One of the best opportunities I've had so far at ISU is being involved in the President's Leadership Class. We meet weekly with President Leath and student leaders to discuss the principles and practice of leadership. This week, our topic was Service Leadership and during the presentation we had the chance to brainstorm some creative solutions to challenges in the service community. My group was tasked with increasing student awareness of service opportunities. We generated several ideas, but the most creative (and the one I was most excited about) was a Career Fair Service Day.
We noticed that most companies will compensate their employees for doing community service during their working hours and that many companies also send their representatives to ISU a day or more before the Career Fair to hold information sessions and begin recruiting early. If we just combine these two things, we have an event that allows recruiters and students to join together in serving the community and gives them time to network in a more relaxed environment.
Although this was primarily a brainstorming, theoretical activity, I would love to see something like this happen here at ISU! It would allow students to get more out of the Career Fair and motivate them to serve the community, both here at Iowa State and after graduation. With a little creativity, anything can happen!
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