2. The Power of Personal Connections
Agenda
´ Office Evaluation
´ University-wide Collaboration
´ Student Workers’ Networks
´ Events-Planning
´ Social Media
´ Hiring
´ Take Away
3. Office Evaluation
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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?
4.
5. How well does your office collaborate
with other departments & programs?
Collaborative- Good
Relationships
Targets for Better Collaboration
Department/Program Contact Department/Program Contact
6. Student Workers’ Networks
Activity- Brainstorming Web
´ How Well do you know your student workers?
´ Non/Academic departments
´ Student organizations
´ Jobs
´ Classmates
´ Friends
´ Roommates
7.
8. Events & Programming
´ Do you have strong relationships
with professors and departments?
´ Do you participate in annual
events across campus?
´ Do you struggle with low student
attendance to events?
9. 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?
10. 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.
11. 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.
