NACE Audio Archives for Career Services Professionals
Catch up on diversity initiatives, legal issues in internships, the latest Job Outlook forecast, benchmarks in experiential education, and much more. We've archived materials from the 2005-06 virtual education sessions. You can access the PowerPoint presentations and the audio program whenever you have the time.
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Building Relationships
12
Essentials for Success—presented by Kelley Bishop is Executive
Director of Michigan State University's Career Services and Placement. Career
services professionals who want to move career services from a peripheral
program to a core function at their college or university will learn how
to redefine the career services mission and address interests of 
students, employers, and faculty. This is an
intermediate level seminar.
Building
a Stronger Corporate Partner Program—presented by Bill Purkerson
of Fluor and Deb Herman of Clemson University. You already know that employers
and career services can work together to create a mutually beneficial partnership—but
do you know how to get it started?
IThis session, presented by professionals in a flourishing working partnership,
will provide guidance to professionals on both sides of the college recruiting
spectrum.This is an intermediate
level seminar.
Developing
and Maintaining Effective Relationships with Faculty to Market and Deliver
Career Services—presented by Jeff Nardo, Career Services Coordinator
for Coastal Carolina Community College.
Career
services professionals who wish to institute and preserve effective relationships
with faculty will benefit from this seminar. This is a
basic level seminar. (8/06)
Developing and Sustaining Corporate/University Recruiting Relations—presented by Eric Pearson, director of staff development for Northrop Grumman. Explore what is necessary to establish and maintain recruiting relationships between hiring corporations and the universities that produce the outstanding candidates for employment. This is a intermediate-level seminar.
Employer
Branding Best Practices & Student Perspectives on Ideal Employers—presented
by Camille Sautner, Diversity Employer Branding Specialist at Universum.As
the competition for top talent increases, it is critical that employers
understand how to attract the talent that they are looking for if they want
the "best and the brightest." Data
from Universum's recent surveys will give participants insight into today's
students and what they are looking for in the ideal employer. This is an
intermediate-level seminar.
From
Engine to Caboose: Revitalizing, Empowering, and Shaping Career Services—presented
by Wayne Stark, director of career services at Sweet Briar College. Creating
a strong and influential career services department enhances the viability
of your career services center while ensuring that students get well-funded
and academically supported career development programs.
Learn to advocate for your career services office. Discover how to leverage
data and statistics to effectively meet administration’s demand for
accountability and assessment.This is an intermediate-level
seminar.
How
to be a Matchmaker: Managing Relationships for Employer Development and
Growth—Presented by Marlisa Simonson of Wesleyan University.
Career services professionals who wish to develop a way to keep track of
employer relationships in a way that promotes regular contact with employers,
as well as with colleagues on campus, will find ideas and solutions in this
seminar. This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Improve
Your Employer Relations With Good Customer Service—presented
by Marcia Robinson, Associate Director in the Center for Student Professional
Development at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University.
Learn a few lessons from the corporate domain about how to
keep
employers coming back for repeat business. This is an intermediate
level seminar.
Integrating
Employer Demands into Career Counseling Programming
presented by Martina M. Sternberg, assistant director of career services
at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Learn
what employersare looking for in new hires, and what is lacking in many
current career services programs. This is a
basic level seminar.
Making
Connections: How to Use Consultative Selling Skills to Market Your Campus
to Employers—presented by Karen Kerr, associate director of
career services at Cal State-Fullteron.
Learn how to use basic back-to-business sales and prospecting skills to
engage more employers on your college campus. This is a
basic level seminar.
Marketing
to Students-Twice the Effectiveness with Half of the Effort—presented
by Graham Donald of Brainstorm Consulting.
The program offers a solution to the never-ending efforts of career centers
to promote their services to students. This is a
basic level seminar.
Showtime: Career Services, Customer Loyalty, and the Theater of Transformation—presented by Joe Du Pont of Brandeis University.
Learn why customer service is critical and pick up strategies to develop loyalty while advancing your organizational goals in targeted customer service terms. This program will walk you through a comprehensive customer service strategy. This is a basic level seminar.
Working
with Career Centers: Diversity Recruitment and Retention of Minority Employees—presented
by Hardy Brown, Wilburforce University; Carver L. Johnson, The Kroger Co.;
Kaplan Mobray, Deloitte & Touche LLP; Kent Phillips, Walt Disney Company;
and Susan Schwieger, University of Northern Iowa.How do employers recruit
minority graduates and retain a diverse work force? Employers often look
to the minority-rich schools for help with their diversity recruiting, yet
most colleges and universities can offer creative insight into create ways
to recruit and retain a diverse talent pool.
Discover the best practices and creative recruiting and retention practices
learned when the Diversity Advancement Committee asked this question of
more than 100 career centers and recruiters. This is a
basic level seminar.
Career Counseling
Advisory
Councils for Career Services: Making Them Happen for Fame, Fortune, and
Frank Advising—presented by Wayne Mangelson, senior director
of Career Services & Student Employment at Utah Valley State College in
Orem, Utah. Advisory councils increase the output and effectiveness of career
services staff by adding resources and virtual full-time equivalent employees.
Learn proven principles and practices on how to organize, establish, and
manage a highly productive external advisory council.
The
Art and Practice of Distance Career Counseling—Presented by
Mark Gasche of Capella University. Career services practitioners can learn
about and discuss a model of distance career counseling recently implemented
at Capella University.
This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Bringing
Learning Outcomes to Life—presented by Gail S. Rooney of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Julia Panke Makela of Florida
State University. How do you measure the services your career center delivers
and its value to your college or university?
Explore a strategy for defining career competency outcomes that brought
immediate staff buy-in and find out how a learning outcomes model can drive
interventions, promote accountability, and demonstrate student competency
development. This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Career
Services for Students With Disabilities—presented by Dan Ryan,
director of career services at University of Buffalo. Students with disabilities
are a growing population on college campuses; however they find employment
in significantly lower percentages than other students. Identify barriers
for student with disabilities on your campus, find resources you can work
with, and improve the accessibility of your programs and services to this
special population.
Strengthen your knowledge and increase your competence and comfort level
for guiding and teaching students with disabilities with this timely seminar.
This is a basic level seminar.
Cyber
Career Center—Putting High Tech & High Touch Together—presented by Tom Wunderlich of Old Dominion University.
Career
Services professionals can learn how to enhance their student and alumni
base through technology.
Elephant in the Living Room: Let Assessment Break the Ice—presented by Steve Koppi, director of the Career Center at Gallaudet University. Learn how to translate your department’s mission statement into student learning and program outcomes, link those outcomes to institutional priorities and map them to your department’s activities. This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Straight Jobs, Gay
Lives: Sexual Orientation and Career Decision Making—presented
by Mark J. Brostoff, Associate Director of Undergraduate Career Services
at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University - Bloomington and an
adjunct faculty member at the Kelley School of Business and School of Public
and Environmental Affairs. For some gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender
students, sexual orientation is an integral part of their identity, including
at work. Others prefer a separation between their personal and professional
lives.
Learn how to help students prepare for entry into the work force. This is
an intermediate level seminar.
Generation
Y: Gaining a Footing in the Workplace—presented by Russell
Eckel, founder and president of The Nommos Group. Gain
insight into the management and motivation of the Millennial generation.
This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Getting
Them in the Door: Early Career Engagement for First-Year Students—presented
by Jacquline Chaffin and Andrew Brereton of Seton Hall University.Learn
how Seton Hall University's career center enticed more than 90 percent of
its first-year students to complete an online career assessment and more
than 80 percent of these students participate in a career-related program
or advising activity
. A must for career services practitioners who want to get ideas for using
multi-department collaborations to increase contact between students and
career professionals.This is a
basic level seminar.
Job
Search Boot Camp: A Creative Approach to Handling Last-Minute Job Searchers—presented
by Elizabeth Dexter-Wilson, career services specialist for Purdue's College
of Liberal Arts. Career services professionals who
want to save time and effort will find a great solution to serving last-minute
job seekers. This is a basic
level seminar.
Keeping Score: A Simple Strategy for Assessing a Complicated Process—presented by Tom Matthews, director of the Career Center at Case Western Reserve University. The demand for outcomes assessment data requires us to think differently about how we approach our work with students and employers. Providing assessment data is no longer optional for career centers. Learn how the Case Career Center created an assessment plan that links measurable outcomes with unit goals and learning objectives and documented these in an easy-to-read “Career Services Scorecard.” This is an intermediate level seminar.
Moving
from Career Coaching Theory into Action: Practical Ways to Apply the Coaching
Model to Career Services—presented by Katharine S. Brooks is
the Director of Liberal Arts Career Services for the University of Texas
in Austin. Career services professionals who wish to incorporate the basic
views of career coaching into client sessions, handouts, programming,
and publicity will find valuable information and tips for successful strategies.
This is an intermediate
level seminar.
Not
Just an Internship or Co-op Anymore: Reaching Out Through Nontraditional Experiential
Learning—presented by Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, Associate Director for
Internships and Experiential Learning in the Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis (IUPUI) Solution Center and Valarie Jacobsen, Experiential Learning Coordinator
in the IUPUI Career Center. Learn ways to develop nontraditional experiential learning
programs for those students who cannot participate in traditional internships.
This is an intermediate level seminar.
Portfolios
= Portable Proof—presented by Carmen Croonquist, director of
career services at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Both college
practitioners and employers will gain a better understanding of how a portfolio
figures in career development, self-marketing,
assessment, interviewing, performance evaluation, and salary negotiations.
This is an intermediate
level seminar.
Providing
Resume Solutions For a Blend of Traditional and Adult Students—A Case Study—presented
by Suzanne Yurko Wall, director of career services at Albertus Magnus College.
Working adults, traditional-age students, part-time and full-time students,
dorm residents, and commuters: all expect help from the career services
office-personalized help that can be accessed at the student's convenience.
Your
challenge is to meet the diverse resume development needs of all of these
students without an increase in your operating budget. Learn how Albertus
Magnus College changed to meet needs of this diverse group of students.
Serving
Distance Education Students Through a Virtual Career Center—presented
by Bruce Maxwell, a 20-year career counseling veteran. Discover how East
Carolina University (ECU) accepted the challenge and now offers students
a Virtual Career Center, providing online all of the cutting edge services
a student can obtain by coming into the office: career
advising, resume writing, workshops, ePortfoilios, and even mock job interviewing.
Sweaty
Palms & Awkward Answers —presented by Melanie Szlucha, president
of Red Inc. Career services practitioners will learn new
ways of helping students prepare for job interviews using the TODAY
method. This is an intermediate level seminar.
Teach
Your Job Seekers to Think Like Entrepreneurs—presented by Dulce
M. Ramirez-Damon, Concepcion L. Tuma, and Kyra A. Spence. Career services
staff who want to help students hone and use their entrepreneurial skills
to
secure jobs in their fields will get ideas and examples they can use in
their programs. This is a basic-level
seminar.
Teaching Students to Create an Employer Needs Job-Search Strategy—presented by Cindy Billington, associate director of graduate business career services at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. In today's business world, finding the right match between employer and employee is the key to success. Learn how to help students focus on employer needs in their job-seach communications. your organization's brand effectively to potential recruits. This is an intermediate level seminar.
Using
Customer Relationship Management in Employer Development—presented
by Brian Ahern, manager of the Oklahoma State University career center. This
seminar spotlights CRM—a cost-effective way for career services professionals
to grow their employer base when their departments are faced with less than
ideal resources. This is a basic-level
seminar.
Using
New Media to Recruit Millennials—presented by Maureen Crawford-Hentz
is the director of career services at Wentworth Institute of Technology
.This presentation will cover social networking sites, blogs, podcasts,
and other new media strategies to recruit millennials. Employers will find
it useful
for expanding and developing their recruiting programs; career services
staff will learn how to coach students to use new media in their job searches.
This is an intermediate
level seminar.
Diversity
Career
Services for Students With Disabilities—presented by Dan Ryan,
director of career services at University of Buffalo. Students with disabilities
are a growing population on college campuses; however they find employment
in significantly lower percentages than other students. Identify barriers
for student with disabilities on your campus, find resources you can work
with, and improve the accessibility of your programs and services to this
special population.
Strengthen your knowledge and increase your competence and comfort level
for guiding and teaching students with disabilities with this timely seminar.
This is a basic level seminar.
Diversity
Recruiting Outlook—presented by Steve Pollock, president and
cofounder of WetFeet Inc. Recruiters and career services professionals will
discover valuable information and tools to add to their diversity recruiting
strategies based on the timely Campus Diversity Recruitment Report. This is a basic-level seminar.
Multicultural Best Practices
for Career Center Staff and Recruiters—presented by Murray A. Mann, principal of
Global Diversity Solutions Group and Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias, president of the International
Latino Cultural Center. With a growing multicultural student population on campuses and an
increasing need employers to hire high-performing diverse talent, the career services office and
employers need to build trust and relationships with multicultural
students and alumni. This is an intermediate level seminar.
Students
with Disabilities: Employers and Career Services Make the Match—presented
by M. Lynne Morley and Allen R. Vaala, of Rochester Institute of Technology's
National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). Disabled workers are an
untapped talent pool which will play an increasingly vital role in the work
force.
Career
services and employers will learn how to explain and embrace the challenges
facing this population, along with the benefits of hiring students with
disabilities and how to help them be more successful on the job. This is
a basic level seminar.
Experiential Education
Benchmarking
Internship Expectations vs Reality—presented by Mary Scott
of the Scott Resource Group. Find out what students expect from their internships,
and the reality of what they experience. Recruiters will benefit from discovering
how student internships impact their full-time searches. Career
services professionals will benefit from this clear look at student perceptions
of the internship experience. This is a basic-level
seminar.
Using a Corporate Model to Develop a Career Center Internship Program—presented by Marianna Savoca and Andrea Lipack of Stony Brook University.
Learn how to design and implement an innovative credit internship program, engage faculty in the process, and market the program to employers. This is a basic-level
seminar.
Interviewing
Demystifying
Consulting Case Interviews—Presented by Marc Cosentino of Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government. This seminar demystifies the case interview
process. Cosentino takes you inside a typical case interview by exploring
the various types of cases and the reasoning behind such questions.
He also brings you up to date on new trends in case interviews. Learn what
students should expect during the case interviews and discover what firms
are looking for.
Job Outlook
NACE
Job Outlook 2007 & A Historical Comparison —presented by
Andrea Koncz, NACE's employment information manager.Get the insight you
need to plan your strategy for the 2006-07 recruiting season. Join Andrea
Koncz, NACE's employment information manager, for an advance look at the
results of NACE's Job Outlook 2007 Survey, with
an in-depth analysis of the information. Plus, get a historical comparison
of the job market for new college graduates over the last 10 years. This
is a basic level seminar.
Legal Issues
Fair Labor Standards Act and White Collar Exemptions—-presented by Anthony Magaro, Director of Employee Relations, Compensation and Development, Human Resources at Southwest Research Institute. Find out how the Fair Labor Standards Act's exempt classifications affect students, employees, and organizations. This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Hiring
Foreign Students: Immigration Issues Made Easy for Colleges and Employers—-presented
by Mark Rhoads, a business immigration attorney with the law firm of McCandlish
Holton, PC. This seminar will acquaintrecruiters and career services professionals
with the work options for foreign students at
U.S. colleges and universities during their studies and after graduation.
This is a basic level seminar.
The Impact of the New Internet Application Rule on Recruitment—presented by Matt Halpern of the Long Island office of Jackson Lewis LLP . In the two years since Internet applicant regulations went into effect, career services and recruitment offices are still learning to how to comply. Learn who is an "applicant," what records must be kept, how to avoid unnecessary or inadvertent liability, and more.This
is a basic level seminar.
Legal
Issues: Co-ops and Internships—presented by Rochelle Kaplan,
attorney. Join Rochelle Kaplan, an attorney specializing in employment issues,
and get answers to your most pressing questions, including: Is an intern
or a co-op student an employee? An independent contractor? A volunteer?
Must an intern be paid for the work performed during the internship? Are
minority-only internships legal? Is a co-op student or intern entitled to
Unemployment Compensation at the end of the program? Can you fire an intern
or a co-op student? Are "hold harmless" agreements, waivers, and releases
enforceable? Gain the direction and understanding you need to ensure your
internship
programis a benefit to your organization-not a liability. This is a basic
level seminar.
Legal
Issues: References and Referrals—presented by Rochelle Kaplan,
attorney. Career services practitioners and HR/staffing/recruiters who want
to learn the basics and be able to pass the information along to their teams
should
join this virtual seminar to prepare for the recruiting season. This is
a basic level seminar.
Privacy
and the Student: Legal Issues From Privacy Policies to Social Networking
Sites
In today's "connected" world, privacy of student information is less and
less a given, and more and more a concern—and a liability issue. Get the facts you need about your legal obligations as they
relate to student information, learn what should be in your privacy policy,
get a list of do's and don'ts of disclosure, and find out what your liability
is when student's privacy is invaded. This virtual seminar will also cover
issues that have arisen thanks to the latest privacy pitfall: social networking
sites. Learn what is/isn't appropriate for employers to access, how to draw
the line between due diligence and "snooping," and what constitutes responsible
professional conduct. Nancy Conrad, Esquire, will also offer pointers for
employers on obtaining information via the Internet
and
for career services professionals on how to guide students to protect their
own privacy. This is a basic
level seminar.
Professional Development
Attitude
Makeover—Reignite Your Employees' Passion for Work—presented
by Alice Camuti, director of career services at Tennessee Tech University.
Learn how easy it is to improve morale and productivity in your office with
coaching, staff meetings, performance reviews, and "fun" activities.
Discover
what organizations are doing to successfully increase employee performance
through "attitude makeovers," and pick up new ideas that you can
use with your employees and colleagues. This is a basic
level seminar.
Defining
Compensation in Terms of Total Rewards—presented by Anthony
Magaro of Southwest Research Institute. Experts agree: no single factor
attracts or retains employees. "Compensation" is more than a paycheck: it's
a combination of money, perks and policies, and the work environment.
Learn how to analyze the way your organization rewards employees and how "total
rewards" can be used to attract and motivate employees. This is an intermediate-level
seminar.
Marketing Your
Career Center—presented by Dan Ryan, Director of Career Services at the
University of Buffalo and Tracey Eastman, Director of Marketing and Communication in the
Division of Student Affairs at the University of Buffalo. Brand and market your career center
to students and employers. This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Preparing for External Review: How To’s For the Reviewer and Reviewee—presented by Marcia Harris, University of North Carolina.
More and more, college vice presidents are asking for external reviews. Even if this has not occurred, you can gain valuable information by conducting one yourself.
In this web seminar, career services professionals will learn the key steps to prepare for and conduct an external review, as well as the benefits and risks that are the result.his is a basic
level seminar.
Redefining Success at Work: What's New in the Ever Changing World of Work—presented by Rita VanderWaal Dawson, recruiting specialist for Kelly Services, Inc. Career services professionals will explore how a more competitive and complex workplace will affect the work force of the future and how they can prepare students and new graduates to become "free agents." This is a basic-level seminar.
Winning Strategies for Career
Center Transformations—presented by Troy Behrens, Executive Director of the
Career Center at Southern Methodist University. Career services professionals will learn
effective program management.
This is an intermediate-level seminar.
Student Programs
Infusing Pop Culture in Career Services—presented by Heather Sprandel, director of the Walton College Career Development Center. Make the connection with students by incorporating pop culture themes into career services programs and services. Learn best practices and innovative ideas for budges of all sizes.
Let's Get Visible - Creating a Personal Internet Presence—presented by Jill Wesley, director of Career Services—Distance Learning with Indiana Business College's Online Division. Learn about the new Web 2.0 technology, and how you and your students can tap into this area to explore online branding for job seekers and career center marketers alike.
Online
Career Workshops: The Resource for Supporting Students' Career Development
24/7—presented by Effie Parpos and Laura McKeon of Babson College.
Today's college students demand access to information 24/7. Learn
how you can harness technology as a cost-effective method of reaching students
with timely and valuable career development information.This is a basic
level seminar.
Portfolios
= Portable Proof—presented by Carmen Croonquist, director of
career services at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Both college
practitioners and employers will gain a better understanding of how a portfolio
figures in career development, self-marketing,
assessment, interviewing, performance evaluation, and salary negotiations.
This is an intermediate
level seminar.
Quest: Majors,
Interests, and Career Exploration Online—presented by Joe Goodwin,
Tara King, James Mitchell, and Deb Dolak of Ball State University's career
center. Career services staff interested in learning about a best practice
that helps students identify majors and careers, and learning how to apply
it on their own campuses
e
should attend this informative seminar. This is a basic
level seminar.
Reaching
Network Capacity: Conducting a Social Network Audit—presented
by
John-Paul Hatala of Louisiana State University's School of Human Resource
Education and Workforce Development.
Career services practitioners will
explore the importance and value of social networks, and learn how to conduct
social network audits with students.
This is a basic level seminar.
Turn
Your Fund-Draining Etiquette Dinner Into a Fund-Raising Professional Protocol
Dinner—presented by Rol Walters, a Licensed Professional Counselor
(LPC) in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Learn how one college turned its
small etiquette dinner, which drained funds from the career services office,
into a dinner that gave students a chance to practice their etiquette skills
and meet potential employers at a real-life professional dinner, increased
the office budget, and drew support from other campus
departments and the community. This is a basic
level seminar.
