00:10:43 Michele Plante: Good afternoon! 00:10:45 Danny Groner: Great to be here. I’d love to connect with others here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygroner/ 00:10:51 Jeff Brzozowski: Hello everyone! Hi Graham. 00:11:20 Mary Scott: Greetings all from rainy Connecticut 00:12:29 Kerri Keller: Blue skies thankfully here at Kansas State University! 00:13:38 Ahmet Aydogan: Feel free to network! Please don't forget to add personal note that I know I am networking from this event https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmet-aydogan-new-york/ 00:26:15 jeffrey moss: Great point @bridget. Pepsi had a great effort with Micro-Internships last spring to create these experiences between students and employees 00:30:20 Nicole Streu: Do you fear virtual fatigue if everyone were to try to do their own events? 00:30:38 Nicole Streu: We've had relatively low attendance at some of our one off events, and I think that's a big part of it 00:33:03 Jeff Brzozowski: That's pretty awesome... 00:33:26 jeffrey moss: Or, to the issue highlighted by Pepsi and IBM, students don't apply / attend because of pre-conceived notions based on the consumer brand. Not thinking about Pepsi for finance roles or IBM for marketing ones... 00:35:44 Kim DiNicola: Silver lining…are you finding more exec engagement since travel is no longer a barrier to their participation in campus events/activities? 00:37:54 Nicole Streu: Oh my gosh, please talk about how you made Handshake work, we have had SO many issues! 00:37:55 Ahmet Aydogan: I have an idea @leanne after reaching out the career services from schools maybe find the contacts for students clubs (presidents contact) and their weekly meetings would be a great for the students as well as put your brand name out 00:38:44 Michele Plante: Nicole, our feedback said that Handshake paired really well with Zoom. 00:41:01 Jeff Brzozowski: We experienced the same issue - 8 or 9 diff career fair platforms..... 00:41:21 Nicole Streu: We are only allowed to use Zoom certain ways, but we had a terrible time even getting candidates to engage with us via Handshake. It is hands down my least favorite platform thus far. 00:41:32 Tyler Switsky: We found most success with schools that used Brazen -- it most closely emulated the feel of a traditional career fair, you were able to download resumes and text conversation histories on the spot, and you could keep record of who you wanted to move forward with through that platform. 00:42:03 jeffrey moss: Isn't there a more fundamental issue that these are focused on taking traditional models and just shifting them online (virtual career fair, virtual info session...)? 00:42:27 Nicole Streu: I've liked CareerFair+ best 00:42:53 Nicole Streu: Which is a similar concept to Handshake, but has been way more successful for us 00:43:16 Alisha Tidball: @Nicole - did you use Handshake early on or more recently? They made Many updates in the last month, including better ways for students and employers to connect before, during, and after the fair. Happy to walk you through these if you like! alishabt@uw.edu We had a very good rating from our employers using Handshake over 6 fairs so far. 00:44:05 jeffrey moss: Pepsi had success with Parker Dewey's Micro-Internship platform in the past 00:44:31 Bridget King: Happy to chat further offline with anyone about platforms 00:45:01 Nicole Streu: @Alisha, thanks that's a very kind offer! We've been using it all throughout the fall. I know one of our recruiters is on the Handhshake webinar now, so she'll be reporting back! But I'll certainly reach out if we have other questions, thank yo! 00:45:02 Nicole Streu: you* 00:45:57 jeffrey moss: It should level the playing field, however many companies are still filtering based on school, gpa and major. 00:46:19 Alisha Tidball: @Nicole- my pleasure! I sat in on most of their weekly career center office hours and have lots of resources that I created for our employers that I'd be happy to share as well. Reach out anytime! 00:48:20 jeffrey moss: Interesting @leanne as we've heard they are super engaged and have the time to attend - they just don't have the interest in more career fairs and info sessions. 00:49:23 Mary Meadows: The Education Abroad field found a champion in Luna Fairs who built a low cost platform amazingly fast to hold virtual fairs to recruit for virtual and onsite education abroad and internship abroad programs. www.lunafairs.com 00:49:28 Nicole Streu: Same here! It's been harder to find people to commit 00:49:40 Leanne Farmer: @Jeffrey that is very interesting! I think you are the first person I’ve heard that from this fall 00:50:09 jeffrey moss: Student engagement in micro-internships is up 10x versus last year. 00:50:37 jeffrey moss: Sorry - above for @leanne 00:53:19 jeffrey moss: @graham - projects don't need to be an alternative to internships, but a complement. 10-40 hour projects that take a few weeks and take place year round. Used to engage stud 00:53:46 jeffrey moss: Used to engage students not considering their roles and mutual test drive (and hiring managers like the immediate support) 00:57:44 Kerri Keller: Large corporation with good brand recognition are experiencing hiring success - mid-sized and small companies which are bulk of grad hiring are having challenges 00:58:27 Nicole Streu: I agree, @Kerri! 00:58:58 jeffrey moss: Yes @kerri in the core "depts." of big brand. The challenge is in the other depts. (finance student not thinking about role at pepsi, or marketing student interest in IBM) 00:59:28 Jeff Brzozowski: Agree. We've had a tremendous Fall - high number of apps and high acceptance rates for FT conversions. 01:00:13 Mary Scott: Kerri: Is that brand awareness as a good place to work [from experiences of former interns, recent hires] or as a consumer brand? 01:00:49 Kerri Keller: @mary I think it is both and also students are really scrutinizing DEI evidence 01:01:02 Ginger Garbisch: Is there anyone on the call from a CPG or company with a manufacturing/field intern populations that would be willing to connect? 01:01:56 Nicole Ramirez: @ginger - I would be happy to connect. I'm with Conagra Brands and we had both virtual corp based interns as well as mfg interns based at our facilities throughout the midwest 01:02:25 Ginger Garbisch: @nicole - awesome! we are looking to benchmark with other intern programs with similar field populations for 2021 plans 01:03:05 Kerri Keller: Hybrid recruiting is here to "stay" and that will be the real challenge to deliver on 01:03:43 jeffrey moss: Agree @kerri. Benefits to in person recruiting, but need to rethink the career fair and other traditional methods 01:05:35 sharon fash: thank you all for this event quite informative 01:06:50 Nicole Streu: Really interesting to hear all the perspectives, thank you! 01:06:52 Jeff Brzozowski: Thank you for your transparency! :) 01:06:53 jeffrey moss: Good point on DEI. Webinar next week on DEI challenges from perspective of non-profits: https://info.parkerdewey.com/diversity-campus-recruiting-webinar 01:07:03 Lindsey Ritchey: Thank you all for this event! It was very informative! 01:07:15 Ahmet Aydogan: Thank you very much! 01:07:22 Sharon Gallagher: Great information as always, thank you Graham and panel!