Director of Employer Relations
Carnegie Mellon University Career & Professional Development Center
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States
Sean McGowan serves as the Director of Employer Relations at Carnegie Mellon University’s Career & Professional Development Center. His leadership has been pivotal in enhancing the employer experience through a consultative strategy and embracing a campus-wide synergy regarding employer relations. Recently returning to CMU post-pandemic, Sean has focused on uncovering the pain points of early talent acquisition professionals and understanding the high-value services a career center needs to provide in a post-COVID world. As a Handshake user, Sean has been dedicated to developing and implementing best practices for managing employers within the system. Sean has experience in both higher education as well as Ed Tech, and recently boomeranged back to CMU after a two year stint building a hybrid employer engagement and staffing model at ThriveDX. Leaving higher education for a short time provided him with a new perspective from staffing and relationship management which has helped him develop a data-backed and client-centric model for employer outreach and relationship management. Sean has been a contributed to multiple national news outlets such as WSJ, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and NPR Marketplace as it relates to early career talent and talent acquisition. Sean holds a MA in Student Affairs and Higher Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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Hunting & Nurturing: Building and Utilizing a Data-Backed Employer Strategy
Thursday, June 26, 2025
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM EDT