Hello fellow CSUSB Advisors!

It's almost October!  That means early October is another opportunity drawing!

Take care,

Matt

csusb.edu/advising

New Advisors Group updates!

Hello fellow CSUSB Advisors,

Thank you to everyone who completed New Advisors Group survey.  We had a 92% completion rate!  What does that mean? We can do the opportunity drawing for the picture frame! Click the link below to find out the lucky winner, https://www.instagram.com/p/BKlhiXohOF7/?taken-by=csusb_advisors

A few updates based off the survey:

• ·         Career Center workshop: There was overwhelmingly positive feedback from you all regarding the most recent workshop.

o   Your feedback has been shared with the Career Center. Sarai and Angie have responded back that your comments were valuable and will help with future workshops.

o   Speaking of future workshops, we will be reaching out the Career Center for a possible professional development workshop in either October of November. Since time was a factor in the last workshop, we will try to have one topic per workshop. Hopefully the next one we have will be regarding resumes. 

• ·       Many of you indicated wanting to more advising articles. With the NACADA conference coming up, there is a Common Reading they will be discussing, “Toward a Theory of Advising” by Marc Lowenstein.  Even if you are not attending the conference next month, it’s still a great read.  Here it is, http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Portals/0/annualconf/2016/Documents/Common%20Reading%20Article.pdf

• ·         Advising Library: There was a comment about not knowing there was an advising library.  Yes, we do have a “mini” academic advising library. It is relatively new (since August).  The library is housed in Advising and Academic Services, UH-380.  There are various resources from advising and career texts, pocketbooks, DVDs, and teaching materials.  Stop on by and take a look.

• ·       Meeting notes and updates are posted on Blogger under “CSUSB New Advisors Group”, http://csusbadvisors.blogspot.com

• ·       Patricia’s Monday Motivational images are posted on the CSUSB_Advisors Instagram account. If there are any posts, pictures, events, ideas, etc. you have, let me know. 

• ·         A doodle will be sent out by the end of the day for your availability next month for scheduling October’s meeting and maybe a professional development workshop. 

Take care,

Matt

Branding Your Professional Self

Hi fellow CSUSB Advisors!

Thank you for attending the “Branding Your Professional Self” workshop, hosted by the Career Center.  Sarai, Angie and Crystal were planning to go over more, but time got the best of us.  We still hope the networking portion of the workshop was beneficial to you.

Please fill out the following survey that was e-mailed to you earlier today. *Survey will be open now thru Friday, Sept. 16^th

Depending on the survey results, we will meet with the Career Center to have additional workshops to cover the topics they were not able to get to this morning. More than likely, there would be two additional workshops, one on Resumes & Personal Statements and one on LinkedIn/Social Media.

In this survey, you will be able to provide feedback regarding this morning’s workshop, as well as your overall thoughts about the New Advisors Group. You are able to skip the workshop questions if you were not able to attend. 

Take care,

Matt

csusb.edu/advising

September Opportunity Drawing Winner!

Hi fellow CSUSB Advisors!

Who won the wall art for September's opportunity drawing? Click here to find out!

*Hint- This CSUSB Advisor is from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences :) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKGLASLBoXC/?taken-by=csusb_advisors

Take care,

Matt

csusb.edu/advising

Professional Development Opportunity

Hi fellow CSUSB Advisors!

Yesterday, a few of us went on a campus tour at CSUSB. For some, this was a great way to be introduced to the campus as a new advisor as you can find out where specific campus resources are located and also find out some interesting facts along the way.

Thank you to Patricia from EOP for scheduling this!

In other news, Monday, September 12th is a professional development opportunity for the New Advisors Group. The Career Center staff will be presenting a workshop called, "Branding Your Professional Self". 

This workshop is meant to help us with updating our resumes, the importance of LinkedIn, cleaning up our social media dirt and networking.  With many of us going to advising conferences this academic year, networking and having an updated resume can be valuable tools. 

Thank you, Evelyn for the idea and helping set this up! 

An e-mail has been sent to you all with the RSVP link.

Take care,

Matt

Latest Opportunity Drawing!

Hi fellow CSUSB Advisors!

It's the beginning of a new month...so that means a new opportunity drawing!

This drawing will be done this Thursday, September 8th!  We're giving away a motivational quote wall art!

Happy Monday!

Matt

csusb.edu/advising