Student mentorship program
Developing a mentorship relationship with a Computer Science student is an excellent way to both provide support and guidance to a worthy student, and to evaluate a potential new employee. The Department has many students who have expressed interest in a mentorship program, and can tailor a mentorship program to an industry partner’s goals. For instance, if your company hoped to support women in Computer Science or other under-represented groups, the Department could recruit mentees who match your requirements. Mentorship interaction would typically occur via social media and hence would not require a large investment of time by any one mentor. Mentorship programs can easily be scaled from small to large depending on your company’s interest.
Provide case studies or projects for use in classes
Many Computer Science courses at CSUEB address current topics in industry, from computer networking to machine learning, to software engineering. As industry experts, you have experience with real-world problems. Providing outlines of these problems to be used as case studies or the bases for programming or research projects would help to improve the quality of class assignments. Completion of practical industry-based assignments would also help our students to become more effective employees once they join the workforce.
Industry experts teach courses at CSUEB
CSUEB Computer Science is always looking for qualified instructors to teach both the basic Computer Science curriculum as well as special topics classes. As industry experts, you are in an excellent position to pass your skills on to our students. As an instructor, you have the opportunity to evaluate possible interns or permanent employees while helping our students to learn industry standards or new technologies.
Develop internship program
CSUEB Computer Science encourages all our majors to seek internships while pursuing their degree programs. Internships provide the students with the opportunity to learn about industry standards for coding, documentation, and testing, as well as to work on real-world projects. They benefit from working on teams, and further developing the communications skills they need to be effective in the industry environment. Company partners have the opportunity to evaluate potential employees and develop relationships with them towards possible permanent employment. Internship programs can easily be scaled from small (e.g., 1 internship opportunity a year) to large depending on your company’s interest.
Recruit for permanent positions
Industry partners are provided with access to the students pursuing their Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at CSUEB. Students may be recruited through email, promotional materials posted in the College of Science, or company presentations. Your company’s involvement with the Advisory Board means that students are already familiar with your brand before they start looking for a permanent position.