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In today’s competitive educational environment we have successfully branded our University of Hartford, Barney School of Business (BSB) Undergraduate program as “Career-Ready”, suggesting undergraduates are being prepared to enter the working world with progressive knowledge and skills related to how they think about and engage with their chosen careers. Our Career Ready program was established to give students a competitive advantage in a market flooded with young professionals with newly minted degrees. Our programs span across the four years of college and includes focus on simple resume construction to activities for career building such as club involvement or honors courses. Other events include mock interviewing practice, campus career fairs, corporate visits, job shadowing, internships and more. The research that will be presented is a comparative study of two specific career ready program activities; resume construction and mock interviewing. The study compares a control group that will use traditional methods of coaching resume construction and interview preparation to an experimental group of students using a rule based intelligent technology platform to conduct automated resume review and "smart robot" interviews. Data will be collected on the comparative ROI measures established such as efficiencies of time, volume and accuracy. In addition, data will be collected on student performance effectiveness measures between the two groups and will also be presented.  Specifically, is there significant difference in the two group’s methods as students both prepare for and enter the working world as measured by number of applications made, number of first round and second round interviews offered, number of job offers and number of secured employment agreements made that will be extrapolated to a projected placement rate by graduation. Some of these data sets will be in process of collection and analysis at time of presentation.  Results will be reported on any aspects of the measures established where we have data sets analyzed.

Applied Learning Technology, Career Ready, Coaching