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I Need Your Help-The Parent Mentor Network

What We Did This Past Year

The highlights of the 2008-2009 academic year are listed below. The number of students we serve, services we offer and partnerships we forge continue to increase every year. The overall numbers tell some of the story:

  • Conducted 120 classroom presentations
  • Held 2,012 individual student appointments, 300 more than last year
  • Reviewed via email over 500 resumes uploaded in eRecruiting (NEW service). Critiqued an additional 1000 resumes in face-to-face meetings with students.
  • Hosted 5 Job Fairs, partnering with UMES and the Respiratory Therapy Department
  • Communicate 1,000 job and internship opportunities via email to students. Began texting weekly to students who requested this NEW service.
  • 36 employers conducted 394 on-campus interviews, 30 employers held Information Sessions or hosted information tables on-campus.
  • Conducted the First Destination Survey: Every year as students pick up their caps and gowns we set up several computers in the Bookstore for them to complete an online survey that lets us know where they are going after graduation…their “first destination”. Highlights of the data are summarized.
  • Over 400 students signed up to receive weekly text messages from the Career Services Office
  • 29 Workshops, reaching over 600 students (and over 200 parents)

From First Destination Survey - (Early May)

In response to: What best describes your post-graduation status as of right now?

  • Employed Full Time in a Career-Related Job after Graduation. 20.7%
  • Enrolled in School for Further Study. 13.1%
  • Employed Part-Time/Seasonally. 16.6%
  • Not Employed and Still Seeking Employment. 46.9%
  • Not Employed, Not Enrolled in School, Not Seeking Employment. 2.7%

Salaries:

Fulton -$35,125 - Reported Jobs in MD- 63.0%
Henson -$46,381 - Reported Jobs in MD- 86.2%
Perdue -$42,236 - Reported Jobs in MD-84.4%
Seidel -$36,933 - Reported Jobs in MD- 82.8%

Advancements in the Office:

  • 3933 SU graduates have access to the Alumni Job Network
  • 962 students who graduate in May have been rolled in to the Alumni Job Network
  • Supervised 3 interns
  • Imported over 7,000 students eRecruiting
  • Created Career Services blog and video
  • Created Career Services Podcast webpage and entered on YouTube
  • Created On-campus internship page for faculty intern coordinators
  • Created a Video Library for webpage which addresses various career issues
  • Created new Orientation registration process
  • Placed Career Class in MyClasses
  • Developed web registration program that can schedule an event without logging in to eRecruiting

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