The NACE Community is the perfect place to network with career services and university recruiting colleagues. Here’s where you can get your questions answered by your peers, share your resources, and tap into the expertise of the 11,000+ NACE members!
Conversations range from career workshop topics to internship housing, with NACE members generously sharing everything from syllabi, marketing materials, and surveys to documents on career planning and working with faculty. (Tip: Shared materials can be accessed in the
NACE Community Library, which is set up in folder format by topic to make it easy to share and find resources.)
One of this week’s conversations was a simple, but common, question among career services staff:
Do you allow people in your community to post help-wanted ads on your job board? A career services counselor had received a request from a local person who wanted to hire a student to clean her house. Two thread participants said that they don’t allow local or neighborhood jobs on their job boards—they refer those to external sites, such as the local or state work force office, to the student government jobs board, or to commercial “help” websites. Another participant said that she allows community members to post those types of jobs and has had very few problems.
A popular topic among employers is how to house interns. A search of the community reveals
several discussions loaded with tested solutions to helping interns find housing. BTW: Internships is among the most popular topics in the NACE Community on both sides of the profession. In fact, in the NACE Community Library, the internships/co-ops folder contains nearly 20 resources, ranging from discussion notes on intern conversions to manuals and applications.
Another NACE Community member was looking for
tips for getting students to complete their senior exit surveys—giving the school data for their first-destination survey data. One response detailed tactics that resulted in a 95 percent completion rate in member’s business school.
If you haven’t looked at the
NACE Community yet, take a look today.