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YCBK 543: How The Right College Clubs Can Lead To Career Opportunities

Your College-Bound Kid

Release Date: 06/12/2025

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(02:04) Question from a listener: 

Number 1

Susan and Mark answer a question from a listener who wants to know what her student can do to prepare for a career in architecture

 

(19:26) Interview 1-Mark Stucker interviews Jennifer Mandel from Milwaukee

Jennifer Mandel from Milwaukee shares her experience of how joining the right clubs can lead to career opportunities.

²  Jen, gives her backstory as a parent of really four business majors, as an educator and as a social worker

²  We introduce our topic for the day, The opportunity clubs present for college students

²  Jen explains all the benefits of college clubs; she talks about her kids experience with clubs and she gives us some tips for what to do to get through the competitive process of joining some of the more selective clubs

 

(41:51) Interview #2: Mark Stucker and Bob McMahan, President of Kettering University

Preview of Part 3 of 5

²  Bob talks about the unique role they have created for the Chief Student Experience officer, and he explains why they have a Chief Student Experience Officer instead of a Dean of Student Life

²  Bob talks about what they can do and cannot do at Kettering when it comes to sports, clubs, student abroad, etc.

²  Bob talks about the unique program they have with Germany that they have had for 30 years

²  Bob talks about the gender ration at Kettering

²  Bob tells us what percentage of students go to work full-time for the same employer that was their co-op employer

²  Bob talks about the entrepreneurship culture that exists at Kettering

²  Bob explains one reason why there is a gender imbalance at engineering oriented schools

²  Bob talks about the academic profile of the student at Kettering and he looks at what they look for when they are selecting students in admissions

²  Bob highlights one personal quality that is extremely important in the admissions process for Kettering University

 

 

 

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