collaborative programming that leveraged relationships with new and existing smaller-budget and non-profit employers to meet the varied needs of their unique student populations and support the needs of their academic departments.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Intermediate

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Employer Relations

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Discuss ways to leverage student, department, and employer relationships for mutually beneficial outcomes.
  2. Discuss strategies to develop relationships with new and existing non-profit employers.
  3. Utilize needs assessments to develop programming that supports identified needs of unique student populations.

Presenters:

  • Alexis Fraites, Florida State University

When Robots Write Resumes: Coaching Students on utilizing AI in the Job Search

Description: How do you talk to students about using artificial intelligent (AI) during the job search? Whether you feel confident, concerned, or somewhere in between, join us for a conversation about coaching students on using AI appropriately. During this session, we will review AI-generated application materials, learn how students can use AI as an effective tool, and collaborate to discuss strengths and concerns of students using tools like ChatGPT in their job search.

Audience: Colleges
Level:
Beginner

Topic(s):

  • Career Advising/Counseling
  • Technology

Learning Objective(s):

  1. Participants will learn how students can use ChatGPT as an effective tool in the job search by generating document templates, assisting with research, and more
  2. Participants will learn about strengths, concerns, and best practices for coaching students on using ChatGPT in the job search through small group discussions

Presenters:

  • Allison Robbins, University of Texas at Austin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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