Vicki Gidney

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We do make the last workshop a requirement, but they also meet with F/A at that time so to me that is too late in the game! I will work on making it a requirement as we do have professional development days in each mod and I'm sure the instructor would love to have a "guest speaker" and different activities. Alumni mentoring - we never thought of that! Great idea that I will present at our CS accountability meeting tomorrow - and I will give you the credit, Dr. Schulz. Thanks! Before I take my final I will update you… >>>

Vicki Gidney

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Revamping a Struggling Placement Department

We got the budget we wanted for our Resource Center - it worked!! Thanks, Dr. Schulz. Now, on to proving the benefits! The team is very, very excited!

Vicki Gidney

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Extern to Hire

We have an established network of externship sites, but I want to know how to improve our externship to hire rates. My management team believes we should have between 30-40% ETH, we are currently at 24%, last year ended at 28%. The school has been in the community for many years and is highly thought of, but I sometimes feel that we are using the same sites over and over for "free labor". Can someone help us establish a means to improve this metric?

Vicki Gidney

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Revamping a Struggling Placement Department

Hi Dr. Schulz, Guess what? I followed your advice, asked the question "why" enroll if we can't provide the graduates with what they need, and Friday was approved to spend some $$$ for my PDs Resource Library. My team is so excited and pumped up! Thanks!

Vicki Gidney

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Employment Skills Workshops

Our Placement Department has initiated what they have titled "Journey to Success" for our students. This starts on the first day of class. All employees of the PD go to each classroom, introduce themselves, hand out "train tickets" for the workshops the students will be traveling during their months of skills training (there is a different train station for each skill). We have building your portfolio, resume development, interviewing (mock and informal from our employers), dress for the interview, and several other different seminars which we believe will benefit our students. Since we can't make these workshops mandatory, does anyone… >>>

Vicki Gidney

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Revamping a Struggling Placement Department

Thank you, Dr. Schulz. I appreciate your information and will follow up with you on our success. Our corporation has a formula that we go by for filling staff in each department. The Placement department's metric is 140 to 1. We have a total of 833 graduates and 6 and 1/2 (DCS counts as .5) at this time which is within our metric. But as I agree with you about holding the grads hand - it takes a lot of time, effort and compassion on our career services people - I feel like we need to lower this metric. How do I prove this to headquarters?

Vicki Gidney

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Revamping a Struggling Placement Department

We believe we now have the right staff in our placement department, but we are in need of a resource library for each of our programs. We have a new Director of this department and he needs a starting point - can anyone give me some suggestions so I can help him be successful?