Professional Standards for Early Talent Recruiting & University Relations

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals
Competency: Organizing information, logistics, people, and processes toward desired outcomes
Fee: FREE (member); $89 (nonmember);

Summary
Just unveiled, the newly revised and updated Professional Standards for Early Talent Recruiting & University Recruiting provide a roadmap for a successful early talent recruiting and university relations program. Join Chris Carlson, Mantech, and Vanessa Strauss, FDIC, co-chairs of the practitioner task force that revised the Professional Standards, to learn what the Professional Standards can do for you, your operation, and your organization at large.

You’ll gain an understanding of how to apply the Professional Standards to identify your program’s strengths and areas for further development, find out how and why to apply key success metrics, and discover best practices to model to take your program to the next level.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Get a roadmap for what makes for a model program;
- Discover how to identify your program’s strengths and uncover areas that need further development.
Presenters

Christopher Carlson, Sr. Manager, Channels, Partnerships and Events, ManTech
Chris Carlson is senior manager, channels, partnerships, and events, for ManTech. Previously, he led university relations and recruiting at Northrop Grumman, served as director of talent management at TVA, and was senior manager of talent acquisition for Booz Allen Hamilton. He served as co-chair of the NACE task force that revised the Professional Standards for Early Talent Recruiting & University Relations. His service to NACE includes serving on the NACE Board of Directors (2012-14) and in Board leadership roles, including vice president - employer (2016-18), president-elect (2018-19), president (2019-20), and past president (2020-21).

Vanessa Strauss, Retired, Retired Emeritus
Vanessa Alexander Strauss is a senior advisor in human resources, Division of Administration (DOA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In her position as senior advisor, she is responsible for performing a wide-range of managerial and technical assignments relating to the design, development, and implementation of human resource management policies and programs. She currently oversees FDIC Summer Scholar Student Internship Program, FDIC’s Special Assistant Program, and a host of other corporate-wide programs and activities. Strauss routinely serves as a resource in the development of employee and managerial training and leadership programs in support of the goals of the FDIC. Her philosophy is “everyone can make a difference.” Strauss has served NACE committees for over 20 years and in leadership roles at the national and regional levels. In addition to serving as co-chair of the NACE task force that revised the Professional Standards for Early Talent Recruiting & University Relations, Strauss served on the NACE Board of Directors (2001-07), including as president-elect, president, and past-president.