Jeremy Fojut speaks about making connections in the "real world"
Concordia’s Residence Life and Parent/Alumni relations invite you to an event focused on helping Juniors and Seniors prepare for the "real world" of making connections that lead to internships and job offers. This event will not only provide information but give students/alumni the chance to connect with the non-profit Newaukee that works specifically in connecting young professionals with career opportunities.
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Registration opens Oct. 8 and closes Oct. 21.
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Jeremy Fojut has 20+ years of applying unique approaches to complex problems to increase engagement, economic development and awareness for businesses, neighborhoods and organizations. His proven philosophy to employee or community engagement is to reinvent the wheel create solutions that spread and empower. Utilizing Jeremy's social architecture method, NEWaukee was able to grow it’s owned audience to over 202,000 in less than 8 years without the need for traditional advertising.
Jeremy is the Co-Founder of NEWaukee, Newance a talent agency. The Rev Collective a female focused membership organization and Place Based Development a placed based real estate company. You might be familiar with some of Jeremy's programming ideas that have created a new vision for Milwaukee. The Night Market which brought millions of dollars of economic development to a revitalization effort along a commercial corridor. Jeremy developed a program called Tournavation which is a tournament of innovative ideas to solve Milwaukee's civic challenges by crowdsourcing community input and allowing people to pitch on stage their solutions. The Tournavation has lead to programs like the Night Market, Artery Project, the Mayor's Home/Grown Project health software piloting in Milwaukee Public Schools and millions in economic development.. Jeremy's programs have a wide range of users that address the arts, small business, culture, economic development and neighborhood identity.
Milwaukee's brain drain issues are well noted. Jeremy established a deeper platform for employee engagement within companies that tackles the issues of leadership development, connection to community and increased talent retention. Jeremy's engagement theory has lead to a 200% increase in employee engagement at a larger Wisconsin based corporation. Jeremy also created an innovative program that has led to 100s of new people to move to Milwaukee, WI.
He also is expanding the country's first Young Professional Week created in 2011 to a statewide initiative to attract and retain talent in 2015. Young Professional Week recently won an Innovation Award from the International Economic Development Council He is now leading the charge on the Wisconsin 72 initiative. An initiative to unite Wisconsin's 72 counties around a talent attraction and retention strategy.
A recent success was being recognized by Forbes Magazine as a company to watch in the social entrepreneur sector. Jeremy now speaks, consults and creates talent retention and attraction projects across the country for municipalities, chambers, organizations and companies looking for innovative solutions connect people to place