Due to the online nature of the Fall 2020 quarter, I have been on a team to plan and run an online career fair for the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department. Weekly meetings cover logistics, planning, advertising, and communications.
Besides general advice on other topics, my specialty has been to prepare, manage, and set up surveys with automated responses. I suggested using Microsoft Forms as it would allow for security measures when sending the survey to students as we could tie it to their student email and prevent multiple submissions. When rolling out the company registration, one of the first companies to register sent an email to a colleague thanking them for the invitation to register and that they looked forward to their confirmation email. I was forwarded this email and then taught myself how to use Microsoft Power Automate to send automated confirmation emails to all companies that register.
These surveys have been sent out to all companies that will attend the career fair and all students in the IME Department.
Additionally, I created a backup system for the entire student sign-up portion for all 250+ meetings with 12 companies when issues started forming with the original system.