>> You know, truthfully, the two things that
I think I like best are the recruiting piece
because it gives me an opportunity to meet
students from other schools and get, you know,
different perspectives on what they're doing,
what they're looking for, and
what they're looking to do.
So that's one.
The other part is that academic advising piece.
I really like working with the students
directly, and, you know, helping them, you know,
shape their curriculum, and even shape
their long-term and short-term goals, too.
The biggest challenge, I think, is
just keeping up, because, you know,
there are so many different facets to the
job that sometimes there's the temptation
to get overwhelmed by everything,
and so that's really the key thing,
to just not get overwhelmed by the sheer
magnitude of, you know, what we have to do.
One of the challenges in student affairs in
higher education is a lot of the decisions
that we make are very critical
decisions and can have a long-term impact
on the students with whom we work.
You know, it can impact their graduation date or
it can impact their ability to get a job done.
So there is that pressure to make sure that
we get every, last detail right, and so,
the tough part really is to kind
of not give into the temptation
to get stressed out or to just get overwhelmed.