COSD FULL ACCESS Student Summit for Career Exploration
November 18-19, 2016
Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA
Purpose: FULL ACCESS brings together up to sixty invited and pre-screened college students or recent alumni with disabilities and ten select employers for a networking and education summit.
Who are the Students? Up to 60 current students or recent graduates of colleges and universities generally in the New England region, who represent a variety of disciplines. The students include sophomores through post-doctoral degrees and many of the older students and alumni have significant life experience.
The objectives of the FULL ACCESS Student Summit for Career Exploration are:
- Provide in-depth understanding of college students with disabilities about their internships, job searches and career issues, increasing effectiveness in self-advocacy and self-esteem and achieving of career goals;
- Provide diverse employers, across a variety of sectors, with a pipeline to talent, as well as insights into attitudes and issues faced by college students with disabilities as they prepare to graduate and enter the workplace;
FULL ACCESS – What it is not: FULL ACCESS is very different from a traditional career fair and not an opportunity to conduct interviews with individual students. There is no expectation of a job offer.
Employer Registration Fee: Please contact Alan Muir at amuir@cosdonline.org for details of partnership packages. Note that Student Summit Sponsors are also invited to attend the National Conference on November 17.
Who Should Attend? HR, Diversity, Disability Specialists, Campus Recruiting or Line / Hiring Managers.
Employer Responsibilities:
- Small Group Discussions on Day Two – Please bring or ship to the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA, any marketing materials or small to medium-sized displays to help brand your exclusive meeting room.
- Marketing / Recruiting Materials and Accessibility – Whenever possible, marketing / recruiting materials should be in an accessible format such as Word documents on a thumb drive.Whenever possible, any video presentation should be closed-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Hotel – Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Meals – Lunch and dinner on November 18 and breakfast and lunch on November 19 are paid for by COSD through Employer Sponsorship. All other meals are the responsibility of the employer representative.
Student Resume Book: An electronic package of all student resumes will be sent to employers two weeks before the Summit. Every attempt will be made by COSD to encourage students who will be attending to have their resumes reviewed or improved through their home campus Career Services offices. However, some resumes will not be optimal, but this is an opportunity for a “teaching moment” by the employers.
Past Participating Employers and Sponsors: Past employers have included Abbott Laboratories, AIG, AT&T, Bank of America, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cisco, Deloitte, Delta Air Lines, Discover Financial, Dow Chemical, Eaton, EY, Exelon, General Electric, Google, Hyatt, KPMG, Lockheed Martin, Lowes, McKesson, Merck, MGM Resorts International, Microsoft, NBCUniversal, Northrop Grumman, PNC Bank, Procter & Gamble, PwC, TD Bank, Texas Instruments, Verizon, Walgreens, Walmart and the Walt Disney Company.