Advisors Can Be Great Examples of Networking

1. Advisors Can Be Great Examples of Networking Eileen Doyle Crane, J.D. Prelaw Advisor Utah Valley University

2. Primary Goal for 100 x JD For all prelaw students to know 100 lawyers by the time they graduate from law school

3. Secondary Goals • To create a personal AND professional safety net for future professionals • To decrease the likelihood of some of the problems that most professionals in highly stressed situations often experience, such as: • Depression • Divorce • Alcoholism • Suicide • Malpractice

4. How Program Works for All Majors • Students in all majors are concerned about their future career • Students need mentors • If they are not sure what their future career involves, then they need advisement about how to discover the various options • Shadowing people in various settings helps students discover what they like and do not like about the world of work • Identifying a mentor among your/their contacts will help students have someone who is willing to guide their progression • Most professionals are excited and eager to help current, newly- graduated, non-traditional, and exploring students consider their options

5. Method • Be a good networker yourself • Connect students to former students and persons in the community who you know • Teach students how to network • Introduce them to as many contacts per year through events, introductions • Facilitate on-going opportunities to expand student networks • To teach professionalism and other important skills about how to succeed in their chosen field

6. Introductions Telephone Introductions: Call former students or members in the community to introduce them to your student and ask directly for their help. Email Introductions: Hi Rod: I am hoping that you are feeling better since your last treatment. I am writing to introduce you to ****, a UVU grad who served in Spain, who has applied to TJLS.  He has not heard anything at all back from the school but I encouraged him to have a frank discussion with you about law school and about TJSL. ****, Rod is a great friend of mine and has helped my students for many years.  He is the best recruiter on any faculty in the country!!!  He’ll be a great resource about TJSL and lots of other schools. Thanks, Rod!  Eileen

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8. Building a Network • Contact an ______ • Offer to take him/her to lunch, breakfast, meet at their office or somewhere mutually agreeable to discuss ____ as a profession • Respect the time and place requirements of the _____ • Pay for the _____’s meal (most will not let a student pay for their meal and will offer pay for both) • Ask specific questions (see handout of suggested questions) • Ask for the name of two other _____ that might be helpful to learn from or meet

9. Anticipated Results • Students will know people working in a variety of work settings • Students will gain confidence in the wisdom of their choice to study ___ or work in a particular field or they will gain information that will cause them to question their choice • Student will adjust their TV/media-driven perception of ____ to a more realistic perception that could increase future career satisfaction

10. Risks of Inaction • Career placement challenges • Lower career satisfaction • Fewer contacts for professional support • Increased isolation in their career • Exposure to fewer non-traditional placement opportunities, if student decides not to go to graduate school or use their degree in the typical manner • Difficulty or inability to repay school loans if they are un-, under-, or inappropriately employed

11. 100 x __ Event Planning • Set a date at least two months ahead • Secure a location • Send out a Save-the-Date email to your students or publish the date in the outlets you normally use for publicity • Invite twice as many professionals/graduates as you have a goal to have attend • Mail/email/call to invite professionals/graduates • Create a spreadsheet of contact information • Send out reminders to students the week of the event, one week ahead for the guests • Give guests your cell number, in case they get lost on campus or something comes up • Set up ½ of the room, theater-style, and ½ of the room with tables like a law fair or hang signs around the room with name of attorney and firm/business • Teach networking skills • Introduce all guests in the room to larger group • Panel: 3 guests (young person w/< 5 years experience, seasoned person w/> 20 years experience, & a career services professional; each discusses the role networking has played in building their profession or obtaining employment • Handouts: Networking Tips, Networking for Shy People, Plastic sheet business card holders, other prelaw info • Leave an hour, or whatever time is best for your students and the guests, for a fair-like event, where students talk to as many of the guests as possible • Serve refreshments; place different ones in each corner of the room to encourage students to circulate around the entire event • Send thank-you notes to each guest who attended within one week of the event

12. UVU 100 x Degree • Career Development Center • Internship Office • Services: • Individual contacts • Contacts at DC + other work settings • Visits to work settings • Resume and interviewing skills

13. Conclusion • This is not a jobs program • This is a happiness-building program • The average person spends 97,464 hours working from ages 18-65, based on an average 8-hour day, 5 days a week • Let’s build happy graduates who are having very satisfying experiences in their life! • Good Luck! Thanks for all your hard work as advisors!