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>> Winella Reed: My name is
Winella Reed [assumed spelling].

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And at the moment I'm the associate
director for Employer Development

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with Rutgers University,
University Career Services.

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So the long and short of that is my job is
really just to go out and find as many employers

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as possible who are interested in
recruiting Rutgers University students

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for internships and fulltime opportunities.

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Well, there are a variety of outlets,

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but it depends on what your overall
campus recruiting strategy would be.

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So part of what it is I do
do is assist employers

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in developing the respective
on-campus recruiting strategy.

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So part of that is outreach
to our student organizations.

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It's also connecting with appropriate faculty
members who might be able to plug them

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into students who might be of interest or give
them some time in front of their classroom.

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It's directing them to our career
management platform so that the opportunities

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that they are available are posted.

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It's alerting them to the fact that we do
have on-campus interviewing rooms available,

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as well as information sessions
that they can utilize with regards

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to interviewing and meeting our students.

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It's also alerting them to the fact that we
do have career fairs, which are a great venue

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and a great opportunity for meeting
and connecting with students.

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So we have a variety of offerings, and part

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of what it is I do is really present
those offerings to the employers and based

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on what their respective needs
are in terms of target audience,

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maybe the students' graduation date,
maybe the position that they're offering,

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I help them to define and determine
the best ways to access those students.

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Usually when I come in in the
mornings, I'm greeting my staff,

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which are our employer services coordinator,
as well as the assistant director,

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just getting a sense of some of the
issues that they have contended with,

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either that morning, or perhaps the day before.

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Right now it's the fall so we're in the
full swing of on-campus interviewing,

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so that means employers are in our office
every single day interviewing students.

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We can support up to 17 different interviews,
so on any given day we can have 1 schedule,

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meaning 1 company, 1 room is occupied,
or up to 17 different rooms occupied.

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So you're talking about a constant
traffic of students coming in,

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and sometimes within that day we're
working with multiple employers.

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For example, today we have at least 5 employers
who are utilizing our interviewing spaces.

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And if you multiply that by let's
say anywhere from 6 students to up

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to 12 students per interview schedule,
that's normally what we're doing.

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And then with that on occasion I do
have conversations with employers

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with regards to the developing new strategy.

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Sometimes they posted a job, and they're
not getting the response that they need,

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so it's really galvanizing our services

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to get a stronger turnout,
stronger feedback from students.

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So it's a lot of conversations with
employers, following up with regards

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to the opportunities they have, and helping
them strengthen their on-campus effort.

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It's also -- it's a lot of meetings, so I'm
meeting internally with folks on the team,

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my immediate team, as well as
across university career services,

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with regards to just different
projects and different efforts.

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It's also simultaneously planning
or supporting my assistant director

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as she's planning and executing a career fair.

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In fact, we have one tomorrow.

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And in this particular role I am galvanizing
some of our student organizations,

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organizing them so they could act as host.

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So it's outreach of those different student
organizations, and alerting them the fact

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that we do have this opportunity available

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where we need their assistance
and we need their support.

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