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The Liberty Hotel in Boston

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Unlocking Potential will be held at the Liberty Hotel, one of the country's most inspired reuse developments. Carved out of an iconic 19th century jail, this stunning venue is in Boston's historic Beacon Hill neighborhood. Filled with state-of-the-art meeting space and luxurious rooms, it's the ultimate spot to unlock your potential.

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Close Career Services Leadership in Tight Economic Times
Speaker: The current economic crisis calls for a bold vision and decisive action in career services — even when internal budgets are stretched to the limit. This session, presented by Sheila Curran of Curran Career Consulting (and former executive director of Duke University's Career Center) along with Kim Reid of Eduventures, will explore strategies to address increased demand for services, and demonstrate the strategic value of career services to your institution.
Close Engage Students and Alumni with Your Office: Best Practices
Speakers: Would you like to have a better understanding of how to involve students and alumni with your office? Christy Johnson, Samantha Holland and Eileen Wisnewski will be hosting a round table discussion where you'll be able to interact with your colleagues, several recent alumni and current students to share and strategize approaches to engage your candidates. Christy, Samantha and Eileen will also share a collection of ways Experience can assist you in achieving this goal.
Close Discovering the Value of Career Fairs
Speakers: Join this informative demonstration and discussion focused on the benefit and value of managing career fairs online. This is your chance to gain insight into hosting employers more effectively and efficiently, review key features and functionality of the module itself, and learn about the best practices of many of your peers including Boston University's College of Engineering!
Close Alumni Careers: A New Opportunity Area to Build and Maintain Lifelong Relationships with Alumni
Speakers: Career services and alumni relations professionals have a unique opportunity to foster stronger, longer-lasting relationships with new graduates by helping them uncover careers and employer searches. This session, co-presented by iModules, will review added-value career services for alumni and strategies that will help keep your constituents engaged with your school for life.
Close Connecting Employers with Your Office and Your Candidates: Best Practices
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Building relationships and connecting employers with your campus and your students is critical to your mission. In this session, we will review the tools available in eRecruiting to help you connect with employers and share insights and creative approaches used by your peer institutions. We will also learn from some college recruiters what types of campus activities and interactions they find most successful in engaging and identifying potential candidates and maintaining a presence on campus.
Close Managing Jobs: Best Practices
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With more college departments working collaboratively and sharing resources, many schools are exploring how they can use eRecruiting more effectively and creatively. Come to this session to hear how VassarCollege uses eRecruiting to manage their on-campus employment program and how Yale University is housing their domestic and international full-time internship programs in eRecruiting. Experience Account Managers Eileen Wisnewski and Christy Johnson will also showcase a few of the eRecruiting features that can help you better promote and manage the wide variety of opportunities your college or university offers.
Close Implementing Mentoring Programs
Speakers: Mentoring programs provide students and alums with a variety of great resources to explore career options and form their career plans. We’ll discuss the approaches career centers have taken to build and manage successful mentoring programs and take a look at some of the features and functionality within the new Experience Mentors product.
Close Integrating New Technologies into Day-to-Day Operations: Best Practices
Speakers: In the age of social networking, blogs, podcasts, video and all things mobile, your students and young alumni -- a.k.a. the "net kids" -- are consuming and sharing information unlike any generation we've seen. This session, co-presented by Phi Kappa Phi's Maria Davis and Experience's Mark Kaefer, will cover all things Web 2.0 and how you can execute on new strategies to engage a larger share of Gen Y with your school and/or organization offerings.
Close General Reporting
Speaker: Reporting provides greater clarity and granularity on critical elements about your students, employers and jobs. While the eRecruiting reporting tool is the cornerstone of extracting this important data, it takes some product know-how in order to use it successfully. This guided overview will introduce you to the various reporting methods as we explore the students, employers and jobs sections. Topics covered: using pre-defined templates and saved reports, modifying templates, and creating count and list reports from scratch.
Close Moderated Panel with Gen Y Employers
Moderators: Panelists: Moderated by Experience's Tony Lopes and Tighe Smith, this session will engage a few of today's top entry-level employers and recruiters in an active discussion of the latest trends, concerns and areas of opportunity as they pertain to your students and young grads who are actively seeking jobs and internships. Be prepared to participate!
Close Leveraging Content and Added Value Tools within Experience.com
Speakers: From researching potential careers to standing out in front of employers, your students and alums require a broad and often overwhelming set of services from you.

As your partner, Experience works to help do some of the work for you so you can expand the reach, knowledge-sharing and resources you can provide to all your constituents–including fresh and engaging career content; tools such as Portfolio and Mentoring; industry- and interest-driven communities; and Exclusive Experiences.

In this session, co-presenter Tim Harding from the University of Tampa will share his success in using these offerings to engage his own students, along with Kristin Eisenzopf and Ken Siegal from Experience, to give you an understanding of what's at your fingertips to leverage for your alums, under- and upper-classmen, and how to do so effectively.

Close Unlocking the Power of Data
Speaker: Unlocking the potential of graduates and organizations is a game of Find and Be Found. In a world with too much information and, at the same time, not enough, career services can provide all players with strategic advantage. Using information you already have, you can derive actionable insights into what your students and/or alumni are looking for - and what your employers need to reach them. Stan Jackson, along with guidance from partner schools, will use this session to introduce some perspectives on how you can transform data into strategic advantage.