Hottt Topic!

With the weather heating up NACE is offering a webinar on a topic near & dear to our hearts - "Social Media + Legal Risks = Caution for Recruiting!" College Career Staff & Employers are invited to attend (registration fee required)
Presenter: Brian J. Lamoureux is a Partner with Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West and a member of the firm’s Litigation, Employment Law, and Corporate & Business Counseling Teams. His areas of expertise include litigation labor and employment law, social media law, creditors’ rights, surety law, construction law, telecommunications zoning, structured settlement transfers, and student loan bankruptcy matters.

Dr. Shaq

As you may be aware Shaq O'Neil graduated with a doctorate from Barry University, Miami Shores, FL (my Alma mater!) You also may have heard his degree was in "Education" - that's because the Human Resource Development program is in Barry's School of Education . . . any words of advice for Shaq or any new HR professional?!
Shaq studied under Dr. David "Where The Rubber Meets the Road" Kopp - my favorite HRD professor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyO0JHSlN2k&feature=youtu.be

Social Activities Top Benefit for Interns

In NACE's 2012 Internship & Co-Op Survey Interns rated Social Activities as the top benefit of interning with a organization.

Employers - have you hosted social activities with great success?
Career Professionals - have you heard about social activities that your students particularly enjoyed?

Please share!

Article

‘Girls’ Exposes Dark Side of Unpaid Internships

I heard about this show via LinkedIn - while I have not seen it (you can view it for free via web) it sounds like something most students will benefit from watching . . "When Hannah approaches her boss with her request (turn unpaid internship into paying position), she's let go rather than given what she wants."

Employers do you recommend this to students who are working in unpaid positions? Is there a "right way"? Career Professionals - any stories of this happening?!

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Call for Proposals 2012 Conference!

The 2012 conference theme is Resiliency Today, Success Tomorrow.   The conference will be at the beautiful Thayer Hotel in West Point, NY from Sunday October 14 - Tuesday October 16th.  

 

Please visit our Conference Page for more information and for updates on 2012 as they become available. 

Call for Proposals - We are now accepting workshop proposals for the 2012 conference!!!

Charlie Rose Interns

As I'm sure you are now aware Charlie Rose is being sued by an intern. 
This line sums up & might calm all of our internship fears about paid/unpaid internships :
          "(Interns) They’re allowed to learn how widgets are made, but
                                       they’re not supposed to make the actual widgets."

Not being from or of the 'media realm' I don't see why this situation matters that it's in media vs. any other industry. The author discusses less-than-stellar-interns with some underlining belief that interns can't be fired. Employers/Career Center Staff - is this accurate?

"To Tweet or Not to Tweet"

Great article from SHRM!
We had a fabulous Grad Assistant (GA) in our office who was all about social media & did a great job! However the bad part about GA's is that they graduate! So who was going to take on the office's Twitter account - you guessed it - me!
I really can't get a handle on it & found this article which gives a great breakdown - thought it would be useful to others who also might be in the dark!
"Still stumped about Twitter? Don’t be"