FloridaACE2025

Gain valuable insights into seven key factors directly linked to undergraduate career success, backed by cutting-edge research from the 12twenty Research and Evaluation team. Explore how student engagement in career fairs, workshops, mock interviews, and internships influences starting salaries and the timing of job offers. Additionally, discover how the inclusion of specific career readiness keywords in a resume improves applicant success. These findings will empower career advisors, career fair organizers, and institutional leaders to craft more effective marketing strategies using their own career center data to boost student participation in career development programs, while also increasing job and internship placement.

Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify and apply the seven key indicators that influence undergraduate student success to develop targeted strategies that enhance student engagement and improve post-graduation employment outcomes.

In a post Covid-19 world, Generation Z college students have faced unprecedented stress and uncertainty regarding their career paths. To address these challenges and support the resilience and growth of our current workforce, UCF career professionals have developed an innovative psychoeducational workshop series integrating mental health and career development. This program is designed to equip students with essential coping strategies to navigate transitional stress, imposter syndrome, job search stress management, social anxiety, career mind mapping, managing stress during career fairs, and parallel planning for the unexpected. The psychoeducational workshop series focuses on helping students develop practical tools and techniques to manage stress during significant life and career transitions. This presentation will show an example of programming that can be incorporated into institutions to profoundly impact the well-being and success of Generation Z students.

Objectives:
1: Participants will learn how to enrich existing career services and mental health support initiatives to serve students.

2: Participants will develop strategies to create a campus culture that prioritizes mental health, resilience, and career readiness.

3: Participants will equip students with the necessary tools and confidence to navigate their career paths and thrive in the professional world.

4: Participants will learn how to incorporate similar programming that can be adopted by institutions to significantly enhance the well-being and success of Generation Z students.

Tired of redirecting students to the same career resources over and over? This session will showcase how a simple, automated career resource quiz can streamline student engagement by providing personalized career guidance. Attendees will learn how to design a quiz that assesses student needs, connects them with tailored resources, and automates follow-up communication saving career centers time while enhancing student support. We’ll explore logistics, implementation strategies, and real-world outcomes, demonstrating how this tool can boost resource utilization and improve student career readiness. Whether you're looking to increase engagement, improve efficiency, or provide scalable personalized advising, this session will equip you with practical steps to create your own interactive career quiz. Attendees will leave with a roadmap to implement this tool at their institution, enhancing their ability to guide students effectively through their career journey.

Objectives:

1. Understand the Value of Personalization: Attendees will recognize how customized career quizzes can help students navigate career resources more effectively.
2. Learn How to Design a Career Quiz: Attendees will gain insight into structuring quiz questions and results to align with student career development stages.
3. Explore Implementation Strategies: Attendees will discover methods for integrating a career quiz into their institution's career services using tools like Microsoft Forms and Power Automate.
4. Analyze Data for Student Engagement: Attendees will learn how to track quiz responses and use the data to improve career programming and outreach.
5. Develop a Framework for Their Own Quiz: Attendees will leave with actionable steps to create a career quiz tailored to their institution's needs.