Anticipating 2018 - The tech groups

What follows are the rough notes from 2 mini-breakouts in the NACE Future Dirtections Committee session.

Group #1

Following some introductory notes and a brief demo of Twitter conversation moved into texting and the shift from email for some populations. Broadening of techonology - openess - empowers the expanding

Use the students for credibility building, but what about good management of one's web presence?

Threat of technology being used as a career services bypass in the connection between students and employers.


How can NACE better support our own professional development on this front?
1. Continued best practices presentations/content
2. We need to twitter more
3. Intro'd wikis
4. Student focus groups


Group #2
Basic impact of rise of mobile technologies:
1. changes in etiquette

NACE can help with:
1. Information and support on virtual internships
2. Developing strategic partnerships. What are the elements? Need to be able to customize our services to our different constituents.
3. Shaping of best practices standards/outcomes.
4. Tracking and pushing next practices to get ahead of the curve
5. Global links to mine emerging practices from around the world
6. Guides and workshops to help professionals learn and adopt emerging technologies
7. Shaping of etiquette and standards of professional practices and delivery of services - not being on-call 24/7

Time and resources to implement, how to stay current when there is so much going on and coming out? Do we need to adjust our thinking about timelines for viable or sticky applications/tools?

Colleges having to rethink and subsequently advocate on campus for new measures of success.

Rise of virtual worlds and our need to adapt to new environments for work and socialization to meet needs/expectations of students.