Career Services wants to hear from you
Have you used Fanshawe's
Career Services before? What are
they doing well? What could they
improve? Career Services wants
your answers to these questions and
more at their first-ever Career Café,
being held in Forwell Hall on March
13 from 6 to 8 p.m.
"Students pay out of their tuition a fee for Career Services," said Darlene O'Neill, Assistant Manager at Career Services. "We are here to serve the students. We need to know (things like) are the students getting what they really need from us? How can we enhance our services to help make (students) more employable when they're graduating or when they're looking for part-time work? Are our workshops of the right quality? Are they on the right topics?"
Through Career Café, the staff hopes to improve and strengthen the services they offer students, such as workshops, individual career counseling services and a job hunt website.
"We need to sit down and have that conversation with the students in a relaxed, casual environment," O'Neill continued. "It gives them an opportunity to influence changes that we're thinking of making in the way we run Career Services here at Fanshawe."
Career Café will be a fun and interactive evening with snacks and a bar. Each table will have a question about Career Services, and students will be provided with markers and crayons to answer each question with their own ideas and suggestions. Students will move from table to table — kind of like speed dating, joked Liska Martindale-Dubrule, Student Services Specialist at Career Services — answering each question. "We're going to have a lot of fun with it," she said.
"It's a really fun way to do a facilitation, because it's not somebody with a flipchart and marker putting people in groups. You've got crayons and markers and placemats. There's nobody in control of it — there's not that person of power at the front who's trying to pull ideas out of a bunch of students," explained O'Neill.
"We'll try to incorporate as many of their suggestions into the way we do business so that stakeholder engagement is valuable and recognized, so the students can hear their own voices in the way that we've done our business and made our changes."
At the end of the night, gift certificates will be given out as prizes to lucky participants.
For more information about Career Café, head to Career Services in D1063 or call 519- 452- 4294. You can also join the Career Services Facebook group at tinyurl.com/fanshawecareerservices or connect with them on Twitter @FanshaweCS.
"Students pay out of their tuition a fee for Career Services," said Darlene O'Neill, Assistant Manager at Career Services. "We are here to serve the students. We need to know (things like) are the students getting what they really need from us? How can we enhance our services to help make (students) more employable when they're graduating or when they're looking for part-time work? Are our workshops of the right quality? Are they on the right topics?"
Through Career Café, the staff hopes to improve and strengthen the services they offer students, such as workshops, individual career counseling services and a job hunt website.
"We need to sit down and have that conversation with the students in a relaxed, casual environment," O'Neill continued. "It gives them an opportunity to influence changes that we're thinking of making in the way we run Career Services here at Fanshawe."
Career Café will be a fun and interactive evening with snacks and a bar. Each table will have a question about Career Services, and students will be provided with markers and crayons to answer each question with their own ideas and suggestions. Students will move from table to table — kind of like speed dating, joked Liska Martindale-Dubrule, Student Services Specialist at Career Services — answering each question. "We're going to have a lot of fun with it," she said.
"It's a really fun way to do a facilitation, because it's not somebody with a flipchart and marker putting people in groups. You've got crayons and markers and placemats. There's nobody in control of it — there's not that person of power at the front who's trying to pull ideas out of a bunch of students," explained O'Neill.
"We'll try to incorporate as many of their suggestions into the way we do business so that stakeholder engagement is valuable and recognized, so the students can hear their own voices in the way that we've done our business and made our changes."
At the end of the night, gift certificates will be given out as prizes to lucky participants.
For more information about Career Café, head to Career Services in D1063 or call 519- 452- 4294. You can also join the Career Services Facebook group at tinyurl.com/fanshawecareerservices or connect with them on Twitter @FanshaweCS.
