SACE currently offers two programs specifically designed to help further develop professionals in the fields of Career Services and recruiting:  Emerging Leaders, and the Masters' Series.

EMERGING LEADERS:

The SACE Professional Development committee is pleased to offer the “Emerging Leaders” track for new career services and recruiting professionals.   As SACE realizes that transitioning into the role of new professional may sometimes be difficult, the identified sessions will provide you with the opportunity to converse with other new professionals, discuss issues of importance to you, and most importantly, empower you to further develop the skills needed to succeed in your new role, and will build on the necessary skills to become leaders in our respective professions.  These on-going series of professional development sessions will be available at the SACE annual conferences, drive-in workshops, and webinars throughout the year, as well as through identified sessions offered at our affiliate state conferences. This track will provide a dynamic learning opportunity for new professionals in the field of career services and recruiting. 

Expected outcomes from this program will include development of a highly competent community of career services and college recruiting practitioners, reduced training time, reduced time to master skills and improved performance, reduced attrition, established relationships among a cadre of new professionals who will share best practices as well as a greater sense of partnership in the field, and a shared vision of core professional competencies across the region.  The competency areas that the Emerging Leaders Program seeks to fulfill include:

Knowledge of Legal and Ethical Guidelines — knowledgeable of employment and equal opportunity legislation as well as ethical guidelines, including the NACE Principles for Professional Conduct.

Employer Relations and Employment Services Skills — understanding employers’ needs and expectations; recruiting and staffing methods; efficient and effective placement operations, including campus interviewing and candidate resume referral and selection.

Program Management Skills, including:

Marketing and promoting career services programs to various audiences; and proficient in recognizing

Recognizing special needs of diverse groups and adapting services to meet their needs

Proficient in conducting systematic program design, implementation and evaluation

Proficient in organizing information, people, and processes toward a desired outcome.

Participants can attend sessions to learn up to three core competencies each year and can complete the certification within two years.  Once you have completed SIX sessions on the core competencies you will submit your program log to receive your "Emerging Leader" Certificate.   

We know that you will find these sessions helpful as you continue to grow professionally.  Please contact the project lead, Melanie Parker, at mlparker@mail.ucf.edu or (407) 823-2361, or Toni McLawhorn, SACE Vice President for Professional Development, mclawhorn@roanoke.edu, (540) 375-2303, if you have any questions regarding this program.  

MASTERS' SERIES:

SACE is fortunate to have quite a number of long-time members with demonstrated expertise in the competency areas that can be offered as sessions for Emerging Leaders. We have begun to develop a Speakers' Bureau of "seasoned" members who can lead sessions at SACE annual conferences, drive-in workshops, pre-conference sessions held in conjunction with state association meetings, and at other venues as available.  Individuals interested in becoming part of this Speakers' Bureau and/or who have questions about the Masters' Series should contact Toni McLawhorn, SACE Vice President for Professional Development, mclawhorn@roanoke.edu, (540) 375-2303.  We hope you will become involved and share your expertise with our membership!