| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Check-in & Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Welcome Steve Kligerman, Assistant Director for Programming & Career Everywhere, Center for Career Development | |
| 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Opening Keynote Career Readiness in the Classroom Dr. Marina Astitha, Associate Professor & Associate Department Head for Graduate Education, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| 10:30 am – 10:40 am | Break | |
| 10:40 am – 11:30 am | Breakout Sessions Career Ready, UConn Ready: Mapping NACE Career Competencies to the First Year Experience Jenna Hartwell, Academic Advisor, UConn Waterbury Integration of Career Competencies into the Undergraduate Curriculum Dr. Svetlana Kalnova, Assistant Professor-in-Residence, UConn Department of Communication Dr. Craig Calvert, Assistant Professor-in-Residence, UConn School of Business Operations and Information Management Department Dr. Natalia Smirnova, Associate Professor-In-Residence, University of Connecticut – Stamford Campus, UConn Department of Economics Kaitlyn Anderson, Career Readiness Program Designer, UConn Center for Career Development Fostering Career Readiness Through Collaboration Ryan C. Cooper, Associate Professor-in-Residence, UConn Department of Mechanical Engineering Katie Maroney, Talent Acquisition Specialist, Enterprise Holdings Vida Samuel, PhD, Assistant Professor in Residence, Faculty Affiliate, Center for Applied Research in Human Development, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences Paul Scott, Engineering Specialist, General Dynamics Electric Boat Christina Badini, Assistant Director of Corporate Partner Relations, UConn Center for Career Development | |
| 11:30 am – 11:40 am | Break | |
| 11:40 am – 12:30 pm | Breakout Sessions Leveraging CliftonStrengths to Develop Career Readiness in Students Jose (Joel) Nebres, Academic Advisor & Adjunct Instructor, UConn Department of Communication and Advising & First-Year Writing Program, UConn Department of English Mark Reckmeyer, Ed.D, Senior Education Consultant, Gallup Turning Undergrads into Wundergrads – Unlocking Your Students’ Potential at Work Nick Boston, Educational Program Administrator, UConn Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm – 2:20 pm | Breakout Sessions Student Development: Building Student Leaders Isaac Barber, Director, UConn Student Union and Event Services Strategies for Inclusive Career Conversations: Reducing Biases, Career Choice Disparagement & Bullying Kay Kimball Gruder, Associate Director of Graduate Student & Postdoc Career Programs and Services, UConn Center for Career Development Dr. Diandra Prescod, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Counselor Education, UConn Neag School of Education, Department of Educational Psychology Damiao Zoe Xu, Ph.D. Candidate in Leadership, Learning, and Education Policy with a concentration in Adult Learning, UConn Department of Educational Leadership | |
| 2:20 pm – 2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Closing Keynote Empowering Young Professionals: Strategies and Reflections on Advocating for College Students Ashton Beason-Jones, Product Manager, The Cigna Group (‘11 CLAS) Jonathan Bellamy, Product Manager, Stanley Black & Decker (‘12 CLAS, ‘19 MBA) | |
| 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Networking Event Career Everywhere Happy Hour Networking Event Sponsored by Enterprise Holdings |
Conference Networking Sponsor
