CIAA Partners with BrandDisco© to Provide Career-Readiness for HBCU Students
Charlotte, NC
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The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association has partnered with BrandDisco© to introduce a new signature Workforce Readiness Program to prepare junior and senior students for success beyond their college careers. The program is set to launch in January of 2019.
Recent studies show that a college degree alone is no longer enough to successfully compete in today’s evolving global workforce. Employers now have an increased desire to understand how candidates make decisions, innovate, manage change, offer multi-dimensional skills, contribute to social causes, collaborate in team environments, think strategically and much more.
As a result, the CIAA and BrandDisco© are excited to launch the Workforce Readiness Program which is designed to help students obtain more career clarity, confidence, and a competitive advantage for their transition from campus life to the corporate workforce.
"This past summer, Brand Disco©'s leaders Dawn Nicole and DeMario Mcilwain worked with CIAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee E-Board members as well as the 13 CIAA Senior Woman Administrators on creating and marketing their brand and this led to to further discussions on how we could work together to enhance career readiness for our students, said CIAA Senior Associate Commissioner Suzette McQueen. "We are pleased that Dawn is offering this new program first to our CIAA students."
Junior and senior HBCU students will have access to BrandDisco©’s automated talent assessments, which provides personal brand insights around how they think, create, and behave. The assessment will then be followed up by instructor-led career coaching and feedback sessions to teach students how to effectively position their dynamic values when applying for jobs and establishing themselves within a corporate environment.
Conclusively, students will be made privy to a series of BrandDisco©’s additional career readiness tools which range from increasing soft-skills in key areas to perfecting 60 second elevator pitches. The BrandDisco team will provide continuous engagement throughout the 4-month program to ensure students are equipped with the tools needed to be successful.
"With CIAA's strategic vision being driven by Tradition, Leadership & Community, coupled with BrandDisco©'s core values of Innovate, Diversify and Evolve,it was a natural match to team up to promote the career-readiness of rising HBCU graduates as they embark on the corporate frontier," said Dawn Nicole, VP at BrandDisco©.
The program will run throughout the spring semester and each institution will work directly with BrandDisco© to meet their specific campus needs.
For more information around this HBCU Workforce Readiness Program contact:
BrandDisco© Program Manager:
Name: Dawn Nicole, VP at BrandDisco©
Office: 704-709-0329 ext.101
Email: dawnnicole@getbranddisco.com
Website: https://www.getbranddisco.com/hbcureadiness
About BrandDisco©
BrandDisco©, whose name simply means Brand Discovery, is a talent management solutions firm specializing in helping leaders of diverse markets, offer their people a greater competitive advantage as it relates to career readiness, development & advancement opportunities. BrandDisco© has been largely popularized due to its success in the Military Transition Job Market and has also supported Women in S.T.E.M initiatives, Project Managers, College Student Athletes and more.
BrandDisco© believes that every individual possesses dynamic innate values that be incredibly powerful once it's understood what they are, how to use them effectively, and how they can work collaboratively with others to bring about solutions. Consequently, BrandDisco© is committed to ensuring job seekers can quickly discover, readily develop and effectively leverage these values in the most impactful ways.