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Four Strategies for Career Services to Engage Gen Z

Symplicity

This presents a unique challenge for career services, who must find ways to engage with Gen Z students and provide the support they need to succeed in their careers. To better engage with the students of today, here are four tips for career services processionals!

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Career Services

Confessions of a Community College Dean

”) Some of the female students needed coaching on how different styles of self-presentation read to different people. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields. “Fold a sleeve, then unfold it.

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Report: Immigrants Can Help Reduce Labor Shortage, Community Colleges Can Help

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The best practices presented in the report include increasing focus on short-term certificates and micro-credentialling to give immigrants fast entry into the U.S. The report’s authors also suggested investing in career service departments and training staff for matters such as cultural competency and certification process knowledge.

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How to integrate artificial intelligence into career and academic advising

University Business

The emergence of AI tools, however, presents challenges and raises questions about the future of academic and career advising. From enrollment to graduation, AI can influence all key student interactions, with retention and graduation being the ultimate measures of success for both students and institutions.

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How student coach relationships give meaning to coursework

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In partnership with the Career Services and Cooperative Education Office, RIT students can explore their motivations to learn and work, as well as plan for a future of values-based living. Career counselor Chris O’Connor focuses on connecting students’ values to their career goals, he says. Tell us about it.

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January course promotes spring semester student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Fine-tuning: The workshops are a collaboration between departments, including career services, the Academic Support Center, financial aid and student success.

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

Supporting Student Success

One of our longest standing collaborations is in a third-year Kinesiology course, where I co-present workshops with a Career Services Coordinator demonstrating how students can apply their strengths to a job in their field. Then the students are required to further reflect on their strengths for a career map assignment.