3 Questions with Ronnie | Career Fair

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02/18/2022 Added

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Chancellor Ronnie Green chats with Director of Career Services Tracy Lungrin and student Mo Komi about UNL Career Fairs which bring roughly 400 employers to campus twice yearly.

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[00:00:03.920]So Tracy you put on a number of career fairs
[00:00:06.440]during the year for our students
[00:00:08.110]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:00:09.700]got one going on right today.
[00:00:11.574]Yeah.
[00:00:12.407]How many potential employers
[00:00:14.620]or connections do we bring to campus for our students?
[00:00:18.280]In our university career fairs
[00:00:19.600]we try to get as many career interest areas
[00:00:22.780]as possible represented.
[00:00:24.130]Today is like marketing management, arts and media.
[00:00:27.830]Tomorrow will be IT, analytics.
[00:00:30.340]The next day will be more engineering, construction, STEM
[00:00:33.610]and then our one on East Campus
[00:00:35.430]will be ag, food, and environment.
[00:00:37.860]I think we're close to 400 employers in the fairs.
[00:00:42.470]So Mo you're a student, what's career fairs for you?
[00:00:46.070]What's that mean for you?
[00:00:47.900]The career fair itself is really great
[00:00:50.410]in that you can find a whole range
[00:00:52.870]of employers all within your career focus.
[00:00:55.060]It's also a rare thing to have so many opportunities
[00:00:57.360]just waiting for you to kind of put your best face forward.
[00:01:00.300]So I personally like it because I get to practice
[00:01:03.890]like my interpersonal skills and interviewing skills.
[00:01:07.530]Really, I think you get out of it, what you put in.
[00:01:10.290]So finally, Tracy, are there any kind of new
[00:01:13.120]and innovative ways that we're connecting our students
[00:01:16.050]to employers and careers?
[00:01:18.980]Yes. Thank you COVID.
[00:01:20.630]We now do both in person and virtual events.
[00:01:24.970]Virtual really helps us connect to organizations
[00:01:28.760]and employers that may not be able to travel here
[00:01:30.770]which is pretty cool.
[00:01:31.603]It's also been able to help us connect to alumni
[00:01:34.890]that wanna meet our students and mentor our students.
[00:01:37.600]Also just our Handshake platform.
[00:01:40.120]They're doing a really great job of figuring out
[00:01:42.320]how to do more ways of creating digital relationships
[00:01:47.260]between students and employers.
[00:01:49.450]And I think the other thing that I'm really excited
[00:01:51.230]about are some of the smaller
[00:01:52.860]career meetups that we're doing
[00:01:54.470]which are more like informal networking events
[00:01:57.380]organized around a specific career interest
[00:02:00.480]or even around an identity group,
[00:02:03.110]such as our pride in the workplace event for LGBT students.
[00:02:07.890]So it's been great to learn
[00:02:08.723]about the career fairs that we put on
[00:02:10.760]through the year where we connect our students to employment
[00:02:15.120]and their futures.

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