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Oct 31, 2022

The Challenge of Measuring ROI and What Higher Education Can Do About It.

Dr. Kimberly Yousey-Elsener Senior Manager of Career Research & Data The Career Leadership Collective A quick scan of internet searches...

Jan 12, 2022

Start, Stop, Dream for your Career Center in 2022

Jeremy Podany Founder & CEO The Career Leadership Collective Happy New Year, colleagues! I would have preferred to been given the chance...

Jun 29, 2021

Developing a Strong Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan for Your Career Hub

Dr. Joslyn Johnson Associate Dean for Career Education and Director of Career Catalysts BEAM, Career Education Stanford University The...

Oct 1, 2019

Why having a formal Career Champions Network is the most important career services trend of 2020

Since the birth of The Career Leadership Collective we have advocated for one consistent concept: student career education is bigger than...

Feb 14, 2019

The Untapped Potential of Campus Employment

American college students are working more than ever. According to a 2015 Georgetown University report, 70-80% percent of undergraduates...

Jan 2, 2019

5 Career Services Trends Every University Should Embrace in 2019

Happy New Year, 2019! The new year brings renewed energy to so many personal and professional goals for individuals, and as such, I...

Oct 18, 2018

Carving out a Journey to Open the Curriculum Door

Over a decade ago, “Learning Reconsidered” boldly redefined learning to be an integration of academic learning and student development...

Jun 19, 2018

Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education (Part 2): Lessons from Early Social Inn

I gravitate toward everyday leaders who are trying to be courageous in the way they lead. I get the joy of hearing their stories and...

May 22, 2018

Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education (Part 1): The Big Problem

In the field of University Career Services, the word INNOVATION has been thrown around quite a bit in the last five years... at...

Sep 11, 2017

Scaling Career Services (Part 4 of 7): How TED, Zappos, and Lyft can transform us!

A couple years ago when I was at The Career Center at Colorado State University, during a leadership team meeting, one of our staff...

Aug 16, 2017

Scaling Career Services (Part 2 of 7): The Problem

I have asked over a thousand career services professionals to tell me about the problems we face on a regular basis in our field. ...

Jul 31, 2017

Scaling Career Services (Part 1 of 7): What's the big deal?

Let me start with a global reality check that might be perceived as bad news: for the past couple decades, the university career services...

Jul 10, 2017

Scaling Career Learning Objectives

All innovation begins with a problem. Without a problem, there is nothing to solve and therefore, nothing to innovate. Defining the...

May 31, 2017

Up, Down, Sideways: The Unique Mid-Manager Role in Career Services

This post is a recap of our live video Accelerator that took place on May 15, 2017. If you are interested in a stimulating staff...

May 1, 2017

The Challenge of High Quality Career Services for Tens of Thousands

So, you've got this fantastic careers program developed. Multiple staff spent many months designing it, checking the literature for...

Apr 3, 2017

Replacing “Services” with “Engagement”

What happens when a Research I university granting almost 7,000 bachelor’s degrees each year commits that every undergraduate, regardless...

Mar 29, 2017

Embedding Employability: How Academics and Career Staff can Co-Create Student Success

If you do not connect learning and practice you will be out of competition. In the age of shared value creation and networking, this...

Mar 23, 2017

Anytime Access gets Personal

It's fresh in my mind; the big question that shaped our future growth. Three or so years ago we were in the midst of a career staff...

Mar 13, 2017

New Staff in Career Services

Evaluating and honing our staff competencies is at the heart of any re-imagine effort. In Part 3, our final video on How to Re-Imagine...

Mar 6, 2017

Ecosystem Integration in Career Services

The ability to successfully integrate into the campus ecosystem may be the single biggest game-changer for career services today. In...

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