Career Development Center hosts leadership seminar

The Career Development Center will be hosting a leadership seminar for student-organization leaders to assist them in building lasting partnerships.

The seminar will be held on Jan. 31, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

            The idea for the workshop came about when a representative from a sponsor company for the career center mentioned her frustration in working with student organization on campus. “Employers often express frustration when dealing with the turnover of student-organization-leadership. Many organizations falter at ‘passing the torch’ to their newly elected leaders.” Said outreach coordinator for the career center, Terri Armstrong.

In an effort to address communication, follow through, reliability, and long-term sustainability between student organization leaders and employers, the proposed event would not only bring together student leaders from an array of clubs and organizations on campus but also allow them to share their best practices with each other.

The event will further the career center’s mission to provide innovative services to students that contribute to their development as well as their success.

Student leaders will have an opportunity to hear from employers about ways to establish and maintain positive partnerships between their organization and employers.  As a result, Students will gain lasting leadership skills and employers will gain insight into the inner-workings of the student organizations here on campus.

            The event is by invitation only and will give organization leaders an opportunity to win prizes for themselves and their organization.