Career Services Performance Group

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Robert Pearl Starks

Interventions

What examples do you have of successfully implemented interventions to address your career center's challenges?

Robert Pearl Starks

Social Media Trends

How do you stay current with social media trends?

Robert Pearl Starks

Social Media Use

How have you used social media in your career center?

Ginny Wiser

Free Alumni Membership

What other memberships that are offered professionally are FREE? All memberships that I have been affiliated with in the past and present have a fee of some sort related to it for either initial membership or yearly. Why should an alumni membership be different? Buddy

chantal desir

Building a Resume

at our school, when teaching resume writing and building, students thinks that writing resume is very easy until they actually start to build it

chantal desir

Placement

In interviewing new student's, I have noticed, that 10 to 15% of them inquired about placement.

Vicki Gidney

Extern to Hire

We have an established network of externship sites, but I want to know how to improve our externship to hire rates. My management team believes we should have between 30-40% ETH, we are currently at 24%, last year ended at 28%. The school has been in the community for many years and is highly thought of, but I sometimes feel that we are using the same sites over and over for "free labor". Can someone help us establish a means to improve this metric?

Vicki Gidney

Employment Skills Workshops

Our Placement Department has initiated what they have titled "Journey to Success" for our students. This starts on the first day of class. All employees of the PD go to each classroom, introduce themselves, hand out "train tickets" for the workshops the students will be traveling during their months of skills training (there is a different train station for each skill). We have building your portfolio, resume development, interviewing (mock and informal from our employers), dress for the interview, and several other different seminars which we believe will benefit our students. Since we can't make these workshops mandatory, does anyone… >>>

Vicki Gidney

Revamping a Struggling Placement Department

We believe we now have the right staff in our placement department, but we are in need of a resource library for each of our programs. We have a new Director of this department and he needs a starting point - can anyone give me some suggestions so I can help him be successful?

Kathleen Herrick