A Beginner’s Guide to Equity-Focused Data Analysis

Empower your career center to make data-driven decisions to promote equity on campus! Using Lake Forest College’s model, learn beginner-friendly methods to analyze and act on attendance trends based on demographics, examining your student engagement ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

A Data Geek's Roadmap for Tracking Holistic Career Engagement

This session will provide an overview on how to create a holistic career engagement rubric and technical methods for collecting, organizing, and analyzing student engagement data from multiple sources in order to make data-informed decisions about se...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

AI Empowered Career Education for Underrepresented Students

Learn how AI has become the new benchmark of students' career readiness, and explore how training in AI and portfolio creation can empower underrepresented students with career competencies that create more equitable pathways from college to career....
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

AI-Powered Career Services: Transforming Student Success and Employer Engagement

The intersection of artificial intelligence and career services has the potential to revolutionize the way we support students in their career development. This presentation will explore the dynamic impact of AI in the field of career services, offer...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Best Practices for Engaging and Educating Students Post-Acceptance

Discover how a cohesive and meaningful communication and engagement plan will not only enhance candidate experience, but will also lead to a lower renege rate and avoidable no shows on day 1....
Audience: Employers
Level: Emerging
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Panel Session

Best Practices for Engaging and Supporting Graduate and Professional Students

As graduate students wish to leverage their advanced education to make an impact academically and professionally, refining in-demand skills is crucial to their career decision making. This session reviews model programs, services, resources, collabor...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Bridging Canyons: Innovating, Restructuring, and Branding Career Engagement

Scaling career services requires a thoughtful and strategic approach supported by institutional leadership. Through a real-world case study approach, participants will actively discover lessons learned and best practices when navigating a major shift...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Traditional

Bridging the Gap: Achieving High FDS Knowledge Rates

Learn about a robust first-destination survey (FDS) six-month follow-up process at Auburn University that yields a 99% knowledge rate. This session will highlight strategies for data collection and follow-up, addressing data gaps, and garnering campu...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Bringing Competencies to a Community College: A Faculty Training Program

A faculty training program that aims to equip faculty members with the knowledge, resources, and support needed to integrate career competencies into curricula will be discussed. This session will provide a roadmap and practical insights for institut...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Bringing Your Full Self to Work: Living Life Authentically

Celebrate the importance of identity and authenticity! Do you cultivate an environment in which those around you are encouraged to embrace their full identities in the workplace? Do you believe it for yourself? We will explore tensions between authen...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Personal growth and Professional development
Format: Traditional

Career Services on the Go: Building a Successful Podcast

The Rising to The Top Podcast is a audio series featuring stories from senior level professionals on their rise to leadership. Each themed episode features insider leadership insights, lessons in character, and perspectives on industry trends. Come l...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Career-Services Adaptations: AI, Inclusive Rubrics, and Asynchronous Reviews

Using diverse resume-support services, explore how one office has coached students in effective AI use, standardized feedback using checklist rubrics, and implemented a new online system to effectively produce consistent and clear career coaching....
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Cariño and Restoration: Shifting Our Coaching Culture

Cariño is a Spanish word that can be loosely translated to care, but it carries a deeper meaning that for many encompasses community care, safety, and love. Join me as I share how we shifted our programming to lean heavily on uplifting our student’s ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Catalyzing Upward Mobility: Career Services and First-Generation Students

First-generation students face unique challenges and barriers that can make their college experience more difficult. This mixed methods approach study explored why students utilize career services, what value they found in the services, and if their ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Classroom to Boardroom: Bridging Neurodiverse STEM Student Success

Neurodiverse job seekers have encountered less-than-ideal experiences at work. Discover the challenges neurodiverse folks face getting hired (presentation of original research) and the best practices for executing robust inclusive hiring tactics and ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Community Cultural Wealth Meets Black and Latino Career Development

Efforts to enhance and increase Black and Latino male students' persistence in college have long been an initiative for institutions. However, career development is one area of concern that's rarely discussed. The session aims to offer insight into w...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Creating Partnerships to Enhance Career Development for Students With Disabilities

Career Services professionals can forge critical partnerships with Disability Services professionals to foster a successful transition to employment for disabled students. This session will share evidence-based practices used by several campuses and ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Creating Spaces for Black Male Educators to Foster Mentorship

Join Dr. Tierney Bates and Philip Wilkerson for a panel discussion on their experience of creating monthly calls for Black Males in Higher Education and how these conversations create mentor/mentee relationships. Having groups with professionals at a...
Audience: Both
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Creating Talent Pipelines to Increase Gender Diversity in Male-Populated Industries

Join us for a discussion of best practices for recruitment of women into internship programs in traditionally male-populated industries. Presenters will share deep dives into programming planning strategy, successful recruitment, mid-internship suppo...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

Cybersecurity Experiential Learning – Skills for Success in Today’s Workforce

Explore The Washington Center’s innovative Cybersecurity Accelerator Program, designed to meet urgent talent needs of a high-growth industry and promote diversity for innovation and competition. This successful program is a model for scalable, workfo...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Don’t ‘Desert’ Your Succession Planning! Supervision Circle Creates Prepared Leaders

Supervision Circle empowers aspiring leaders in resource-limited organizations. Focused on equal participation, especially advocating for women, our program addresses challenges highlighted in Lean In's 2023 report. Our structured sessions yield a re...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Personal growth and Professional development
Format: Fast Track

Empowering Abilities: Navigating Invisible & Physical Disabilities in the Workplace

Empowering Abilities: Navigating Invisible and Physical Disabilities in the Workplace...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Enhancing Student Well-Being and Autonomy Using Flexible Due Dates

What happens when students are allowed to choose when they approach assignments in alignment with their optimal learning times? In this session, the presenter will share insights and outcomes of a new "flexible due date" methodology within a career c...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Extraordinary Campus Career Fairs: A Blueprint for Success

Campus Career Fairs are often the most impactful and challenging recruiting events of the academic year. They showcase dynamic internship and career opportunities available to our students. We can help you to overcome challenges and gain success with...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

From Hello to Hire: Creating a Recruitment Pull Strategy

In this session, we will address the pitfalls of relying on traditional campus recruitment practices and effective ways to reach this generation of students. Participants will learn how to create a strategic engagement plan that will have students se...
Audience: Employers
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Traditional

GVSU Laker Accelerated Talent Link: Enhanced Internships for Workforce Growth

Talent Link 2023 saw 21 students eager to jumpstart their careers through the unique employer–partner program at Grand Valley State University. Explore the career development theories behind Talent Link, learn how employers access talent earlier, and...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Traditional

Hacking First Destination: Data-Driven Methods for Success

First destination data collection is often a frustrating chase after information to retroactively gauge career services success. There’s a better way. Join us as we identify effective data collection strategies, explore innovative uses of predictive ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

High-Volume Recruiting in a Decentralized Environment

We will share our strategies as Regeneron grew from hiring interns and co-ops site by site to centralized U.S. hiring along with global expansion. This presentation will focus on strategies to prepare and execute streamlined hiring among decentralize...
Audience: Employers
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Traditional

Holistic Approaches to Managing Student Career Stress and Fostering Self-Efficacy

Discover how to expand your career counseling toolset beyond traditional approaches like talking through concerns and administering formal self-assessments. Learn to engage with students in more holistic ways, capitalizing on the mind–body connection...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Advancing the Professions
Format: Traditional

How FAMU Helped Students Earn Over $100K AND Employers Recruit

Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Micro-Internship Program has resulted in hundreds of students participating in short-term, paid professional projects on behalf of companies nationwide. One of these is Trane Technologies who, thanks to FAMU’s program,...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Improving Hiring Outcomes in Interviewing Process for Neurodivergent Job Candidates

Traditional job interviews pose barriers to autistic job seekers. Research suggests that this process can be improved through better job candidate interview process preparation and changes by employers to the interview process. Research results and t...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Maximizing Needles, Minimizing Hay: Cracking the Early Careers Recruiting Code

Drawing from a collective eight years of experience, the Campus & Early Careers Recruiting team from Maximus will present a panel discussion on proven strategies for targeting top talent, boosting candidate experience, and attracting and retaining ex...
Audience: Employers
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Panel Session

Navigating Careers in the Age of AI Screening

Gain practical insights to thrive in the AI-driven job market. Join an AI journalist, a career services expert at Columbia, and a former Walmart psychologist who creates hiring screening to guide job seekers and those who advise them on how to craft ...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Navigating the Changing Early Talent Hiring Landscape: Collaboration Is Key

Collaboration is key! Learn how Liberty Mutual and Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success are working together to develop innovative programming for students. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from each other and walk away with tangib...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Presentation and Roundtable

NEXUS: Connecting Career Development Curriculum to Coaching and Employment Partnership

The NEXUS is a research-based, theory-informed approach to graduate career services developed by the staff in the career services office at Teachers College, Columbia University. Join this session to learn how the TC NEXT team incorporates the NEXUS ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Nurturing Niche Networks: The Blueprint for Collaborative Career Fairs

Discover the innovative approach of the student/faculty–driven career fairs, designed to cater to niche academic disciplines and foster a symbiotic relationship between students, faculty, and employers....
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

Practice What You Preach: Women Advancing to Leadership in Higher Education

Do you feel stuck in your current role? Need guidance on leadership career pathing? Do you need clarification on the skills, knowledge, and credentials valued by hiring managers now? Our diverse group of women panelists will share tips and testimonia...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Panel Session

Reimagining Early Career Recruitment Post-COVID but Early AI

The COVID-19 pandemic forced every organization and individual involved in any aspect of recruitment to re-think what was truly necessary, what was just preferable, and what could easily be replaced or even discarded. AI promises to be equally disrup...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Panel Session

Revolutionizing Career Services: Leveraging GenAI Tools for Student Success

This session tackles constraints of understaffed career centers, offering GenAI tools as a solution to bridge the gap between student needs and available resources. This interactive panel session will encourage attendees to think differently, conside...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Emerging
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Panel Session

Seat at the Table: Value Proposition of HBCU Career Centers

An empirical study of HBCU career centers found that leaders had an antiquated view about career services, compromising their role as strategic partners. This session highlights how action research shifted leadership perspectives, charting a course t...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Speed Date Your Career: Accelerating Student-Employer Connections

"Speed Date Your Career" is a unique speed networking event to connect college students with employer partners. This event offers an innovative approach to career exploration and professional relationship building, focusing on improving student and e...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Recruiting and Preparing a Career Ready Workforce
Format: Traditional

Supporting Students With Disabilities in Higher Education

More students with disabilities are attending college. Career services professionals need to be ready to work with people with disabilities of all kinds, and help them make important decisions regarding employment and disclosing their disability. Thi...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Format: Traditional

The Student Lens: Values of Experience and Power of Reflection

How do students frame and understand their experiential learning? Best practices for student reflection are found at the intersection of career services and academic programming. Come and see how reflective curriculum can support personalized career ...
Audience: Career Services
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Career Services Strategies
Format: Traditional

What’s Your Score? 10 Pillars to a Best-in-Class Campus Strategy

Employers will learn about the 10 pillars that drive success on campus. They will use a scorecard to evaluate their current campus strategy across those 10 pillars. The impact will be immediate: participants will see both problems and opportunities t...
Audience: Employers
Level: Advanced-Level
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Traditional

Why Externships Are the Key to Attracting Early Career Talent

Learn from the global leader in the eye care industry on how to create a robust externship experience to attract top early talent....
Audience: Employers
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Fast Track

Work Visa Options for International Graduates: Immigration Made Easy

Many international students at U.S. universities wish to work in the U.S. after graduation; however, rules governing work visas are confusing. This session will provide a clear discussion of common work visa options, including Optional Practical Trai...
Audience: Both
Level: Intermediate
Track: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Format: Traditional