Functional Round Tables

Join us for a round table discussion with others who work in the same job function as you. These attendee-led sessions provide a unique opportunity to learn and share with your peers in a collaborative environment, discussing hot topics that are on your mind. Functions include:
 

• Career Center Team Leaders (for anyone who leads a team within a Career Center, including directors, associate directors, assistant directors, etc.
• Employer Relations
• Employers
• MBA Career Coaches
• Operations
• Specialty Masters Career Coaches

Ace "Tell Me About Yourself" Every Time Using the FIT Model

Sponsored by: CPG Camp

Presenter:

Steve Dalton

Program Director for Daytime Career Services 

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

"Tell me about yourself" (TMAY) is the single-most common question professionals face in their relationship-building efforts. However, delivering a great TMAY answer on-demand is incredibly challenging (for job seekers and non-job seekers alike!). Attendees will learn the (screenwriting-inspired) FIT Model for answering TMAY easily and effectively every time, no memorized script or advance preparation required. Research demonstrating the outsized importance of TMAY in interviews will be shared, and attendees will leave with more confidence in their students' (and their own) responses to a frequently anxiety-inducing question... that sometimes gets asked at MBA CSEA conferences. School representatives will walk away with tangible ideas for communicating with and coaching students. Employer representatives can use this opportunity for their own professional development, as well as observations about how students are being coached.

Beyond the Info Session: Creating a World-class Employer Visit Program

Sponsored by: Ernst & Young (EY)

Presenters:

Brian Fanelli

Director of Employer Relations

University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner College of Business

Kevin J. Hardy

Assistant Dean and Karen Bennett Hoeb Director of Cooperative Education

University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner College of Business

In a world where decreased student engagement has become the norm, how can career services professionals highlight employer partners in a meaningful way that captures students’ attention? Through a series of intentional on-campus recruitment activities both before and after the campus-wide career fair, the Lindner College of Business’ career services staff collaborated with an employer partner to increase the number of quality applicants for its co-op and full-time positions. Join us as we examine a case study of the planning process from beginning to end which led to an immersive on-campus recruitment experience that went far beyond an information session. We will also discuss ways to include virtual components into employer recruitment activities.

Bringing Talent Back to Asia: Trends and Best Practices

Presenters:

Rhoda Yap

Global Director - Career Development Centre

INSEAD

Dong-Wook (DW) Lee

Director of Employer Relations, Career Development Office

Asia School of Business (in collaboration with MIT Sloan)

With the advent of regionalization, career centers around the globe are seeking to empower and equip international students with the appropriate information to enable a successful transition back to Asia. In this session, Rhoda Yap and Dong-Wook “DW” Lee will share hiring trends and best practices in engaging with students seeking to find roles in Asia. They will also facilitate thematic mini breakouts for deeper sharing across career advisors/coaches, employer relations specialists, and employers. Attendees will walk away with tangible ideas on how to engage talent to support a career move to Asia.

Career Service Essentials: Pivoting Strategies Around Data and Technology to Effectively Measure Engagement and Outcomes

Sponsored by: GMAC

Presenters:

Tanya Montgomery

Operations Manager 

Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School, Weston Career Center

Jennifer Krupp

Certified Career Management Coach – Specialized Master's Program

Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School, Weston Career Center

Mary Dohle

Employer Experiences Manager, 

Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School, Weston Career Center

Taking a data-driven, values-based approach, the Olin Business School’s Weston Career Center, at Washington University in St. Louis, holistically supports students, alumni, and employers in an ever-changing market. Due in large part to changes in student and employer needs caused by COVID-19, the WCC has swiftly adapted services and resources to best serve the unique needs of our stakeholders. This presentation will highlight key data and technology tools, how we leverage those tools depending on our audience, how we create engagement strategies, while highlighting lessons learned along the way.

Catalysts for Change: Leveraging Corporate and Community Partnerships to Encourage Student Development and Career Outcomes

Sponsored by: Streeme.io

Presenters:

Katie Bennett

Assistant Director of Career Management & Corporate Engagement

University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Sam Musselman

Associate Director for Corporate Engagement

University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

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Christopher Barlow

Director of Corporate Engagement & Career Management, 

University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business                      

Students are increasingly looking to make community impact. In response to this desire, Katz developed 2 signature integrated learning initiatives: the Bridge Program and Super Analytics Challenge. These programs provide students with opportunities to tap into the Pittsburgh community, network with local organizations, and use business knowledge to ideate solutions to complex social problems. At the same time, students create initiatives that tangibly impact the community and develop skills attractive to employers. Presenters will outline program development, identification of and collaboration with community and corporate partners, project creation, and benefits that both partners and students experience.

DE&I: A Deeper Dive Into Key Topics

Presenters:

Sunaina Gulati-Ruh

Director Career Management Graduate Business Programs

Santa Clara University

Jennifer Applebee

Associate Director, Recruiting and Employer Relations

Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business

This session will consist of a synopsis slide presentation of the topics covered in the monthly DE&I meetings, specifically stereotypes, micro-aggression, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Attendees would then break out into topic specific roundtable discussions facilitated by a member of the DE&I resource group. Attendees would rotate through 2 - 3 topic table groups sharing their professional and/or personal experiences as they relate to the topic, and what DE&I programs their colleagues have experienced at their institutions. The last 5 - 10 minutes would be a debrief of what attendees learned or found most useful.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging – Advancing Your Organization Through Staff, Student, Alumni, & Employer Engagement

Sponsored by: MBA-Exchange.com

Presenters:

Christy Murray

Assistant Dean, Career Development Office

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Michelle Jones

Senior Associate Director, Career Education and Life Design

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Cindy Lu Jacobs

Associate Director, Career Coaching and Education

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Sara Bliden

Senior Associate Director, Employer Relations

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Have you recently created space to learn about the intersections of your colleagues’ identities? How might you bring students, alumni, faculty, and staff together as a community to discuss how identities show up in the workplace? What should employers consider when building recruitment pipelines of underrepresented talent from a university? During this session, we will discuss DEIB from multiple lenses – building trust and space for internal staff conversations, for storytelling across multiple constituents to learn about various identities and intersections of identities, for student advocacy with employers, and for employer education on working with career offices to recruit talent inclusively.

Employer Demand for B-School Graduates: A Sneak Peak of GMAC’s 2022 Corporate Recruiters Survey

Sponsored by: Archer Career

Presenters:

Matt Hazenbush
Director, Research Analysis and Communications

Kun Yuan
Director, Research and Data Science

Alexandria Williams 
Associate Manager, Survey Research

Join the team behind GMAC’s annual Corporate Recruiters Survey for an early look at the findings in advance of the Summary Report’s release the following week. Gain insight into the current demand for MBA and business master’s grads globally, including hiring and salary trends, international placement, recruiter perceptions, and the skills top employers look for most in making hiring decisions.

Finding the Balance Between a High Touch Coaching Model and Scaled Services

Sponsored by: VMock

Presenters:
 

Erin Warns

Director

Kellstadt Career Management Center

Adrienne Corona

Assistant Director

Kellstadt Career Management Center

The session will be co-led by the Director of the Kellstadt Career Management Center (CMC) and an Assistant Director who manages coaching for multiple specialty MS programs and our Weekend MBA population. The audience members will hear first hand from an advisor whose approach blends career and academic advising and from the director on how to identify opportunities for scale to alleviate staff burnout and still promote student success in blended high touch & high tech model. There will be a guided SWOT exercise for the audience members to complete and discuss opportunities for innovation to better assist the student.

From Admissions to Alumni: Elevating Employer Relationships Across the Spectrum

Sponsored by: Vault/Firsthand

Presenters:
 

Sandra Chandler

Associate Director, Employer Engagement & Recruiting for MBA & Alumni

UNC Kenan-Flagler

Noemi Morillo-Vasquez

Director for Employer Engagement & Recruiting

UNC Kenan-Flagler

Our Employer Engagement Team will share the unique ways we incorporate employers at all levels throughout the student journey and optimize connections enterprise wide across UNC Kenan-Flagler. This session will feature our MBA programs (FT, Executive, and Online) and will explore how we leverage employer and stakeholder relationships to drive new engagement, while incorporating and supporting our stakeholders throughout the student experience. We will provide insights into the holistic approach used to engage various stakeholder groups across the spectrum (including admissions, centers, program leadership & student clubs) to enhance both employer visibility for recruiting strategies and event engagement.

Infotainment: Teaching to Millennials and Beyond

Sponsored by: Quinncia Inc.

Presenters:

Larry Faskowitz

MBA Corporate Relations Manager / MBA Career Coach

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

Ivan Wanis Ruiz

Senior Facilitator

Public Speaking Lab

Running a session virtually or in person can be difficult. Balancing engagement, fun and learning is challenging. Most everyone will agree that attention spans are getting shorter. With that being said the distinguishing factor in the future of learning is not the presentation of information but rather infotainment. In this workshop participants will learn strategies to make both virtual and in-person sessions more engaging and interactive.

Invisible Connection: Building Heart Strings (virtually)

Presenter:

Krys Ardayfio

Associate Director, Career Education

MIT Sloan

Explore a cutting-edge “telepresence robot hybrid interaction model” MIT Sloan Career Development Office began piloting in 2022. Counterintuitively, the robot model reimagines relationship building. Employers, advisors, faculty, staff, and students connect, for various purposes, unbound by the constraints we’ve just grown to accept.
Explore real cases uses, possible future uses, reactions, benefits, and drawbacks based on our trials, anecdotes, and data. Envision and consider together the telepresence robot model as a means of enhancing learning, networking, and community. The model nurtures bonds, positively impacts outcomes, and amplifies equity, inclusion, and access to information, services, opportunities, and the education/work space. Imagine!

Post-Pandemic & The Great Resignation: Modern Strategies To Prepare Today’s Job Candidate

Sponsored by: RocketBlocks

Presenters:
 

Danielle Glynn

Sr. Director- External Engagement

University of San Francisco - School of Management

Rushab Kamdar

Founder

Think Business 360

In today’s post-pandemic job landscape, companies are looking beyond the traditional resume. 85% of jobs are filled through networking and 70% of jobs are never published publicly. The “Great Resignation” has further emphasized this shift where candidates are seeking purpose vs. a paycheck. Personal brand is becoming the differentiator for recruiters seeking out top-talent. Reskilling, upskilling and storytelling are becoming integral to a candidate’s strengths. In a market where the job candidate can exercise choice, while companies are increasingly selective on talent, join this informative session on the modern strategies required to prepare candidates on landing their desired job.

Specialty Masters Reporting Standards

Sponsored by: 12Twenty

Presenter:

Beth Ursin

Standards Consultant

MBA CSEA

Learn about the key features of the Standards for Reporting Specialty Masters Employment Statistics. The session will include an introduction to the Standards and their application, as well as Q&A and feedback relating to members’ observations in the past few years of implementing these standards.

The Rise of the Renege: Ethical Questions and Action Plans

Presenters:

Heidi Cuthbertson

Campus Relations & Strategy Lead

Ball Aerospace

Jennifer Applebee

Associate Director, Recruiting and Employer Relations

Rice University - Jones Graduate School of Business

In the current job seeker market, offer reneges and declines have been on the rise, creating a headache for employers and career center staff alike. In the first half of this session, we will explore the ethics of reneges from both the employer and school perspectives with small group discussions. For the second part, we will crowdsource ideas and action items that we can all use to minimize the increasing trend of students backing out of accepted offers.

Where Worlds Collide: Aligning Careers Services and Student Life

Sponsored by: GF Job Assessment Experts

Presenters:
 

Lisa Umenyiora

Executive Director, Careers and Student Life

Imperial College Business School

Gemma Robertson

Director of Employer Relations

Imperial College Business School

With the increased focus on student experience, many schools now have a Student Life team distinct from Careers Services but to what extent do these two non-curricular teams engage, align, and support the same objectives? Imperial College Business School has aligned its Careers and Student Life teams to form one department. We will share why and how this approach was taken, challenges faced, and early benefits seen, covering topics including global strategy, career clubs, and student leadership. While we merged offices, we will share many opportunities that could also be explored as partnerships. There will be time for experience sharing and Q&A and you'll leave with ideas you can apply back home regardless of team size/structure.

Facilitated Deep Dives

Facilitators TBA

Join us to take a closer look at some of the topics that were discussed by our keynote speaker and employer panel, including:
 

• Work environment arrangements

• Skill progression needs

• Engagement level of students/new employees

• Future of Technology