Associate Director for Employer Development, Rutgers University

>> Winella Reed: My name is Winella Reed [assumed spelling]. And at the moment I'm the associate director for Employer Development with Rutgers University, University Career Services. So the long and short of that is my job is really just to go out and find as many employers as possible who are interested in recruiting Rutgers University students for internships and fulltime opportunities. Well, there are a variety of outlets, but it depends on what your overall campus recruiting strategy would be. So part of what it is I do do is assist employers in developing the respective on-campus recruiting strategy. So part of that is outreach to our student organizations. It's also connecting with appropriate faculty members who might be able to plug them into students who might be of interest or give them some time in front of their classroom. It's directing them to our career management platform so that the opportunities that they are available are posted. It's alerting them to the fact that we do have on-campus interviewing rooms available, as well as information sessions that they can utilize with regards to interviewing and meeting our students. It's also alerting them to the fact that we do have career fairs, which are a great venue and a great opportunity for meeting and connecting with students. So we have a variety of offerings, and part of what it is I do is really present those offerings to the employers and based on what their respective needs are in terms of target audience, maybe the students' graduation date, maybe the position that they're offering, I help them to define and determine the best ways to access those students. Usually when I come in in the mornings, I'm greeting my staff, which are our employer services coordinator, as well as the assistant director, just getting a sense of some of the issues that they have contended with, either that morning, or perhaps the day before. Right now it's the fall so we're in the full swing of on-campus interviewing, so that means employers are in our office every single day interviewing students. We can support up to 17 different interviews, so on any given day we can have 1 schedule, meaning 1 company, 1 room is occupied, or up to 17 different rooms occupied. So you're talking about a constant traffic of students coming in, and sometimes within that day we're working with multiple employers. For example, today we have at least 5 employers who are utilizing our interviewing spaces. And if you multiply that by let's say anywhere from 6 students to up to 12 students per interview schedule, that's normally what we're doing. And then with that on occasion I do have conversations with employers with regards to the developing new strategy. Sometimes they posted a job, and they're not getting the response that they need, so it's really galvanizing our services to get a stronger turnout, stronger feedback from students. So it's a lot of conversations with employers, following up with regards to the opportunities they have, and helping them strengthen their on-campus effort. It's also -- it's a lot of meetings, so I'm meeting internally with folks on the team, my immediate team, as well as across university career services, with regards to just different projects and different efforts. It's also simultaneously planning or supporting my assistant director as she's planning and executing a career fair. In fact, we have one tomorrow. And in this particular role I am galvanizing some of our student organizations, organizing them so they could act as host. So it's outreach of those different student organizations, and alerting them the fact that we do have this opportunity available where we need their assistance and we need their support. [Silence]