UMaine’s 2022 Career Ready Games begin March 28

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March 22, 2022 Student Life

The University of Maine Career Center, Maine Business School and Enterprise will host the 2022 Career Ready Games from Monday, March 28, to Friday, April 1.

The Career Ready Games is a series of challenges open to all UMaine students that present participants with an opportunity to showcase their skills and compete as an individual or a team. The challenges will be administered online via Brightspace, and each day will cover a career preparedness skill: the Pitch, the Motivation, the Interview, the Scenario and the Final. Daily challenges should take between 5–10 minutes to complete.

The program is designed to engage UMaine students by highlighting the value of developing career-ready skills while informing them about the variety of career support services available to them on campus. Enterprise provided UMaine with the funding for this new, innovative career program as a result of the university being the top recruiting school for the company in Maine.

A celebratory and networking lunch will be held for participants and guests on April 7 at 12:30 p.m. in the North Pod in the Memorial Union, with several Enterprise employees, who are also UMaine alumni, in attendance. Participants will earn 10 points for every completed challenge, and every 10 points earns one ticket for the gift card drawing for one of 10 $50 gift cards that will take place at the luncheon. All participants will also receive a Career Essentials Kit, valued at $50 per kit, at the lunch.

The top three highest scoring teams receive a monetary gift for a charitable contribution to an organization of their choice — $200 for third place, $300 for second place and $500 for first place. The checks will be distributed on Maine Day on Wednesday, April 27.