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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...

May 28, 2019

10 Tips for Building Your Career Services Dream Team

Let’s be honest…working in Career Services can be tough. We simultaneously balance preparing our students to thrive in the 21st Century...

Apr 8, 2019

Faculty Engagement Strategies for Career Services

When I (Kelly) first moved into a Career Center role where I would be working heavily with faculty, a well-meaning colleague gave me a...

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 25, 2018

Career Services Friend Raising Partnerships with Alumni Relations and Development

There was an age in which career services, development/advancement and alumni relations collaborated only on an event or two a year, but...

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...

Oct 11, 2018

The Connection between Alumni Giving and Career Services

You don’t have to look hard to see that higher education leaders are more and more shining a spotlight on the work of career services....

Sep 18, 2018

Radical Collaboration in Career Services

It’s hard to believe that it’s been just a little over a year ago since we’ve embraced RADICAL COLLABORATION as one of our mantras this...

Oct 30, 2017

Structuring Career Services toward Student Personas

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

Sep 7, 2017

Resourceful as an Entrepreneur: Hidden Budget and Resources for Career Centers

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

Sep 4, 2017

Scaling Career Services (Part 3 of 7): What Then Shall We Scale?

I have talked with a lot of career pro's about scale recently. The topic is almost always received with excitement and anticipation...

Aug 28, 2017

The Art of Leadership: Lessons from a Musician

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

May 21, 2017

3 Ways Big Data has Increased the Career Center Value to the Campus

Career centers used to be a place that students stopped by in the spring of their senior year when they were panicked that they hadn’t...

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 12, 2017

Scaling and Crowdsourcing Career Expertise

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

Apr 2, 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 28, 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 22, 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...

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