To one extent or another, virtual recruiting is here to stay. While many look forward to increasing their in-person activity, there’s no question that virtual events, activities, and interviews will remain part of the campus recruiting process for the long term.

This panel of employers will discuss what’s worked and what has not over the past months and where they see campus recruiting headed in the months to come.

Questions discussed will include:
What methods, tools, channels and approaches have proven successful?
How do you decide when you work with campus partners and when to “”go it alone””?
How do you convey culture to prospects and new hires virtually?
How do you measure which efforts are succeeding?
How do you imagine things will unfold in the year ahead?
Join us to pick up some ideas for connecting more successfully with students to improve your success on campus.

This workshop will feature some preliminary results from the 2022 Campus Recruiting Outlook survey – providing a snapshot into hiring trends; employers’ key recruitment challenges; the skills employers are seeking; and, the methods employers are using to reach students now. Don’t miss the opportunity to be among the first to know AND join in the discussion with peers.

The Future Workforce is Experienced. And while Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is helping employers to recruit grads that can connect their studies to work, the value of the broader area of Experiential Learning (EL) should also be appreciated.
Dalhousie’s Commerce Co-op has been operating as a mandatory co-op for 30 years and led to launching a mandatory WIL Program in 2009, the Corporate Residency MBA. Formalized WIL are common and popular with students and employers alike but supporting students enrolling in mandatory WIL programs are less common.
Management without Borders is a mandatory EL course for all grad students of the Faculty of Management. The course’s primary focus is a group project where interdisciplinary teams work on projects hosted by organizations from across Nova Scotia. Students apply professional skill sets and knowledge acquired through classroom learning to challenges and opportunities facing real organizations and are asked to navigate the dynamics that characterize inter-professional team environments.
Join Robert and Jenny as they speak about their experiences supporting student success through multiple forms of Experiential Learning.

Many employers have increased their efforts to address the challenge of diversifying their workforce through student recruitment. Success requires many steps before even visiting campuses and then once on campus, employers are often competing for the same students’ attention. This panel will discuss successful initiatives within their organizations to reveal what’s really working for them. These questions and more will be discussed:

What should every employer consider before they even head to campus?
What are the best channels and tools for reaching underrepresented students?
How should approaches vary depending on the groups employers wish to reach?
How can campus partners better support these employers’ diversity initiatives?

According to research, Black, Indigenous and racialized women (BIWOC) who are students in post-secondary can feel less supported when it comes to their career development and access to networks. What’s more, one of their top sources of stress includes the job search process. On this panel, students and recent graduates who self-identify as BIWOC will explore their experiences with navigating their career development and job search as well as ways post-secondary institutions and employers can be more inclusive in their approaches.

For employers to be more effective when attracting Indigenous students and graduates, it is critically important to understand their paths to post-secondary as well as how they choose careers. Join Ruby Littlechild as she explains the realities for Indigenous students and how they can successfully launch their careers. Then, join the discussion, facilitated by Ariane Lamy, to explore ways that employers can improve their existing attraction strategies and possibly even discover some altogether new approaches as well.

Hybrid work has made us more decentralized than ever before, impacting traditional innovation, career development, employee experiences and overall connectivity. As covered in the Harvard Business Review, hybrid work has made us more siloed and lonely than ever before. This session will explore what innovative early career leaders are building to create award winning experiences in hybrid. Learn what’s working, what’s failed and what 2022 will hold to create the best in class hybrid internships and new grad programs. Join early career leaders from Adidas, IBM, and IMC in this informative discussion moderated by award winning future of work entrepreneur, Dave Wilkin, founder of TenThousandCoffees.com.

Prior to the pandemic, Gen Z was already carving a unique profile as this generation began to join the workforce. Many of Gen Z’s traits have been accelerated by the experiences over the past year and half. So how has this impacted their perspectives on careers, career development and perspective employment opportunities?

Join us for the first public release of findings from the most recent Brainstorm Student Career Interests Report. Based on a survey of more than 17,000 Canadian university and college students in 2021, this research reveals changes in students’ outlook; their expectations of perspective employers; what support they require from their schools; and, the career goals they aspire to.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be among the first to access fresh insights into today’s students’ views about employers and careers.