OU Career Services 2011-2012 Year in Review

YEAR IN REVIEW

U N I V ER SI T Y OF OK L A HOM A C A R EER SERV IC E S

2012 WAS ONE OF OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL YEARS EVER. Bette Scott Director

2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

During the 2011-12 year, Career Services continued to enhance our services for students and employers. We have partnered with key stakeholders across campus to better educate our students and provide effective tools and services that can be helpful from freshmen to graduate students. These partnerships have raised the awareness of Career Services to students as early as their freshman year.

Our online programs, which include Optimal Resume, FOCUS2, Going Global, and Career Spots videos, saw a 112% increase in users. Student usage of Focus2, which is an online program designed to assist students in finding a major or explore careers, almost doubled in 2011-12.

We have seen a marked increase in the number of students who have taken advantage of mock interviews and continue to receive outstanding reviews from the students who have participated. We also saw the largest number of students during our weekly scheduled walk-in advising and a record number of students requesting resume critiques.

This 2011-12 Annual Report highlights the year’s activities and accomplishments. If you have any questions about the information provided, please contact me at bscott@ou.edu.

Sincerely,

Bette Scott

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Students engage with our center in a variety of ways through our career planning and education services. We assist students with everything from choosing or changing a major or career to a personal statement review, to salary negotiation.

We also bring our services out into the OU community by regularly providing workshops to student organizations or by presenting to a class per our faculty/staff outreach requests.

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

Total One-on-One Student Engagement

8,291 Resume Critiques

2,156

Appointments

UP 34%

Walk-in Advising

2,810 4

UP 64%

3,005

UP 10%

Mock Interviews

UP 24%

320

UP 30%

2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

CAREER FAIRS Career Services hosts and co-hosts a variety of career fairs bringing employer representatives to campus to provide information and answer questions about their industries, organizations, and employment opportunities.

Our career fairs are a great way for candidates to network with employers. We have several fairs that serve a wide-range of career and recruiting needs.

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

Attending Students

Attending Employers

4,372 547 Breakdown of Student Attendance Graduate & Professional School Fair / 102

College of Architecture Career & Internship Fair / 93 Greater Grads / 164

Teacher Job Fair / 83

OU Job Expo / 232 JMC Career Fair / 242

Engineering Career Fair / 1,445

Spring Career Fair / 621

Sooner Showcase / 1,226

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

ONLINE SERVICES 2012 saw the unveiling of our newly re-designed website. We set out to make the vast amount of resources and information our website offered more easily accessible. The combined effort to give our site a fresh look by our IT crew, designers and the entire Career Services staff has increased traffic and has had a direct impact on the usage of our online services.

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

Total Number of HIREsooner.com Visits

203,973

Online Services Usage Optimal Resume

2,500

FOCUS2

UP 6%

Career Spots Video Views

3,955 8

663

Going Global

UP 95%

7,465

UP 73%

HIRESooner Student Logins / 7 Year Outlook 2012

129,851 2005

101,497

2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS Interviewing can be intimidating and practice is essential.

In addition to face-to-face mock interviews, candidates can practice interviewing online with our resource InterviewStream.

Our on-campus interview program offers a unique opportunity to interview for entry-level positions as well as internships and co-ops. More than 300 representatives from business, industry, government, and school districts conduct interviews at Career Services in the fall and spring semesters.

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

Total Number of On-Campus Interviews

4,846

Total Number of Interviewing Employers

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

MEET OUR STAFF

Our enthusiastic staff members are constantly involved within OU Career Services, but also manage to participate in outside activities such as conferences, research and writing of their own. Their unique experiences bring a consistent flow of new ideas and innovation to the University of Oklahoma.

Sarah Welch Associate Director College of Business

Sarah is the Associate Director of Career Services where she has worked since 2008. She is the Career Services liaison to the College of Business and assists the students in preparing for their job search for full-time and internship positions. In addition, she is the University’s expert on the Federal Government job search. She is a member of the Price College of Business School of Accounting Board of Visitors and assists in teaching a class to approximately 500 Price College of Business students each semester.

Claudia Schaff

Assistant Director College of Education, Journalism, Fine Arts and International Studies Claudia Schaff has worked directly with students in leadership development, campus event programming, in addition to career and academic advising. She is a member of OkACE and SoACe and recently presented at last year’s annual SoACE conference in Florida.

Brenda Peters Associate Director Employer Relations

Betsy Bishop

Assistant Director of Events Betsy Bishop has been with Career Services since 1998, starting at the front desk and was promoted to become Internship Coordinator. She now handles Career Services Career Fairs.

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Brenda Peters is responsible for employer recruiting. Mrs. Peters has served on board of Directors for the Southwest Association of colleges and Employers and chaired various SWACE committees. She attended NACE Leadership Institute and served on the Disney Advisory Board for three years.

Dan Kemp

Assistant Director College of Architecture, Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences, Aviation, Higher Education, Liberal Studies Daniel Kemp is a recognized Career Services professional and information technology instructor in a higher education environment. Mr. Kemp has presented on Career Services topics at professional meetings including SOACE and CSO conferences. His expertise also includes academic career advising as well.

Rick Dubler

Assistant Director Engineering, Earth & Energy Rick Dubler utilizes his ample experience in employee development as the student liaison for both the College of Engineering and the Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy. In addition he has become a seasoned facilitator of Gallups StrengthsQuest and Strengths Finder, speaking regularly to classes as well as numerous university departments.

Cindy McCornack

Juli Hall

Jessica Attebery

Kim Sherbon

Administrative Assistant

Recruiting Assistant

Mary Delaney

Assistant Director College of Arts and Sciences Internship Coordinator Mary Delaney is a member of CEIA and SoACE. On campus, she has been involved with the Staff Senate Communications Committee. Off-campus, she can be seen supporting the Sooners at various sporting events.

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Staff Assistant

Recruiting Assistant

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2012 Year in Review / University of Oklahoma Career Services

CREDITS UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA CAREER SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT 2011/2012 Data Collected by: Dan Kemp Colin Goodhart Olivia Deakins Edited by: Bette Scott Claudia Schaff Rick Dubler Robin Huston Written and Designed by: Kevin Johnson Photographs by: Brittany Sparks

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