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Eastern Association of College and Employers

Annual Conference

INVEST 2005
Innovation…Networking…Value…Excellence…Strategies…Training

Concurrent Sessions | Breakfast Forum | Various Meetings

Monday Morning Concurrent Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

What Employers Want vs. What They Get: Identifying Key Areas of Frustration When Hiring Undergraduate and MBA Students

Summary: This program is a presentation and discussion of the results of a survey administered to over 2000 employers in the college recruiting market. We identify the gaps between what employers are looking for in their recruiting efforts and what they are actually encountering. We specifically identify the most critical skills, characteristics and attitudes that are MISSING in the pool of applicants. We also ask employers what frustrates them the most when searching for new hires. We looked to see any differences in the adequacy of undergraduate applicants versus MBA applicants. Other results will be discussed as well. Open discussion will follow the presentation.

Presenters: Cyndi Germack, Director of Career Services, Goldey Beacon College; Dr. Deanna Merritt; Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management, Goldey Beacon College

Masefield

 

Improving the Buzz: Creative Strategies for Marketing your Career Center

Summary: Learn how two career centers used intensive marketing campaigns to bring perception of their services closer to reality while rapidly increasing student use and department co-sponsored programming. You will leave the workshop with steps to take and effective tools in hand so you can improve the buzz and increase use of your services on your campus.

Presenters: Pat Mullane, Career Services, Dickinson College; Rhonda Cohen, Career Services, Saint Joseph’s University

Red Oak Terrace

 

Values Assessments Work & Other “Right Fit” Myths

Summary: This workshop presents four career decision-making and “right fit” myths that hinder the ability of employers to adequately match candidates to jobs. We will explore myths related to organization values, organizational fit versus job fit, the existence of individual needs, and benefits and compensation, and examine how our assumptions about each of these areas affects our ability to make good matches between candidates and jobs.

Presenter: Terri Bruce, Career Advisor/Owner; The Success Shop

Irving A

 

Take Time Out: Revitalize Your Counseling Relationship Dynamics

Summary: Develop new strategies to increase your motivation, improve the efficacy of your Career Services team and strengthen your office’s relationships with the college community (students, faculty and administration). Participants will examine their role as counseling professionals. The following questions will be discussed: * What makes you a productive counselor? * What techniques allow you to work effectively with your staff/team? * What strategies do you utilize to connect with students, staff and administration? Join us to learn how to invest in yourself so as to best help others!

Presenter: Rachel Josephson, Assistant Director of Career Services, Pace University; Kim Head - Career Counselor, Pace University

Irving B

 

The Presidential Management Fellows Program: Preparing Your Graduate Students for the Process

Summary: This program will describe the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program, lead participants through the complex application process (including the school’s and applicant’s roles), and provide specific information on how the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) prepares its students, including mock assessment training.

Presenter: Jennifer L. Blanck, Director of Career & Alumni Services, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

Parlor

 

Monday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

Talent, Technology & Recruiting: Finding the Best Employees for Your Organization

Summary: Many companies believe that if they have a recruiting section on their web site and post jobs on well-traveled job sites, they don’t need to do anything else. The fact is that finding the right talent for your job requires a broad marketing strategy in order to quickly and efficiently get to the right hire. This presentation will deliver a primer on different recruiting strategies and current technology available to support these strategies.

Presenter: Rob Carbonaro, VP Sales and Client Services, Experience, Inc.

Masefield

 

Emerging Leaders Track: A Program to Develop Critical New Professional Competencies

Summary: A recent SACE survey found that new career services professionals needed development in eight competencies, including understanding legal and ethical guidelines; skills in employer relations and employment services; and skills in planning and managing effective programs. In response, SACE developed the Emerging Leaders Track, a certificate program providing training in these areas through the annual conference, drive-in workshops and in tandem with state association meetings. Learn more about these key competency needs and how to create a new professional ‘s training program within your office, state or professional association. A planned New Recruiter Emerging Leaders Track will be discussed as well.

Presenter: Melanie Parker, Executive Director, Career Services & Experiential Learning, University of Central Florida

Red Oak Terrace

 

Corporate Social Responsibility Issues and Opportunities for Career Development.
Sponsored by the Public Service Network

Summary: Under the surface of business as usual, the private sector is undergoing a complex and far-reaching reassessment of values and business strategies as the connection between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business success is documented. From advising investors to reporting on environmental practices to developing certification codes for workplace human rights, our graduates can get involved in fascinating specialty fields connecting business and social well being. Beyond that, the emerging movement for “multiple bottom line” business thinking is touching enterprises in every industry – from energy companies moving toward renewable sources, to banks going beyond their obligations in urban reinvestment. This workshop addresses the interest especially of career counselors focusing on business, community and public interest, and employer relations. Participants will gain an overview of the CSR movement in companies and business education, a review of emerging job titles of interest, and a perspective on the ethical choices and counseling responses for working with business students who care about more than the financial bottom line.

Presenter: Melissa Everett, Executive Director, Sustainable Careers Institute and author, Making a Living While Making a Difference

Irving A

 

Cold Calling Employers: The Method Behind the Madness

Summary: Learn how to organize and implant a method for cold calling employers for maintaining existing employer relationships and developing new ones. 1) Identifying/compiling the list of potential employers with your university/college 2) Effectively research potential employers 3) Preparing for the calls 4) Gathering the necessary materials/information 5) What to say, scripting the calls 6) Concluding the call 7) Follow up 8) Tracking results 9) Q&A session

Presenter: Nancy Williams, Recruiting Coordinator, Alfred University

Irving B

 

Pathways to Success in the Arts
Sponsored by the Creative Careers Network

Summary: This session will present a panel of successful artists representing various artistic fields (both visual and performing arts). The artists will “tell their stories” of the paths they took in reaching their current level of success. They will provide the attending career counselors with insight into the uniqueness of careers in the arts, as well as identify which career services and techniques work well for artists. After sharing each of their stories, the panelists will be open to answering any questions the audience may have.

Presenter: Elisa Kurland – Representing the Creative Careers Network – Director of Career Services, The University of the Arts

Red Oak Terrace

 

Tuesday Morning Concurrent Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

Innovative Partnerships Driving New York's Life Sciences Industry

Summary: The Long Island Life Sciences Initiative (LILSI) is a network of life sciences companies, local universities, and government that collaboratively address strategic issues in the long-term growth and sustainability of the region’s life sciences sector. You will learn ways in which LILSI attracts, retains, and develops life sciences companies through business development, strategic networking, and educational opportunities that enhance corporate competitiveness, productivity, efficiency and profitability. This session is appropriate for corporate folks who seek a collaborative industry model, and college career services folks who have an interest in this industry.

Presenter: Marianna Savoca, Career Center Director, Stony Brook University and Joseph Scaduto, Executive Director of the Long Island Life Sciences Initiative

Masefield

 

An Inner View of Behavioral Interviewing

Summary: This seminar will provide insights to career services staff members regarding behavioral interviewing techniques. This seminar will provide valuable data on how employers train new interviewers in conducting behavioral interviews. Career Services staff can utilize this information to better prepare their students for the rigors and requirements of behavioral interviewing on campus. As a former certified behavioral interview coach, David has taught behavioral interviewing training courses for organizations such as Capital One and Citigroup.

Presenter: David Ong, College Recruiting Program Manager, MAXIMUS

Hudson

 

Limited Budget, Limited Resources: How to Meet Student Demands

Summary: Many career centers face limited human and financial resources, while student demands increase. Georgetown creatively developed a service delivery model that meets the increasing career needs of students. Attendees will learn how our staff functions as Employment Advisors and Career Consultants (counselors), and the rationale and benefits/drawbacks to organizing career counseling and advising services in this manner. Career consultants provide general assistance (e.g. deciding on which career fields to explore). Employment advisors discuss specific job search strategies based on student’s interest. These additional services were successfully implemented, without an increase in available resources. Come learn how we did it!

Presenters: Julie Kasten, Career Consultant; Staci Lewis, Employment Advisor, Georgetown University

Hutchinson

 

Engaging Employers: Strategies to Enhance Employer Presence on Campus

Summary: Employers want to recruit students to make their organization productive and profitable. Colleges want to assist students to enhance their career success. We both have a vested interest in the same constituent, students. How can we help each other attract students? The answer lies in a multi-pronged approach of creativity and diverse interactions. Representatives from Binghamton University and Ernst & Young discuss strategies to maximize successful partnerships. Discussion includes a list of efforts employers and colleges can engage in to enhance employer presence while helping career centers augment programming to students to advance their career knowledge.

Presenter: Bill McCarthy, Associate Director-Career Development Center, Binghamton University and Joe Maturando, Lead Campus Recruiter, Tri-State Area, Ernst & Young, LLP

Red Oak Terrace

 

Tuesday Morning Concurrent Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

Future Trends of Our Profession - A Dialog

Summary: Over the last several years there have been significant changes and new challenges in our profession. Many of us wonder where those changes will take us and how they will affect the ways we now operate. The NACE Board of Directors responded to the demand for gathering information and insight on this issue. In February 2005 both college and employer professionals across the country responded to surveys to identify and prioritize trends within the profession as well as consider those external factors that impact our profession. This program will share the results of the survey, will engage participants in lively discussion and will assist career development and college relations’ professionals to actively prepare for the future before us.

Presenter: Vanessa A. Strauss, Senior Advisor to the Director and Deputy Director, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Hudson

 

Exploring Ethics – A Workshop for Employers & Career Services Professionals

Summary: This interactive workshop is designed to help participants explore many of the ethical issues that face employers, students, and career development professionals, including exploding offers, misrepresentation of qualifications, offer management, sourcing diversity candidates, corporate “gifts” to career centers, ADA, and other hot topics.

Presenter: Janis Moore Campbell, Associate Director, Center for Student Professional Development, Temple University

Masefield

 

It Takes a Village: Forming Relationships with Faculty to Promote Student Success

Summary: Faculty members are some of our most powerful allies, and we need each other to help our students be successful. It’s important to remember the great influence that faculty members have on students, not just in the classroom, but also in an advising capacity. It’s not always easy to create successful relationships with faculty members, but the rewards for the career office are plentiful! This program will discuss ideas for faculty collaboration as well as share Seton Hall University’s and Hostos Community College/CUNY’s best practices as an example of successful relationship building between Career Center staff and faculty. Examples of innovative programming include professional development training, faculty/employer networking activities, career events, classroom presentations, relationship building, student organizations and advising. Attendees should be prepared to come with suggestions regarding relationship building between faculty and career professionals.

Presenters: Sandy Figeroa, Coordinator of the Business Department, Hostos Community College; Rebecca Hoda, Director of Career Services, Hostos Community College; Victoria Merkel, Assistant Director-Experiential Education, Seton Hall University; Elisa Varon, Assistant Director-Experiential Education, Seton Hall University

Red Oak Terrace

 

Best Techniques for Career Counseling/Managing ADD Clients

Summary: Hear the newest genetic research about ADD. Learn career counseling techniques to help students assess ADD strengths and weaknesses and choose the best careers for them. Employers will obtain information about the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and reasonable accommodations for ADD employees to enhance their contributions to the workplace.

Presenter: Victoria I. Ball, ADD Career Coach, ADD Career Coach

Hutchinson

 

Tuesday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

Emerging Leaders Track: A Program to Develop Critical New Professional Competencies

Summary: A recent SACE survey found that new career services professionals needed development in eight competencies, including understanding legal and ethical guidelines; skills in employer relations and employment services; and skills in planning and managing effective programs. In response, SACE developed the Emerging Leaders Track, a certificate program providing training in these areas through the annual conference, drive-in workshops and in tandem with state association meetings. Learn more about these key competency needs and how to create a new professional ‘s training program within your office, state or professional association. A planned New Recruiter Emerging Leaders Track will be discussed as well.

Presenter: Melanie Parker, Executive Director, Career Services & Experiential Learning, University of Central Florida

Red Oak Terrace

 

The Marketplace

Summary: Overview of Fordham’s Career Planning & Placement’s newest recruiting technique – The Marketplace – an interactive electronics approach to simplifying communications between employers and applicants. For recruiter’s it is Market-vue and for students, Res-a-vue – both designed to encourage immediate communiqués that are fast, effective and personal. The Marketplace has taken the interview process out of the 1950-‘s where ads, resumes, collateral materials, fairs and school visits have been the norm and brought it into the computer age with a visually attractive program that can reach those who do not attend Job Fairs (alumni), or who do not know how to use them properly.

Presenter: Angela Yorio, Director of Career Services, Fordham University and Diane Herzman, President, Res-a-vue

Hutchinson

 

The Quest for Accountability in Career Services: How assessment, benchmarking, evaluation, and professional standards influence strategy development

Summary: Going beyond often segmented presentations of the important individual topics of assessment, benchmarking, evaluation, and professional standards, this session will explore more inclusive approaches to strategic planning and decision making by considering accountability as the overriding concept/theme. This global approach and an interactive format will encourage enlightening participant discussion of integrative and synthesized approaches to providing evidence of program improvement and accountability.

Presenters: Dr. Sam Ratcliffe, Director, Career Services, Virginia Military Institute and Marie McCool, Assistant Director, Internships, Tufts University

Parlor

 

Exploring Ethics – A Workshop for Employers & Career Services Professionals

Summary: This interactive workshop is designed to help participants explore many of the ethical issues that face employers, students, and career development professionals, including exploding offers, misrepresentation of qualifications, offer management, sourcing diversity candidates, corporate “gifts” to career centers, ADA, and other hot topics.

Presenter: Janis Moore Campbell, Associate Director, Center for Student Professional Development, Temple University

Masefield

 

Wednesday Morning Concurrent Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

Demographic Trends and the Career Outlook

Summary: This presentation will begin by identifying industries that have created jobs during the recent recovery and industries that have struggles. The second part will discuss expected changes in the population, which will become older (though there will also be an increase in the school-age population) and what these changes will mean for employment in different occupations, particularly for professional occupations. One theme will be that demographic trends will drive the increase in employment in education and healthcare and that both of these industries will hire significant numbers of people with Bachelors or higher degrees.

Presenter: Martin Kohli, Regional Economist, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Irving A

 

Global Career Strategies – Realities, Trends and Tips for Finding a Job Overseas

Summary: Recent studies conclude that international work experience is a resume “must have” for those with Fortune 500 career aspirations. Working abroad typically jump starts the professional experience of new graduates by providing them with a broader and more substantive range of work responsibilities than can typically be found on their home turf. Working across cultures also provides valuable experience for those who want to stay at home, better equipped to work with the large numbers of international companies and foreign professionals who annually arrive on our home shores.

Presenter: Mary Anne Thompson, Founder, www.goinglobal.com

Irving B

 

An Entrepreneurial Mindset: Expanding Career Choices

Summary: This session will explore how an entrepreneurial mindset can help bridge the divide between an individual’s liberal arts education and life-work goals enabling students to shape a personal vision associated with their career interests and, in turn, enhancing their career choices and development. We will explore decision-making issues surrounding career development and how these issues, when viewed through an entrepreneurial lens, can be employed to help students attain direction and promote career exploration.

Presenter: Kim Barberich, Associate Director/Programs for Senior Year in Career Development, Barnard College and Elayne Garrett

Masefield

 

Diversity Recruiting: Best Practices

Summary: A panel discussion on best practices for attracting, hiring and retaining diversity candidates.

Moderator: Rob Feinstein – MonsterTRAK, along with panelists Joan Browne – Howard University, Terri Moore - Time Warner Cable Adrienne Alberts – Johns Hopkins University, Chuck Knippen – Monster Campus Diversity Leadership program

Hutchinson

 

Sunday Poster Sessions

 

Summary

Location

 

Program Title: Career and Internship/Fellowship Opportunities with the U.S. Dept of State
Judy Carson

Program Summary: If you want to know more about counseling students and alumni on our opportunities, including how to prepare for the Foreign Service Exams, then please attend. We will also mention opportunities with our US Govt Foreign Affairs agencies. The U.S. Department of State administers the foreign policy of the U.S. government and staffs and supports U.S. Embassies overseas. We hire management, consular, economic, political and public diplomacy generalists to be U.S. diplomats; they enter via the Foreign Service exam process. We also hire Civil Service and Foreign Service Specialists e.g. engineers, attorneys, health practitioners, financial mgmt, human resource, security, IT, office mgmt, and contract specialists who do not take the FS written exam, rather they must apply to vacancy announcements. We have a great overseas and domestic student internship program as well as Fellowships and encourage a diverse workforce to represent the USA. All opportunities are for U.S. citizens. See www.careers.state.gov for details and to apply.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: The Seamless Job Search for "Generation Next"
John McCrudden, Long Island University

Program Summary: This workshop is for Career Counselors teaching or counseling students on Job Hunting Techniques. Career professionals know the limitations of classified, internet and resumes in securing employment. It should also be recognized how this college age generation is limited in their ability to apply networking techniques that are a major part of every Job Hunting workshop or class. This session focuses on identifying, understanding and applying the tools that bridge the gaps between Self Discovery (interests, values, skills/abilities); What is out there (majors, occupations, industries); The Tools (resume, cover letter, thank you notes) to the final stage; Identifying Specific Employers, (companies, organizations, associations).

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: First Year Students: Getting Them in the Door
Elizabeth Cappelluti, Seton Hall University

Program Summary: This workshop will highlight best practices used to draw first year students into the career development process and the value of doing so early on in their college career. A focus of this program includes strategies used to partner with departments within the university as well as marketing techniques, programming and services used with this millennial population.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: Externships: Networking at its best!
Robin Dougherty, Lehigh University

Program Summary: “What does a (insert job title) do?” “Do you know anyone I can talk to about their job?” You have all heard these questions before. What kind of structured opportunities do you have available that encompasses not only the answers, but have the added benefits of networking and career development? At Lehigh University, we have created three well-established externship programs designed to answer these questions. Through these programs, students shadow professionals and get a glimpse into a “day in the life.” These programs also help build positive relationships between Career Services and alumni and employers, who participate as externship hosts. With a slower-paced job market and a stronger emphasis on networking, experiential education programs have been pushed to the forefront. This presentation will provide you with tips and tools to run a successful externship program at your institution.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: Boston College Career Launch
Amy Donegan, Boston College

Program Summary: Juniors . . . are you thinking about your future yet? Attend Career Launch and you can say you are actually doing something about it. Career Launch is a FREE full-day event that gives juniors the opportunity to get interviewing, networking and etiquette training along with internship/job-search techniques for their upcoming internship and job searches. The event is held in January the Friday before Winter Break ends. Students move in early for the program. Career Launch is sponsored by a student group in partnership with the Career Center and the School of Management. It is open to all BC juniors from all majors.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: Experiential Learning: An Innovative, Practical Framework to Benefit Students and Employers
Victoria Crispo, Wagner College

Program Summary: The nationally acclaimed Wagner Plan incorporates liberal arts and experiential learning. First-year students learn critical-thinking strategies, writing and problem-solving skills, and put learning into practice through valuable placements in community organizations. The Plan culminates with The Senior Program, pairing a capstone course with an internship/applied learning component. This puts into practice advanced principles in the major, introducing students to networking and further training them for professional experiences. Experiential Learning benefits students, and also employers recruiting from this unique candidate pool. This workshop discusses how Wagner best markets students’ experiential learning to employers. Ideally, employers will discover the benefits of hiring students enrolled in such programs.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: Distinguish Yourself! Creating a Career Portfolio, a Valuable Tool for Interviewing and Beyond
Dawn Sherman, Nichols College

Program Summary: This interactive session will cover the development of a student career portfolio and its successful use in an interview. We will discuss the value this self-reflective process can offer to a student, while at the same time developing a valuable product in which they integrate all aspects of their lives, including academic, employment and personal qualities. The focus on student development, with the outcome of identified skill sets, will be emphasized throughout. Program Title: The Alumni Advantage Racquel Williams, Duke University Program Summary: This program discusses the advantages of a Career Center partnership with Alumni and Alumni Affairs offices and explores innovative ways of instituting alumni career programs that meet the goals of many different offices.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: The Value of "Leadership Development Programs" in College Recruiting
Lisa Diamond, The Vanguard Group

Program Summary: Vanguard recognizes the value and importance of grooming future leaders of it's company from within. This session will discuss the various Leadership Development Programs that Vanguard has in place for their entry-level college recruiting; how these programs were developed; the implementation of these programs to the overall recruiting process; and the success of these programs to meeting the hiring and leadership expectations for the company.

Hudson Room

 

Program Title: Playing Traffic Cop: Tips on how to create and manage an efficient and effective Applicant Management Process
Deb Fischer / Jennifer Radogna, Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Program Summary: Enterprise receives thousands of applications each year for their new hire management positions. Come learn how they have been able to implement a system and process that allows for maximizing the candidate referral process.

Hudson Room

 

Tuesday Breakfast Forum - "The Opening Bell"

 

Summary

Location

 

Innovative Partnerships Driving New York’s Life Sciences Industry

Summary: The Long Island Life Sciences Initiative (LILSI) is a network of life sciences companies, local universities, and government that collaboratively address strategic issues in the long term growth and sustainability of the region’s life sciences sector. You will learn ways in which LILSI attracts, retains, and develops life sciences companies through business development, strategic networking, and educational opportunities that enhance corporate competitiveness, productivity, efficiency and profitability. This session is appropriate for corporate folks who seek a collaborative industry model, and college career services folks who have an interest in this industry.

Presenter: Marianna Savoca, Career Center Director, Stony Brook University

Masefield

 

An Inner View of Behavioral Interviewing

Summary: This seminar will provide insights to career services staff members regarding behavioral interviewing techniques. This seminar will provide valuable data on how employers train new interviewers in conducting behavioral interviews. Career Services staff can utilize this information to better prepare their students for the rigors and requirements of behavioral interviewing on campus. As a former certified behavioral interview coach, David has taught behavioral interviewing training courses for organizations such as Capital One and Citigroup.

Presenter: David Ong, College Recruiting Program Manager, MAXIMUS

Hudson

 

Limited Budget, Limited Resources: How to Meet Student Demands

Summary: Many career centers face limited human and financial resources, while student demands increase. Georgetown creatively developed a service delivery model that meets the increasing career needs of students. Attendees will learn how our staff functions as Employment Advisors and Career Consultants (counselors), and the rationale and benefits/drawbacks to organizing career counseling and advising services in this manner. Career consultants provide general assistance (e.g. deciding on which career fields to explore). Employment advisors discuss specific job search strategies based on student’s interest. These additional services were successfully implemented, without an increase in available resources. Come learn how we did it!

Presenters: Julie Kasten, Career Consultant; Staci Lewis, Employment Advisor, Georgetown University

Hutchinson

 

Emerging Leaders Track: A Program to Develop Critical New Professional Competencies

Summary: A recent SACE survey found that new career services professionals needed development in eight competencies, including understanding legal and ethical guidelines; skills in employer relations and employment services; and skills in planning and managing effective programs. In response, SACE developed the Emerging Leaders Track, a certificate program providing training in these areas through the annual conference, drive-in workshops and in tandem with state association meetings. Learn more about these key competency needs and how to create a new professional ‘s training program within your office, state or professional association. A planned New Recruiter Emerging Leaders Track will be discussed as well.

Presenter: Melanie Parker, Executive Director, Career Services & Experiential Learning, University of Central Florida

Red Oak Terrace

 

The Marketplace

Summary: Overview of Fordham’s Career Planning & Placement’s newest recruiting technique – The Marketplace – an interactive electronics approach to simplifying communications between employers and applicants. For recruiter’s it is Market-vue and for students, Res-a-vue – both designed to encourage immediate communiqués that are fast, effective and personal. The Marketplace has taken the interview process out of the 1950-‘s where ads, resumes, collateral materials, fairs and school visits have been the norm and brought it into the computer age with a visually attractive program that can reach those who do not attend Job Fairs (alumni), or who do not know how to use them properly.

Presenter: Angela Yorio, Director of Career Services, Fordham University and Diane Herzman, President, Res-a-vue

Parlor

 

Various Meetings

 

Topic

Date

 

EACE Business Meeting

Learn about and participate in your association’s state of affairs. All are welcome!

Monday
8/9
1:15 pm

 

Committee and Network Fair

Visit various booths and talk with chairs for the vast array of committees and networks offered through EACE. Learn how you can get involved! Committees and networks provide an opportunity for focused discussions with your colleagues and potentially develop your leadership skills

Monday
8/9
4:00 pm

 

Breakfast Forum – “The Opening Bell”

The Opening Bell will be an interactive workshop enabling college and employer members to discuss topics of interest to our profession. Bring your business cards and take advantage of the networking opportunities!

Tuesday
8/10
8:00 am

 

Network Meetings

Each interest Network will have the opportunity to meet and discuss initiatives/ goals for the upcoming year.

Alumni Network
Liberal Arts Interest Network
Business Interest Network
Lone Rangers (1-person office) Network
Creative Careers Network
Public Service Network
Employer’s Group
Small College Network
Engineering Interest Network

Tuesday
8/10
8:00 am

 

Employer Roundtable

Come hear three different viewpoints on where university relations fits into a corporations overall staffing strategy. Our keynote panelists will touch on globalization, why a corporation would choose to fill openings with recent college grads, technology trends, 3rd party recruiters and more.

Tuesday 8/10 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

 

Keynote HR Panel – Lunch

Come hear three different viewpoints on where university relations fits into a corporations overall staffing strategy. Our keynote panelists will touch on globalization, why a corporation would choose to fill openings with recent college grads, technology trends, 3rd party recruiters and more.

Seth Feit – Time Warner - VP of Talent Acquisition
Kevin Gill – Honeywell – Global Director of Staffing
Jonathan D. Jones – Goldman Sachs - Firmwide Campus Recruiting

Tuesday
8/10
12:30 pm