Utilizing Your Student Workers’ NetworksEmilie Wardrip and Eric Boscan

The Power of Personal Connections

Agenda´ Office Evaluation

´ University-wide Collaboration

´ Student Workers’ Networks

´ Events-Planning

´ Social Media

´ Hiring

´ Take Away

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´ How many student workers are in your office?

´ Do you have too many, too few, or just the right amount of student workers?

´ Are you restricted to hiring only work-study recipients?

´ How much responsibility is given to student workers?

´ Do your student workers do homework on-the-job?

´ Do you hire student workers for one general role, or for different positions?

How well does your office collaborate with other departments & programs?

Collaborative- Good Relationships

Targets for Better Collaboration

Department/Program Contact Department/Program Contact

Student Workers’ NetworksActivity- Brainstorming Web´ How Well do you know your student workers?

´ Non/Academic departments

´ Student organizations

´ Jobs

´ Classmates

´ Friends

´ Roommates

Events & Programming

´ Do you have strong relationships with professors and departments?

´ Do you participate in annual events across campus?

´ Do you struggle with low studentattendance to events?

Social Media

´ Are all of your student workers following your social media?

´ Are your student workers reposting or sharing interesting articles from your social media?

´ Are student workers blogging?

Hiring

´ Do you inquire about their connections in the interview?

´ Follow up with recommendations.

´ Use established connections within academic departments for job announcements for specific roles.

Take Aways

´ Events & Programming – increase student attendance through connecting with other departments or professors.

´ Social Media - personal connections can increase engagement.

´ Hiring - consider asking your interviewees connection/networks.

´ Take a moment to reflect….

´ Write down 3 things that you would like to implement.

Thank You

Please respond to the last two questions.

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