How to Get Started with the NACE Competency Assessment Tool: Workshop for Employers

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level university relations and recruiting and business affiliate professionals
Competency: Continuous improvement/data analysis
Fee: FREE (member); FREE (nonmember);

Summary
This workshop will explore three core ways that this assessment tool can support employers. First, we will learn ways to use the NACE Competency Assessment Tool to build a common language and deep engagement with your core campus partners around what you expect from student interns and early career hires. Next, we will look at models for using the tool as a layer of assessment for developing your intern candidates. Finally, we will consider the use of NACE Career Readiness Competency framework overall, along with the Competency Assessment Tool, to improve the career development and performance in your internship and upskilling programs.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Begin using the NACE Competency Assessment Tool as a critical mechanism for measuring and improving the career readiness of students, job candidates, interns, and new hires;
- Learn how to get started off on the right foot; and
- Build a clear and cohesive plan for piloting the NACE Competency Assessment Tool in a way that meets the needs of all your stakeholders.
Presenters

Niesha Taylor PhD, Director of Career Readiness, NACE
Niesha Taylor, Ph.D., is NACE's first director of career readiness and leads the association's career readiness strategy and initiatives. Previously, she served as senior director for career pathways at the New York Jobs CEO Council and as dean for academic innovation and career success at Guttman Community College. She earned her doctorate in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center and her master's in education from the New School for Social Research.

Elizabeth Langemak, Associate Director of University Relations, Verizon
Liz Langemak, Ph.D., is associate director of university relations at Verizon, overseeing the U.S. campus team’s strategy for engaging with universities to build a diverse pipeline of emerging talent opportunities.

Trisha McKenzie, Sr. Program Manager, Verizon
Trisha McKenzie is a senior program manager with a passion for purposeful work. She has spent the past two years managing the Adfellows marketing fellowship program at Verizon, where she has been instrumental in preparing emerging talent for success in the workplace. Through a focus on marketing, career readiness, and essential power skills she has empowered fellows to thrive in their careers upon program completion.

Heather Ureksoy PhD, Selection & Assessment Strategy, Sr. Mgr, Verizon
Heather Ureksoy, Ph.D., is a senior manager of selection and assessment strategy at Verizon, where she applies her expertise in industrial/organizational psychology to lead the assessment program for U.S. campus internships, supporting Verizon's goal to identify and attract emerging top talent.