perfecting your pitch- how to attract entrepreneurial student talent to your organization

Jaime Harsell

Asst. Director for Career &

Industry Engagement

Justin Childs

Asst. Director for Career &

Industry Engagement

Perfecting Your Pitch: How to Attract

Entrepreneurial Student Talent to your

Organization

Today’s Objectives

1 Define Entrepreneur/Intrapreneur

2 UF Entrepreneurial Infrastructure

3 Recruit, Engage, and Retain

4 Benefits and Challenges

5 Next Steps for Hiring UF Gators

en·tre·pre·neur

a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk

The profile of an entrepreneur

Skill sets entrepreneurs

possess

Adaptable Resourceful

Leadership

Accepting of risk

Problem solving

Think outside the box

Grit

Persistence

Desire to improve

intra·pre·neur

a person, who while remaining within a larger organization, uses entrepreneurial skills to benefit the organization.

An intrapreneur in action

Generate ideasLead and

motivate a teamIncrease

productivity

Work independently

Collaborates well with other

Invests (themselves)

into the company

Entrepreneurial Climate

• Colleges

• Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

• Innovation Academy

• Incubators

• Student Affairs Programming

• Career Resource Center

Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Workplace

• Transparency

• Variety

• Fostering Idea Generation/Change

• Mission and Objectives

• Mentorship

Benefits

• Consistently develop new ideas, services, products, etc.

• Improve existing processes

• Build impactful relationships

• Shared ownership

• Increase profitability

Challenges

• Onboarding

• Cultural Paradigm

• Administrative Tasks

• Individual & Collective Development

• Turnover

Next Steps

• Job Postings/Descriptions

• Media/Marketing

• Recruitment Team

• Social Media chats

• Student Organizations• Entrepreneurship club

Questions?