Student Employers: Your Work Matters.

We work in an industry that is highly routine and extremely cyclical. Along with this, our student employees come and go, sometimes too quickly. If we are lucky, we get them for all four years of their undergraduate experience but for some that may not be the case. For many, their work with us is their first job ever and their first taste at professional experience but do we ever know if we have done enough and provided them that necessary experience to propel them into the working world? Are we making an impact? Is there more we can do? Let’s find out together. This presentation will be a virtual panel discussion with former student employees that worked for Technology Services at Whitman College from years past. The panel will discuss hard and soft skills that were learned on the job and how those skills and their work at the college has influenced and helped their current career paths. The panel would consist of 3-5 virtual attendees and 1 in-person facilitator to keep the conversation going. The panel will be open to questions from audience members as well.