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On-demand webinar:
Athletic Communications Building. Developing and Empowering Your Staff Webinar Series: Session #2
Building a Winning Staff: Working With Graduate Assistants and Postgraduate Students
This is the second session in a CSC "Athletic Communications Building, Developing and Empowering Your Staff Webinar Series" being presented during the 2024-25 academic year. The first session, working with student assistants done in the fall of 2024, can be found HERE.
In this on-demand webinar, the presenters joined us for an important discussion on how to find, work with and empower graduate assistants and postgrad student assistants and interns in your communications office.
Podcast version of the webinar: Naviate to the bottom of this page to click on your favorite podcast channel to listen to this webinar in an audio version.
In this time of shortened staffs and resources which may be limited, they discussed ways to find and identify- and then bolster your office staff and office content production team - with graduate-level student interns and/or graduate assistants. The panelists discussed techniques and strategies to successfully find, mentor and engage these graduate-level assistants and how to empower and prepare them for their next career steps.
Topics in detail that were covered:
- Helping your students transition from (undergraduate) student workers to (graduate) student interns
- Ways to identify and recruit student assistants with on-campus and off-campus strategies, internal vs. external hires
- How to train and schedule your graduate students for office and in-game work; the importance of meetings with your student staff
- The importance of traveling with teams
- Traits and characteristics of successful student interns/assistants
- Setting parameters for graduate students to accomplish their department work, and focus on their studies
Panelists
Abbey Curtis, Xavier University Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant, curtisa6@xavier.edu
Adam Ledyard, East Texas Baptist University Assistant Athletic Director for Communications, aledyard@etbu.edu
Corey McCarthy, North Atlantic Conference Associate Commissioner, CMcCarthy@nacathletics.com
Moderator/Presenter
Alex Gutierrez, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Assistant Sports Information Director, agutierrez@wpi.edu
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