What is The Career Ecosystem Institute
The Career Ecosystem Institute is a hands-on, working experience designed for teams of up to 5 leaders from the same institution, ready to move beyond fragmented efforts and build a strategic and outcomes-driven career ecosystem.
2 Days in Person + 1 virtual session grouped as private and public institutions + 1 virtual advisory session just for your campus.
This institute helps answer the bigger question:
How do we design a career ecosystem that truly delivers outcomes at scale?
Team Learning Outcomes
By the end of the institute, your team will:
Assess Your Current Career Ecosystem
Gain clarity on strengths, gaps, and opportunities related to defined career learning outcomes, and embedded career learning in the classroom, maximizing foundations courses, required career learning courses.
Create a Draft Strategy
Leave with a clear outline of the steps you need to strengthen your career ecosystem
Prototype Three Critical Elements
Go deep on three of the 10 critical elements of an effective career ecosystem and begin real design work
Expand Your Network
Build relationships with peers and thought leaders doing similar strategy work
Why Invest in a Strategic
Career Ecosystem
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Student satisfaction, persistence, and career outcomes
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Parent and family brand perception and quality
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Alumni affinity and donor appeal
Institutions join the Career Ecosystem Institute for different reasons, but with a shared goal: to strengthen their unique ROI picture, bolster their career outcomes, and activate their strategic plan.
What is motivating your campus to build a career ecosystem?
A Strategic Mandate
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B.
Fragmented/
Gaps in Career Learning
To Be Distinguished Among the Best
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Career Outcomes Improvement
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Optional is No Longer Optional
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Our Peers are Moving Ahead of Us
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Forming a Career Task Force
G.
The Benefits: Brand, Retention, Etc.
H.
Who Should Attend
(Bring a team of up to 5)
Suggested attendees:
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Academic Leaders: Provosts, Associate Provosts / Vice Provosts, or Deans or Associate Dean
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Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness Leaders
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Faculty involved in strategic planning or curriculum design
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The Career Center Leader
Best fit:
Teams already serving on, or forming, a strategic task force on career readiness, outcomes, or student ROI.
Location: Austin, Texas
Hosted on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, this setting reflects the scale and ambition required to build a modern career ecosystem. The Career Leadership Collective is in year two of assisting multiple academic colleges at UT Austin with their unique career ecosystems.
Schedule
November 10 | Framework & Alignment
1:30 PM | Registration
2:00 PM | Welcome & Kickoff
2:30 – 4:30 PM
The Career Ecosystem Framework
Jeremy Podany, CEO & Author
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The 10 Critical Elements of an Effective Career Ecosystem
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Building shared understanding across your team
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Assessing the current state of Your Career Ecosystem
4:30 - 5:30 PM | Opening Reception
5:30 PM | Dinner on your own with colleagues in amazing Austin!
November 11 | Design & Strategic Application
8:00 – 8:30 AM | Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
8:30 – 10:00 AM | Clearly Defining Your Career Ecosystem for Your Campus
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Training + campus examples
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Panel of peer institutions
10:00 – 10:15 AM | Break
10:15 – 11:45 AM | Design Session: Clarity for Your Campus
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 PM | Strategic Embedding to Move the Needle on Outcomes
1:30 – 2:30 PM | Design Session: Strategic Embedding
2:30 – 3:00 PM | Maximizing Your Strategic Planning Committee & Next Steps
Investment in Your Career Ecosystem
Per team of up to 5 people
Two participants minimum, including one academic leader.
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$5,500 Campus-wide Member rate
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$6,500 Non-member rate
Want more individuals to attend, beyond the 5-member team?
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$1,000 per person, Campus-wide Member rate
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$1,250 Non-Member rate
Lay the foundation to transform a paramount aspect of your return-on-investment equation: your career readiness ecosystem!
Reserve Your Team’s Spot
Space is limited to maintain a high-quality, collaborative experience.
Bring a team.
Do the work.
Leave with direction.
Questions: Contact Eric Lloyd, Senior Manager of Growth & Operations, and Consultant.
Can’t make it to the institute but want The Collective to come to your campus? Let’s talk about our Consulting Services.