Career Event Assessment & Follow-Up | Origin: CS114
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Developing Effective Job and Career Fairs for Students --> Career Event Assessment & Follow-Up
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Employee and student feedback is extremely important especially if there were connections made that the Career Services team should be aware of. Every time the event takes place, there should be revisions that align with the preferences of the employers. I also intend to make sure the students know that the employers are providing a service by appearing on campus and they should be appreciative, professional, and prepared.
I was able to get some valuable resources to utilize for future job fairs--very beneficial!
An important part of a successful job fair is the post-event follow-up. The weeks after the event should focus on connecting with employers and students, tracking outcomes such as interviews and hires, and gathering feedback to improve future events.
This module showed the importance of accessing a career event and completing a follow up activities afterward. Gathering feed back from students and business partners will help identify strengths, areas for improvement and ways to make future events more effective.
I learned that its important to follow up with employers as well as students on the success of a career event.
It is very important to follow up with not only employers but also speak with students who attended to gather all of the ROI data; were students engaging, were they applying, were they truly putting themselves out there and taking full advantage of the offerings? This helps us to bridge any potential gaps and create stronger events with better outcomes.
Gathering data from students and employers through paper and online surveys is a great way to improve future job fair events.
My take away is to do both surveys in person and online. I believe we would get a better outcome and better feedback. Also to do a follow up with the team after that helped to support the event. Their feedback is just as important to see what worked and what we can improve on.
Assessing your event, both from the employer perspective as well as the student perspective, is a best practice in ensuring successful similar events in the future. It also provides good ROI information for stakeholders.
It is a great suggestion to offer in-person and online survey's to collect after event data; these survey's need to be sent to students, employers, volunteers, e.g. to measure the success of the event. This will help determine how to make future events better.
The collection and assessing of data are extremely important to evaluate your event.
Feedback is necessary for future process improvement and to make sure the employer and students expectations are met.
I learned the importance of 'feedback and follow up' for the purposes of networking, increasing efficiency, reach and effectiveness.
Follow up is key to improve your event processes and buy in.
How can an event without proper follow-up ever be justified as a success? In this section, I have gotten a better glimpse of just how important the collection of data and surveys is for understanding how a career fair "went". I appreciated hearing how it is okay to have paper surveys and online. Among the most valuable information I received during the material today is the content on what to ask in a survey. I have learned that it is nice to hear some opinions from students or employers, but the real meat of the survey comes by two methods....(1) easy data quantification and (2) specific feedback for improvement purposes.
Following up is an important aspect of the event.
Follow-ups are a great way to express thanks/appreciation for everyone involved and to reflect on how the event went.
I learned the value of surveys and proper etiquette of follow up and thank you for all those who participated.
I like the concept of a follow up survey to indicate what people like and what could be improved.
