Kristin Deckard Dawson

Kristin is a double Boilermaker.  She holds a BS from Consumer Family Sciences in Retail Management, and also a MS in Education in the College Student Personal program from Purdue University.  She has over 18 years of higher education experience within teaching, advising, and administration roles.  Kristin has spent most of those years as lecturer and advisor assisting students with their academic course path and guiding them towards their next big career journey.  Before joining the Business Career Services team, Kristin was the program manager for the MSF and MSHRM graduate programs at Purdue and she is now the Director of Undergraduate Student Engagement & CareerBound.  With the growing demand of employer needs, this position will assist the students of Daniels Business School to be empowered with resources and professional skills so that they are career ready the first day on the job.   

Kristin’s key responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with faculty, advising, and alumni relations to manage the CareerBound program with the ultimate outcome of transforming the Daniels Business School students to be Career-ready upon graduation. 
• Effectively communicate the mission and the vision of CareerBound and to secure the support of campus and school stakeholders, as well as the students in the school. 
• Track and manage data of those students that participate in the CareerBound initiative to ensure the program is meeting the goals and objectives.  
• Recruit, train, and develop a team to assist with the CareerBound and undergraduate student engagement initiatives.