Career Development Center News and Features

Employers share internship insights at Career Development Center event
November 7, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Scholarship and real-life experience are unanimous: internships increase a student’s chance of getting hired after graduation. But how can organizations manage interns to make sure everyone is getting the most out of the experience? That was the theme of the inaugural Employer to Employer event hosted by the IU Southeast ...

Accounting & Finance Career Day brings real world insights to campus
September 10, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–This year’s Accounting & Finance Career Day brought 22 local employers and four professional organizations to campus to deliver real world insights and opportunities to students. The event included a panel of industry experts and a bustling job fair. The panel included Tony Schoen, CPA and CFO of First Savings ...

StratComm Expo gets real about a career in strategic communication
April 26, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—What’s so great about a career in strategic communication? A lot, as students found out at the inaugural StratComm Expo this month. A panel of insightful and encouraging professionals and an information/networking fair with representatives from nearly a dozen local and regional businesses provided perspective on this dynamic field. They ...

Digital Marketing Conference is blowing up
March 14, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—The IU Southeast Digital Marketing Conference is blowing up. The student-founded event organized and run by the Marketing Club brings local industry professionals to campus for a half-day of insider insights and networking. In its first three years, the conference has grown from 70 in 2016 to 130 in 2017 ...

Soft skills front and center at pilot speed-networking session
October 25, 2017
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—There were jitters, nerves, butterflies. Then the whistle blew and the room exploded into conversation as 22 IU Southeast business majors and 19 local employers plus three faculty and staff, came together for a pilot “speed-networking” session organized by the IU Southeast Career Development Center and the School of Business. ...

Campus sustainability star Robin Frederick helps TARC go green
August 16, 2017
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Dynamo. It’s a word you often hear when the topic turns to Robin Frederick, a senior from Mt. Olivet, Ky. majoring in human and environmental geography. But if Frederick is in the room, the topic quickly turns to sustainability. In the course of her career at IU Southeast, Frederick has ...

IU Southeast hosting community job fair April 13 with more than 50 employers
April 6, 2017
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Whether looking to start a new career direction or hoping to upgrade an existing one, jobseekers will find a wealth of exciting opportunities at IU Southeast’s free Job Fair on Thursday, April 13. A variety of employers from both the private and public sectors will be recruiting for openings in a ...

Job Fair to bring more than 40 area employers to campus
October 10, 2016
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—IU Southeast students will have a chance to meet with more than 40 area employers at the Fall Job Fair, to be held on Thurs., Oct. 13, from 12-2 p.m. in the Hoosier Room. UPS, Kroger, Norton Healthcare and Unique Management Services are among the companies with recruiters or representatives ...