"Who's Your Data?": Using Interactive Programs to Encourage Collaboration

Join Chris (Big Data Mossy) and Maren during their 30-minute breakout session, "Who's your Data?" for an exploration of fresh approaches to enhance, streamline, and encourage thoughtful engagement for both stakeholders and target audiences within the...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Fast Track

“Hire” Education: Exploring the Role of Unconscious Bias in Hiring

I will showcase the findings of my phenomenological qualitative study, "Hire" Education: Exploring the Role of Unconscious Bias in Hiring, and discuss the impact of unconscious bias on hiring and provide tactical suggestions to reduce biases to suppo...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: SMARTtalk

A Community Approach to Advance International Students' Employment Excellence

This session will present a four-week job search club, designed to equip international students with career readiness skills and foster a supportive community. The program combines job search education with the development of a peer network, alleviat...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Fast Track

Adapting to 2025 Tech Recruiting for First-Destination Job Outcomes

The tech ecosystem and tech-recruiting cycle continue to undergo significant economic shift. We are on your team providing data-driven insights regarding 2024 and 2025 tech industry recruiting trends, tech jobseeker preferences, and actionable adapta...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

AI & The New Campus: Reshaping Post-Pandemic Recruitment

In this panel, former NACE presidents who are global TA leaders will navigate the complexities of marrying AI with traditional campus recruiting post-pandemic. We'll explore innovative strategies for engaging with students in the digital age, the rol...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Panel Session

AI Superpowers for Career and HR Professionals: Navigating the Future

Is AI changing the world as we know it? Can it 10X our effectiveness and efficiency? Will it take my job or make it better? Yes, Yes, and Better! By now you've been exposed to the tech and hopefully integrated it into your daily and weekly workflow. ...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Answering the Call: Career Office's Guide to International Student FAQs

This presentation will address the unique needs and challenges of international students and equip you with the tools and insights necessary to provide them with exceptional support. Throughout our session, we'll dive deep into the most frequently as...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Backpacks to Briefcases: The Transition From College to Career

Student affairs professionals tend to focus on the student's transition to college, but hardly any thought is given to setting students up for success in their transition out of college. Using Schlossberg's transition theory as a guide, this session ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Fast Track

Be an Influencer: Managing Your Internal and External Stakeholders

Do you think you have influence over your stakeholders? Come join two recruiters from Bloomberg to learn how they generated buy-in from their key stakeholders to build successful programs. You will learn who your stakeholders are, gain understanding ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Emerging
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Bringing Capital One to Campus: Building the AI ML Workforce

Discover the unique internship model Capital One created when it opened its on-campus Tech Incubators at the University of Illinois and the University of Maryland. These Incubators allow students to work on emerging AI and ML capabilities by applying...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Broaden Your Perspectives Globally: Strategies and Tactics to Access Early Career Talent

Utilizing and accessing early global talent provides you with an opportunity to build a talent pipeline. Programs such as international internships can bring global perspectives to your workplace which is critical in sourcing global talent. In this ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Building Employer Brands That Attract & Engage Gen Z Candidates

Take a deep dive into the art of employer branding, exploring how employers can strategically position and market their organization to resonate with Gen Z. This session will give a holistic overview of how to create a compelling employer brand that ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Fast Track

Campus to Careers: Roadmap for Engaging Young Talent With Disabilities

Discover how to engage young talent with disabilities effectively. Learn strategies for employers and campuses with real world examples from the National Organization on Disability's Campus to Careers pilot program. This comprehensive and informative...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Cappfinity Skills Suite for Emerging Talent Recruitment and Development

Cappfinity is the world leader for measuring and developing potential in Talent Acquisition and Talent Management • Skills- led Talent Acquisition from pre-skilling to seamless onboarding - fast, fair, AI-resistant assessment and selection delivering...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Career-Ready Curriculum: An Asynchronous Online Course Designed for Scalability

Active learning and high-impact practices require a creative and strategic approach in asynchronous professional and career development. An asynchronous career-ready curriculum is beneficial in a myriad of ways, and this session is designed so partic...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Careers in Federal Service: Opportunities Through the President's Management Agenda

Last year, the federal government hired more than 250,000 people from every discipline imaginable. This session is a (re)introduction to careers in federal service from senior government executives implementing the President’s Management Agenda (PMA)...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session

ChatGPT: The Game Changer You’re Loving to Hate

This interactive session will demo 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 ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Constructing a Successful Career in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution

This session will address the following aspects related to Revolution 4.0: the extent to which career competencies affect the career success of young graduates, how career commitment affects career success of young graduates, and how young graduates ...
Audience: Both
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Fast Track

Creating a Career Readiness Course: Finding Success Through Faculty Partners

This session will outline the journey that led to inclusion of a Career Readiness course in the general education curriculum at The University of Tampa. Participants will have an opportunity to brainstorm strategies to develop faculty partnerships an...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Cultivating Connections: Mentorship and Self-Care for WOC in the Workplace

This session is being offered for women of color (WoC) in the workplace and their allies to network and build relationships with each other. In this interactive round-table session, you will get to discuss the importance of prioritizing mental health...
Audience: Both
Level:
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format: Roundtable

Data Driven Hiring: How One Top Campus Program Adapted to a Changing Landscape

Join us for an intimate conversation with PNC about trends in emerging talent, and how their leading campus program adapts to market shifts to hire the best talent on every campus....
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Developing and Nurturing Equity-Minded Students Through Inclusive Leadership

There have been many conversations about DEI in terms of inclusive leadership in colleges as well as the workplace environment, but how do we develop our students to be inclusive leaders? Learn how the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Developing Interns for the Future

Join leaders from Northwestern Mutual to learn about their internship development redesign journey, which focused on career readiness competencies and co-creation. Additionally, collaborate with leaders from both campus and corporate space, and walk ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Effective and Ethical Uses of AI in Career Services

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to inspire curiosity, fascination, or fear, depending on your perspective. As educators, we have the responsibility to understand the proper application and ethical use of this technological tool. We hop...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Efficient and Effective Strategies for Meaningful Employer Engagement

The advice, feedback, and connections provided by employers can significantly impact students as they pursue their career goals. Whether you have a team dedicated to employer relations or just a partial role, this session will provide strategies for ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Elevate & Engage: Enhancing Your Career Champion Program

The University of Connecticut's Career Champion Program has evolved to meet the diverse needs of more than 700 champions. This presentation explores key ways in which they have elevated and expanded their program to further its impact and offers advi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Embracing Happenstance: Insights from 13 Community College Leaders

This session presents the findings and insights derived from a phenomenological study investigating how community college leaders responded to unpredictable events and opportunities that significantly influenced their career decisions through the len...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Empower Tomorrow’s Innovators: Confidence Building for Equity in Career Development

The “Confidence is Your Superpower!” program at NC State University has been instrumental in equipping underrepresented STEM students with tools to combat imposter syndrome and cultivate confidence. In this session, we share the data and content from...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Engineering for Humanity: Career Competencies & Implicit Bias

One of the challenges in advancing DEI is demonstrating the value to those who may not recognize the relevance to their professional life. This session will discuss active learning strategies to embed concepts of implicit bias and career competencies...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Expand Your Center’s Budget: Tips for Securing New Funding Streams

Expenses and expectations are increasing, yet traditional funding sources are not. Alternative funds are often available if you know where to look and how to pitch a request that aligns with funder goals. We’ll share what’s worked and what hasn’t dur...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Fast-Track a Winning LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn has become a crucial component of conducting day-to-day business as well as the modern job search. Find out what you need to know to empower your students to harness the full power of LinkedIn. Discover and utilize the "hidden" LinkedIn serv...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

FGLI at Harvard: Student Barriers, Opportunities, and Transformations

Discover how first-generation, low-income students at Harvard explore careers through inspiring challenges to solve, instead of job titles to fit into. Gain insight into new tools, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Groups, that he...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

First-Gen Internship Navigator Program

This session provides an overview of a new initiative to support first-generation college students in securing and navigating paid internship opportunities and includes time for small-group ideation to capitalize on the expertise in the room to help ...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Fast Track

From Collaborations to Triumphs: Turning Setbacks Into Stepping Stones

Uncover the hidden value of professional partnerships and learn practical strategies for maintaining connections and fostering resilience. Through interactive activities, gain insights into extracting long-term benefits from collaborations, regardles...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format: Traditional

From Elevators to Appetizers: Pitching Your Personal Value

The workshop will focus on an entirely unique way to pitch oneself and will challenge the traditional concept of the elevator pitch. The focus will be on how little one can say to get the other person curious. In other words, giving them an appetizer...
Audience: Both
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format: Traditional

Getting Partnership Right: A Cross-Sector Approach to Workforce Readiness

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Learn how Achieve Atlanta, Braven, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and Spelman College have engaged in cross-sector partnership to connect students with career experiences. Attendees will...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Growing up Chaim: The Impact of Ethnic Names

Names are fundamental to our identities. English American Poet W H Auden once said, “Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.” Either a name is pronounced correctly or it is not. There is no middle ground. Imagi...
Audience: Both
Level:
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format:

How to Implement an Outcomes-based, Institutional Student Success, and Career Readiness Initiative

Career Success is not a one-size-fits-all model. There are many different types of students with varying professional goals and aspirations. Is it possible to support students’ career readiness in a personalized, resource-efficient way? Please join u...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

How to Talk So Hiring Managers Will Listen

Recruiters know that working with passionate and challenging stakeholders is part of the job. In this session, Kiewit will discuss how we’ve been able to successfully establish collaborative partnerships and influence decision making with our hiring ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

How Universities and Employers Can Co-Create Talent Pipelines

Arizona State University and Teach For America have shared interests: We want students to launch impactful careers, where they can make a contribution to equity in their community, and grow into becoming systems change leaders. Discover how we have w...
Audience: Both
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: SMARTtalk

How Well Are Your Career Programs?

Fear and uncertainty accompany job and internship searches of college students. Students with one or more minoritized identities report lower levels of well-being. Babson College Undergraduate Center for Career Development piloted opportunities to em...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Fast Track

If You Build It, They Will Come: Attracting Diverse Talent

“How can I better attract and retain underrepresented talent?” This session explores three simple, yet innovative answers to this question based on findings of a 2023 study of undergraduate women who recently navigated a recruitment cycle. Hear from ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Increasing Equity: Marginalized Students Tap Into the Hidden Market

Tulane University, Spelman College, and the Community College of Aurora will share case studies for engaging underserved students in a social capital curriculum, both inside and outside of the classroom. Learn how data show that students have signifi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Indigenous Career Futures: Supporting Students and Tribal Communities

Develop inclusive career resources and partnerships to ensure Indigenous students have what they need to confidently pursue degree-relevant careers they are passionate about, including those in tribal communities. We will share strategies that can be...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Integrating Storytelling Into Internship Curriculum to Enhance Career Readiness

Unleash Your WHY! Learn about your motivations and share your unique story. Consider accessible and inclusive ways of implementing narrative-driven tools to empower your students to be career ready and identify methods for gathering student testimoni...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Know Your Lane: Collaboration Leads to Successful Recruiting

Unlock the Power of Collaboration in Campus Recruiting! Employer relations and recruiting experts guide you to prioritize employer relations, develop cost-effective data-driven strategies, and align your institution and recruiter goals. Gain hands-on...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Learn & Leverage: Shift Focus From Established to Emerging Programs

How do you innovate and make an impact when the hallowed silos of higher education stop you in your tracks? Discover how we leaned into evolving (rather than established) programs and partnerships and used their data to inform our future supports and...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Learnings from Indeed's 2024 Workforce Insights Report

At Indeed, our core focus is connecting people to better work, but what is “better work?” Our inaugural Workforce Insights Report provides research into what matters most to workers in 2024. Based on a survey of 5,000+ U.S. workers, we’ve explored wh...
Audience: Both
Level: Advanced
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Leveraging Campus Collaborations to Enhance Students’ Career Experience

In this interactive session, presenters will use a combination of visual aids and group activities to provide a background on best practices used within a Center for Career and Experiential Learning. Attendees will have the opportunity to brainstorm ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Leveraging Data for Informed Decision-Making in Career Center Operations

Integration of key demographic data into reports, development of dashboards, and production of infographics has enhanced the Center’s ability to track and analyze both engagement and outcomes data, providing a comprehensive view of our operations, fa...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

LUNCH & LEARN: AI, Data Protection, Accountability, Equitable Access, & Other Hot Topics: An Open Dialogue

Engage with your peers on hot topics affecting the career development and employment of new college students. Discuss the ethics of AI in recruiting and job searching; exchange views on sharing and protecting student information; share your challenge...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Career Development: An All-Access Pass Into Employer Programs

The inner workings of Early Career Programs are deep and complex. Join our panel of three Early Careers Leaders to give you an all-access look into life in The Fortune 1000, connecting early careers talent to meaningful experiences. Learn best prac...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Creating an Engaging Careers Site for Early Career Talent

In this presentation, discover the importance of a company's careers site in today's competitive job market. Using TD SYNNEX’s example, learn how to create an engaging site, navigate critical projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and track site p...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Dismantling the Job Search Labyrinth for Women in Tech

Are you looking to empower women seeking tech careers? This session will break down the job search labyrinth women must navigate to establish their tech careers. We will explore research-based and actionable strategies to dismantle structural barrier...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: First-Destination Survey Best Practices

Our First-Destination Survey is a benchmark report on college graduate outcomes. Come talk about the successes and challenges you have had in gathering FDS surveys, best practices that you have engaged in and ideas you have to help improve our FDS....
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Nurturing Lifelong Success: The Power of Intentional Alumni Engagement

Engaging alumni plays a pivotal role in keeping graduates connected to the university and fulfilling the needs of students as they pursue meaningful careers. Presenters will delve into strategic ways William & Mary engages alumni and the contribution...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Practical Issues and Problems Surrounding Unpaid Internships

Come share the challenges that you experiencing in reducing and/or eliminating unpaid internships at your institution, and learn from colleagues about strategies they are using to address unpaid internships on their campuses....
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Sparking Joy: Integrating Play to Enhance Belonging and Student Development

Integrating play into career education leads to better outcomes. Research shows that creativity enhances learning and allows students to develop problem-solving skills, ideation, communication, and collaboration. Our session explores ways to spark jo...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: State Legislation Affecting Members

Several states have recently passed (or are considering passing) laws that ban DEI initiatives, restrict reproductive rights, and are anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant. Join us for an open and safe discussion on how these policies are affecting our prof...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Roundtable

LUNCH & LEARN: Will The Real Problem Step Forward: Employer and HBCU Relationships

Employers, have you ever wanted to improve your DEI efforts? HBCUs, have you felt employers are not effectively engaging and recruiting your students? The partnership between HBCUs and employers is not without its pain points. This session uses desig...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

NACE Faculty Survey Findings and Integrating Career Readiness into the Curriculum

The session will share the findings from NACE's first survey of faculty on career readiness; in addition to sharing examples of faculty in practice....
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

NACE: The 2024 Presidential Election-- What Can It Mean for Career Services and College Recruiting

With the 2024 Presidential election just around this corner, this session will share what possible impacts on policy and legislative agenda based on which party wins the White House. The session will focus on the agendas of the parties and the implic...
Audience:
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format:

Navigating Retirement Planning: The What, When, and How

A diverse panel of retired and soon-toretire career services and university recruiting/relations professionals will draw on their own experiences to address questions and issues the audience should consider in preparing for, navigating, and transitio...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format: Panel Session

Neglected Recruiters: Hosting a PD Conference to Build Relationships

St. Cloud State University Career Center created an innovative project, the Hire a Husky Academy (HaHA), a PD event for recruiters providing professional renewal. This presentation will share the HaHA background, goals, and concept; the journey in la...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format: Fast Track

Next Generation Recruitment for the Next Generation

In a rapidly changing talent landscape, are traditional recruitment methods still effective? With over 25,000 applicants for a single position and an average cost of $6,000 per new early career hire, it's clear that the status quo isn't sustainable. ...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate, Advanced Level
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Picture-Perfect: Strategies for Launching a University Headshot Booth

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the operational logistics, marketing campaign, sponsorship acquisition, and the strategies and challenges encountered while implementing two self-service photography studios to provide professional headshots to ...
Audience: Both
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Panel Session

Practice What You Preach: How to Supercharge Both You & Your Students’ Careers

Imagine discovering resources that elevate your advising game and enhance your career. Imagine these same resources enhance the careers of your students too. We explore the potent resources that create all-star advisors and enrich the student career ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Presentation/Representation: Signaling to Students That You’re a Safe Space

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws and discrediting diversity efforts on campus require resilience, support, and advocacy. Students need to know they have a safe space. This SMART talk will focus on advocacy, emphasizing the need for genuine support and representation...
Audience: Both
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: SMARTtalk

Programs That POP!

Discover the art of crafting engaging programs. Learn from our top strategies, explore key insights, and engage in live polls and Q&A. Enhance your event planning skills....
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Rebuilding a Culture of Community and Collaboration

Explore organizational change, transformative strategies, and new initiatives to reclaim powerful aspects of culture from the past while adapting to and shaping the new normal. Structured to facilitate active participation, attendees will engage in s...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

Scale for Impact: Grow Inclusive Hiring Programs and Partnerships

Creating exposure and inclusivity for students is a tenet of Uber’s university hiring strategy. Our strategy has evolved beyond core schools and includes strategic partnerships and inclusive programs. We've intentionally broadened our partnerships an...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Scaling Impact: An Innovative Approach to Student Employment

Student employment is not in the spotlight at most colleges and universities. How might we reimagine student employment as a learning lab environment that moves the needle on career readiness for underrepresented students? The Learning-Aligned Employ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Seismic Change: The Impact of AI on Early Careers Recruiting

The session will provide a comprehensive overview of the current trends and future implications for AI technologies impacting early careers recruiting. The expert panelists will engage participants in a deep dive into AI’s increasingly transformative...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Panel Session

Show'n Tell: Education and Representation for Diversity Recruitment

Explore the intricacies of diversity recruitment by considering what students want in their recruitment process and what recruiters want in candidates. We need to go beyond representation and marketing to diversify candidate pools. The presenters wil...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Skills Over Scores: Finding Early Career Talent with the Right Skills at the Right Time

Join Yello’s Chief Product Officer, Maureen Polte, and Principal Solutions Consultant, Sara Zitnik to learn about the innovative approaches campus recruiters can take to identify top early career talent, beyond just looking at GPA. We’ll talk about h...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Solving A Case Problem: Building Skills That All Employers Seek

Digital curriculum that guides students through an easy-to-follow roadmap to ace a case interview. Solving a case is now required knowledge, and students will learn to implement a structured problem-solving approach, incorporate analytics with busine...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Sort It Out

Do you find yourself attending conferences, but then don’t know how to act upon what you’ve learned? Let’s sort it out! Through an interactive sorting game, attendees will learn a framework to make the most of ideas gained from NACE and create a dyna...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Students Speak Out on Recruiting Engagement: Expectations and Experiences

Join consultant Mary Scott in a data-driven exploration of the student perspective on an issue challenging career services and employers alike: how to attract students and engage them at recruiting events. Learn from unvarnished student feedback what...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Switching Lanes: Higher Education & Corporate Career Pathways

Embark on a dual career journey. Explore the dynamic exchange between academia and industry with diverse speakers who have walked the talk. Join us for an engaging panel atmosphere that promises real-world insights and transformative advice on elevat...
Audience: Both
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Format: Panel Session

Teaching Students How to Tell Their Story: Crafting Professional Narratives

The question “Tell me about yourself” is asked by employers in an interview, networking event, career fair, or company information session. This can be challenging for students who identify as BIPOC/FGLI. Developing the ability to answer this questio...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Tell Me About Yourself: Re-imagining Career Center Identity and Engagement

In a post-pandemic world, students engage with information and content differently. In this interactive session, learn about engagement strategies and how to create a cohesive visual identity for your career center in an era of information overload. ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

The Access and Opportunity Revolution: Global Learning, Intercultural Fluency, and Career Readiness

Global learning, intercultural fluency, and career readiness are vital to the success of our graduates. The current climate, within our academic institutions and the larger society as a whole, has caused us as educators to view our work differently a...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
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The Art of Being Yourself: Elevate Your Career With Improvisation

Unlock your potential through the transformative power of improvisation. Amplify adaptability, refine listening skills, and cultivate collaboration in this captivating session. Be bold and embrace courage as you immerse yourself in this fun and inter...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
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: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

The Five Essential Elements of a Successful Twenty-First Century Corporate Relations Program

Even with its challenges, developing strong industry partnerships is crucial for most academic institutions. The Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO) is a 550-member organization representing 300 institutions globally. This presen...
Audience: Both
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Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
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The Gang's All Here: Roadmap to Sharing a Major Cohort

Want to deliver excellent service to students? Come learn best practices for creating and implementing a shared-major cohort model in your career center from two experts. Attendees will walk away with tangible strategies to implement this model in th...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

The Power of Skills-Based Hiring: Implications for Early Careers Professionals

The interactive session will explore the role pre-skilling has in building confidence, and focus on skills-based hiring, challenging conventional assumptions about the traditional ways to prepare, assess, and hire early careers talent. Attendees will...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Panel Session

The State of College Recruiting: NACE Research & Insights

What has NACE research uncovered in the past year? This session will integrate NACE Research from our various surveys into one presentation that provides what you need to know about NACE Research to aid you in your recruiting cycle. The session will ...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Presentation

The Time Is Now to End Unpaid Internships

Unpaid internships are a growing problem and a major detriment to the growth new professionals. 2023 data from the University of Utah show that unpaid internships are on the rise, especially in colleges like the Arts and Humanities. This session will...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Top Five Trends for the 2024-25 University Recruiting Season

The 2023-2024 recruiting cycle saw tremendous change – from the AI revolution to legislative actions impacting DEI efforts. Veris Insights has surveyed and interviewed hundreds of employers and thousands of students so that we can predict and share t...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Transforming Career Services Using Student-Driven Data and Insights

Based on student feedback and survey data, our office pivoted beyond the transactional interactions between students and career services to increase student engagement, despite staff reductions and budget cuts. This session will focus on how to conti...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

University Advancement and Career Services Unite to Cultivate Industry Partnerships

Want a unified approach to industry outreach to maximize relationships? Employers, do you want to expand your company’s reach and do more business on campus? The SBU Career Center and Advancement created a viable alliance that attracts new industry p...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Unlocking Your Internal Mobility: Navigating Career Growth Within Your Organization

In this session, we will explore the benefits of fostering talent growth from within, including reduced turnover, enhanced employee engagement, and cost-effective talent development. We’ll share what we’ve learned along the way, guide you to partneri...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Using Data to Demonstrate the Value of Campus Recruiting Programs

Maureen Polte and Kelley Clark will discuss common inefficiencies in data management and the steps early talent recruiting teams can take to make data-driven decisions and demonstrate ROI to leadership. They’ll outline what data are important and how...
Audience: University Relations & Recruiting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies: Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format: Traditional

Using Restorative Practice Techniques in the Career Center

This session will introduce attendees to three proactive restorative practice techniques—a community circle, fishbowl, and fair practice—that enhance community building, problem solving, and decision making. Using such techniques can improve career c...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

What Happens When Career Centers Facilitate Job Shadowing?

Explore seven years of data on the success and obstacles of running a structured job shadowing through FSUshadow. Learn why FSUshadow reduces barriers to experiential learning for students and how it helps employers build their brand on campus, and l...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

What the Class of 2024 Wants in a Job

From economic uncertainty to generative AI to student loan debt, the Class of 2024 has a lot on their minds as they prepare to launch their careers. Learn what gets new grads excited about a job, what they expect from employers, and how companies and...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session