The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)
has an annual event where attendees can network with each other, learn best
practices at breakout sessions, and be awed and inspired by keynote speakers
like former pro-football player and astronaut
Leland Melvin, or founder and CEO of Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani.
This year the conference was housed at the Hilton Chicago
where 2800 university professionals, employers, and solutions partners descended.
Of those 2800, 1200 were newcomers like ourselves and 4 of our other Capital
One Campus Recruiting teammates who attended.
Our plan was to divide and conquer in order to cover as much
ground as possible. We broke into groups to cover sessions on topics such as
diversity and inclusion, reporting and analytics, campus recruiting best
practices and professional development.
We made the most of our time in Chicago by connecting with
representatives from our schools, taking in the latest and greatest from
technology partners, and leveraging the time for team bonding – including a
stop by the Cloud Gate, aka the Bean!
We all are excited to be back from Chicago and to share our
learnings with the team. We’ve started to set up demos with potential technology
partners and further develop our relationship with career services
professionals we met. Lastly, we’re looking forward to playing an even bigger
role at NACE 2017 in Las Vegas!
- - Ryan
and Kate
