Recruiting Trends 20062007

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Welcome! Please standby. The Experience
Webinar What Do You Do With A Liberal Arts
Degree? is scheduled to begin at 1 pm Eastern
February 21, 2007
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What Do You Do With A Liberal Arts Degree?Five
Smartest Moves to Finding Work You Love

• Sheila J. Curran
• Fannie Mitchell Executive Director, Duke
  University Career Center
• Coauthor, Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads
  Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career
• BusinessWeek.com columnist Curran on Careers

Experience Web Cast February 21, 2007
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• Why do liberal arts students choose to attend
  your institution?

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What College Students Want From Their Education
Eduventures research on 6200 enrolling first
year students at all SAT levels.

• 72 want professional preparation
• Access to internships
• Quality of careers office
• Placement record with employers

Eduventures is a research and consulting firm
for the education industry, located in Boston, MA.
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Assumptions

• Get into good school
• Work hard
• Get good grades
• Find high paying, prestigious job
• Leap over tall buildings on the way to the top

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Helicopter Parent Landing

• The dilemma for parents and students
• Whats out there?
• How do I get there?
• What do I need to do now?

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The Genesis of Smart Moves

• Illustrate how real liberal arts grads find work
  they love
• Stories of 23 grads
• Out of school less than 15 years
• 19 different schools
• All made smart career moves and a few dumb
  ones, too

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The Big C Question
Career ? ? ?
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Introducing Sheila Curran

• BA, Russian and Persian PGCE, Education SPHR
  (Human Resources)
• Early jobs Assembly line worker, file clerk,
  cruise ship assistant, receptionist, program
  coordinator
• Real jobs director-level positions in training
  and development, employment, employer relations,
  benefits, organizational development
• Current and previous job career director
• Employers Duke University, Brown University,
  Gallaudet University, University of Michigan

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Goals of Webinar

• Highlight career issues facing liberal arts
  students
• Discuss career assumptions and realities
• Identify learning from interviews with liberal
  arts grads
• Suggest plan of action for working with liberal
  arts students

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Who Was Cara Storm?

• University of Pennsylvania 89
• Psychology
• Early experiences
• DJ and Station Manager at college radio station

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Caras Bio

• Passion Creative Expression
• Early Work Experience
• WBCN Radio
• KISS 108
• Isabella Stewart Museum
• Founder and Principal of Marketing by Storm

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Who Was Ray Eddy?

• Duke University 92, Math and Econ
• Early work experience
• IBM

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Ray Eddy Beyond IBM

• Duke University 92, MAT 94
• Math and Econ
• Hewitt Associates
• Teaching
• Resident Advising
• Coaching Marching Bands

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Ray Eddy Now

• Passion Performing stunts, coaching, teaching
  kids
• President, Superior Marching Band Enterprises
• Stunt Actor Indiana Jones at Disney-MGM Studios

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Cara, Ray and Smart Moves

• Listen to others
• Learn out of classroom
• Make career corrections
• NETWORK!
• Identify fall-back positions
• Demonstrate energy and talents even in low level
  positions
• Identify skills you want to build in a new
  position
• Dont be afraid of failure
• Build a safety net by identifying clients before
  starting a business

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The Five Smartest Moves

• Figure out who you are and where you want to go
• Get experience
• Build social and networking relationships
• Identify and fill your competence gap
• Find your hook

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The Five Smartest Moves
SMARTEST MOVE 1 Discover who you are and where
you want to go
SMARTEST MOVE 2 Get experience
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The Five Smartest Moves
SMARTEST MOVE 3 Build Social and Networking
Relationships
SMARTEST MOVE 5 Find Your Hook
SMARTEST MOVE 4 Identify Your Competence Gaps
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Challenges for Counselors

• Major doesnt equal career
• Myriad options
• Impossible to be knowledgeable about every field
• On-campus recruiters may not be interested in
  many liberal arts majors

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What to Do?

• Educate students and parents about career
  realities even before matriculation
• Find opportunities to show relationship between
  education and career
• Facilitate exploration
• Informational interviewing
• Alumni/parent career advisors
• Apprenticeships/Internships
• Real-world programming, e.g., Career Week
• TELL STORIES

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Carries Story

• Moral
• Where you start will probably not be where you
  end
• Only you can decide who you are and where you
  want to go

• If a man shall begin with certainties, he shall
  end with doubts. But if he shall content himself
  to begin with doubts, he shall end with
  certainties
• -- Sir Francis Bacon

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Key Takeaways For Your Students Alumni

• Download this presentation from the Experience
  University Resources channel so you can use it
  with your students and alumni and share the 5
  smartest moves
• Engage your alumni to share their stories to open
  up possibilities for students (or buy Sheilas
  book if you want to use the featured alumni as
  examples)
• Encourage students and alumni to get as much
  exposure to new areas internships, job shadows,
  info interviews, job fairs etc.

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Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads Book

• To Order --
• Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads
• Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career

www.smartmovesbook.com
Also available through Amazon.com or at your
local bookstore.
Questions? Email Sheila Curran at
sheila.smartmoves_at_gmail.com
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Experience Resources For Your Students and Alumni

• New Content
• Job Shadow
• Manage Your Career (for Alumni)
• New Content Partners
• SalesTrax (sales channel)
• Careerbuilder (alumni channel)

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New Exclusive Experiences

• Video Interview with CEO
• Application deadline Feb 25th

• Special Experience slot to attend and blog about
  the 2-day job fair
• Application deadline Feb 25th

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Professional Development Series

• March 27, 2007 --Finding the Best-Fit Job for
  Students and Alumni
• Susan Strayer, SPHR, is a human resource
  professional and a career development expert, who
  has worked in both corporate recruiting and in
  career services (Johns Hopkins University).
• She is the author of The Right Job, Right Now
  The Complete Toolkit For Finding Your Perfect
  Career.
• Tell Us What You Think !
• Evaluation survey will be emailed to participants
• Ongoing topic submission on University Resource
  Channel

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Q A Session
If you would like to ask a question, please
press 1 on your telephone keypad.
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Thanks for Participating!
Sheila Curran Duke University sheila.smartmoves_at_g
mail.com
Experience, Inc. support_at_experience.com 800-583-77
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