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Preconference Workshops

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Additional fee and registration required.

Full Day Session (8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)

Back to Basics: NEW RECRUITER TRAINING

Presenter: Julie Cunningham, The Cunningham Group
Track: Professional Development
Audience: Employer

Demand for college graduates continues to rise and your organization needs to be part of that growth. To be more effective in the job market, you have to understand the basics: Who's on campus? How do you get their attention? How can you locate the best students? All of this and more will be covered in this one-day intensive program for new recruiters!

Topics include:

Recruiting Today's Students
School Targets and Developing Campus Relationships
Effective School Strategies/Marketing your Brand
Selecting the Best Recruiters
Basic Campus Interviewing Skills
Top 10 Strategies For Recruiting and Retaining Candidates

BONUS: Attendees of the program will each receive a personal copy (after the session) of the NACE 2007 Employers Guide to College Recruiting (a $199 value).

Morning Sessions (8:00 – 11:45 a.m.)

From Team Discussions to Organizational Effectiveness

Presenter: Catherine Neiner, Agnes Scott College
Track: Professional Development
Audience: College and Employer

Whether you are managing a work-based committee, your state association board, or a student advisory board, you must know how to organize and manage a diverse group of people. In this interactive session, you will develop practical strategies for setting long- and short-term goals and develop processes to ensure that your group functions effectively to achieve those goals. You will understand how to build a cohesive team, how to set goals, and how to ensure that the work of the organization is carried out effectively and efficiently.

By the end of this workshop, you will:

Understand the principles of building a cohesive and committed team
Know the basic functions of a board and how to leverage them to advance the mission and goals of the organization.
Be able to develop an efficient structure within which to effectively organize and manage a board.
Apply strategies for setting long- and short-terms goals.

Take Charge: Living Your Career With Intent

Presenter: Julie Bauke, Congruity Career Consulting
Track: Professional Development
Audience: College and employer

Are you spending so much time helping other people find jobs and develop their careers that you’ve neglected your own dreams? This session will focus on the “career market” today—and why the time is ripe for developing and pursuing the job/career of your dreams. You will learn tools and strategies for getting clarity for where you are in your career and how to develop and grow in the years to come.

At the end of this workshop, you will:

Understand the five core career management strategies.
Be ready to develop and use networking strategies.
Have the tools and strategies to provide support and direction as you move forward in your career.

Taking Career Counseling to the Next Level: Career Development Combining the Myers-Briggs and Strong Assessments

Presenter: Catherine Holmes, CPP, Inc.
Track: Issues in Career Services
Audience: College

Take your counseling skills to another level. This four-hour workshop will show you how to combine personality and interests through the Myers-Briggs® and the Strong Interest Inventory assessments. Discover how to evaluate research, and gain valuable practice through case studies in this lively program.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Interpret MBTI® and Strong results in combination with each other, both when the reports are consistent, as well as when they appear not to be.
Understand the latest research combining the MBTI® and Strong for career development, and how this data affects the counseling session.
Identify where theses two tools fit into the career development process.

Afternoon Sessions (12:30 – 4:15 p.m.)

Behavioral-Based Interview Training

Presenter: Sue Keever, The Keever Group
Track: Recruitment and Retention
Audience: College and Employer

Imagine how much money your company/university could save if all the hires you made were good ones. Behavioral-based interviewing (BBI)is the most effective technique available to gather legal, relevant information about candidates and make educated hiring decisions. BBI helps you focus on the competencies required for the job and make informed, justifiable, legal decisions. It allows you to stay in control of the interview. Surveys show, BBI-trained recruiters are in a unique position to impact employee success and ultimately, the company's bottom line.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Identify the skills, knowledge, and abilities (competencies) that are important to the job.
Develop effective questions based on job competencies.
Conduct a successful interview.
Evaluate candidates against job competencies.
Avoid litigation.
Gain a competitive advantage through quality hiring.

Taking Your College/University Program Global

Presenter: Doug Fauth, Activision, Inc., and Adam Ward, Qualcomm
Track: Global
Audience: Employer

Looking for cutting-edge ideas and key components to launch an effective global recruiting program? Join this workshop and facilitated breakout discussion if you’re looking to start a program or take your U.S.-based college/university recruiting program “international,” have international office locations that need a program in place, or are simply trying to create additional pipelines of college/university talent.

This workshop will:

Use facilitated breakout discussions focused on global issues from knowledgeable employers, and university representatives about successful international recruitment programs.
1. John Flato - VP Research & Consulting/Vicki Lynn - Sr. Director of Recruitment Marketing, Vault.com
2. Lee Svete - Director Career Center, University of Norte Dame
3. Steve Tiufekchiev - Head of Campus Recruiting, SRA International
4. David Kippen, PhD - VP Global Brand Strategy, TMP Worldwide
Dispel the most common myths about international recruiting.
Learn the key components of an effective international college/university recruiting program.
Develop key connections with colleagues in the international recruiting arena.