Career Fair & Employer Engagement
The Raikes School Career Fair will be held on Thursday, September 22 in the Kauffman Center. Registration opens later this month! If you or your company are interested in hiring our students for internships or full-time positions, we hope you will register! Partner employers should have received a Career Fair Save The Date in mid-June. If you want to be added to our invitation list, contact Adam Britten, our Assistant Director of Recruitment and Outreach at adam.britten@unl.edu. For more information visit our career fair page.
If you or your company are unable to participate in the Career Fair, but would like to engage with students in other ways, we offer additional options including:
- Dinner and/or talk on business, computing, engineering, and/or data science related topics hosted in the Kauffman Center. These events are generally hosted on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday evenings sometime between 5:00 and 7:30 pm. This could be an informal open house-style networking event to share more about your company, a more formal presentation with Q&A, or any other format you prefer. Some employers choose to bring food as an additional incentive for students to attend – we do not have catering restrictions and could coordinate an RSVP for you, as necessary.
- Employer in Residence with a booth in Kauffman during the day anytime Monday – Thursday between 9:00 am and 2:30 pm. Talk with students between classes, share flyers and swag, gather resumes, etc.
- During the school year, we send a weekly newsletter each Wednesday to students and a section of the newsletter provides employer updates. You could send a short description (2-3 sentences) of opportunities available, who to contact with questions, and where to apply. Dinners/talks and Employers in Residence are also advertised in the newsletter.
Alumni are also encouraged to post full-time openings and information about their companies in the Raikes School’s private LinkedIn Group.
Contact Adam Britten to receive more details or schedule a date for your visit!
Research Fair
The Raikes School will host a research fair for students in the Kauffman Center on Thursday, September 29. If you would like to get involved or know of research opportunities for students, contact Steve Cooper, our Executive Director at stephen.cooper@unl.edu.
RAIK 40 Senior Seminar
The Raikes School will enter its sixth year offering RAIK 40, a senior seminar focused on preparing soon-to-be alumni for life outside of Kauffman and college. A consistent theme in student feedback in previous years is that students enjoy learning from alumni because they can connect most with your experiences and life lessons. Last year, many of you shared your time and expertise with our students. A special shout out to:
- Brendan Gallo, Cohort 2013, Retirement Accounts & Investing
- Michael Hollman, Cohort 2012, Budgeting & Basic Personal Finance
- Darren Johnson, Cohort 2012, Budgeting & Basic Personal Finance
- David Socha, Cohort 2013, Continued Job Search & Graceful Exit Strategies
- Austin Wendt, Cohort 2013, Continued Job Search & Graceful Exit Strategies
- Lauren Maciejewski, Cohort 2015, Continued Job Search & Graceful Exit Strategies
- Michael Jensen, Cohort 2013, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Workplace
- Aryn Huck, Cohort 2014, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Workplace
- Maggie Witzenburg, Cohort 2014, Relocating to a New City
- Cooper Knaak, Cohort 2015, Relocating to a New City
- Emily Wagner, Cohort 2015, Relocating to a New City
- Jake Koperski, Cohort 2016, Relocating to a New City
- Hanna Rogoz, Cohort 2013, Employer Offered Insurance
- Julia Menez, Cohort 2008, Working & Traveling Abroad
- Rees Klintworth, Cohort 2012, Working & Traveling Abroad
- Derek Nordgren, Cohort 2012, Working & Traveling Abroad
- Reid Gahan, Cohort 2015, Community & Civic Engagement
We hope to involve even more alumni to participate this fall through in-person presentations and panel discussions. Presenters will have the option to join us in-person or via Zoom.
If you are interested in helping us prepare our seniors for adulthood in any area – personal finance, insurance, health and wellness, traveling, community engagement, finding housing, DEI, managing conflict in the workplace, negotiating salary and benefits, transitioning between jobs, or anything else you wish you would have known – please contact Adam Britten at adam.britten@unl.edu. We hope to have dates and sessions assigned to alumni volunteers by mid-August.
Alumni Engagement Committee
In January 2021, the Raikes School established the Alumni Engagement Committee to strengthen the connection and involvement of our alumni. This committee has met virtually and receives regular updates on school happenings from the Raikes School administration.
The committee is charged to:
- Help source alumni who may be interested in mentoring current students or providing support through internship/full-time application processes at various companies
- Encourage members of their cohort to get their companies involved in the Raikes School Career Fair
- Seek alumni for panel discussion, classroom presentations, or tech/business talks
- Encourage attendance at reunions, the Design Studio Showcase, speakers, and events in various cities
- Act as a liaison between the Raikes School, the University of Nebraska Foundation, and their cohort
- Send emails and letters to their cohort in support of giving back to and growing the Raikes School’s impact
We are grateful to have the support and leadership of the following alumni volunteers currently serving on the Alumni Engagement Committee:
- Meghan (Lyons) Calabro, Cohort 2001
- Sunita (Gupta) Lavin, Cohort 2002
- Brian Zimmer, Cohort 2003
- Kyle Murphy, Cohort 2004
- Chris Reznicek, Cohort 2006
- Rees Klintworth, Cohort 2012
- Maggie Witzenburg, Cohort 2014
- Emily Wagner, Cohort 2015
- Karl Shaffer, Cohort 2016
- Luke Bogus, Cohort 2017
- Emma Clausen, Cohort 2017
If you would like to join the Alumni Engagement Committee, would like to nominate a member of your cohort for the committee, or have suggestions related to alumni engagement, please reach out to any of our current committee members or Adam Britten, Assistant Director of Recruitment and Outreach, at adam.britten@unl.edu or 402-472-0737.
