I volunteered to be in the UNO Prototype program.
Employer Expectations
On Friday, October 16, 2020 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM I was a judge for the First Round of the University of Nebraska – Omaha Capstone Cup. The Capstone Cup is a strategy competition for Senior Level students that Farm Credit Services of America is a sponsor of the 2020 / 2021 school year.
I was a judge on 3 rounds of students presenting a strategic plan to the board of the directors of a company. For being virtually the students did a great job presenting. The students were graded on a 10 point system on problem formulation, analysis, recommendation and presentation.
The Spring 2021 UNO CBA career was held on March 3rd 2021 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Feedback from the virtual session my team facilitated during the fair.
On Friday, March 26, 2021 from 8am – 4pm. I participated in the UNO Thompson Learning Center speed Interviews. This was open to Employer & Community Partners. this event, has nearly 280 Thompson Learning Community (TLC) sophomore students will practice their interviewing skills and connect with employers.
TLC students consist of all majors. Practice interviews will be formatted in 10 minute bursts with 5 minutes of feedback. In one hour, you may get connected with up to four students.
I was assigned a breakout room. That is when the practice interview begins. Each student did a practice interviews of about 15 minutes in duration. The first 10 minutes will be you asking the student interview questions followed by the last 5 minutes to provide constructive feedback. The feedback is to instill confidence yet provide candid feedback for growth.
On March 4th 2021 I attended the UNO CBA Scholars development panel along with these other companies such as Fiserv, Farm Credit Services of America, Northwestern Mutual.
After a short introduction on what my role was at FCSA. I was placed in virtual breakout rooms where students could ask questions.
The 2021 Spring UNO All Majors Career Fair was held on February 17, 2021 from 11 A.M. – 3 P.M. CST | Virtua. it was hosted by the Academic & Career Development Center (ACDC), this fair will connect employers to students from all colleges and majors.
On Monday, January 25 from 10am to Noon I attended the UNO’s College of Business Administration (CBA) focus group meeting. This meeting was to evaluate the needs your ideas and perspectives CBA Employer Partners.
Through out the focus groups questions were asked. By participate in this strategic planning process. The results of these focus group meetings will guide CBA leadership as we build on our strengths and prioritize our strategic initiatives.
For the past year I have been reaching out to individuals in technology leadership positions. For someone like myself to get a leadership position. I need to interview individuals that have a role which I might inspire to have one day.
What challenges or opportunities do you see with alignment with Architecture and Solution roles.
Hunger to learn, gain experience relationships, pulled into facilitation, cross function team relationship, taking off job interview, never know, deeply caring about people, thank,
Get a high from this, what makes you have it. Make people feel better and see potential.
Find joy
I attended https://www.meetup.com/LearnSwiftOmaha on Kotlin Multiplatform on iOS. The purpose of the discussion was to talk about how to interact with KMP on iOS and the current state of KMP on iOS. Here is the link to the https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/multiplatform.html
There was a discussion on what this really is in regards to Android and iOS. A sample was created to show the project in Android Studio that builds the plumbing to work on different devices.
The 2020 FALL UNO : All Majors Career & Internship Fair (Virtual October Fair) was held on Thursday, October 8th 2020, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm CDT.
This was the second virtual career fair the UNO Ambassadors attended.
The ambassadors reached out to the 2021 Business Technology Internship Leaders to a have a group session.
Reached out to Professors and student groups. We asked to email members and know we are doing internships.
Reached out to past students and anyone who rsvp on handshake. This was using past email from the 2020 Spring Career Fair.
1 on 1 Sessions
1 on 1 Sessions are scheduled in handshake by students. 1 on 1 sessions 10 minutes to have a conversation. I felt these sessions went faster than if we were chatting in person. I encouraged each to look at all company and find their passion.
Three pieces of advice to each student
Here are links I shared.
https://www.fcsamerica.com/careers
I let each student know if I can help them in any way I will.
Started with FCSAmerica introductions
Asked students to introduce
Joni talked who is FCSAmerica is?
Shelly talked about 2021 Team
· 8 team members
· 4 on software and 4 on Data Centric
· Desire to learn
· Collaboration
· Relationships
Questions:
What Technology will be used?
What we are looking for?
We didn’t have anyone show up but the Director of CBA Laura s. did show up. She talked about how overwhelmed students are right now. Talked about how all employers are seeing different trends of engagement. Some are targeting students in handshake to giving employment opportunities in the newsletter.
