Skill Sessions #1

Transforming Your Career Center   Steinfeld
During these unprecedented and challenging times career centers that are trying to "do more of the same thing" are doomed to fail. This session will focus on key strategies to seize opportunities presented by the recession to transform your career center and position it for success under even the most difficult of circumstances. Key topics will include:
  • Re-branding your center to more clearly demonstrate value-added, critically needed services and raising its visibility.
  • Developing distinctive partnership strategies with employers who can substitute for those with traditional large-scale recruiting programs.
  • Providing relevant strategies and timely student services that align student expectations and preparation for a down employment market.
 
Measuring Up to Constituent Expectations  
McBride

A prevailing discussion in higher education for the past 20 years is that of outcomes assessment. In more difficult economic times, the answers to key accountability questions are as important to career services as they are to any other academic or administrative department on our campuses.

  • What do students gain from the college experience?
  • What evidence of learning and career development exist?
  • How much do employers value the programs and services we deliver to them?
  • How do we factor into employers' return-on-investment models?

Uniquely positioned, career services impacts many significant institutional constituents. This skill session addresses practical applications of assessment – for students, employers, parents, faculty, as well as for career advisors.


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