I've been thinking about how we describe our student cohorts. In Australia, we typically use the terms undergrad, postgrad, HDR (higher...

How many times have you heard the phrase during a search “she/he does not have experience in Career Services or a higher education...

Partnering on a Program (with 1-2 other offices) was the career services trend of the 90's and early 2000's that really shaped how we...

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

It was a beautiful morning walking into the Denver Center at Colorado State University. Coffee in hand, laptops closed, mind ready for...

Bach. Beethoven. Ellington. Fitzgerald. Mozart. Sinatra. Each one was a masterful artist whose music had the power to transform their...

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

In June, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) held its annual conference in Las Vegas, NV. I saw colleagues lose...

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

There’s a leadership shortage in higher education and career services departments are not immune to this shortage. Though we spend...

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

Every organization strives to be innovative these days – it’s become an imperative. Innovation is taught, written about in scholarly...

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

A seismic change is occurring in higher education. Some schools are not surviving, and only the innovative are thriving. To stay...

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

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

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...

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

The Collective is truly delighted to announce the first video in our three-part video series on How to Re-Imagine Career Services,...

The language of jarring change is all around us—from dramatic start-ups in the emerging sharing economy, to risks associated with the...