Tuesday July 21
10:15 am – 11:15 am
Breakout 1
The Transformation from Student to Employee
College and Employer
Emily Murphy and Kathleen Hursh – Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Location: Grand Ballroom C
Standard – 60 minute lecture style
Session Description: A career course located within an academic unit creates intentional connections
between sector employers, alumni, and students. The use of alumni panels, mock interviews, and career
specific networking provides quality connections for students to be closer to the pulse of the employment
sector. For employers, the outcomes are just as positive. Employers enjoy the opportunity to remain active
on campus and to meet prospective employees. In our career courses these intentional opportunities benefit
both students and employers. We engineer our courses, information, and deliverables each semester to
meet the needs of the ever changing employment sector. This not only keeps the students engaged, it
keeps the faculty member refreshed because the content is constantly evolving. These dedicated and
required career courses contribute to positive first-destination employment results. Qualitative and
quantitative data will be shared to support the value of these courses as they relate to academic choices,
student internships, and future employment.
Presenter Bio: Emily Murphy is an Assistant Director at Kelley Indianapolis Career Services in the Kelley
School of Business at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is responsible for
coordinating and teaching two required career planning courses for Kelley undergraduate students, as well
as providing career counseling to Kelley students and alumni. Prior to coming to IUPUI, she held academic
advising and administrative positions at the Boston University School of Management as well as positions in
career services at Northwestern University. Kathleen Hursh is the Assistant Director of Career Development
in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at IUPUI. She is responsible for employer relations,
internships for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as providing career counseling to SPEA
students. Prior to coming to IUPUI, she worked at the Indiana Statehouse where she ran the student
Strategies for Leading Change in Career Services
Farouk Dey – Stanford University
College
Location: Grand Ballroom D
Standard – 60 minute lecture style
Session Description: Savvy leadership is required to successfully manage the process of change in any
organization, especially in higher education. Establishing a new vision for career services is one thing, but
inspiring different stakeholders to support it in a rapidly changing environment is another. Using various
principles of change management and case studies from higher education and industry, this session will
provide a blueprint for how to successfully establish an exciting vision in any organization, especially college
career services, build buy-in among constituents, and lead change in an inclusive and empowering way.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Farouk Dey is the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Career
Education at Stanford University. He is leading the expansion of career education at Stanford University and
developing Vision 2020, a reinvented model of career and professional development for college students
and alumni. Dr. Dey has held leadership roles at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Florida, The
National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE), and the American College Personnel Association
(ACPA). His credentials include a PhD in Higher Education Administration, EdS in Higher Education
Administration, MBA, MED in Counseling Psychology, and BBA in Finance. He is the author of several articles
and book chapters and has served as a keynote speaker at many conferences around the US and the world.
internship program for the Indiana State Senate.
Hiring and Training Career Advisors for 21st Century Career Development
Heather Christman – Miami University
College
Location: Grand Ballroom G
Standard – 60 minute lecture style
Session Description: With increased accountability for college employment outcomes, it is critical that career
centers have the most effective advising teams working with students across campus. Using Miami
University’s complete career center transformation as a case study, we will explore strategies for identifying
and hiring talented advisors, and methods for training advising teams to meet the 21st century career
center goals. Using this model, Miami University was able to increase the number of employers recruiting
on campus, advising appointments, programs offered, and effectively grow relationships across campus
without any additional resources. The strategies in this program can support a career center’s ability to
make the most of their limited staffing, and at the same time increase the outreach and effectiveness of the
office, and the campus career community. This approach is a hybrid model that blends a holistic career
development plan for students with the ability to meet the outreach to, and talent needs of, employers.
Presenter Bio: Heather Shook Christman serves as Senior Associate Director of Career Services at Miami
University, where she has been instrumental in restructuring programs and resources to support the needs
of students at all stages of their career development. Heather has significantly increased the number and
effectiveness of employers recruiting on campus, while expanding opportunities and campus-wide
partnerships. A key leader in developing a “Career Community” approach, Heather has engaged members
of the Miami University community in new ways that benefit students, those who help them, and the entire
institution. Heather holds a PhD, Student Affairs in Higher Education, from Miami University. Her
dissertation is titled “Connections between Leadership and Developmental Capacities in College Students.”
Surviving and Thriving in the Transformative World of Recruiting
and Career Services
College and Employer
Jerry Donahue – Northwestern University
Cynthia Graham – University of Illinois at Chicago
Location: Grand Ballroom H
Standard - 60 minute lecture style
Session Description: A panel of experienced college and employer representatives will discuss their career
paths, changes they have experienced, and how they have successfully navigated employment opportunities
in times of transformation in business and higher education. Tips and strategies on how to not only identify
times of transformation, but also prepare for these inevitable changes, will be presented. Participants will be
engaged in this session by checking their own professional career path through a "career transformation"
quiz. In addition, employment/career materials from previous years will be on display to further
demonstrate how the recruiting and career services worlds have transformed and evolved over the years.
Presenter Bio: Jerry has been a director of career services offices at Indiana University Northwest, Canisius
College, Moraine Valley Community College, and St. Norbert College. His experience as a civil engineer in
the headquarters of Navistar, formerly International Harvester Co., in Chicago provided some solid
background for his work with the Archdiocese of Chicago as their science consultant after ten years of
teaching middle school science in the Chicago area. He also has used his technical background working with
engineering and computer science students at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University
of Michigan - College of Engineering. His involvement in professional associations has included leadership
roles in the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in their Northwest Indiana and Green Bay,
WI chapters. He has been co-author of a National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE) formerly CPC
monograph on Small Employers Connection to College Career Centers. In addition he has been in leadership
roles with the Midwest Association of Colleges & Employers (MWACE) including co-chairing both an annual
conference and a recent Trends in Recruiting Conference held in Chicago.
Using Staff Time Wisely by Assessing Readiness for Career Decision Making
Darrin Carr and Carol Kostezewsky – Indiana University Purdue University Columbus
College
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Standard – 60 minute lecture style
Session Description: This hands on session will cover how to use three FREE tools to assess readiness for
career decision-making that can save you time and spare your client’s frustration. These include Holland’s
My Vocational Situation, Peterson’s Career Decision Space Worksheet, and Zener & Schnuelle’s
Occupational Alternatives Questionnaire. Each can be used to more quickly understand problem complexity
and the client’s capability for solving the problem, thus enabling you to provide the right kind and extent of
services.
Presenter Bio: Darrin Carr, Ph.D. is a faculty member in the Master of Arts in Mental Health counseling
program at Indiana University Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC). A counseling psychologist interested in
career concerns, Darrin has managed career advising and counseling services at Florida State University
Career Center. He completed his predoctoral internship at Kansas State University counseling services. His
postdoctoral residency in community mental health working with people living with severe and persistent
mental illness. He is a licensed psychologist in Florida and Indiana.
Hire Illini – Transforming Campus Collaboration
Nell Madigan and Jennifer Neef – University of Illinois
College
Location: Grand Ballroom J
Standard – 60 minute lecture style
Session Description: One campus, 30 career offices, forty thousand students. Is it possible to speak with
one voice? Absolutely! Learn how one campus involved campus leadership, Public Affairs, Corporate
Relations and career professionals in a cohesive branding campaign. Their partnership has increased the
number of employers on campus, strengthened the number of multi-office relationships with recruiters,
created cohesive campus branding to employers, aired nationwide television spots, developed ads for large
metro-area advertising campaigns, drawn expertise from a strategic employer advisory board, and created
employer-driven recruiting data. It sounds impossible, but with relationship-building and persistence, it can
be done within a workable budget. Guided discussion will encourage participants to use lessons learned
within their own institutions and develop collaborative strategies for branding their recruiting successes.
Presenter Bio: Ms. Madigan is the primary contact for corporate relations and all career-related activities at
the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Illinois, one of the top HR master's programs in the
nation. She holds primary responsibility for building relationships with new companies to become partners
with and recruit at the School, and managing ongoing relationships with long-time partners across a variety
of industries, including Cummins, ExxonMobil, PepsiCo, and General Mills. In addition to her professional
responsibilities, she is the current President of the Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers, and she
serves on the Board of Directors for JB Training Solutions. She holds an MS in Advertising and a BS in
Speech Communications, both from the University of Illinois.