Good evening, everybody my name is Jim Dickinson and I'm the assistant vice president for career services here at Loyola University Maryland. I'm really excited that you are joining us here for this chat tonight on crew services and how we work to support students both through your entire experience at Loyola as well as as alumni. So the way that tonight's webinars going to work is I'm going to share with you an overview of some of our work, how we go about it and.
Tosin Akintola
05:01:37 PM
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Throughout the event, you're going to be able to ask some questions via the chat box on screen so feel free to utilize that throughout the event and I will see questions come up throughout so we can make this really an interactive conversation and then we should also have some time at the end for some rapid fire kewene so looking forward to spending some time with you tonight and hope you all are having a great spring of your senior year as I'm sure it's flying by and.
You getting excited about your college decision so first let's start off with a little bit more about me I am a graduate of Loyola University Maryland and I was a psychology and writing major at the University and right after undergraduate I moved into a combined masters and PhD program in industrial organizational psychology which is pretty much the study of how people lead how they work in teams and how performance can be managed an enhanced in a variety of organizations.
So I spent a lot of time doing consulting in the corporate sector until a few years ago when I had an opportunity to come back to Loyola and join the University in a newly created position that overseas both our Career Center as well as an overall universitywide career readiness strategy. So it's been really exciting to work with a lot of different partners on campus and incredible alumni network and I'll share with you, a little bit of what that work looks like today.
So first I want to start off with a little bit of a philosophical perspective on how we do our work when you think about your time in college is for years that will fly by really fast and everybody's journey is going to be uniquely different so Italy, although we don't subscribe to a 4 year checklist of things that you should be doing each year, along the way to get ready for whatever your plans are after college.
We really look at this as a cycle if you are familiar at all with the Jesuit model of Education. One of the big things that comes out of that is teaching people? How to discern which is really reflecting on your past experiences and then thinking about what should my next steps be so it's this cycle of experiencing things, reflecting on them and then choosing the next action. So what we've done here is put together akarere design process it's really.
Focused on that spirit of acting and reflecting and going through a cycle so there are periods of time in your life where you will be an emotive self discovery. You'll be thinking about what are my personal values my interest my talents? What do I know about myself today? There are other times when you'll be exploring ways that you can express who you are through different careers that can happen in a lot of ways that could be an informal chat with an alumni. It could be taking a class that's a little bit out of your comfort zone.
Joining a club to get more familiar with something on campus related to particular career paths. A lot of ways. You can do that and then there are times when you were preparing and the way I like to look at that is, you're preparing for being selected from among other candidates for just about anything that could be an internship could be a graduate program a full time job a summer research. Grant lot of things fall into that category and then there's times when you're actively pursuing your going.
After whatever it is that you just prepared to achieve.
But at the end of that process you can come back to this place of self discovery, where you think about things like? What did I enjoy about that internship? What was surprising to Maine. How did I grow and learn about my own skills and what does it mean for my next steps?
So this is really a process that's designed to help you get comfortable with the change that will come over the course of your career? How to navigate that and it's also something that helps us meet you where you are so some of you may be joining this session tonight with a very clear view of what your major is an even a particular job that you would love to start your career in and if that's the case when you come into career services or any of our events for the first time we can really meet you more in that preparation stage and start thinking about.
How can we get you some really early internship or research experience depending on what your goals are to really start pursuing that sooner than later for a lot of you and I would gather probably for most of you on the call tonight, you probably still thinking about. I'm not really sure what my major might be. I really there could be a lot of different things that I might pursue from a career perspective and that's where starting in that phase of self discovery and exploration can be really valuable.
The way that we've structured our team, and career services is that we have a group of people that are called the career exploration team. They're all Masters degree counselors psychologists and people with training and related fields who really work on that self discovery and exploration area through things like 1 on one counseling appointments assessments. We do a variety of on campus for treats that are designed to engage students in groups around these topics and then there's the career connections team.
That works on the preparation in active pursuit phase is these are people who are not counselors by training, some of them have 14500 business experience. Some of them have been in other areas of higher education. They've got a lot of different kinds of backgrounds and they help students prepare for different kinds of industry goals and they also spend a good amount of their time going out into the community meeting with companies meeting with our alumni and learning about a lot of exciting new internship and job opportunities.
So that's a little bit about our philosophy in our process. I want to start also with a little bit of a pitch for Baltimore. So I've lived here in Baltimore. Now, for about 15 years since since coming back after Graduate School and one of the things that I really love about this city is actually similar to what I love about Loyola and that is that it's large enough of a place that has all of the resources and opportunities of.
The largest cities in the country and just like Loyola Resources just like a lot of the largest universities in the country. But there's also an Accessibility because it's not so big that you can get losten so there's a lot of opportunities that are very accessible. You can get around Baltimore City very easily and we really have companies that represent all different kinds of sectors and career opportunities so whether you're interested in healthcare focus careers and the.
World class health systems. We have here corporate careers when you think about some of our big financial institutions like T Rowe Price.
Large companies like Under Armour, a great nonprofit an art scene whether you're looking at the different museums in town or major nonprofit organizations like a Catholic relief services or United Way. There's so many different kinds of places that you can really explore oppurtunity's in town for internships and different kinds of real world experience while you're in college. So I think Baltimore's are really great place to build up that kind of experience.
Whether your goal is to stay here, after graduation, or leverage. That experience to find a job or to pursue a graduate program in another part of the country.
So let's talk a little bit about what it looks like to actually engage with career services and will just do this through a variety of photos that you'll see over the next couple of slides we try to maintain a really active presence on campus throughout the semester and so you'll only see one photo here where you can see that little little a flag. That's actually within the Career Center, so starting from the left hand side of the slide.
Will host events throughout the semester and throughout the year that are large scale alumni panels will also host career fairs that are really themed around different areas. The photo that you see on the screen. There is from our path to multimedia storytelling event, which is designed to engage students interested in broadcast journalism production for different kinds of media companies. Whether that's online whether it's TV radio and anything related and.
Will bring alumni back to speak on a panel and network with our students to help to help you think about what next steps would I want to pursue if I want to go after a career in one of these areas and then the career fairs that we might that will host throughout the year can be in themes like our accounting career night. We have a more general biz.
Turn this career night stem focused careers, nonprofit government. Another public service careers. So there's a lot of different large scale events like that that you can get engaged with throughout the year.
The next game is networking, uhm and will host in partnership with a lot of our academic departments as well as our office of alumni engagement. Some large scale networking events such as one that we call Little Iconnect Live, which happens around homecoming every year were alumni come back from a variety of majors and students can find them around the room and ask about what they do now, and how they got there to really small scale alumni networking events.
Such as one that we're hosting a few weeks from now. That's focused on connecting students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation with some alumni who have gone on to be entrepreneurs themselves or created new products and that can be just a dozen or 2 dozen people in a room for a night.
We also still a lot of one on one appointment through the Career Center, so about 26101 on one appointment a year and they can range from anything about a specific question about a job search. Maybe you're getting stuck in the interview process somewhere and trying to figure out how to improve your skills. But it really can start as early as I really have no idea what I might want to do as far as a career goes and that's where our career exploration team can do a lot of great assessments and reflection activities with you.
To help uncover what some of those interests and some of the skills that you might want to use going forward are and then the last photo you'll see on the right is from our career accelerator program. This is just an example of one of those really in depth kind of retreat experiences that we host and it's where returning sophomores, so for you. All this would be a little over a year from now. You'd be thinking about coming back to look for your sophomore year and you'll have the opportunity to come back.
3 days early before the semester starts, so you'll move into your residence Hall and then you'll be with our team for 3 days and that consists of one full day of visiting a variety of really diverse companies will take you out to really large, corporate setting social service, nonprofit maybe something related to the tourism industry. Small creative media agency and I'm just a variety of things to experience each one for about 90 minutes.
And then the next day on campus is a full on reflection and exploration retreat where you think about your experience the day before. You think about some of the things that you're really interested in and that you're good at and how you might apply them through Akarere and then we close the whole event with Dave Service together where we serve as a team in the local community and it gives you a great opportunity to bond with some of your classmates and you start your sophomore year and get that feeling of what it feels like to serve and give back which.
Uh is a really great way to look at any career decision. You make in terms of knowing that you're making an impact on other people and on the community around you.
So continuing that theme that the part of the career accelerator program that is that day off campus. Our mantra, and career services. We want you to get off campus early and often so this is well before you're thinking about a semester long, or a summer long internship, so you'll see a bunch of photos on the screen. That shows the diversity of those kinds of experiences that will do off campus. The Top left is a group of our students visiting.
Harbor East in Baltimore, where we've got some really large firms lot of great diverse businesses and will take students out for sometimes just a Friday afternoon trek to visit one or 2 companies and learn about what they do, and the opportunities. They have we've done things we do a lot of travel outside of Baltimore. So will go up to New York City. Each spring or actually planning on Wall Street career track for this April.
But you can see a photo from the previous event, where we visited the Stock Exchange on the New York Stock Exchange got a private tour of the floor got to take a Photo by the opening Bell. And we visited other firms in town ranging from Goldman Sachs to Morgan Stanley UBS. JPMorgan Bank of New York. Mellon another so alumni really open a lot of doors for us to help students understand what their career paths are how they got there.
And how they could pursue their own path in those firms. You'll see in the Top center. We take students now every year to taping of the Today show so another great opportunity for communication students to see how this shows filmed and then get a behind the scenes tour of the studio and an introduction to their internship manager and then you see a variety of other photos throughout the rest of the page here from small visits to smaller firms like.
The bottom picture there is from a firm in Baltimore called contrast security. They do cyber security software for major companies small group gathering of a few students in a few alumni to help them get to know each other in the upper upper right corner is a company in town that develops apps and does a lot of marketing consulting called mind grub? Their founding CEO is a little alarm and?
When you walk into their office. It feels just like what you imagine in Silicon Valley with a climbing wall that you see our students, posing in front of. They have a huge virtual reality room. It's just incredible. Place to experience and think about what would it like to have what would it be like to have a career here and in the lower right hand corner is just a photo of one of our off campus networking events. So this is another collaboration. We have with our alumni engagement team where will visit cities like New York.
Boston Philadelphia and Washington DC, and will bring alumni and students together for networking events that allow you to go straight to cities that you're interested in working in for an internship or after graduation, and meet with a variety of alumni in town build connections and open doors to some great opportunities.
And one more way that we really encourage our students to get ready is by using their a great suite of online tools. So we have 3 main platforms that we use in career services at Loyola. One is handshake, which if you haven't heard of it before. This is our it's a hub where now over 300,000 companies are searching specifically for entry level talent from colleges and universities that includes all 500 of the Fortune 500 companies.
Uh it's crosses every different kind of sector. You can imagine in every different kind of job function. It's a great resource for you to be able to search nationwide for different kinds of internship and job opportunities and it's also a place where as we build relationships with specific companies whether it's in Baltimore or outside of the city in many other parts of the country and the region. We will be able to work with them to obtain exclusive opportunities for.
I like all the students to apply to obtain.
In handshake is also the place where you can make appointments with our career services team as well as sign up for any events like our career tracks those different career fairs and alumni panels on campus. So you can always find dozens of events that are happening in the months ahead. Whenever you go into handshake.
The The next platform will talk about is over on the right. It's Loyola connect, which we built with a partner called People Grove. People Grove is now the fastest growing student and alumni mentoring platform. In the country. We were in the first twenty schools to sign on about 3 years ago with them. The way Loyola Connect Works is our alumni can raise their hands and say look. I want to volunteer and be a resource be a mentor.
Current students and they can select different help topics that they'll offer whether it's reviewing your resume for their industry. Whether it's just having an exploratory career chat about what they do some of them even offer job shadowing opportunities with them. Others will open doors to specific internships that their companies. So you can go into this platform as a student and search for our alumni by what they do by the companies. They work for by the cities that they live in and then see the different kind of help topics that are available.
Uh and just reach out to them right through the platform to set up a quick Phone call a web based chat or even in person coffee meeting. If you're in the same geographic area and then in the middle is our most recently launched platform called big interview and this is been a really popular tool since we launched this past fall what it does is it allows you to go in to get a full set of training around interview skills and what to expect when you're going to interview somewhere and it also allows you to practice.
Recording interview answers on a webcam, which looks very similar to how you're seeing me on the screen right now. The first time you have to do one of these video based interviews. It's pretty awkward. It's a tough thing to get used to and we're seeing more and more companies that are recruiting college students actually using recorded video interviews as a first stage of their process. So you'll go on your computer. You'll get a question that pops up on the screen with 60 seconds to answer.
And then that records and it gets sent off to the company so they'd be able to practice. That process ahead of time through a platform like big interview is really beneficial in this platform also allows you to watch your answers back you can rate them yourself on a variety of categories and then you can also share it. Whether it's with family members faculty members on campus and they can give you some ratings and feedback on your responses, including not only the words you say, but your body language or tone of voice?
To help your really thrive when it comes time to do the real thing.
I'll share with you just a couple examples of companies that are coming directly to campus to recruit Loyola students. So what you see on here is a pretty diverse set of logos whether it's financial services. Companies like Morgan Stanley Big Four accounting firms. Like PNG, a lot of major corporations from Stanley Black and Decker to Cisco Astra Zeneca Under Armour.
Um we got nonprofit organizations, um whether it's Mercy Health Systems, in Baltimore teach for America and then government agencies like the NSA. There's a real variety of organizations that appreciate the broad liberal arts education of Loyola as well as the excellent professional preparation that a lot of our majors will prepare students for so the logos that you see on screen are small sample of companies that have either.
Come to a career fair scheduled on campus, interviewing where they actually come to campus for a full day to interview candidates for internships and full-time jobs or they've come to make their own individual presentation to students in a classroom that we set up sometimes as a solo presentation or sometimes we connect them straight into a professors class. Most of the organizations you see on the screen of actually engaged in all three of those things.
Ian
05:23:30 PM
Are there disadvantages to being undecided to begin?
And at least 2 out of the 3 but I think it's a great example of the diversity of companies and career paths that you might be able to pursue.
So I'm going to take a pause here because I've got the 1st question that I've seen come up in the chat and it comes from Ian who's asking are there disadvantages to being undecided to begin with. I would say absolutely not. You should have every confidence that the four years that you come to little there's enough time, there to both do a lot of exploration of different career paths, even change your mind a couple of times because.
Come as you get internships, even after you chosen your major and you get a first internship. Sometimes that becomes a pivot point where you've decided but you may then say well. Now I need to go back and make a new decision about what I want to do next. So we see students in all different kinds of modes whether there are first year student? Who knows exactly what they want or they're coming in wide open in the latest data that I've seen is actually there about 40% of our incoming class.
Are completely undecided about a major so undecided? Therefore is by far our largest major for students? Who are coming in as first years. One of the things that we will do with you is if you come into career services. Early on in your first year we will talk about some of your general interests. And there are some examples of fields where knowing that you want to pursue it is better sooner than later, some of the Wall Street.
You know if you're looking at investment banking sales and trading types of career paths. There is a particularly cadence. For those careers where you want to be actively networking going on things like the Wall Street career track meeting alumni applying for early internship programs.
Really early in your sophomore year. There are other majors like Engineering, where it's a pretty hefty course load to complete the major and if you decide that later it can be a little more difficult to get everything done so part of engaging with career services early through our exploratory programs is that we can talk about some of the interests. Some of the things that are on the table for you and some of the things that are off the table and if you're interested in one of those.
Those areas and they're not that many, but one of the ones where there is kind of an earlier time frame will talk about that and talk about how to get on that track and you're better off starting out down that track to explore it and if it's something that you're not interested in then you can give it away from it down the road. So hope that answers your question and it's a great one is great one for everybody to be thinking about.
So I want to talk a little bit about our outcomes and look at this through the lens of both first destination data as well as some long term outcomes that we see for our alumni, so first you can see on the screen here.
Just some some bar charts that look at the first destination outcomes of our class of 2018. So we use a national standard methodology from an organization called the National Association of colleges and employers. So we survey our students at the end of senior year as and again in the fall after they graduate and we also do some additional research to see if we can find out where students have landed through sources like LinkedIn.
And what we see overall using that standard methodology is for the class of 20. Eighteen 98.8% of our graduates wear either working in Graduate School in military service or a formal post college service volunteer program within 9 months of graduation.
The national standard over the last couple of years in on that metric and using that same methodology has been in the low 80% and you can really compare when you go to different schools web sites. You should see very similar kinds of numbers reported that first destination survey methodology so you can really compare the numbers apples to apples and that 98.8% we're really proud of that it's an Ivy League caliber number.
Caroline
05:28:16 PM
Can you comment on some of the careers in publishing you've seen graduates pursue
And we're really excited to see so many of our students being able to land. A lot of different grade opportunities, either right at graduation or in the just in the few months right after.
And we'll talk a little bit about um first destination salaries as well. So looking at these numbers. If you compared to the national average is again Loyola graduates are beating out the national average by several $1000 in the overall full-time salaries. You will if you look at schools that have a larger percentage of stem graduates fields like engineering and computer science where the entry level salaries. Just tend to be higher because of the competitive marketplace.
You'll see that there are some schools that have a higher entry level salary.
At the same time I would say that while our numbers are still above the national average by quite a bit to me. Both of these first destination numbers are there important to look at you know the percentage of people who land soon after graduation in a solid opportunity. The first salary out of the gate, but I think the most important thing to look at is long term return on investment in terms of what is the salary level look like Midcareer and beyond.
It really start to give you a sense of the value of a college education in the career potential you have.
So I do see we have another question come in. That's that I'll just pause for on the slide show to answer this, this comes from Caroline and Caroline. You are asking can you comment on some of the careers and publishing you've seen graduates pursue yeah, so publishing and I think I'll read this as more just print some more traditional media kinds of publishing.
Katie
05:30:32 PM
As an undeclared major who is thinking about becoming a history teacher, do I have time to figure it out or does it fall under the category of starting sooner rather than later?
There's a variety of things, I can think of off the Top of my head. We actually were hosting our next multimedia panel that I showed a photo of that earlier in the presentation and we've decided to add on more of a print media component to that this year. So we have a really great alarm. Her name is Jennifer Barthell and she's an editor with Shape magazine, so she came through our communications Department. She's really doing great in the field and she's going to be coming back to campus.
In a couple of weeks to share her career experience and network with our current students. We do have a lot of different publishers whether it's a local Igora Publishing Company.
We've had Penguin Random House come on campus to make presentations to students and hire our graduates. So there's a lot of different opportunities that students from our communication program as well as English majors, writing majors than others from different. Humanities areas and social Sciences areas have been able to pursue in starting their careers.
I see another question coming in from Catherine as an undeclared major who is thinking about becoming a history teacher do I have time to figure it out or does it fall into the category of starting sooner rather than later. So Catherine this is an area great question. I don't think this is one of those areas where you'd have to be worried about getting on a track like some of the things like the Wall Street careers, the engineering.
Speech pathology would be another one where you want to be starting earlier than later to keep up with the curriculum and stay on track for jobs after graduation, or Graduate School if you're interested in becoming a history teacher. Now I think I think there's actually a couple of routes to that. I mean, clearly we've got a strong education program that would be a great way to explore.
Teaching careers that would revolve around history history majors have also gone on to work their way into the education system. Whether it's by pursuing a Masters degree or starting out working in a school where they can work towards their certification as a teacher. So yeah, I think you definitely that's one of those areas where you do have more time to figure out exactly the kind of track that you want to pursue talk with some of our faculty members and some of our recent alumni who.
I have pursued a couple of those those different tracks and think about what feels right for you so great question so thank you. Catherine and thank you Caroline.
So I want to talk a little bit about this long term return on investment. So we talked initial first destination for our last, graduating class something that I was really excited to see that just came out this fall is that their first. There are some really great resources on mid career salary potential for students from different institutions. A great resource on that as a website calledpayscale.com.
Which I encourage you to explore and take a look at Little's rankings there where we've been in the Top 6 or 7% nationwide of all colleges and universities. But what was really fascinating about the study that you see summarized on the screen. Now is that Georgetown's Center on education and the workforce, which has been doing research on a lot of different related topics over many years, they took a look at a comprehensive view.
Of return on investment for different universities, so this included things like students salaries after graduation. It included the amount of college loan debt. They had to repay it included cost of living analysis. It was a pretty comprehensive report and they did. This not only for students just after graduation, but they looked at what does it look like 10 years after graduation in terms of that overall return on investment?
In 20 years 30 and 40 and what was really interesting about it is that Leola started out very highly rated at the 10 year mark, but then our numbers kept climbing so that by the time you looked at 40 years. Overall, after graduation. Loyola was number 90 overall out of 4500 colleges and universities that they included in this study, and that's Top 2% in all of those colleges and universities.
So as I look at the investment in college, that you're about to make. I do think it's really important to look at those initial first destination numbers, but the most important thing in terms of that career potential is looking at that long term success rate, and I think this is just one really great example and you can go out to the web address that you see on the screen. If you want to explore that a little bit more.
And then a final point I will leave you on before we open it up to some additional questions and anything that's on your mind is I was really excited to share that about a year and a half ago. We received a gift from an alumni couple Dan and Kelly Rizzo and they made a gift specifically to help move our Career Center to a brand new state of the art building on campus.
Um the Fernandez Center, which you see a concept of on screen is now under construction with the scheduled opening of summer. Twenty twenty one so if you're planning on coming to campus for any of our admitted students events coming up in March and April, which I highly recommend if you can get to campus for one of those you should do it, you'll see where this building will be. You'll see the construction happening and it's going to be a really cutting edge space for us in terms of our technology.
In terms of expanded interview space for different companies to come on campus and interview students in really great programming space where we can offer all different kinds of alumni speaker opportunities and networking events right within the Career Center, so I'm really excited to be able to share that with you and this would be open from your sophomore year on at Loyola.
So I will leave it on this screen for any additional questions that you all have and this quote comes from one of our current seniors. Isabel and it was kind of a funny story. I learned that there was going to be a student blog post on a loyal blogs that they call the Grove. It was going to be fully focused on their experience with career services.
Brandon
05:37:36 PM
What opportunities can the Career Services provide for musicians after graduating?
And uh so I didn't see the The Post until after it was published. But as soon as I saw it within the first couple of sentence is I read the quote that you see on the screen, and it was a really amazing testimonial to see a student talk about the Career Center in our full team, so positively. It was such a great article that we ended up hiring Isabel to run all of our social media for the Career Center and.
And all of our work this year, but I think this is a good example of the way that students feel when they interact with our team when they come to our different events? How they feel supported in their career journey whether its initial questions about what they might want to do to start out their career and over the long term or when they're really pursuing specific goals and how we support them in achieving them.
So with that I will keep taking a look over our question Q.
Emily
05:38:40 PM
I am from the Philadelphia area. I am assuming most of your internships are located in Baltimore or the Maryland area. Are internships in Philadelphia or the suburbs more limited? Are there percentages to show where students are getting internships?
So let's see we've got Brandon so brand is asking what opportunities can career. Services provide for musicians. After graduating so Brandon This is a really great great question so.
I'll assume that maybe you're thinking about a career. We're actually pursuing being a musician. Whether it's performing and recording. I think one of the first things that I would do is get you connected with some of our alumni have gone on to either songwriting careers. We've got some alums who have gone on to Broadway, and we actually have an alarm named Eric Morris, who you can Google him. He was the lead actor in Mama Mia on Broadway.
Incredible singer incredible musician so there's a lot of opportunities like that to connect with some of those alarms and learn about what they did how they got there.
Although also say that some of our students who are really passionate about music and musicians are looking for other ways to get engaged in that industry and we actually have through Loyola connect the on line networking platform. I know of one alarm in particular, who I'm blanking on her name. But she started her own record label after working for Columbia Records and Sony records for a number of years, so she has made herself available to network with our current students with ideas around career path how they might pursue different things and.
Who knows? Maybe you could even get signed by her label so um just a couple of thoughts out there about how we might work with you on that specific goal.
All right, I've got next question from Emily, Emily is asking from the Philadelphia area and assuming most internships are located in Baltimore, MD area in our internships in Philadelphia or the suburbs more limited and are there percentages to show where students are getting internships. So Emily great questions so I can tell you just first on the percentages point.
Our surveys of outgoing seniors show that about 85% of them are engaged in one or more internships throughout their time in college. I don't have the breakdown of that percentage by the geographic area.
Doug
05:41:03 PM
If someone is interested in a company which Loyola has not connected with before, will Career Services assist in reaching out?
So two ways to look at this one is there's a lot of opportunity during the school year. To actually intern while you're taking classes so you can work with your academic Department and also partner with our team to find an internship in Baltimore and in most cases, you'll be able to get a full 3 credits for that internship so you take 4 classes and then in turn, instead of taking a fifth class for the semester.
So those obviously there happening within Baltimore, but in terms of Philadelphia itself. That is another city where we are very active with our alumni network. Many of the companies that will come to recruit on campus. Whether it's the Big 4 accounting firms. Other large companies that maybe have a headquarters in one city, but large hubs in others. They are recruiting from multiple hubs, so Philadelphia is a really popular destination, I'd say.
The 5 cities where we have really great internship opportunities are Baltimore Philly. DC New York and Boston and then through our handshake network of jobs and internships and all the alumni that have volunteered to help us from around the country. We can open additional doors in places like San Francisco or Chicago and a lot of other major areas around the country.
It's a great question Emily thank you.
So I see a question from Douglas is someone is interested in a company, which Loyola has not connected with before will career services assist in reaching out that's a great question and I think it does speak to the high touch service that we would give to you so the question or the answer is absolutely yes.
And a lot of times what will see is uh if we go out and do our research whether it's through LinkedIn or through companies websites. We will find that there are loyal, alumni, who work at a lot of different companies. And so even if we haven't entered into a recruiting relationship with that company. We will be able to get you connected with an alumni there and you'll be able to go from there and with that will also work with you one of our most popular.
Appointment types is helping students think about How do I go about that kind of networking informational interview conversation so will give you ideas on everything from how to reach out to an alarm with an introductory email. The types of questions that you should ask in a conversation like that, and then how you can close the conversation. Not so much asking directly for a job or internship, but asking for their advice and anything that they can offer in terms of helping you with your next steps.
And so many of our alumni respond to those requests so quickly and they want to help current Lula students succeed at their company, or within their industry by using their network.
Marko
05:44:03 PM
I am interested in Sports Management / Sports Analytics. How can Loyola prepare me for a career in this field?
To great great question Douglas and and hope that answers it for you.
Alright so let's see so Marcos is asking if you're interested in Sports Management and Sports Analytics. How can Lula prepare me for a career in this field so marcos?' I'd say couple different thoughts on that depending on how your defining sports management in sports. Analytics, one, I'd say on the sports management side. There's actually a lot of opportunities because we're Division One College.
With Division One Sports on the Mens and women side. There's a lot of really great opportunities to get involved in some pretty high level sports teams in terms of being a manager on the team. Understanding the logistics of the travel. You can also get involved in some of the ticket sales and the marketing aspects or the local sponsorships of companies that work with Loyola with signage at games and signage at our arenas so.
Um lot of great ways to get involved. That would also prepare you to enter into the professional sports world. If that was a goal of yours. We've also actually developed a really great relationship over the last couple of years with Harris. Blitzer sports and entertainment. That's the company that owns both the Philadelphia 76ers so back to Emily that might be something of interest to you. They own the 76ers as well as the New Jersey Devils and they also manage every single entertainment.
Uh event that happens at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
So Harris Blitzer comes to campus to present an interview. Our students each year. They've provided full time job offers to multiple students. Each of the past few years, they've been here and it's a great opportunity to get your foot in the door in the sports management business quickly. I'll also touch on Sports Analytics. If you're really interested in more of the quantitative side of things analyzing on field play analyzing different things about the data related to professional sports.
The Orioles actually one of the things that they look for in terms of interns from Loyola is that that data science type of field and then you should know that will is the only school in Maryland offers an undergraduate data science major, and so I think being able to major in something like that, and then choosing to apply it in the sports world in whatever your passion area is that's a really great example of taking that.
That broad field of data science and then choosing to apply it in a specific area to make yourself a really interesting candidate for full time jobs in that industry.
Alright, well, I am not seeing any additional questions come in.
Tosin Akintola
05:47:14 PM
Any final questions
I give it another second just in case there is any final questions.
Doug
05:47:50 PM
Do you have career fairs?
Katie
05:47:52 PM
Great job. Thanks
Samantha
05:47:53 PM
thank you!
Dan
05:47:54 PM
Thank you so much!
All right well, I've really enjoyed being able to present some of our career services stored to you all really great questions from everybody who jumped in so thank you very much. I would encourage you if you're coming out to our campus. Open houses in March or April. I will be giving a very similar presentation to this in person on campus and so you're welcome to join that again. But you will see a lot of the same thing. We also have an information table, though at that session so.
If you go to other breakout sessions throughout the day you can also just come to our information table meet some more. Members of our team as well as some of our student ambassadors to learn more about their experience.
I'm seeing one final question coming from Douglas, who's asking if we have career fairs, yes, we do.
Caitlin
05:48:23 PM
Thank you so much!!!!
George
05:48:27 PM
Very informative. Thank you!
Brandon
05:48:28 PM
Thank you for your time this was very helpful!
Doug
05:48:29 PM
Thank you!
We host both themed career fairs whether it's our accounting night. Our business focused careers stem career paths, nonprofit and government and social service, and we also used a more general career fair in the spring semester with a lot of diverse opportunities out there.
Micah
05:49:01 PM
Thank you
Nadia
05:49:01 PM
Thank you!
So without it invite you to check out our website, Loyola.edu/career Center. You can also follow along on social media where Isabel is still managing our social media accounts through through the semester until she graduates. So it's loyal akarere CTR at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and with that. I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your senior year. Thank you for joining us and hope to see you on campus. Maybe this spring at the information sessions.
Tosin Akintola
05:49:15 PM
Thank you all for joining us, and enjoy the rest of your week!