A Community Approach to Increasing Student Outcomes for Underrepresented Students

It’s 2023. True innovation and collaboration in workforce development is imperative. This session suggests a key may be in a community-driven approach. With thousands of data points and testimonials worldwide, a remote externship model proves to be a...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

A Toolkit for a Cohort-Based Internship Program: Rutgers Summer Service Internship Program

In its inaugural year, the Rutgers Summer Service Internship (RSSI) Program connected 100 students to paid summer internships in the public-service sector and a supporting three-credit course on civic engagement and career readiness. Panelists will s...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Panel Session

Addressing Students' Unspoken Anxiety of Getting Started With Professional Development

This talk will cover the insecurity, unspoken anxieties, and vulnerability that students feel regarding the concepts of professional development, and what “success” looks like overall. This session will discuss ways to earn the students' trust, rathe...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: SMARTtalk

Advancing DEI, College-to-Career Readiness, and Community Impact Through Increasing Paid Community-Engaged Internships

Learn strategies for increasing student access to and participation in paid community-engaged internships. Participants will not only learn about successful and not-so-successful approaches, but also assess their own career center's capacity to incre...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Adventureland to Tomorrowland: Connecting Career Exploration Tools to Student Engagement Data

Career assessments can be a foundation to self-awareness, but career staff need a way to provide an effective tool as a metric of future career engagement and successful outcomes. This session will help career staff identify exploratory assessment to...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Integrating Technology Solutions
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

AI, Reneges, DEI, & Other Hot Topics: An Open Dialogue

Take part in an open discussion with others in recruiting and career services about issues affecting the field—from AI in recruiting and the job search to reneges and “safety jobs” to what it means to recruit using a DEI lens and more. Bring your cha...
Audience: All
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Align Your Recruiting Strategies to Your DEI Goals

What if the “best” person never even makes it into the candidate pool because of recruiting strategies that eliminate them? Are your recruiting strategies inclusive of DEI students? Learn four steps to effectively engage DEI students, and reimagine s...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: SMARTtalk

An Internship Scholarship Strategy: Supporting Local Businesses and Diversifying the Student Experience

Participants will discuss the relationship among an internship scholarship program and successful career placement, impactful student experience, and increased community engagement, while considering the social impact on students and companies provid...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

ATS Evaluation Algorithm: Current Flaws and Advanced Future Techniques Toward a Good Resume

University career advisors are recommending students create ATS-friendly resumes that involve the format and content. The format is a reasonable consideration, but, from a content standpoint, ATS friendly may actually not lead to a “good” resume. Thi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Integrating Technology Solutions
Format: SMARTtalk

Become Better, Stronger, and Faster With the Campus Talent Acquisition Scorecard

Participants in this session will use the Campus Talent Acquisition Scorecard to evaluate their campus programs across 10 key success factors. The impact will be immediate: Employers will see both problems and opportunities that were hidden and have ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Traditional

Black Students' View of Career Services in Their Career and Professional Development

Black college students are using career services more than any other group, yet there is little information about the help they receive. This study sought to examine how Black students viewed the role of career services in their career and profession...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Breaking into Brilliance: Supporting Neurodiverse Hires

As companies make strides to be more diverse and inclusive, the number of neurodivergent workers is on the rise. Neurodivergent talent is often filtered out in the initial stages of the recruitment process. This session will feature key insights, pra...
Audience: All
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Building a Diverse Pipeline: How Discover Financial Services Engages Often-Untapped Talent

Early ID programs provide a remarkable opportunity for employers to proactively strengthen their pipelines and engage historically marginalized talent. In addition to featuring student and employer data, this session will dig into precisely how Disco...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Building Better Dialogue: Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methods With Teams and Clients

Have you heard of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY? If not, you probably find yourself suddenly curious! This consulting and coaching tool has revolutionized how business and education view team building, discussions, and professional development. This is your chan...
Audience: All
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

C2D2, not R2D2: How a Centrally Coordinated, Decentrally Delivered Framework Empowers All

Whether your campus career model is centralized, decentralized, or a mix—join this session to learn how one centralized office and one decentralized office embrace a borrowed academic advising model: C2D2 (centrally coordinated, decentrally delivered...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Campus Recruiter to Strategic Recruitment Partner: Beginner to Expert in 60 Minutes

Interested in leveling up your recruiter game with your hiring managers? Join us to learn about the three crucial elements to becoming a strategic business partner and how to win a seat at the decision-making table. Topics to be covered include build...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Traditional

Career Center Strategies and the Role, Impact, and Future of AI Solutions

Glean insight from different models of AI-powered resume software use through a data-backed case study of Santa Clara University’s three career centers (undergrad, grad business, and law). Engage in Q&A and a small group discussion to evaluate AI’s p...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Integrating Technology Solutions
Format: Traditional

Career Readiness for All: Supporting Students With Disabilities

Learn how a career center leveraged multiple resources to create employment-based programming for students with disabilities. Participants will learn disability hiring trends and common barriers people with disabilities face and leave with methods to...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Career Readiness Integration: Findings and Recommendations for Career Readiness

The Task Force reviewed a range of strategies and practices relative to the infusion of career readiness competencies development within higher education and among employers to provide our community of professionals with guidance and direction to adv...
Audience: All
Level: All
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Panel

Career Services Staff: Where Did You Come From, Where Did You Go?

College and university career centers have been busy helping employers with their recruitment needs, but they have not been immune to the “great reshuffling.” Join this roundtable session to discover success stories, innovative ideas, and best practi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Career Services to support undergraduate women in tech: What works, what doesn’t and what still needs to happen

In the US, women make up only 21% of computer science graduates annually despite comprising 58% of all college grads. Tech industry recruiters and talent development teams say they're prioritizing gender diversity and yet women are similarly underrep...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Career-Ready Bootcamp: Designing a Career Development Bootcamp Experience for Historically Underrepresented Students

Career-Ready Bootcamp is an intimate and intensive three-day career development experience designed to increase historically underrepresented students’ confidence in navigating their career journey through interactive skill-building activities, netwo...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

College to Career: Engaging Our Students and Communities

The College to Career Convergence (C3) Project is a revolutionary approach to student career education. Highly trained students, with our curriculum, help fellow students navigate their career pathways to a future of career success while increasing e...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

Creating A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce – Even At 119 Years Old

Learn how Rolls Royce, a 119-year-old global manufacturing company, undertook a massive, complex recruitment optimalization redesign to fundamentally alter the candidate attraction process to create measurable outcomes in funnel, acceptance, and DEI ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

Creative Campus Engagement—Moving Beyond the $

Given the increasingly competitive talent market, companies must create stronger and more creative relationships with campuses, faculty, and staff. Join leaders from Northwestern Mutual to learn about and practice creating meaningful campus engagemen...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

Dear Recruiter / Dear Job Seeker – Misunderstandings, Miscommunication, and Commiseration

We've all seen the messages in our LinkedIn feeds. They start the same way, with either "Dear Recruiter" or "Dear Job Seeker," followed by a snide litany of the missteps and failures of the targeted population. What can we learn from these messages t...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

DEI Committee Provides a First Look! There’s Nothing Like it! New DEI Tools from NACE!

NACE has leveraged data proven approaches to develop new DEI tools and is excited to provide a preview. Be among the first to peek into to new programs NACE will roll out over the next year. The first is a DEI Certificate Program. It will provide a ...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Demystifying Employers and the Workplace With Leadership Immersion for All Students

At Agnes Scott, all students complete SCALE (Sophomore Class Atlanta Leadership Experience), a three-day immersion held at approximately 30 business, nonprofits, and government sites, including Enterprise Holdings. Learn about this innovative credit...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Designing a High-Impact Student Employment Program

Attendees of this interactive session will learn about characteristics of high-impact practices, “map” their student employment tasks using Bloom’s Taxonomy guidelines, and create a plan of action to improve their programs. Attendees will receive pre...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Developing New Talent Pipelines for Students and Industry

This session will focus on the flexibility offered in our co-op program and our newest initiative, Learning While Working (LWW), which offers a unique candidate experience supporting broader responsibility and increased engagement in team environment...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Disney on the Yard Activation

The Walt Disney Company is excited about the work taking place to deepen its existing relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Learn about the impact Disney on the Yard is having across the company, learn about unique engageme...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Diversifying Workforce and Building Career Services Capacity

Successfully strengthening the cradle to career pipeline for Hispanic students requires innovative partnerships. Through collaborative efforts, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) with industry and educational partners have e...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Diversity Through the Deaf Lens: Understanding the Deaf Community’s Struggles for Employability

Are you aware of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community’s challenges to find employment? Join us for an introduction and primer on how the Deaf community is exploding into mainstream culture and how you can take advantage of this time now to hire hig...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

Early Engagement Strategies for Underrepresented and Underserved Students

In 2022, Wayfair launched its first Early Leaders Program for sophomore undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups. Hear from two early career leaders as they discuss leveraging key partnerships, building buy in, and designing h...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Emerging
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

Effective Practices to Support Undocumented Students' Career Success

This session will focus on best practices that career services practitioners can implement to support undocumented students with and without work authorization. Attendees will learn about undocu-friendly career programs and initiatives such as inclus...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Panel Session

Empowering Diverse Climate Talent (EDICT): A Blueprint for DEI-focused Internship and Workforce Programs

EDICT is an internship program focused on improving diversity in the climate workforce. EDICT placed 150+ interns from traditionally excluded groups. The model works: 96% of the employer participants are interested in recruiting EDICT interns in the ...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

Expedia Group's Early Career Playbook for Skills-Based Hiring at Scale

Learn more about Expedia Group’s early career talent strategy that is fueling its talent pipeline and achieving the company's diversity hiring goals. EG's Global Head of Early Careers will share more about reimagining our recruitment process in colla...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Finding “Not” Four-Year Talent: Why Apprenticeships Are the Next Big Thing

Recently, an emphasis was placed on developing professional “early in career talent” through internships. Although that work is important, we’ve neglected to replicate that effort for those who don’t go to universities and opt to work with their hand...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: SMARTtalk

From Burning Out to Burning Bright: Leveraging Purpose to Help Students Thrive

We are in the midst of a college and career navigation crisis, leaving students burned out. In this session, two award-winning educators will share the science and practice of purpose and show educators and employers how they can help others and them...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Gateway to Career Readiness: Utilizing Data to Elevate Student Engagement

Learn how the University of Florida’s Career Connections Center explored the concept of gateway services through engagement point data to create a tool for strategic planning. This approach to using data allows career centers to conceptualize the stu...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Measuring Impact and Outcomes Through Data Analytics and Assessment
Format: Traditional

Graduates Are Doing Great Things; Prove it With a Strong Knowledge Rate

Learn how Purdue University Global consistently achieves knowledge rates above 90%, exceeding national averages at all degree levels. This session will highlight strategies that have proven successful and emphasize recommendations for other colleges ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Measuring Impact and Outcomes Through Data Analytics and Assessment
Format: Traditional

HBCU Students’ Barriers and Opportunities to Enter the Workforce

In this session, career and recruiting professionals will deepen their empathy for Black students’ journey toward entering the workforce by discovering their motivations, beliefs, and challenges. Attendees will gain an increased understanding of the ...
Audience: All
Level: Emerging
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

How to Build a Best-In-Class Internship Program on a Limited Budget

Organizations often have to create internships and other temporary employment opportunities geared toward students with very limited resources (i.e., staffing, funding). In this session you'll learn how the National Security Agency created a best-in-...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Traditional

Identity and Career Communities to Address Challenges in Higher Education and Beyond

Our success with underrepresented students depends on our ability to retain them and consider them strategic contributors to our overall decision making and performance. Learning Objectives: Examine how all higher education institutions, including di...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

Inclusive University Talent Acquisition Strategy

Creating exposure and inclusivity for more students is part of the foundation of Uber's University hiring. To continue to diversify our intern class we have continued to expand our strategy beyond our core schools. We did this by expanding into new p...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Traditional

Increasing Equity: Teaching Students of Color to Tap Into the Hidden Market

The Kaleidoscope Program at Carleton College is a professional development series for emerging professionals of color that includes a second-year cohort-based initiative focused on a scaffolded, social capital creation curriculum. Students are then a...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Increasing Student Engagement in Experiential Learning: A Charrette Workshop

This session will employ a unique format, a charrette. We invite career service professionals to an interactive exercise in which everyone provides their expertise to create a successful project design for increasing student engagement and reducing b...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Indigenous Career Futures: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges

In this session we will share our story about how people from a variety of departments committed to the common goal of creating brighter futures for Indigenous people. Afterward, our hope is that your organization will be inspired to do the same. Thi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

Innovation to Build Access and Equity From College-to-Career Employment Pipeline

As leaders of the campus-to-career connection, it is vital we evolve, innovate, and break down barriers. We need new approaches to career-connected learning to open access to all, no matter income, race, lived experience, or competing responsibilitie...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Institutionalizing a Multi-college NACE Career Competency Framework

This session will provide the audience tangible ways for colleges to incorporate a NACE competency framework to their everyday practices through an integrated approach between career services and academic advisement. This session highlights a two-yea...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Integrating Change: Reflections on a Large Public University’s Career Readiness Journey

The UNT Career Center is transforming higher education by collaborating with 14 academic colleges on the president's vision of making all students career ready. Learn about our rewarding journey in managing change and how it has created tangible resu...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

Integration and Collaboration: Reaching Diverse Student Populations in a Post-Pandemic Environment

Do you want more students to attend your programs ? Learn how one career center utilized ice cream, employment applications, and unique social media strategies to (re)engage its diverse student population. This career center will discuss its successe...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Large Program, Small Team: Building an Award-Winner With a Few Great People

In 2022, CDK Global’s Internship Program and Early Career Talent team won a coveted RippleMatch award: a Campus Forward Award for Large Early Career Programs, Small Team. This presentation will explore the strategies we employ—from recruitment tools,...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Traditional

Leading Hybrid Career Services: What We’ve Learned and Where We’re Going

As many of us conclude our second year leading hybrid teams and hybrid university career services, where do you excel? What challenges are you facing? Come to this interactive session prepared to connect with others, share your experiences, and devel...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Let's Monetize That Job Offer—Compensation, What Is it Worth?

The transactional value of compensation begins with the understanding of the organization's pay philosophy based on the market rate of pay for a job. Other elements of the organizational employee engagement include incentives, benefits, employee deve...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Analyzing the Job Market
Format: Traditional

Leveraging Change for Student Success: Integrating Marketable Skills Throughout the Student's Journey

At Dallas College, institutional change provided a unique opportunity to collaborate across silos to promote student success. The resulting Marketable Skills Initiative brings career readiness to the core curriculum through awareness, connection, dem...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Leveraging Intersectionality of Student + Alumni + Corporate Engagement = Career-Ready Workforce

Executive directors from advancement and career services will showcase how to assess, implement, and evaluate opportunities across the student lifecycle. Participants will brainstorm opportunities mutually beneficial to students, alumni, and industry...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Leveraging Student Organizations to Increase Reach and Engagement

Whether your career services office is large or small, our ability to reach and engage students in meaningful ways remains a challenge. Our partnership with our student organizations allows Business Career Services at the University of Florida to not...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

Liberal Arts vs. STEM: At Purdue, There Is No Choice

Wouldn't it be great if your top tech talent could also write a great proposal? Two Purdue liberal arts programs aim to develop more STEM graduates who communicate effectively and think productively inside and outside of the box. What does a Cornerst...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: SMARTtalk

Make Recruiting Easy: Essentials for Creating an Educational Program for Employers

Do you want to help recruiters easily connect with your students? Join us to review a step-by-step guide to create and launch an educational program for your employers. Let’s work together to make recruiting easy! Learning Objectives: List components...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: SMARTtalk

Making Quirky Work: Helping "Goofy" Find a Job

We have all met people who seem to march to a different drummer. Recently, employers have embraced the idea that employees are at their best when they are true to themselves. This session will explore methods to allow quirky students to remain true t...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Markets, MacGuffins, and Meaning: Forecasting the Next Story of Career Success

What will the future job market hold for the class of 2027? Will they encounter economic downturns or multiple offers along the way? How will you guide them through these obstacles? Will there be an unexpected turn of events along the way? Join this ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Analyzing the Job Market
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Measuring the Impact of Competency Development When Aligning Curriculum Competencies

Review curriculum of a first-year seminar aligned with the NACE career-readiness competencies, and how we measure the impact through a new course evaluation to track competency development, results of curriculum, and delivery. This session will engag...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Measuring Impact and Outcomes Through Data Analytics and Assessment
Format: Traditional

Mentally and Emotionally Preparing to Transition From Peer to Leader

Promotions are exciting but also come with unexpected social consequences, including navigating how to lead a group of your former peers. In this session, you will hear from three mid-managers who will share their stories and provide examples of how ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

More Than a Number: A Social Impact Recruiting Approach

The success of DEI initiatives in the early talent space has been historically measured by the number of hires. This session focuses on recruiting for social impact that goes beyond the recruiting of early careers talent for specific roles, but actua...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

NACE Competency Curriculum and Assessment Rubric

NACE has developed a Competency Curriculum and supporting Assessment Rubric, designed to support institutions initiatives focused on supporting and enhancing students' awareness and learning about the NACE competencies. This curriculum can be customi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: All
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

NACE Research Insights into the State of our Profession

Join a discussion on the state of our profession in our post-COVID world. NACE’s Research Director, Mary Gatta, as she shares key findings from NACE’s research that highlight insights and trends in career services and university recruiting. Highlig...
Audience: All
Level: All
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Panel

Our Talent, Your Future—The New Digital Era of Work, Gigs, and Recruiting

Engaging employers in higher education is integral to talent acquisition strategies. It helps align programs with employer needs so students can secure diverse careers. Yet, even after decades of partnership, challenges remain on both sides. Work its...
Audience: All
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Panel Session

Outreach and Outcomes: Utilizing Graduation Data to Impact AU Students and Alumni

Find out how Auburn University is building a roadmap based on our 98% First Destination Survey knowledge rate to support recent alumni and current and prospective students. We will discuss the creation of our unique data collection infrastructure and...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Measuring Impact and Outcomes Through Data Analytics and Assessment
Format: Traditional

Pandemic Pivoting From a Recruitment Perspective: Pressure, Pipelines, Pain Points, and Purpose

This session will share the stories and statistics behind how the Maximus Campus and Early Careers Recruitment Team, a relatively inexperienced, demographically diverse, and 100% remotely distributed team were able to successfully pivot into recruiti...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Panel Session

Proactive Career Center Strategies to Drive Student Success

The Baylor Career Center operates under a strategy that enables high levels of equitable student success, including a 99% FDS knowledge rate and nearly 90% undergraduate success rates. The strategy focuses on three aspects: specific student engagemen...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Measuring Impact and Outcomes Through Data Analytics and Assessment
Format: Traditional

Recruitment, Retention, and Revenue: Bringing Together Manufacturing and a Liberal Arts College

Liberal arts colleges usually do not form partnerships with manufacturing companies. However, one liberal arts college did just that! In this session, Carthage College and LMI Packaging will co-present diverse viewpoints on how to solve the problem o...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Selling Your Company Through Culture—The ERG Intern Mentor Program

In 2019, Dell Technologies created the ERG Intern Mentor Program to create a community among our URM interns and increase conversion rates. Allow us to share our journey as we grew the program to encompass all 13 of our ERGs with over 1,200 members p...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Traditional

Stackable Experiences: Case Studies on the Future of Work

The future of work is here and educators must prepare graduates for agile careers in a global economy. How can we deliver high-impact programs with strong career outcomes for all students? This session explores innovative new models in stackable expe...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Students Speak out on the Impact of the Hybrid Recruiting Experience

Join consultant Mary Scott in a data-driven exploration of how students assessed the impact of hybrid recruiting this year. Using unbiased findings culled from SRG campus research, Ms. Scott will detail what students valued, and why, as they consider...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Measuring Impact and Outcomes Through Data Analytics and Assessment
Format: Traditional

Supporting Student Veterans for Career Consultants and University Career Center Teams

Learn holistically about the military veteran population, how to navigate career conversations with veterans, how to translate military language and terms into workforce-ready language, and how to use Life Design. This session includes a Life Design ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Sustainable Recruiting: Successful Hiring for Skills and Potential

There is a significant challenge in balancing current candidate match and fit with longer-term potential. Sustainable recruiting borrows concepts from broader sustainability strategies and addresses this gap as part of an overall system of conceptual...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Panel Session

The "LifeWorks SUPER 100" Initiative: Promoting Student Employees’ Career Readiness, Awareness, and Confidence

The LifeWorks SUPER 100 is an innovative career-readiness initiative undertaken by Berry College in partnership with Mohawk Industries. Presenters will share how they are promoting student employees' career readiness, awareness, and confidence throug...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

The Amazing Race: Your 72 hours on Campus

Recruiters’ time on campus is limited and the stakes are high to ensure it’s impactful. In this session, Kiewit will discuss how to guarantee engagement at events and set up attendees for success by utilizing appropriate technology, Ambassador Progr...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Traditional

The Art of Effective Faculty Engagement

Gonzaga University has developed and implemented several successful programs designed to engage faculty members because of the influential role they play in student career development. Workshop participants will review a kaleidoscope of services that...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

The Future of Unpaid Internships

NACE research has found that paid internships are key to a student’s career outcomes. However, paid internships are still not widely adopted into graduation requirements and are not equitably distributed across student demographics. We also know th...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel

The Student Journey: Central New Mexico Community College Work-Based Learning

Central New Mexico (CNM) Community College has set the goal that every student has the opportunity to have a work-based learning experience. The work of the CNM Workforce and Community Success Division is increasing the number of internships for its ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Format: Traditional

U.S. Work Visa Options for International Graduates: Immigration Made Easy

The U.S. immigration process is confusing to employers and career services offices. This session will provide strategies to navigate the work visa process for international students. The program will focus on Optional Practical Training (OPT) as well...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Strategies for Career Services
Format: Traditional

Using Identity/Allyship Communities to Develop the Next Generation of Diverse Leaders

Join this panel discussion to hear from career services leaders who facilitate identity/allyship community models to provide curated connections, opportunities, resources, and experiences to students and alums from underprivileged backgrounds. Learni...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Panel Session

What Does Talking about Career in the Classroom Have to Do With Equity

To advance diversity, equity, and inclusion and examine the barriers to access for first-generation students, students of color, and low-income students, faculty and instructors can help by adding career content into their courses. UConn has been wor...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

What Does the Class of 2023 Want From Their Careers?

The class of 2023 has endured a range of experiences: a global pandemic, the Great Resignation, and the threat of a recession. Learn how they’re feeling about the labor market and what they want from their careers, and gain actionable insights to sup...
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing, Supporting, and Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Work Matters: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce Leveraging Student Employment Experiences

Students’ workplace experiences impact their career expectations and outcomes. Join us as we examine the connection between student employment and post-graduation success and identify innovative strategies for meaningful career readiness preparation....
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Developing a Career-Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable