Cooky Ikeler

Cooky Ikeler is the Associate Director of Information and Resources Management for Career Services.Supervising a staff of five regular employees and fourteen student workers, participating in departmental decision-making processes, providing considerable technical support for five job fairs a year, ensuring the smooth operation of the department’s Victor-e-recruiting database, and maintaining the department’s Web site (which has approximately a thousand hits a day), as well as providing software training for the entire staff, are all part of a normal day’s work for Cooky.

Additionally, whenever there is an issue within Career Services relating to anything technical, she is the “go to” person who is noted for putting out “fires.” She does this all while being able to work effectively with others and stay composed, even when placed in stressful situations. Ms. Ikeler’s thirty years of related experience at NIU and her Bachelor of Arts degree have helped hone her technical expertise, her ability to focus on details, and her human interaction capabilities, so the integral technological aspects of the department’s success are assured.