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Career Services

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Matthew Hora’s piece in IHE this week about career readiness is well worth the read. As a student, the first time I set foot in my college’s career center was in my senior year. I don’t remember having any contact at all with a career center in graduate school. My first administrative experience of a career center was at DeVry. I prefer to see students interact with career centers from the very first semester. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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How Career Services Can Support Student Mental Health

Symplicity

In fact, career services professionals can be just another advocate for students struggling with their mental health and lead them to future success, particularly in the workforce. The challenges of the “real world” will only heighten as students graduate and move onto careers.

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How Technology Can Enhance the Career Services Office

Symplicity

Higher education career services are facing unprecedented challenges in today's rapidly changing job market. As the economy continues to shift towards automation, globalization, and digitalization, traditional career paths are disappearing, and new fields are emerging.

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Can ChatGPT get you a job?: Opportunities and challenges using AI in recruitment

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Shelagh Green, Director for Careers and Employability at The University of Edinburgh, discusses the influence of ChatGPT and other related AI on the changing landscape of job hunting and recruitments.

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Symplicity Spotlight: Tiffany Lyle

Symplicity

CSM career readiness Career Services Career Centers customer success Symplicity Spotlight client successEach and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students.

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Symplicity Spotlight: Jeff Feld-Gore

Symplicity

Disability Services Student Conduct Career Services customer success Symplicity Spotlight client successEach and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Gavin McCabe takes stock of the many Enhancement initiatives he has helped develop at the University over the years and reflects on how to remain open and responsive to opportunities.

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The Reflection Toolkit: Supporting effective reflection

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond.

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How the pandemic has changed graduate recruitment: Preparing students for a changed & changing landscape

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement manager at the Careers Service, offers an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the relationship between students, employers, and careers services.

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Careers by Design: Scottish Government’s Career Review

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Shelagh Green, Director of Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, offers an overview of the Scottish Government’s 2022 review of careers services for young people.

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Steps to success: Connecting careers to student support

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems.

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Employability: What does the research tell us?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, summarises key themes from the latest Advance HE review of employability literature, such as work-integrated learning and employment inequalities.

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Welcome to the Sept-Oct Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Welcome to the September and October Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability. Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before […].

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Welcome to the Nov-Dec Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Reflective Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Welcome to the November and December Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Reflective Learning.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Careers and Employability.

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Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Careers Service Niamh Melvin School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures Student employability and career development Uncategorized careers careers and employability 2022 Curriculum Toolkit – Explicit recognition of employability employ.ed

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[Guest Post] How Faculty Collaboration in Career Readiness Is Pivotal to Student and Institutional Success

Symplicity

Guest blog post by Ray Angle, Assistant Vice President for Career & Professional Development at Gonzaga University and Matt Small, President and CEO of Symplicity. Career Pathing career development Experiential Learning Student Engagement career readiness Career Services employability Student Employability Career Centers Career Fairs early careers early talent

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Fossil fuel recruiters banned from three more UK universities

The Guardian Higher Education

The University of the Arts London, University of Bedfordshire, and Wrexham Glyndwr University join Birkbeck, University of London, which was the first to adopt a fossil-free careers service policy in September.

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3 Takeaways from NACE’s 2023 Job Outlook Report

Symplicity

In its annual Job Outlook Report, the National Association of Careers and Employers (NACE) (available to NACE members) has some interesting insights for recruiters and career services staff to be mindful of as we begin to make plans for 2023.

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MassBay Community College to Offer Free Tech Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends.

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University of Michigan’s School of Education to be Renamed Marsal Family School of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Previous gifts from the Marsal family have established new career services for education graduates, provided scholarships for future teachers, and supported professional training of teachers, UM officials said.

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All Eyes on Career Prep Leads Institutions to Writing Tech

University Business

It can be frustrating to dedicate time, money, and effort to career services in higher education and see headlines like “ Colleges get F for career prep ” go mainstream. . More than half of college grads who received their degrees after 2009 indicate they visited their career services office at least once, and college graduates are almost twice as likely to be engaged at work if they had a mentor who encouraged them to pursue their goals and dreams. .

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Four ways for career centers to engage students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Career readiness is a critical part of students’ postgraduate success in the workforce. While the advantages of career services are clear, higher education professionals must implement effective modeling and teaching for their students to navigate career readiness.

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

Large or small, public or private, almost all VPSAs manage between six and seven direct reports, almost always including the director of career services. Most student affairs divisions now own career services. Blogs.

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Report Emphasizes the Importance of Professional Social Capital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It contains an action-based framework that addresses systemic barriers in education and workforce development as well as outlining strategies for colleges and employers to support career advancement for Black learners and workers by building professional social capital. “We

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How student coach relationships give meaning to coursework

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In partnership with the Career Services and Cooperative Education Office, RIT students can explore their motivations to learn and work, as well as plan for a future of values-based living. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: No In-Article Careers: 3

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January course promotes spring semester student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Aurora University staff selected topics based on student feedback in focus groups and surveys and ran 12 sessions in 2022 and nine sessions across three tracks in 2023: Academic Support, Financial Wellness and Launching Your Career. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education.

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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

Higher Ed Connects: News

students who are no longer are attracted to faculty careers are still interested in working in higher education. A previous “Carpe Careers” column did an excellent job outlining the variety of teaching roles in the higher education landscape beyond tenure-line faculty positions.

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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. By: Liana Acri.

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Survey Finds Recent Grads Emotionally Unprepared for Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Of the 39 percent of recent graduates who said college had prepared them emotionally for the workforce, more than half cited peer relationships (57 percent) and extracurriculars (51 percent) as having a positive impact, while just 43 percent named mental health counseling and 40 percent cited career services. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With efforts like these gathering steam across the postsecondary landscape, it looks like higher education is in the midst of a mission shift that positions career readiness as a strategic, campuswide priority. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Hispanic-serving institution director tackles education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What does the service mean? Q: You also have a background in counseling and career services. A: Career services was something that fell into my lap, and I’m so thankful that did, because it really helped me bookend this whole process.

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Financial Aid Timeline for High School Seniors

Great College Advice

Keep this folder somewhere safe; you’ll need to refer to it throughout your college career when it comes time to refile. The campus employment or career services office will list job openings, and there is no reason you cannot apply before you arrive on campus. Financial Aid Planning for Senior Year of High School. . The financial aid timeline is critical if you want to maximize the amount of financial aid for which you are eligible.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Academic advisers are faculty members who support students with class schedules, major interest identification and career preparation, building off the success coaching from freshman year. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Director of well-being adds wellness tools to campus

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Recktenwald works alongside colleagues who provide services for spirituality and religion , residential life systems, and career services to capture all kinds of student well-being. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Data disaggregation reveals gaps in students served

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Muhlenberg College’s career center dug through the data to understand which of its students were not visiting the office or attending its programs and adjusted accordingly. By working with data, the career center is also reconstructing its services more broadly.

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Use learning, care and other values to shift campus culture

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How it works: Oxford College’s career center developed the six principles to oppose “toxic behaviors and norms on campus,” says Ami Hernandez, assistant director of career services. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: No In-Article Careers: 3

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Leadership program offers support for underprivileged students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How it works: During the program, scholars receive training on leadership, take financial literacy courses and have access to career or graduate school planning and to internships and scholarships, Moayedi says. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: No In-Article Careers: 5

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How to Elevate Student Success through Mentoring

Campus Groups

I’ve benefited from many great mentoring relationships throughout my career. Mentees “perform better, advance in their careers faster, and experience more work-life satisfaction”. The Expert: Finding a mentor who is an expert in their field helps students define their career path.

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OSU Cascades integrates equitable career readiness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Oregon State University, Cascades, is placing career-readiness competencies in the classroom and at the forefront of campus activities with its new initiative, Cascades Edge. “This model flips it, and we bring career development directly to the student where they are.”

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“UD Sinclair Academy students have access to co-curricular experiences at both institutions, including access to student organizations, employment, career services, campus recreation and intramurals, and much more at UD,” Thompson adds. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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An Overview of the Accreditation Process with the Supreme Education Council (SEC) Qatar

Creatrix Campus

The SEC's efforts have helped to create a world-class education system that is accessible, and inclusive, and prepares students for successful careers and active citizenship.