Managing Student Workers & Volunteers

Supervising Student Assistants and Volunteers - a half-day workshop designed to give you best-practices information on advertising, interviewing, hiring, training, having important conversations, and evaluating the performance of your student assistants and volunteers.

This workshop will guide you through the process of advertising your positions using traditional and non-traditional methods, demonstrate interviewing techniques to open the dialogue between interviewer and applicant, training methods which best fit the trainee, and evaluating performance tied in with having important conversations and feedback, which then create opportunities for employee growth and development in your organization.

Ben Hogben is the Access Services Manager of the Ithaca College Library. He has been supervising student assistants and staff for the past 14 years. Ben was previously a Fire Chief/Deputy Fire Chief/Training Officer for a volunteer fire company for 19 years. He holds a BA from Ithaca College, and has a certificate in Coaching Employees for High Performance from the American Management Association and a coaching certificate from the Institute for Life Coach Training.