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All Together Now: Doing Big Work with Small Resources

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

We took an assessment course and then my graduate assistantship was in career services. And now [at Chesapeake College], I've got to train our director of career services who does every single role of those 20 people. He still has to plan a career fair and meet with students and appointments and oversee the budget.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

At first these were mostly made up words with definitions that were new to me but as a I learned more, I understood how useful this tool could be. In 2012, I signed up for a professional development workshop and discovered my Top 5 CliftonStrengths are Communication , Woo , Consistency , Discipline , and Includer. Challenges.

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Hispanic-serving institution director tackles education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The idea is, even as an emerging HSI, we definitely fall into that typology somewhere along the lines, and we want to push that towards the serving quadrant. Q: You also have a background in counseling and career services. How does that fit into your role and how you approach this work toward student success?

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Use learning, care and other values to shift campus culture

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How it works: Oxford College’s career center developed the six principles to oppose “toxic behaviors and norms on campus,” says Ami Hernandez, assistant director of career services. The conversations centered around aligning one’s choices, values and behaviors instead of holding a negative mentality.

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Careers by Design: Scottish Government’s Career Review

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Alex Green, pexels, CC0 In this post, Shelagh Green, Director of Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, offers an overview of the Scottish Government’s 2022 review of careers services for young people.

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Evolution and revolution: preparing for the future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was reflecting on this recently while discussing the evolution and definitions of employability, and the benefit of a shared understanding and conception. If we truly mean for the University of Edinburgh experience to be the launch pad for future career success, how does employability align with our learning and teaching?

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You are employable – all you have to do is show it!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

After a meeting with the University’s Central Careers Service and after I finished insisting that I had achieved nothing in my first two years of University, they explained to me that I had more than enough experience to get the position I wanted. on Campus internship in the Business School!

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