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Increase How Many Students Save Your Company Profile

April 18, 2018 by MadisonRegion

Here are some basic tips on what you can do to increase your company’s visibility and the likelihood that a student will find your company profile and save it:

1. Add more of your careers to your company/program profile. The more careers your company is associated with in Xello, the more easy it will be for them to find your company.

2. Add video to your company profile if you have any. Xello allows up to six videos per profile. To do this, you’ll need to upload video files (MP4 format) that are 100 MB or less.

3. Add high-quality, useful content about your company to your profile with language geared towards young people who are considering career paths. Generic information is okay, but if you customize it for the audience, it will be more impactful. Why should someone consider working in your industry or at your company? What types of opportunities does your company offer? What types of degrees, certifications and skills (technical and soft skills) do you look for in job candidates? What are your high-demand jobs? What are the perks of working at your business?

4. Send targeted messages to distinct groups of students who have indicated interest in career areas in which your company employs people. To do this log-in to your company profile, click on “connect with students”, then “send message” and then select “advanced filtering options”. Choose from the options by narrowing the targeted audience by school, county, grade, careers, career clusters, and if they’re interested in your company. Student-bound messages to students should be meaningful in rCBLEtion to academics and careers. You can send things like invitations to visit you at a career fair, scholarship opportunities, information about your industry, and even job opportunities your company offers to young people either while in high school or after graduation. Check to make sure each message is to 1,000 or fewer students then send. Inspire management will review your message before releasing it to students. See here for screenshot of how to do this.

5. Recruit career coaches from your company in key career areas. Career coaches can not only answer questions from students about specific careers and industries, but they can also point students back to your company profile to learn more.

6. Add a company message board to your profile if you haven’t already. Distinct from career message boards, a company message board is where career coaches can answer questions specifically about your business. This adds another way to connect with students who are interested in your industry and increase student saves.

7. Offer experiential learning activities to your company profile. This will also increase the chances that you’ll interact with interested students and educators and build your future talent network. By increasing your visibility this way, you will also increase the number of students saving your company to their portfolio.

8. Get more involved with education in general. By participating in education-rCBLEted events, you’ll increase your overall visibility and recognition among educators, students and parents.

In addition to these suggestions, think of ways that you can encourage students you interact with to check out your Xello profile and save your company to their portfolio. If you send a targeted message, ask students who receive it to save your company’s profile to their portfolio. If you have an interaction with a student at career fair, ask them to save your company to their portfolio.

Inspire offers some powerful ways to connect with your future workforce. Put them to work for your company! By increasing your visibility to students and educators you will raise your company’s and industry’s overall profile in the eyes of the future talent pipeline within the Greater Madison Region and beyond.

Filed Under: business partner updates, Highlights, Inspire Experience, News

Make Sure You’ve Joined At Least One Career Coach Message Board!

March 29, 2018 by MadisonRegion

Many of our business partners have full access to participate as a career coach yet they haven’t actually joined any message boards. For example, half of the 485 registered coaches that work in the seven primary Inspire Madison Region counties haven’t selected any message boards yet.
We encourage you to log-in to your account if you are unsure of your message board status and select any careers for which you can answer questions. You do this by clicking on “Update Your Profile” then finding where it says “Edit Career List” on the right side of the page and selecting careers. Please make sure that you have at least one career selected because it will greatly improve the chances that you’ll have an impact on the future workforce through Inspire.
Here’s a screenshot showing where to add careers once you’ve logged in and clicked on “Update Your Profile”:

Filed Under: business partner updates, Inspire Experience, News

Educator eNews 8th Edition

January 5, 2018 by MadisonRegion

November 10th, 2017 Inspire Educators User Group Recap and More!

Click here to access eNews

Filed Under: education updates, Inspire Experience, News

MadREP Wins Award for Inspire Madison Region

December 21, 2017 by MadisonRegion

MadREP Wins Mid-American Economic Development Award for Inspire Madison Region initiative!

Paul Jadin, President of MadREP receives award.

The Mid-America Economic Development Council presented its annual Economic Development awards at the 2017 Mid-America Competitiveness Conference & Site Selector Forum, held December 3-5 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Chicago.

Award entries were accepted in two markets per category – large market (annual marketing budget over $100,000) and small market (annual marketing budget under $100,000).

Thanks to the collective hard work of our partners in education and business, MadREP won first place in the small division Workforce Development category for the Inspire Madison Region initiative!

The Workforce Development category included activities to attract new workforce, strengthen the skills of existing workforce or encourage retention of youth in a specific area.

Thank you for your continued hard work making Inspire a success and helping to build our future workforce!
Click here to read more about the winners of the competition.

Filed Under: business partner updates, education updates, Highlights, News

Inspire Workforce Development Initiative Creates Regional Connection

September 28, 2017 by MadisonRegion

MADISON, WI – Career development and exploration activities for students in twelve counties across Southern Wisconsin recently received a significant boost, as Inspire Madison Region and Inspire Rock County have integrated their databases to enhance collaborative talent development and employment engagement activities throughout the greater region.

The Inspire initiatives leverage career development software by Xello that is available in all public school with grades 6-12 and technical colleges in the region. Xello allows students to learn more about specific occupations, while the Inspire add-on to the program connects students to career coaches and local businesses providing experiential learning activities such as job shadows, internships, and youth apprenticeships. Employers, educators, students, parents, and workforce professionals all have access to this combined database and networking system designed to improve the future workforce in the broader region.

With the integration of the Inspire Madison Region and Inspire Rock County databases, students will now have the opportunity to engage with employers in the following South Central and South West Wisconsin counties: Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Grant, Green, Iowa, Juneau, Lafayette, Richland, Rock and Sauk. While both Inspire Madison Region and Inspire Rock County (managed by the Madison Region Economic Partnership and Rock 5.0, respectively) will maintain their regional identities, both will benefit from a significant increase in the number of employers, career coaches, and experiential learning activities as the databases come together. With integration, users now have access to:

  • 539 Career Coaches
  • 477 Company Profiles
  • 2,419 Work-Based Learning Activities

For years, employers from Rock County and the Madison Region have expressed the need for ways to connect with their future workforce. Both Inspire initiatives address that need by aligning career exploration and occupational information with real-time data on local employers, their needs, and the opportunities they offer young people to get experience in their industries. At the same time, Inspire also supports the development of robust career pathways and academic and career planning (ACP) that all public school districts in Wisconsin are implementing in the 2017-18 school year.

Going forward in the Madison Region, the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP) will work closely with school districts and businesses to develop best-practices around experiential learning activities, and will continue to streamline workflow processes. To address the needs of at-risk populations, MadREP is developing partnerships with community organizations to bring Inspire to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds through mentoring and other career-readiness activities outside of schools.

Since its inception in 2015, Inspire Madison Region has grown to nearly 55,000 active student portfolios, 23,406 of which have at least one saved career and 7,648 portfolios with at least one saved higher-education target. In addition, online career coaches have answered more than 500 questions from students from public schools and the technical college system. With the merger, the joint-initiatives will cover 67 school districts (with the potential for more in South West Wisconsin), four technical colleges, one UW-System College and Beloit College. In addition, MadREP is currently working with its sister economic development regions throughout the state and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to promote and integrate Inspire statewide.

For additional information about MadREP, visit www.madisonregion.org.

About Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP)
MadREP is the economic development agency for the eight-county Madison Region, founded by business and community leaders to create a dynamic environment where people and businesses prosper. MadREP and its partners aim to proactively and strategically position the region to take advantage of economic and business development opportunities. Visit www.madisonregion.org for more information.

Filed Under: business partner updates, education updates, Highlights, News

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