Student Professional Development Center (Career Services)

Ross Wade, assistant director of career services for the School of Communications, on May 21 co-presented at the North Carolina Association of Colleges and Employers annual conference on "The Power of Storytelling: Utilizing stories to enhance career programming and marketing efforts."

Elon Career Services has started utilizing Google Map system technology to highlight student outcomes and networking opportunities. Maps have been created as part of the ongoing effort to highlight direct measures of student success to the campus community.

Twenty rising juniors and seniors traveled to Charlotte on April 23 to visit Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America for an exclusive banking/finance industry trip sponsored by Elon Career Services and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

Power is shifting in the new media world and successful practitioners must meet their audience in the arenas in which those users communicate. Five panelists reflected on this topic and other issues related to the culture of the digital workplace in a Thursday afternoon discussion sponsored by the Interactive Media program.

Job search expert and author Orville Pierson will talk about the best ways to network and search jobs during a presentation on Thursday, April 22, at 4:30 pm in LaRose Digital Theatre.

In more than two decades covering professional baseball, ESPN senior analyst Buster Olney has seen some of the game's most poignant moments. He shared insights from his career and offered advice to future sports journalists on April 14 as Elon's Leisure and Sport Management Society Career Spotlight Speaker.