Contact: Harriet Laird
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State alumna with virtually 15 years of expertise in larger schooling profession companies management is the brand new govt director of the college’s Profession Heart.
Bethany Mills, former director of profession growth and packages on the College of Georgia and a Licensed Skilled Counselor, now could be main operations of the MSU division that helps college students sharpen their workforce readiness expertise. The middle additionally works to attach employers with college students and alumni who could also be potential workers.
David Shaw, MSU provost and govt vice chairman, mentioned after completion of the nationwide search, “Mississippi State is happy to welcome Bethany as each a extremely certified chief for our Profession Heart and as an alumna. She understands our college’s wants on this place and our efforts in interdisciplinary collaboration as the middle works to create profession success tales throughout campus.”
Previous to her 2018-20 UGA profession growth director position, Mills served as Georgia’s director of alumni profession companies on the Atlanta Alumni Heart from 2014-18 and as a Faculty of Training profession marketing consultant from 2010-14. A licensed administrator of the Robust Curiosity Stock and Myers-Briggs Kind Indicator, she started her profession at MSU instructing lessons as a graduate assistant for the Profession Heart.
Vice Provost Brent Fountain, who served as interim director till Mills’ appointment, mentioned, “We’re excited that Bethany has joined our Profession Heart workforce. As a graduate of MSU, Bethany understands the vital position the middle performs in our college students’ profession exploration and growth. She has distinguished herself as a profession companies knowledgeable, has constructed a useful skilled community, and brings expertise, experience and new concepts to this position.”
The Bulldog alum accomplished a bachelor’s diploma in secondary schooling/chemistry in 2006 and a grasp’s in counselor schooling/group counseling in 2009. She has held management positions with the Georgia Profession Growth Affiliation over the past seven years, together with phrases as president and director-at-large. A member of the Southern Affiliation of Faculties and Employers, she additionally was chosen in 2018 as one among solely seven contributors within the nation within the Nationwide Profession Growth Affiliation Management Academy.
Mills mentioned in the course of the pandemic she—like many—skilled a values shift and needed to discover a job the place she may make a “true impression” and transfer nearer to household.
“It was clear in the course of the interview course of at Mississippi State that workers and college actually care about scholar success, and I knew that I needed to be part of that legacy,” she mentioned. “I consider that we’ve the fitting folks on the Profession Heart workforce to proceed constructing and rising our impression on campus. It’s one factor to do what you like, nevertheless it’s one other to do what you like in a spot you like.”
For extra data on the MSU Profession Heart, go to www.profession.msstate.edu.
MSU is Mississippi’s main college, accessible on-line at www.msstate.edu.