Designing your chats

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Let’s Chat
Event Programming & Planning Guide

2. Brazen combines the
efficiency of a scheduled
event with the simplicity of
chat, to connect people
who don’t know each
other…at scale
Alumni
Career
Staff
Students
Mentors Employers
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3. Brazen Customer Usage
Set Up Your Connection Types
Event Programming & Planning Guide
AGENDA
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4. Brazen Customer Usage
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5. Brazen Customer Usage
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Smaller, Recurring Events Larger, Targeted Events
Career Services Office Hours
Featured Alumni Q&A
Chats
Resume Reviews &
Mentoring
Career Fair
Information Sessions
Alumni & Student
Networking Meet-Ups
Success Tip: Mix & match your event types to align with your
programming goals

6. Set Up Your Connection Types
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7. A to A Events: Events where you want a group of
individuals to simply mingle and chat amongst themselves
Alumni Alumni
These events are simple,
but powerful. They can
be completely open to all
alumni or students or
they can be focused and
concentrated on alumni
or students of a given
graduating class, major,
geographic location, etc.
Alumni Networking Student Peer Counseling Parent Networking Faculty Mixers
Class Reunions International Alumni Mixers Club Meet & Greets Diversity Events

8. A to B Events: Events where you want a group of individuals
to interact with a second distinct group of individuals
There are lots of
opportunities to bring two
groups together for mutual
benefit. Whether its bringing
students and alumni
together, career coaches
and students together or
even connecting an
employer with students
Students Alumni
Alumni/Student Networking Career Coaching Office Hours Mentoring
Mock Interviews Faculty/Student MixersResume ReviewsAdmissions Events
Employer Open House

9. A to B1..B2..B3: Events where you want a group of
individuals to interact with several distinct groups of individuals
There are lots of opportunities to bring 3
or more groups together for mutual
benefit. Whether it’s bringing prospective
students together with existing students
or staff, students together with various
employers, or new students together with
upperclassmen in different schools
Career Fairs New Student Orientation Admissions Expos
Club/Greek Expos
Students Employers
Professor Chats Admitted Student Exploration

10. Event Programming & Planning
Guide
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11. Focused Networking
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Professional Industry Networking

12. Focused Networking
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Lobby View - Booths are broken down by sub-industries

13. Focused Networking
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Social Networking - Startup Chat

14. Focused Networking
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Lobby View - Booths are broken down by company stage

15. General Networking
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All Alumni Industry Networking

16. General Networking
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Lobby View - Booths are broken down by industry

17. Geographic Networking
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City-Based Chats

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Lobby View - Booths are broken down by discussion topic
Geographic Networking

19. Geographic Networking
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Website Promotion

20. Pre/Post Event Networking
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Pre-Reunion Excitement for Specific Classes

21. Pre/Post Event Networking
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Lobby View - Only one booth is used for general networking

22. Pre/Post Event Networking
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Post-Webinar Networking

23. Pre/Post Event Networking
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Lobby View - One booth for general networking & one booth
for networking with featured speakers

24. Mixed Networking: Connecting 2 Peer Groups
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FAQs with SMEs

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Lobby View - Booths are broken down by discussion topics
where participants could chat with an expert
Mixed Networking: Connecting 2 Peer Groups

26. Mixed Networking: Connecting 2 Peer Groups
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Students-Alumni Connections

27. Mixed Networking: Connecting 2 Peer Groups
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Lobby View - Booths are broken down business industries

28. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Staff Expertise

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Lobby View - Booths are assigned to career experts/career
center staff
Career Development Chat Sessions

30. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Career Chats

31. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Lobby View - Landing a Job/Workplace Dynamics and
Relocating

32. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Mentor Chat

33. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Lobby View - Booths broken up by mentor specialty

34. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Resume Review

35. Career Development Chat Sessions
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Lobby View - Booths broken up by industry + general
networking and featured expert

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Career Fair
Event Landing Page

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Career Fair
Event Landing Page

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Career Fair
Event Landing Page

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Single Employer Open House
FIU Partnered with Fiat

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Graduation Prep
Get information and questions answered prior to graduation

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Graduation Prep Continued

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Pre/Post In-Person Events
Event Landing Page

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Pre/Post In-Person Events Continued
Booths had pre-and post- career fair tips

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Event Landing Page
Office Hours

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Office Hours Continued

46. And more!
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Career Fair Single Employer Open House
Support Mentor Programming Online Information Sessions

47. Next Steps
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Decide on Your Event
Programming
Build Your Event Series!
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