Career Services: Recruitment AdvantageWhat Career Services Can Do for You

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Career Services Recruitment AdvantageWhat
Career Services Can Do for You!

• Shannon Murphy
• Loyola University New Orleans
• Counseling Career Services

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What Services do Career Centers provide to
employers?

• Job Listings Resume Referrals
• On Campus Recruiting
• Internships
• Career Fairs Annual Events

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Job Listings Resume Referrals
Job Listings
Resume Referrals

• Online job postings on MonsterTRAK
• Internships Non-profit postings are free
• For profit businesses have free online posting or
  post for a nominal cost of 30/per campus
  (depends on the individual campus policy)
  
• Postings in Career Center Office in Job
  Binders-free

• Career Centers keep a database of students
  looking for work.
  
• After a job description is provided, resumes of
  qualified students are emailed to employer
  
• Provided for mostly full-time/professional level
  positions

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On-Campus Recruiting
Recruiting On Campus

• Pre-selected interviews (finalized through an
  online system)
  
• Conduct interviews on-campus on one day.
  Students view your information and submit a
  resume. You select those that interest you and
  the students select a time. Resume submission and
  candidate selection are usually managed
  electronically.
• Resume Drop (You do not need to come to campus)
• Alumni participate in Recruiting. Use career
  services to target recent alumni with more
  experience.

Information Sessions
Sessions to inform students of your company,
available positions necessary qualifications
Evaluations Attend classes to provide informat
ion about your career industry company
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Internships
Supplement Enhance your work force

• Interns provide much needed assistance when you
  cant afford to hire full-time employees
  
• College students already have skills and
  knowledge that make them better than temporary
  employees
  
• Most college students have higher than average
  technical skills

Interns are looking for
Meaningful work experience (i.e. ownership of
projects) Training and knowledge of how organi
zation works Monitor/supervisor to provide tra
ining and information about the career industry
Flexible pay or benefits (not just an hourly
wage)
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Career Fairs Annual Events

• One or two day events. Employers each have a
  booth and students walk through gathering
  information and making contacts. Some events have
  on-site interviews scheduled for the same or the
  following day. Career Centers usually charge a
  fee to cover their costs for these events. If you
  have professional positions, focus your efforts
  on college job fairs. Some of the fairs in New
  Orleans are
• Fall Job Fairs
• Non-Profit Human Services Fairs
• Mardi Gras Invitational Career Fair
• Teacher Fair
• Annual Events Develop a relationship with
  potential recruits career centers by assisting
  with events such as Mock Interview Days,
  Etiquette Dinner, Job Search Workshops

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Louisiana Association of Colleges Employers
(LACE)

• Develop relationships with Career Center staff
  throughout the state
  
• LACE Annual Meeting
• June 27, 2006
• New Orleans, LA
• Contact Ms. Kim Billaedeau
• Assistant Director
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• 337.482.1444
• kimberlyb_at_louisiana.edu

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Contact Us

• Every campus works slightly differently and each
  employer has individual recruiting needs so
  contact us to discuss the options available to
  you.
• Career Centers can develop unique recruiting
  strategies for each employer.

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Career Center Contacts

• Jean Ware
• Coordinator, Career Services
• Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave.
  New Orleans, LA
  
• 504.483.4296 Fax [phone]
• jbware_at_dcc.edu
• Dewain Lee
• Interim Assoc. Dean
• Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd. New
  Orleans, LA 70122
  
• 504.816.4685 Fax [phone]
• dlee_at_dillard.edu
• www.dillard.edu/stulife/1_stu.htm
• Shannon Murphy
• Job and Internship Development Specialist
• Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Ave., Box
  200 New Orleans, LA 70118
  
• 504.865.3835 Fax [phone]
• career_at_loyno.edu
• www.loyno.edu/counsel.career/
• employer/employerinfo.htm
• Joseph Marion

• Jody Hestand
• Director, Career Management Center
• A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane
  University
  
• Goldring/Woldenberg Hall, 7 McAlister Drive
  New Orleans, LA 70118
  
• 504.865.5417 Fax [phone]
• jhestand_at_tulane.edu
• www.freeman.tulane.edu/cmc/
• Jennifer Williams
• Acting Director
• Career Services, Tulane University
• Collins C. Diboll, 6823 St. Charles Ave. New
  Orleans, LA 70118
  
• 504.865.5107 Fax [phone]
• jwillia1_at_tulane.edu
• www.careers.tulane.edu/employers/
• Leonard Williams
• Director
• University of New Orleans, 268 University
  Center New Orleans, LA 70148
  
• 504.280.6692 Fax [phone]
• leonard.williams_at_uno.edu