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Conference Every other year, CRMA holds a two-day conference attended by career professionals from across the United States. It gives participants the opportunity to network, share information, and attend workshops and presentations. All career professionals, whether a CRMA member or not, are invited to attend the conference. Career counselors, career center directors, employment counselors, recruiting managers, as well as career librarians will benefit from the professional development opportunities at this conference. The 13th Biennial CRMA Conference is tentatively scheduled for June 2011. Visit this page for updates in summer 2010. 2009 Conference News The Career Resource Managers Association announces its biennial conference for 2009. The 12th Biennial CRMA Conference will be held on Thursday, June 4 and Friday, June 5, 2009 at Suffolk University in downtown Boston, MA in collaboration with the Career Counselors’ Consortium. The conference theme for this year is Rethinking, Retooling, Recharging. Enjoy two keynote speakers (see below) and ten concurrent sessions perfect for any career resource manager, career center director, career counselor, or career/internship specialist. Registration is under $200.00 and includes continental breakfast and lunch on both days. On-campus accommodations provided by Suffolk University at $75.00 per night. A limited number of rooms are available at the Midtown Hotel for $159.00 per night. Registration is closed. The 12th Biennial CRMA Conference “Rethinking, Retooling, Recharging,” in collaboration with the Career Counselors Consortium, Inc., was a great success. We had over 80 professionals attend the conference at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. For your information, the program is listed below. DAY ONE: Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:00-9:00 am Breakfast 9:00-9:15 am Opening Remarks 9:15-10:15 am Keynote Speaker (see below for details) Taking
Your Own Medicine: Applying Your Great Career Advice to Your Own Career
10:30-11:45 am Concurrent Sessions Rethinking,
Retooling, and Revolutionizing: A Fourth Consideration for Career Professionals Integrating the role of social justice advocacy into our work with clients/students. Keeping
Current: A Job Market Trend Monthly Newsletter and Wiki Page How to develop a newsletter and wiki website to provide job market trend information to students. LUNCH 1:00-2:15 pm Concurrent Sessions Going
Green: A New Website Initiative Learn how NJIT created and developed a comprehensive web resource for prospective and current students and alumni related to "green careers". Professional
Development for the Senior Year This session will discuss the Nichols College Senior Year Professional Development course designed to provide students with a smooth college-to-career transition. 2:45-4:00 pm Concurrent Sessions What
If? Imagining Radical Alternatives to Current Work This program helps counselors examine some of their own assumptions about work and the wider culture within which it resides. Procedures
for Piecemeal Processing This session will demonstrate and teach how you can break down resource processing tasks into manageable chunks and create documents that can be used by many people to accomplish these tasks. 5:00-6:30 pm Reception DAY TWO: Friday, June 5, 2009 8:00-9:00 am Breakfast 9:00-9:15 am Opening Remarks 9:15-10:15 am Keynote Speaker (see below for details) Assessing
the Expectations Gap 10:30-11:45 am Concurrent Sessions Communicating
Effectively Online with Clients Providing career information and services using online tools such as email, blogs, Skype, or Second Life can be very appealing in today’s world of budget and personnel cutbacks. But, how do we determine which tool is appropriate for which information or service? Participants in this session will review the concepts of synchronous and asynchronous communication and individual and group instruction, then share best practices for using online tools with our clients. Understanding
Transition in the Career Counseling Process At its core, career
counseling is about guiding clients through a transition process, not
just helping them to change jobs. What makes this challenging for both
counselors and clients is that being in transition is not easy. Transition
is a messy place. When we counselors have a deeper understanding of
transition, we are able to provide our clients with tools for bringing
a sense of order to this indefinite period of time in their lives and
we significantly improve their chances of achieving their goals. When
we embrace the transition model in our own lives, what we offer our
clients gains authenticity and power. This seminar is meant to be experienced
on both a personal and professional level. LUNCH 1:00-2:15 pm Concurrent Sessions Appreciative
Inquiry: A Strength-Based Approach to Career Development Using an Appreciative
Inquiry tool in a career development setting can be a powerful way to
help students uncover seeds of excellence and satisfaction from which
to grow their careers. In this interactive workshop, we’ll briefly
review the theory behind this approach, and we’ll do a sample
exercise to help each other focus on experiences in our lives that represent
our strengths when we’re operating at our very best. In collaboration
with Institutional Advancement, the Career Center at Taking Your Own Medicine: Applying Your Great Career Advice to Your Own Career - by Elizabeth Freedman, MBA, Elizabeth Freedman & Company, Natick, MA You’re an expert when it comes to helping your students manage their own careers – whether it’s connecting them with the right resources, the best information, and the cutting-edge ideas that can help them make the most of their future careers. But when was the last time you practiced what you preached? As busy professionals, it’s easy to focus on supporting the career goals of others, and forget to take our own great career advice. It’s time to start taking our own medicine, and applying our expertise and insights to ourselves.
Elizabeth Freedman, MBA, is an award-winning speaker and business columnist, and is the author of “Work 101: Learning the Ropes of the Workplace without Hanging Yourself,” (Random House, April 2007) and “The MBA Student’s Job-Seeking Bible.” A 2005 finalist for College Speaker of the Year, awarded by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities, Elizabeth runs a Boston-based communications and career development firm that helps professionals look sharp, sound smart, and succeed on the job. Clients include The Gillette Company/Procter & Gamble, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and ThomsonReuters. Elizabeth has been quoted in The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report and featured in many other national and regional publications. She is a contributor to Collegeboard.com and TopMBA.com, where she writes about work and life choices for students and new professionals. Elizabeth is a former consultant for Accenture, the global consulting firm, MBA marketing lecturer at Dominican University, and Peace Corps volunteer. She is a graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management and Barnard College, Columbia University. Assessing
the Expectations Gap NACE's Job
Outlook 2008 survey found that new graduates highly value employers’
attributes of honest and fair dealings with employees, ethical business
practices, and employment stability. Survey after survey confirms also
that young graduates also have engaged in “job jumping”
to a great degree. Yet the realities of the 21st century employment
market often conflict directly with those values and habits. In his
presentation, Mr. Nothnagel will explore the issues and challenges facing
career professionals and offer insights and “current best practices”
for helping upcoming and recent graduates understand and cope with current
employment market trends.
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