>> My name is Sue Hinkin and I'm Executive
Director of Career Services at the University
of Denver and we have a whole variety of career
services, offices one for the business school
and we have Korbel School
of International Studies
and we also have a law school
and a graduate school and so on.
So I think my main thrust of what I do is really
try to get everybody to work together on behalf
of our students; we do a lot of outreach to
employers we don't just sit and wait for them
to call us, we are out visiting
and trying to develop relationships
so that we can have wonderful opportunities
for interns and jobs and, you know,
the whole array of opportunities for students.
So that's a lot of what I do, we
have events, we have career fairs.
I do a little bit of career advising, but mostly
administering all the different programs we have
in different areas of career
services which is data collection,
really figuring out who's doing what once
the graduate and how long it's taking them
to get there and also again events and
developing relationships with employers
and really leveraging the
resources we have together.
Well an undergraduate walks in not knowing what
they want to do I love that, I just really enjoy
that because the opportunity to talk with
students and to look at all the different things
that they did growing up it really
gives you a lot of clues as what
that student might be interested
in, and so that's the beginning
of the conversation, you know, what do you do?
What's fun for you?
What's interesting?
And they try to fit in to a job and I don't care
if it's in a job, I think don't care if it's
in a job, I think they spent their youth, you
know, beach combing and picking up shells,
you know, that's a clue to me so I just
want to know everything that they've done
and then I started thinking about some
opportunities that would help them hone
in on what it is that they might want to do
some things like job shadowing or internships
or part-time jobs or who they should they should
talk with or a network I think I could help them
out with, so that's really
where I begin with them.