Boost your skills with hands-on, interactive learning at our preconference workshops in Philly. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to dive deep into key topics while engaging with industry experts and peers in a collaborative environment. Arrive early and enjoy our fantastic Philly location—it's the perfect way to maximize your conference experience!
Not attending conference? You can still register for a preconference workshop. Registration is separate from our full-conference and one-day attendee registrations.
Monday, June 9 | 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
- Coaching Skills and Practice Management
Audience: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services professionals
Fee: $250 (member); $375 (nonmember)This course provides coaching strategies and best practices to establish and conduct effective and ethical coaching sessions for clients. Attendees will learn strategies and skills to create an environment that supports mutual respect and learn methods to communicate effectively during a coaching session. Attendees will use empowerment and positive reinforcement to create a coaching alliance and contribute to a practice.
Course Content Areas:
- Coaching process
- Frameworks for developing the coaching plan including appreciative inquiry, solution focused, and reframing
- Basic understanding of positive psychology and coaching
- Awareness of coachee population, diversity, and communication skills
- Accountability plan
- How to analyze client feedback regarding effectiveness of coaching and goal attainment
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Integrate coaching theories and strategies into various models of coaching.
- Learn the various modalities of coaching and services, and how to use technology for virtual appointments or in-person coaching services.
- Explore in practice management the importance of self-assessment as a coach, identifying one’s strengths, limits, and development gaps as a coach.
- Understand personal barriers that could impact effectiveness of coaching, and the importance of coach-related research to strengthen the practice will be explored as well.
Presenter:
- Cheryl Hicks, Wake Forest Alumni
- Building Premier External & Employer Relationships
Audience: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services professionals
Fee: $375 (member); $425 (nonmember)External and employer relations partnerships are an essential and valuable part of career services. This interactive session will provide an understanding of best practices and strategies associated with this work while using an ethical framework for engagement and decision making.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Articulate practices and approaches associated with employer/external relations work.
- Create an outreach campaign with criteria for identifying employer targets and tracking engagement efforts.
- Consider and incorporate diversity and inclusion as core components in relationship management.
Presenter:
- Larry Jackson, Senior Associate Director, Career Education & Engagement - Berkeley Career Engagement
- Leading Through the Evolution of Early Careers
Audience: Intermediate- and advanced-level university relations and recruiting professionals
Fee: $375 (member); $425 (nonmember)This session is for campus recruiting professionals seeking skills to internally develop and lead a high-performing team. The skills and knowledge to lead the function and manage teams are evolving as fast as the competitive landscape. This session is for current and aspiring talent leaders to acquire new perspectives to take back to their organizations while helping participants prepare for the next step in their careers.
Through interactive discussion, practical exercises, and real-life case studies, we will equip participants with essential tools and approaches to navigate internal and external challenges with confidence and success. Attendees will gain insights into the complexity of the current state of early careers, what lies ahead for our industry and the implications for your organization, and the change management needed to drive the shift.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Understand and navigate the current landscape of campus recruiting, including key skills needed to lead into the future;
- Leverage data and competitive intelligence to lead conversations to influence your business and articulate the value of the early careers function;
- Identify the key leadership skills needed to develop and lead a high-performing campus recruiting team; and
- Walk away with resources to help you start/continue the conversation with your stakeholders.
This activity will earn 3.5 SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDC).
Presenters:
- Simon Kho, Vice President, Head of Campus Recruiting, Raymond James
- Marshella Pounds, Manager, HR Campus Recruiting & Operations, Raymond James
- NACE25 HBCU and Employer Convening
Audience: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services and university relations and recruiting professionals
Fee: $375 (member); $425 (nonmember); FREE (HBCU)The HBCU and Employer Convening is a unique opportunity for HBCU career professionals and industry recruitment professionals to connect. This event has been designed to provide attendees the opportunity to unpack successes and challenges with peers from around the country, while engaging with colleagues from the other side of the college student engagement. Over 20 HBCUs will be represented and in attendance. The goal of this workshop is to walk away with new ideas and contacts to help you achieve your goals.
This activity will earn 3.5 SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDC).
Presenter:
- Kacheyta McClellan, Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, NACE
- Strategic Positioning of the University Relations & Recruiting Function
Audience: Intermediate- and advanced-level university relations and recruiting professionals
Fee: $375 (member); $425 (nonmember)In this session, you will get a sneak peek at some of the forthcoming outcomes from NACE’s Strategic Positioning of University Relations & Recruiting Task Force that will help take the URR function from drab to fab and get that seat at the table (and voice in the room) that it deserves.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Understand the what, the why and the how to elevate the role of URR in an organization’s people strategy;
- Identify leading practices that will empower URR teams to build the business case for UR and develop strategies aligned to their organizational goals; and
- Collaborate in group activities to consider how to best position URR as a strategic partner.
This activity will earn 3.5 SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDC).
Presenters:
- Kelly Hart, Director of Student and Employer Engagement, Career Center, Temple University
- Bruce Soltys, Vice President, Human Resources, Emerging Talent Acquisition & Programs, Travelers
- Leveraging the NACE Competency Assessment Tool
Audience: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services professionals
Fee: $375 (member); $425 (nonmember)We are delighted to share the NACE Competency Assessment Tool as a critical mechanism for measuring and improving the career readiness of students, job candidates, interns, and new hires. However, we know that many of you are wondering exactly how to get started implementing this powerful tool. Join us for this interactive workshop to learn how to get started on the right foot. This workshop, led by NACE staff with many years of experience in student learning outcomes assessment, was constructed to help you build a clear and cohesive plan for piloting the Assessment Tool in a way that meets the needs of all your stakeholders.
Presenters:
- Matthew Brink, Chief of Programs and Content Officer, NACE
- Niesha Taylor, Ph.D., Director of Career Readiness, NACE
- Josh Khan, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Research and Public Policy, NACE
The National Association of Colleges and Employers is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.