Employee Engagement in Student Career Readiness - "Preparing Students for Full Time Employment" April 2013
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Employee Engagement in
Student Career Readiness
“Preparing Students for Full Time Employment”
April 2013
Presented in partnership by:
Office of Human Resources
Office of Career Services
SHOWCASE OBJECTIVES
Encourage every employee to assist students in becoming more career
ready upon graduation:
• Demonstrate how employees can impact the student worker experience
by creating a more professional experience so it is more closely aligned
to employer expectations.
• Encourage supervisors and managers to think about how they might
structure an internship within their own department – or encourage paid
internships with vendors.
• Increase awareness of various approaches and tools available to further
students’ professional development and career readiness.
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AGENDA
• Repositioning of the Strategic Plan
– Employee Impact
• Student Worker Initiative
– Comprehensive Program Review
– Key Findings
– New Initiatives
• Internships
– Features and Benefits of Internships
– Key Findings – On-campus Academic Internships
– Progress to date
• Panel Discussion
• Shifting the Culture
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REPOSITIONING OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
DEFINING THE VALUE OF A ST. JOHN’S EDUCATION
Career Placement and Furthering Education
• “Students need the skills and readiness to compete and
succeed in a highly collaborative, global marketplace enabled by
technology.
• Students/Parents need to know that there will be a solid return
on their investment and that a St. John’s degree will uniquely
advantage our students for career opportunities.
• We must provide the best resources to assist our students in
finding jobs and provide the experiential learning necessary to
prepare them for tomorrow’s workplace.”
Source: Repositioning the Strategic Plan 2011-2014
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REPOSITIONING OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
OUTCOMES
“75% of students will have a job in
desired industry and 95% will be in a job or
be in graduate school within six months
of graduation.”
Source: Repositioning the Strategic Plan 2011-2014
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REPOSITIONING OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
STRATEGIES / NEXT STEPS
Enhance Career Placement and Internships:
• Career Center – formally integrate operational structure with faculty, colleges, industry, employers and alumni
• Track and increase level of internships/practicum/co-ops for any student who wants one; and
with faculty address the implications for the core curriculum, and major areas of study
• Counsel/advise students towards majors that lead to occupations that are growing; early start – during freshman year
• Leverage diversity of our student population and global competencies/study or work abroad and service as a distinct
advantage for career placement
• Ensure curricula reflect industry/market/employer needs; increase faculty exposure to employers through outreach or
externships
• Culturally shift faculty and administrator’s orientation to preparing
students for the workplace
• Prepare students for a radically different technologically advanced, team-based workplace
• Help students translate the value of the Catholic, global, liberal arts (particularly Philosophy/Theology), service, experience
into a marketable advantage, demonstrate value of the brand to employers
• Implement systemic process for obtaining current and future employer needs and perceptions of St. John’s graduates
• Establish strategic partnerships among faculty, alumni, advisory boards and employers to significantly enhance
relationships within and across multiple industries
• Use social media more effectively for internships and job placement
• Collect and maintain more detailed data on employment of graduates
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Source: St. John’s University Career Initiative Surveys, fall 2011
REPOSITIONING OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
Employer Statistics
We asked both recent alumni and employers the extent to which they agreed with the following statements:
•! I consider the following competencies essential when seeking to hire a college student for an internship or full-
time employment.
•! St. John’s has satisfactorily developed and trained me in the following competencies.
Further, we asked employers the extent to which they agreed with the following statement:
•! In my experience, St. John’s students and recent graduates consistently illustrate the following competencies.
96.4%
Strong work ethic 74.3%
66.4%
94.4%
Communication - written and oral 71.6%
74.3%
91.8%
Attention to detail 67.3%
54.1%
89.4%
Ability to apply knowledge to real-world settings 66.3%
58.5%
85.3%
Critical thinking and analytical thinking 63.2%
63.0%
Employers - Essential Employers - STJ Graduates Recent Alumni - STJ Prep
77! Source: St. John’s University Career Initiative Surveys, fall 2011
Student Worker Engagement
Program Review & Outcomes
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STUDENT WORKER ENGAGEMENT
Comprehensive Program Review
• Conducted Focus Groups,
aggregated data into key
themes, and determined and
analyzed potential gaps.
• Presented themes and
conclusions to managers (45)
and supervisors (84) across
three campuses to gain
commitment and solicit ideas.
• Created a plan for going
forward and identified short-
term initiatives and began to
implement.
Student On-Campus Employment & Internship Fair September 9, 2013
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STUDENT WORKER ENGAGEMENT
Key Findings
• Strategic Plan repositioning not widely understood.
• Supervisors are committed to the student’s academic success and
appreciate the work they do.
• Student workers feel appreciated and add value.
• Lack of basic supervisory practices.
• Career discussions rarely occur.
• Student worker experience is not aligned to prospective employer
expectations.
10STUDENT WORKER ENGAGEMENT
New Initiatives
•! Student Worker Supervisor Training
•! Student On Campus Employment &
Internship Fair
•! “University Business” magazine article
•! Toolkit for Supervising Student Workers
•! Updated the Supervisor Handbook
11!STUDENT WORKER ENGAGEMENT
Planned Initiatives
Web Digest highlight
Lunch and Learn open forum
On-site visits
Student Worker Forum
12Internships 13
INTERNSHIPS
Benefit to Student
Top 3 Factors most influential in Alumni Career Success:
Explore career choices
•! Experiential Learning/Internships
•! Faculty
•! Academic Reputation Increase marketability
Source: St. John’s University Career Initiative Surveys, fall 2011
Develop skills
Employers’ preference for work experience, by percent of respondents
Apply knowledge
43% Acquire job search skills
57%
Internship/Co-op
No Preference Build networking contacts
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Gain Confidence
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Source: Job Outlook 2013, NACE (National Association of Colleges & Employers
14!INTERNSHIPS
Key Findings from Focus Groups
• Unaware of the benefits of hosting
an on-campus, academic internship.
• Need formal approach to solicit and
coordinate on-campus academic
internships
• Opportunity to leverage vendor,
alumni and other relationships for
both academic and paid internships.
15INTERNSHIPS
Progress to Date
On-Campus Internships
• Synergy among Human Resources, Career Services and college offices exists to
create on-campus academic internships.
• Created a cross-functional working team to explore on-campus internships.
• Developed a “Guide to Hosting an On-Campus Internship”
• http://www.stjohns.edu/services/career/swtoolkit.stj
• Engaged 11 department managers to educate them on the internship process and
encourage them to host an on-campus internship.
• Posted internship opportunities on CareerLink.
• Established 25 new on-campus internship opportunities.
Engaged Vendors and Professional Contacts
• Contacted vendors and professional contacts to
gain commitment.
• Established 2 new internships (2 pending) through
HR vendors and professional contacts.
16PANEL DISCUSSION
Sarah Brown Student Worker in Center for Psychological Services
BA/MA, Sociology / Criminal Justice, fifth-year student
Valerie Kutcher Student Worker Supervisor
Assistant Director, Academic Service Learning
Eva Markowska HR Interns, Seniors Major: Psychology
Farrell Thomas
Dr. Pauline Magee-Egan Faculty Intern Advisor, Tobin College of Business,
Professor of Management
Randolph Ortiz Professor & Internship Advisor, Administrative Studies
Program, College of Professional Studies, Assistant Dean
1718!
SHIFTING THE CULTURE
What can you do to ensure Student Success?
• Enhance the on-campus work experience
• Provide your student workers with practical resume building experience
• Host an internship in your department
• Think broadly and creatively about how to increase the number of high
quality paid and academic Internships
• Reach out to your professional contacts and vendors
19SHIFTING THE CULTURE
What can You Do?
•! Attend Student Worker
Supervisor Training.
•! Be a champion for our students,
engage in dialogue.
•! Be knowledgeable about the
resources available to support
students.
•! Encourage students to visit
Career Services to get a head
start on thinking about career !
opportunities. !
•! Encourage students to use
faculty, staff and administrators
as a resource for advice,
counsel and mentoring.
20!21!
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