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Painting a Picture of More Student-Centric Career Services

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Better serving students in career preparation requires a strong understanding of what’s working and what isn’t, plus creative ideas for making career-focused events enticing and boosting utilization of available supports. Cross-campus discussion of three key questions can help.

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Report Emphasizes the Importance of Professional Social Capital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Also, Black managers are 65% more likely to progress in their careers if they have a sponsor. We want to provide strong examples of longitudinal types of explorations of folk who have gone through the process and really utilized professional social capital in a way where it has had the desired outcome…and how we model that,” said Underwood.

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Four ways for career centers to engage students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2022 Student Survey found that graduating seniors who used career center services received more job offers on average, compared to their peers who did not. Create career services champions across campus. Translate coursework into career preparation.

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Are institutions leveraging their alumni to their full potential? Here’s how they can

University Business

Rep, one alumna make for big-time hires Student recruitment Alumni can be utilized to help enlighten potential college applicants who aren’t well-versed in a specific institution’s offerings. Harvard Business School provides alumni tips and tricks to maximize their utility as unofficial college recruiters.

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Applicants have spoken. Will colleges listen? 

University Business

Equally important is creating a supportive campus environment with resources for student success including campus engagement, tutoring, mentor programs, career services and physical and mental health services. Nearly 70% of students surveyed indicated that their career outlook and career options are very important to them.

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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. I also worked with faculty to build custom workshops for their courses.

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Data disaggregation reveals gaps in students served

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Data is driving 100 percent of the decisions we’re making, and it’s really opening up our eyes to gaps that we didn’t know … existed,” says Sean Schofield, executive director of career services at Muhlenberg. What happened: When Schofield began in his role in May 2021, he first turned to the data.