What’s Wrong With Your Career Services Website?
Learn about the Good, bad & Ugly of Career Services Websites
- Have you given any attention to your career services website lately?
- Do you have a strategic plan to improve it?
- Does your website match your students’ and alumni expectations?
If you are like most career services professionals, you have invested a great deal of time and money networking with employers, holding career fairs and visiting with students.
And, more than likely, you have been struggling with how to get more students using your services. While program participation varies, many career services offices are struggling to get more than 30 percent of their graduating classes participating. Most have not been able to help alumni.
We think your website holds answers to these issues
We’ve conducted an exhaustive study and found that 90 percent of career services websites are not using social media, online community or e-communications techniques to address them. That, in the face of research that is showing students and alumni are spending more time online
So what about you?
What is your organization doing?
By attending this Webinar you will learn how to develop an Internet strategy that will not only increase the number of students you serve, but also more alumni. This Webinar will give you the information you need to take advantage of proven Internet strategies and techniques.
You'll learn how your Internet strategy will:
- Reach more employers
- Serve more students and alumni
- Connect students with alumni mentors
The Webinar will also show you how to use social media and Web 2.0 tools to meet students and alumni where they are at - ONLINE.
We'll show you how to move beyond offering a “brochure ware” website with innovative uses of blogs, video, audio, podcast, RSS feeds and more. This Webinar will NOT focus on the technical aspects of these tools, but on the strategic applications to help you get your message out!
You will also have a chance to see actual examples of the good, the bad and the ugly annual giving websites. We'll show you:
- 10 critical elements your annual giving website MUST have
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Ideas you should adopt
You'll walk away with MANY best practices you can adopt!
We've conducted a great deal of research to bring this all together for you and your team. You'll receive a vast amount of information that would have taken your team weeks to compile or would have costs thousands of dollars to have consultants provide.
You'll quickly see that larger colleges do not have a lock on creative ideas. We found dozens of smaller college career services websites with great ideas you'll want to adopt. Combine all these ideas and you'll end up with an Internet strategy for your career services offices will be proud of!
PLUS, you will receive the white paper, “Catching UP to Customers Expectations, A Career Services Online Website Study” This report summarizes the research we conducted by looking at hundreds of career services websites. The report includes a chart of the most common elements so you can compare your site to others in the industry. And we provide access to interviews conducted with individuals who are successfully implementing Internet strategies.
When: Friday, March 27th - 2:00 to 3:30 EDT
Where: On the web and via phone
How: We’ll send participation information
Why: You need an online contribution strategy
Cost: Only $295
Click here to Register!
Included with your registration fee:
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Copy of the Power Point
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Copy of the white paper- Catching UP to Customers Expectations, A Career Services Online Website Study”
Questions? Contact phyllis@internetstrategiesgroup.com
800-805-9413
Presenter
Don Philabaum is the founder of Internet Strategies Group, a firm dedicated to help organizations use proven Internet strategies to increase communication, engagement and contributions. A firm Don previously founded, (IAC) created over 300 alumni online communities. Don is the author of Engage Alumni Online, a book that provides 101 strategies to engage alumni and contributors online. Over 1,500 alumni professionals have attended his Webinars in 2005, "Facing UP to the Facebook/MySpace Generation"