Career Resource Center receives excellence award

The center's Student Information System (SIS) was cited by the award, which recognizes outstanding technical tools or designs created by career services centers from NACE's 3,500 member colleges and corporate human resource offices. SIS was created by management school personnel to enhance relations with corporate recruiters, improve student access to employment opportunities and to track student job- placement results

Links student data with job info

The "almost paperless" system networks existing university systems and software to link student data with inputted job postings and employer information. Using this data, SIS automatically retrieves on-line resumes of qualified students for forwarding to prospective employers, while simultaneously e-mailing job postings to appropriate students.

SIS also is used by the management school to gather student job-placement statistics and to analyze common attributes of successfully placed students. This data is shared with the MBA office for use in recruitment of students most likely to succeed in the program and is used for monitoring curriculum effectiveness.

Cynthia Shore, assistant dean and director of the Career Resource Center, said, "Ninety-one percent of MBA students now use our office, compared to a participation rate of 50 percent before SIS was implemented."

The system was created by Shore; Joseph Mantione, the school's assistant dean of resource management; Jacqueline Ghosen, associate director of the Career Resource Center; and MBA students John Lovelace and Peter Pomeroy. Shore will receive the award at the association's regional conference in September. An announcement will also be featured in the Journal of Career Planning and Placement.