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Workshop 2 (WS2): Industry Best Practices for Skills Screening

Nov 17, 2021, 9 am-12 pm, PST/ 12-3 pm, EST (Online)
ISSIP-NSF Workshop Series: An Industry-Academia Dialogue on STEM Education for the Future

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Industry campus recruiting practices abound from traditional career fairs to project based learning with industry mentorship, coops, internships, hackathons, and more. In this workshop, we explored with industry experts and academic thought leaders some of the industry best practices of college recruiting and hiring for future STEM jobs.

 

 

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Topics discussed:
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  • Industry best practices to assess skills (specialized and foundational), mindset, cultural fit, and job preparedness of new graduates
  • Gauging the whole person & predictive assessments
  • Screening for skills through industry-academia partnerships (Hackathons, industry challenge capstone projects, job simulations, etc.)
  • Industry fostering of college project-based learning programs
  • Industry-academia mentorship programs that lead to better job preparedness
  • Build, develop, manage, and maintain campus relationships
  • Industry best practices to include underrepresented populations in the hiring process
    And more…
 

Agenda 

Nov 17, 2021, 9 am – 12 pm (US/Canada PST) / 12 pm – 3 pm (EST)

9:00 am – Opening, Welcome and Context

9:15 – Panel Discussion

Industry-Academia partnerships for Upskilling Best practice cases

 

Panel Speakers:
10:50 – Break 

11:00 – Moderated Breakout session

 All Participants

11:30 – Regroup

 Session Moderators 

11:50 – Closing Remarks

 Co-Chairs

12:00 – Adjourn

 

 
Co-Chairs and Programming Committee Members:
  • Yassi Moghaddam, ISSIP Executive Director, Workshop Contact
  • Haluk Demirkan, Professor, University of Washington Tacoma, ISSIP BOD Member
  • Lou Freund, Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University, ISSIP Fellow
  • Martha Russell, Senior Research Scholar, HSTAR & Executive Director, mediaX, Stanford University
  • Jo Yuen, ISSIP Discovery Cafe Series, Chair
  • Ulf Vinneras, Head of Service Product Management, Aruba (HPE); ISSIP President
  • Terri Griffith, Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University; ISSIP President-Elect
  • Ralph Badinelli, Professor, Virginia Tech, ISSIP BOD Member
  • Utpal Mangla, VP, IBM; ISSIP Strategy Council Chair
  • Ammar Rayes, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco; ISSIP BOD Member
  • Gonzalo Salgueiro, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco; ISSIP BOD Member
  • Jim Spohrer, ISSIP Co-Founder & BOD Member
  • Heather Yurko, VP, Mastercard; ISSIP Past President, Strategy Council Member
 
 

We thank our sponsor, the National Science Foundation, for their tremendous support!