{"id":9079,"date":"2021-03-01T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:57:43","slug":"career-corner-zoom-fatigue-and-employer-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2021\/03\/01\/career-corner-zoom-fatigue-and-employer-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Corner: Zoom Fatigue and Employer Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By now, we\u2019re all well-versed in this world of meeting id\u2019s and virtual wait rooms. Students have had classes in different modalities and in-person events are highly restricted. But did you know that there\u2019s a science behind the type of burnout that\u2019s exclusive to being online?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Virtual meetings make us ever-present of our cameras, other participants, whether we appear engaged, all before we get to the actual content. We end up over-emoting to compensate for being a little box on a screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor some people, the prolonged split in attention creates a perplexing sense of being drained while having accomplished nothing. The brain becomes overwhelmed by unfamiliar excess stimuli while being hyper-focused on searching for non-verbal cues that it can\u2019t find.\u201d (Skylar, 2020.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I plan for spring semester events, I\u2019m seeing the effects of Zoom fatigue and a severe drop in student engagement. While I also miss the days of in-person gatherings, the simple fact is online events might just be our future, pandemic or not. There\u2019s always costs and risks associated with travel, and recruiters are seeing the benefit to connecting with campuses online. While I\u201dm not here to convince the students that every virtual activity is as beneficial as in-person ones, there\u2019s something to be said for paying attention to the direction employers are heading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knowing that fatigue is real has helped my office develop more curated events, where students are maximizing their interactions with employers, all within a set period of time. We\u2019re trying to cut down on the noise and emphasize outcomes. Our students are so adaptable, and I know employers will love to see Missouri Western embracing the new normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Megan Raney<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Career Development Director<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, we\u2019re all well-versed in this world of meeting id\u2019s and virtual wait rooms. Students have had classes in different modalities and in-person events are highly restricted. But did you know that there\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9081,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}