career

Division of Student Affairs

2010-11 Annual Report





Department: Career Development Center

Person Completing Report: Leslye Erickson



Executive Summary



Despite a rocky second year of operation since the re-opening of the Career

Development Center, our third year of operation marked the return of the office to our

Houchens Location, tremendous growth in the development of our webpage and web

based services, continued development of our school specific career development

programs, a continued increase in the number of students, alumni and faculty/staff

served and only a small decline in our employer participation even in the face of a major

recession. In addition, we experienced a number of staff changes as two staff left to

accept director level opportunities and one staff was promoted from employer relations

coordinator to Career Coach Sr.



1. Programs and Services



 In keeping with the new look and feel for the University Webpage, the CDC re-

designed it's webpage with the same look and feel as the new University page

and new updated content and web-based services for students, alumni, faculty

and employers.



 The CDC Staff have provided 222 presentations for students classes, groups,

clubs, etc…



 The CDC Staff have provided individual career coaching for 1299 student/alumni.



 The CDC Staff have assisted 2639 students create new accounts and learn how to

use Symplicity.



 The CDC Staff have assisted employers in posting 2338 new jobs in Symplicity for

our student/alumni use in their respective job searches.



 The CDC Staff have assisted 981 employers create new accounts in Symplicity.



 The CDC Staff have administered and interpreted 624 MBTI and/or Strong

Interest Assessments to UofL students/alumni.



 Hosted and/or assisted with the planning of 10 career fairs this review period:

The Engineering Career Fair (Fall and Spring), The University Wide Career Fair

(Fall and Spring), The The Graduate School Fair, The Part-time Jobs Fair, the

School of Social Work Career Fair, the Education Career Fair and the Big East

Career Consortium Virtual Fair and the Big East Career Consortium On-Site Fair

at Madison Square Gardens.



2. Major Accomplishments



Re-designed office webpage with fresh new look and logo, re-wrote webpage

content and greatly expanded the use of web based services available through the

page to include Cards CareerLink, Interfolio, Career Spots, Interview Stream, Career

TV, On-line Resume Review, Cards Mentor Network. In the 2009/2010 reporting

year we experienced 13,616 hits to our webpage. During the 2010/2011 report year

we experienced 61,010 hits to our webpage. As we radically improved our page

during the course of the report year, we attribute the increase in use to the

improvement of our pages, the resources found within and our increased ability to

drive/attract our students to our webpage for “self serve” career development

assistance.



3. Staffing Summary



 Lindsay Jacobs, Student Staff, Graduated and took a new job, May 2011



 Greg Bocchino, Career Coach Sr, accepted position as Director of Student

Services for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, Jan

2011



 Matt Real, was promoted from the position of Employer Relations Coordinator

to Career Coach Sr for the College of Arts and Sciences, Jan 2011



4. Activities and Initiatives that Support Academic Units



 In Arts and Sciences our focus has been to assist students with career decision

making, offering 100's of MBTI and Strong Interest Inventories to date to

individual student referrals from academic advisors and faculty, to cardinal

covenant students, to porter scholars, to GEN 101 freshman, to Comm 250

enrolled students, to SMEP summer participants, to prospective students and

alumni just to name a few; the delivery of a career development workshop series

in the Arts and Science physical space was provided to allow us to cover the

basics with these students from how to choose a major to how to write a

resume; in addition, our Career Spotlights series, was continued and expanded

to help students learn more about how to put their major to work.



 In Dentistry, we continue to help dentistry staff learn to use Symplicity as the

database for their job posting system and to provide workshops on the basics of

career development for both dental and dental hygeine students.

 In Education, we assisted with the Education Career Fair, hosting a number of

school districts participating in on-campus recruiting, regular office hours have

been maintained during and the delivery of a career development workshop

series in the School of Education space was provided.



 In Engineering, our focus has been to continue to partner with the planning and

hosting of the Engineering career fair, delivery of mock interviews for all

students preparing to coop, providing regular office hours at Speed School, the

delivery of a career development workshop series in the School of Engineering

focused on full-time employment issues, was provided in support of their already

developed cooperative education program.



 In Music, regular office hours have been maintained and changed a bit to

included staff being available over their lunch hour in an information booth type

format in the space where the students hang out, delivery of a career

development workshop series in the School of Music space was provided and

included several presentations during their regularly scheduled convocation on

Thursdays. In addition, we have continued to host additional Careers Spotlights

in Music presentations, bringing additional music alumni back to campus to

share their career path with our soon to be grads. We also created for the first

time our first Career Development Center blog and piloted the concept in the

School of Music.



 In Nursing, we continue to provide our required career development

presentations and mock interviews for all students. We also continue to work

with advisors to implement our an early waring program for those students who

are on academic warning, probation or who are not selected to continue in the

upper level courses.



 In Public Health, we have provided a comprehensive workshop series on resume

writing, cover letter writing, interviewing skills, and job search strategies, as well

as mock interviews, faculty presentations on our services. In addition, we have

provided late afternoon/early evening office hours as an attempt to better serve

their student scheduling needs.



 In Social Work, our focus has been to assist with job postings, getting info out to

prospective students about grad school options and the collection of graduate

follow up data. In addition, we assisted with the second annual Social Work

Career Fair in conjunction with the Social Work Student Council group. No school

specific office hours have been established to date. We have also launched in

cooperation with the school our Cards Mentors program as a pilot for the

development of this program university wide.



 Now, in our second year of providing Alumni Services, we offered one on one

counseling, a Career Development Series of Workshops, updated our webpage

with resources specifically for alumni and invited our alumni to participate in all

our career fairs. In addition, we have presented at all Alumni Council Meeting

and their annual Alumni Leadership Meeting.



 This reporting year marks our first offering, in partnership with the Graduate

School, a series career development workshops designed especially for graduate

level students. In addition, we have greatly enhanced the information on the

graduate school process on our webpage.



5. Activities and Services that Support Diversity



 In keeping with the University mission to be inclusive and respresentative of all

groups, the Career Development Center Staff demonstrate their comittment to

diversity through the wide range of groups we present to and comittees we

serve.



 Porter Scholars Student Administration, Interpretation and Presentation on the

MBTI, Strong and Career Decision Making



 Cultural CenterStudent Administration, Interpretation and Presentation on the

MBTI, Strong and Career Decision Making



 LGBT Fan



 Veterans Friendly Office



 James Brown and Valerie Browning serves as active members of CODRE



 Cardinal Covenant Student Administration, Interpretation and Presentation on

the MBTI, Strong and Career Decision Making



6. Activities and Services that Support Community Service and/or Civic Engagement



As a newly developed office, this has not been a priority due to the need to focus on

building our own infrastructure.



7. Staff Professional Development Activities and Programs



As a means to increase University awareness of the Career Development Center and

to become actively engaged in the University community, all staff are strongly

encouraged where appropriate to give time through service in University

Committees and to our profession through participation in a variety of professional

associations.



Staff in the CDC actively served on the following University committees:

 Cardinal Covenant Advisory Committee

 Great Louisville Inc – HIRE Sub-Committee

 Interview Committee Member for Mr. & Ms. Cardinal

 Financial Festival Planning Committee

 Cardinal newspaper Advisory Board

 Department of Public Safety Advisory-Education subcommittee chair

 Commission on Diversity and Racial Equality

 Big East Career Fair Planning Committee

 Staff Senate

 Student Affairs Professional Development

 ACPA Mid-Managers Institute planning meeting

 Career Development Center Representative, Student Affairs Newsletter

 Black Alumni Council

 Per Credit Hour Tuition Marketing Working Group

 President's Outstanding performance Award Committee for Faculty/Staff

 Graduate Follow-Up Committee

 Student Persistance Committee

 Flight Plan Committee

 I2A Advisory Committee



8. Assessment



During this review period the Career Center named Becky Clark Associated Director. As a

part of her new duties she will assume responsibility for collection of a number of

different metrics and evaluation measures including:

 Continuation of the collection of monthly counts on # of student appointments,

# of new student registrations, # of new employer registrations, # of new jobs

posted, # of career assessments administered, # of presentations, # of webpage

hits, # of career fairs, # of student attendees at career fair and # of employer at-

tendees at career fair.

 In addition, Becky will begin the collection of both career coach appointment and

presentation evaluative data in an effort to provide service delivery feedback to

the career coaches on a regular basis.



9. Top Goals for the Department



 Change focus of career services delivery in response to campus needs and job

market



 Expand Alumni Career Services Program



 Focus on Student Career Awareness and Intervention



 Focus on Staff and Faculty Career Awareness



 CDC Staff Development



 Program Evaluation