HayNow

Sean Hayden

Executive Director

_{Sean Hayden is the Executive Director for the Institute for Career Development.}

_{His "HayNow" blog provides members with the latest news from ICD, updates on events and gatherings, and helps keep us all connected with relevant information for all things ICD.}

_{Click on the latest "HayNow" below.}

Our minds are on Milwaukee

While we may be in the primetime of summer, we also all know that it won’t be too long until the kids head back to school.

That also means that our second 2017 ICD Learning Summit – Milwaukee -- is right around the corner.

The final summit of 2...

Save The Date: 2018 ICD National Conference

Sometimes all the pieces just fall right into place.

How fitting it is that the day after we celebrate our nation's independence we are able to announce that our 2018 national conference will be held in the city that started it all ... Philadelph...

Thanks for a great week

Well, the first Learning Opportunities Week is now in the books, and I want to personally thank EVERYONE involved for such an outstanding job.

ICD Staff was able to visit several Career Development Programs, and we still have some visits remaining...

Welcome to L.O.W.!

Welcome to the inaugural Learning Opportunities Week!

As you probably know, L.O.W. is an opportunity for all of us to aggressively showcase all the great things that Career Development has available for Steelworkers.

As the week progresses, we ...

The launching of Learning Opportunities Week

We have an exciting new initiative at ICD: Learning Opportunities Week. The inaugural Learning Opportunities Week, scheduled for the week of June 12, 2017, will be a chance for ICD and all of our sites across the country to promote the excellent wo...

Here we go: The 2017 Learning Summits

It doesn't seem that long ago that we wrapped up in Mobile, but since then we have been busy brainstorming the 2017 Learning Summits. And that's not fake news.

With the locations, dates and hotels all settled, the Learning Summits are now open for...

Road trip to Granite City

Last week Korey and I visited the USW/U.S. Steel – Granite City program. It was my first time visiting the program and it was a very impressive tour! I want to thank USW Local 1899 president Dan Simmons and Coordinator Marshall McElroy for taking the...

Announcing the 2016 Tino Fulimeni Memorial Scholarship winners

One of the many highlights of the 2016 ICD National Conference -- and always one of the highlights of our year -- was the drawing at random of the 10 winners of the Tino Fulimeni Memorial Scholarship.

Once we returned from Mobile, we began the pro...

Unpacking from the conference

Wow, the election, Mobile, and Thanksgiving -- I’m exhausted!

I hope everyone had a great time in Mobile. I want to thank you all for your participation. We could not have had a successful conference without everyone’s help and interaction. I hope...

The app you must have for Mobile

The 2016 ICD National Conference … we’ve got an app for that!

You can now, figuratively, hold the 2016 ICD National Conference in the palm of your hand.

Using Guidebook, we have created an online conference tool that puts all the information yo...

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Lights, camera, action

And the winner is … USW/ArcelorMittal-I/N Tek & I/N Kote!!

If you were trying to be the first ICD program to submit your video to us for showcase at the ICD National Conference in Mobile, I have some bad news and some more bad news.

USW Local 9...

Roxanne Brown to keynote ICD National Conference

The cruise ships will be in Mobile – will you?

For the first time in five years, cruise ships will be filling up Mobile Bay the week of the 2016 ICD National Conference, and they will be just blocks away from the conference hotel at the cruise shi...

National Conference updates

Good day everyone. I hope all is well with you. I want to update you on the national conference, but first a word about layoffs.

As you know, we have experienced many layoffs and shutdowns in the Steel industry, which has affected many of our ICD ...

A few words about our National Conference

I hope most of you got the email regarding registration for the 2016 National Conference in Mobile, Ala. If not, you can find all of that information here.

Even though the conference is seven months away, we have been already working at planning o...

2016 ICD Conference will showcase site videos

The best ideas are often stolen.

With that in mind, I’d like to make the first announcement regarding our 2016 National Conference, which will be held in Mobile, Ala., on Nov. 16-17.

At our last conference, you might remember the Best Practices...

Here They Are ... The 2015 Tino Fulimeni Scholarship winners

Back in October, at our Kansas City Learning Summit, we held the drawing for the 2015 Tino Fulimeni Memorial Scholarship winners.

Once we selected the names at random -- from a pool of 286 applications -- we went about the process of contacting th...

Sweet Home Alabama!

Ready for some Southern hospitality?

Well, mark your calendars now and get ready for the 2016 ICD National Conference. We are excited to announce Mobile, Ala., -- in the heart of USW District 9 -- as the host city of our next national conference. ...

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We've Got a New Look!

Welcome to the new ICD website!

A facelift has been needed for many years, and our staff has worked its collective tail off for the past 6 months or so, with a local web developer, to create, customize and deliver an attractive, user-friendly prod...