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Building Value Through Collaborative Career Fairs for Niche Professions
Description:
Students exploring careers in niche professions or the nonprofit sector can feel overlooked and underserved at mainstream career fairs.
To address this challenge, career professionals at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) School of Information Sciences and the College of Fine + Applied Arts reached out to peer institutions to pool resources and build partnerships that benefit targeted student populations and employers in specialized professions. Join Michele Plante, assistant director for employer relations at UIUC’s School of Information Sciences, and Julie Rundell, assistant director of career services at UIUC’s College of Fine + Applied Arts along with their partners from:
1. GLAM Virtual Career Fair for Government, Library, Archives and Museums Employers (Syracuse University; UIUC; University of Michigan; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pittsburgh; and the University of Texas at Austin)
2. The Arts & Culture Career Fair (across three universities and multiple UIUC departments)
We’ll look at considerations including
- Evaluating and selecting likely partners;
- Understanding the ins and outs of collaborations with partner institutions, including equity, resource sharing. communication. and the complexity of maintaining consistent messaging and individual brand standards simultaneously;
- Determining costs and benefits in terms of time, money, and outcomes;
- Educating employers that may not traditionally participate in career fairs on the value of these events and reaching students who are outside the “career fair culture”;
- Assessing the success of the event, with consideration to how alternative metrics may be more meaningful for smaller, niche fairs and different stakeholders.
Audience:
Career Services
Track:
Sourcing, Recruiting & Talent Acquisition
Main Speaker:
Michele Plante, University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Additional Speakers:
Julie Rundell, College of Fine + Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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