Moore was one of 350 nominated for the BBJ’s annual honor, which recognizes “the best and brightest in Massachusetts.”
Northern Essex President Lane Glenn nominated her, writing, “In just four short years, Ashley Moore has rebuilt NECC’s Career Services, creating a pipeline between our students and area employers with workforce needs.”
Moore started in 2013 as the Career Connections coordinator after serving as a graduate fellow.
One of her first accomplishments, working closely with faculty and area employers, was building an internship program, focusing on four academic areas: business, journalism/communications, art, and computer information sciences. Students are now placed in internships with more than 65 employers and the numbers keep growing.
Moore also created a career center on the Haverhill campus with plans to open a career center in Lawrence; revitalized on campus recruitment; created On-Campus Employer Recruitment Weeks, which bring over 40 employers to campus each semester; implemented NECCLink, a career service management platform, that enables the business community to post jobs and internships for Northern Essex students; and started an annual Networking Night which, now in its third year, attracts close to 200 students and employers.
“It is such an honor to be nominated and selected for this award,” said Moore. “I truly love what I do at NECC because it allows me to make a positive impact on the community each day. I am excited to continue to build upon what we have started here at the college.”
Moore earned a bachelor’s in corporate finance and accounting and a master’s in taxation from Bentley University and a master’s in higher education.
