Hi everyone. My name is Elaine Lu, and I'm a career readiness coach at Cornell Career Services located at Barnes Hall. Thank you for joining me today for our summer chat series. Today for this session, we're going to be understanding recruitment and hiring timelines. Today's learning outcomes, we'll focus more on understanding where to start, which is a reflection process of what you would like to apply to when it comes to jobs, part time jobs, internships, and et cetera, how to find different opportunities or what platforms to utilize to look for these opportunities, creating a search plan, and connecting with employers and recruiters. This is the career development cycle, and this is our theoretical approach of how one develops in their career journey, and it starts from understanding yourself, which is what are your interests, values, strengths, and goals, to explore options by utilizing different resources, networking opportunities, participating different activities such as volunteer, internships, part time or full time job, or even extra curricular. Lastly, is taking action, which is creating those application documents such as cover letter, resume, interview prep. And as you can see, this is a cycle, so you can start and continue at any stage. Throughout these three stages, Cornell Career Services is here to support you, whether it is a one on one advising appointment or a workshops like this one for today. This is the career development tool kit. You may have already seen this on your Canvas. Within the career development toolkit, there are a lot of modules and guides to support a person's career development journey, and you have access to this as a student, as an alumni, faculty and staff also have access to this career development toolkit as long as that person has a Cornell net ID. Within this toolkit, there's a lot of modules such as resume, cover letter, interview prep, lot of step by step guidance of what is that topic and how to start preparing for that topic. A lot of the materials and content for this workshop is from the job search module. And if you do not see the career development toolkit on your Canvas page, you can self enroll by scanning this QR code or by going to career.cornell.edu/toolkit All these modules are go at your own pace, so you can start and finish or review or revisit at any time of day. Now, before applying for positions, it's very important to reflect. Similarly to the diagram or wheel that showed you previously, it's important to understand what are your values, strengths, or interests. By narrowing down those three topics or those three areas, you're able to understand what type of position you want to apply for or what type of organization or industry you want to be involved in. Understanding where to start. You want to identify your interests. Explore your interests, values, and strengths. A lot of reflection process. You can consider the job responsibilities or the job descriptions. Reading and understanding those responsibilities and descriptions allow you to consider, is this a position you would like to be part of or a position you would like to do in the future? You want to determine what type of organization or environment you want to be involved in or be part of, to narrow down your focus, you can talk to alumnis or any connections to learn more about that role, that industry or company. You can conduct research to identify specific employers or opportunities by doing some quick Google research or attending to workshops or events, and we'll talk a little bit more about what that means later on. So when it comes to learning about the position and you want to apply for a job, it's very important to reflect to showcase fit. You want to review the job description and learn from others. So what are the skills and characteristics for that job? And once you know about those skills and characteristics, you can showcase fit and prove it. Where and how have you developed this experience, and how can you demonstrate that on your application documents? It's okay to meet, but not all is required. You never know how an employer might value your experience. So I always recommend students to read job descriptions or job postings to have an idea or feel of what to expect in that role. Another great tool is ONET online. onetonline.org is an online database of occupational information and career assessment tools for you to explore different career fields and pursue positions. Within ONET, they have a list of different jobs or different industry roles, and they give a general description of what to expect in that role. What is the requirements? What are some specific skill sets? It gives you a better understanding of if this is a field that you would like to get into. Speaking about different skill sets. NACE is the National Association of College and employers, and they identify eight career readiness competencies that employers look for in their candidates. And they are career and self development, communication, critical thinking, equity, and inclusion, leadership, professionalism, teamwork, and technology. And within these eight competencies, you may have already developed all of them, or maybe some of them from your from your previous experiences, from your academic experience, extracurricular, volunteering, group projects, and so on. These are key competencies that it's important to showcase or to talk about to employers, whether it's for your resume, cover letter, or even during the interview process. So when it comes to preparing for the search, it's important to understand the job search timeline. So we'll go more in depth into this in the next slide. So job timelines do vary depending on the sector and industry. Some employers predict their hiring needs and recruitment months in advance while others hire as position become open up. Timelines can be associated with employer size, the economy, and different factors. So if we considered or if we think about COVID 19, when it started at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, that was when there was a lot of hiring freezes or when a lot of jobs stopped being posted. And that was because this This event affected the economy. And after COVID 19 became a little bit more controllable with vaccines, research, and additional medication, that's when the job market started opening up and economy started growing again, and that's when jobs started being available to apply for. So being up to date of what's happening in economy is very important to understand the different trends as well. Aside from that, it's important to organize your efforts. You want to keep track of your applications, your interviews, or even the networking contacts that you had engaged with. By keeping track of all these information, you're able to understand the whole timeline of that process that you're going through for that application that you're applying. You want to save the descriptions of the jobs. By saving the descriptions of the jobs, it allows you to prepare for those behavioral or technical or interviews that you have to do. You have a better sense of what that particular job or employer is looking for in a candidate by understanding that description. You want to document the correspondence. The date you applied, your interview dates, and any e mail conversations that you had. You have the streamline of all those conversations. So in this slide, you can see hiring timelines vary by industry. This timeline was captured from the job search module on the career development toolkit. There is no concrete dates for recruitment, and it can even vary depending on what university you attend. This chart provides an overview of recruiting at Cornell. It is important to note that these timelines are not exact and opportunities can present themselves throughout the year. So as you can see, let's just use biotech and pharmaceutical as an example. That industry starts between August and December. So between August and December, that's when the bulk of the recruitment happens. However, there are still employers that are recruiting after December. After December, there are still employers that are still looking for candidates. It really depends on the employer, the employer's size, what's happening in the economy and other factors. So knowing that biotech and pharmaceutical starts in August. Before August, so before the summer starts, this is when you want to start creating or preparing your application materials, such as getting your resume reviewed or getting your resume check, reviewing your cover letter or creating that document, and having check, practicing for interviews or even networking. So all those factors should start before the timeline happens. And if you have any questions regarding to the hiring timeline of the industry that you're interested in, you can always schedule an appointment with a career advisor and we're happy to sit down and talk to you about this. When it comes to finding opportunities, one really good resource that we always promote is handshake. Handshake is a platform that you have access to as a Cornell student and an alumni. This platform is where employers are seeking out Cornell students. These employers are posting opportunities on Cornell handshake because they want to connect with you. Other general search tools are Linkedin, indeed, glassdoor. There are specialized job boards such as Interstride. Interstride is to support international students with their job search process in the US or outside of the US. There are also a lot of opportunities that you can apply for outside of US if you're a domestic student who was seeking opportunity to work abroad. There's also idealists, which is a more specialized job board for nonprofit jobs, internships, and volunteering experience. For additional industry specific job boards, if you're curious, we recommend searching for a professional association. They often have job postings and networking events. So you never know what you will find. I noted down the hidden job market through your network, and what the hidden job market means is when you connect and meet with different people in a specific industry or the industry that you're interested in, you never know what opportunity comes up that they are aware of and they can share with you. That is considered the hidden job market. So it's what you learn from your network. Another thing that I want to reiterate is you don't want to sleep on the career development toolkit. The career development toolkit does have industry specific modules. We have modules from consultant, data science, entrepreneurship, finance, product management, real estate, software engineer, and user experience. And within these modules, they provide step by step guidance or introduction of what is this industry. And there's always a link that shows you where you can find experiences or opportunities within this industry. For this specific example, I went on the user experience module. As you can see, we have a list of UX job boards that we hyperlink that students or alumnis, or any Cornelian can utilize to visit if they're looking for UX experience. Don't sleep on the career development toolkit. Next, we're talking about learning about the employer and job. It's important to research the employer. What is the culture, philosophy, or work environment? Does the employer have any current or new changes on their plans or policy? What is the size, age, location, stock performance? What are the services they provide, what are some projects they have been doing? Who are their competitors? What are their professional development opportunities and benefits for their employees? These are some things to consider when you're looking for an employer. To assess the job fit. You want to identify any connection between you and the position. What are your strengths, values, and interests, and how they align. You want to reflect on what you would what you like about the employer position. Maybe also reflect on what you dislike to, and you want to consider your comfort level, like the stability of the business and how you fit with the team. All these are factors to consider and to reflect on when applying for an organization or a company. Next is- I want to talk - it is really important to research the employer. One method to do research on an employer is visiting their website. For this example, I went on Cornell's website. And through the Cornell page, you can see the about section, and within that session, there is the mission and value, culture, services, news, and updates and many more factors. When you visit the employer website, there's so much details to learn about them and see and make any connections of how it aligns with your values or your interests. I highly recommend always visiting the employer's website to do some research. When it comes to interacting with recruiters, there are three ways that recruiters interact with candidates. The first way is actively. this is during the peak recruiting season. This is when the recruiter is attending career fairs, they host information sessions and have coffee chats. Coffee chats are normally one on one or small group sessions where they sit down and talk just for them to get to know you. Passively is when the recruiter review applications or public resumes on your handshake or LinkedIn profile. They will host events and they also message candidates. Proactively is when the recruiter may message a candidate or invite them to events. You can find contact information of recruiters on LinkedIn, Handshake, company website, or recruiting events. On campus recruiting or career fairs. So campus recruiting is also known as CR at Cornell. And this is when interviews with employers happen on campus or virtually and everything is managed through handshake. So you apply through handshake, you schedule everything on handshake. About 13% of reporting 2019 alumnis, got their jobs through campus recruiting, and over 400 employers conduct interviews on campus. Career fairs are a really great opportunity to connect with employers and learn about their role, learn about the organization as well. This is a great way to network to make impressions, and you can speak with a lot of employers in one location. Cornell has its largest career fair that takes place in the fall semester. So keep an eye out on those dates on handshake. Connecting with employers on handshake. As I mentioned previously on the slide, it's important to update your profile, whether it's handshake or LinkedIn because recruiters are looking at people's profiles to see what are their experiences and accomplishments. Always keep your profile up to date when applying for jobs. There's three ways that you can learn more about employers or connect with them aside from applying for the job. So on handshake, there are additional features such as the events. Events is where you can attend workshops or information sessions or even career fairs just to connect with the employer. There's also the employer tab, which is where you can read more about employers. Some employers actually list out who are in their recruitment team on the employer tab. There's also the inbox feature where you can message employers directly or they can message you directly through handshake. So if you have any questions, updating your handshake profile, I highly recommend either checking the networking module on the career development toolkit or you can schedule appointment with an advisor and we can look through that process together.  Some next steps is identify the role and experience that interests you. You want to explore platforms to help you find opportunities. You want to reflect on the skills you bring or want to develop. You want to organize your application materials. You want to connect with people to explore your interests and learn from others, prepare your application materials such as your resume, cover letter, maybe practice some interviews too, and you can schedule an appointment with a career advisor. You can connect with Cornell career services in Barnes Hall. We're available Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M. To 4:30 P.M. To schedule appointment, you can call our phone number or you can book an appointment through our booking portal. The services that we provide are resume, cover letter, Linkedin reviews, practice interviews. We do behavioral and case interviews, advising and exploration topics. We have assessments to help you identify your interests and strengths. If you need support for the job and internship search, we have appointments for that as well, and we have many more different appointment types. You can scan this QR code to connect with our Instagram. Our Instagram has a lot of updates of different industry trends, and upcoming workshops or information that might help you with your career journey. And as I mentioned earlier, this is Cornell Career Services in Barnes Hall. If you want to connect with your college office, you can as well. Most colleges have their own career service team. Barnes Hall also has a profile picture kiosk and it's located and on the second floor, 210 Barnes Hall is available Monday to Friday from 8:30 A.M. To 4:00 P.M. This is where you can get your profile picture headshot for your Linkedin or your handshake profile. These are all free. You can take your headshot for free. It takes about 3 minutes and it's self served. So you can either come in dressed up or you can bring a change of clothes and change before you get your head shot. And with this picture profile kiosk they'll e mail you the picture directly and you can edit the photos if you have to make any changes on the lighting or cover any blemishes. Some upcoming workshops. You can find details on handshake. So keep an eye out on the career fairs for sure, or any recruiting events that happens with employers that you're interested in. We do have an August summer chat series, which includes details about career fairs, resume, and job offers. Details are listed on handshake. This is the Cornell outcome dashboard. So every year we collect data or information of where alumnis are going based on their degree level, their degree type, their college and major. So within the survey, it also includes salary ranges, which state or which country they're going into, what is their industry type, how they found that opportunity. So if you're still curious of what type of career outcomes you expect after Cornell, based on your degree, this is a public dashboard where you can view and see where other people are going. So you have some Details or information. But if you have any questions about your career interests, you can always schedule an appointment with a career advisor. And you can stay connected with our team by following our Instagram at Cornell Career Services.