Larry Jackson , the Senior Associate Director for Career Education and Engagement at UC Berkeley, discusses the strategies and initiatives his team has implemented to improve career readiness among identity-based populations on campus. In the episode, he highlights the importance of building partnerships with equity and inclusion student-facing groups, customizing programming to meet the needs of different populations, and prioritizing staff development around equity and inclusion. Larry also em...
May 28, 2024•51 min•Ep. 41
Yasi Mahallaty , the Senior Manager of Strategic Innovation at CareerSpring, talks about how career services can support first-generation students. CareerSpring is a free networking and job placement platform for first-generation/low-income students. CareerSpring is also a headline partner for uConnect’s Curation Kit focused on first-generation/low-income students. In the episode, Yasi talks about: The unique experiences of first-generation students as part of the career exploration process, inc...
May 14, 2024•52 min•Ep. 40
Rebekah Paré , the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Paré Consulting and a former longtime career services leader, shares how career leaders can amplify their impact through campus partnerships. After 20 years in career services and higher ed, Rebekah began her consulting business in 2023 to help career centers all around the world develop strategies that improve students' career readiness and outcomes, engage alumni, elevate the career center’s status with employers and community members, a...
Apr 30, 2024•51 min•Ep. 39
Jenn Tardy , founder and CEO of Jennifer Tardy Consulting , shares several best practices for how career services teams can create more equity and inclusivity. Jennifer Tardy Consulting is a training and consulting firm that specializes in diversity recruiting and retention. Jenn often speaks to employers, recruiters, jobseekers, and career services teams about how to dismantle barriers and create environments where diverse pools of talent thrive. In the episode, Jenn talks about: What obstacles...
Apr 16, 2024•48 min•Ep. 38
Matt Phillips and Rebecca Davis , both of the University of Arizona Global Campus, share how their team uses video to engage more students with career. They discuss the diverse student population at UAGC and the importance of making career development opportunities accessible to all students. They also highlight the various ways they are using video, such as embedding videos in assignments, utilizing the Candid Career video library, and recording employer information sessions. In the episode, Ma...
Apr 02, 2024•45 min•Ep. 37
Adam Capozzi , Director of Career Services, Assessment, and Student Success at Syracuse University, shares how his team implements Career Everywhere in a distributed, decentralized career services model. In the episode, Adam talks about: What Syracuse’s decentralized career services model looks like (and why it’s set up that way) How all the career centers across campus stay connected to each other and work together to engage more students How they all work together to engage faculty and staff H...
Mar 19, 2024•44 min•Ep. 36
Eric Stetson , Director of Engagement and Enrollment at FourBlock and a retired Army officer, shares best practices for how career services teams can support student veterans. In the episode, Eric highlights: The unique challenges student veterans commonly face as part of the career exploration process What career leaders should know about best supporting veterans in career development How career teams can help veterans translate the wealth of skills they have from military service into the lang...
Mar 05, 2024•52 min•Ep. 35
Chris Entringer , Career Services Coordinator and Enrollment Advisor at Northeast Iowa Community College, shares how he and his team work to support retention. He emphasizes the importance of building relationships, collaborating with other departments, and being proactive in reaching out to at-risk students. In this episode, Chris also shares: At a high level, how career services can support retention (and why their role is so critical) What career services (and retention) looks like in a commu...
Feb 20, 2024•47 min•Ep. 34
Nancy Bilmes , Director of the Center for Career Development at the University of Connecticut, shares how her team has built and scaled a Career Champion program to include over 800 participants. These faculty, staff, alumni, and employer participants learn about current career-related trends, resources, and language to have more confident and meaningful career conversations with students. In our last episode with Nancy Bilmes in January 2023, Nancy shared how her team built their Career Champio...
Feb 06, 2024•52 min•Ep. 33
Ang Richard , the Assistant Director of Career Education at Boston University, shares her thoughts on how career services can prepare Gen Z for the world of work. In this episode, Ang shares: Information on who Gen Z is (and some common misconceptions) How employers can better hire and retain Gen Z employees How career services leaders can communicate those best practices to their employer partners How career services leaders can prepare Gen Z for the world of work (in a high-touch, personalized...
Jan 23, 2024•46 min•Ep. 32
David Kozhuk , founder and CEO of uConnect, talks about why he thinks higher ed should be investing more in career services. In this episode, David shares: His thoughts on recent criticism surrounding career services Why he thinks higher should be investing more in career services (not less) What the evolution of career services has looked like over the last 10 years What the future of career services looks like Why he started uConnect And more “[Career services] is what students are motivated b...
Jan 09, 2024•50 min•Ep. 31
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Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 30
Michael DeAngelis , Senior Associate Director of Communications and Technology for the Career Center at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about three ways his team implements Career Everywhere. Those three tactics include: 1. Starting a Career Champions program Launched in Fall 2023, Penn’s new Career Champion program empowers faculty and staff on campus to have meaningful career conversations with students. DeAngelis and his team have built an entire resources page on their virtual career c...
Dec 12, 2023•55 min•Ep. 29
Dr. Ellen Awad , Associate Dean for Student Life at Hope College, talks about how to help students connect their co-curricular experiences to career. In the episode, Ellen shares: The importance of connecting co-curricular activities to career development How to help students articulate the skills and competencies they learn in these activities The need for students to reflect on their co-curricular experiences and think about how they can apply what they've learned in different contexts How car...
Nov 28, 2023•38 min•Ep. 28
Amanda Morgan , Associate Director of Career Services for the Academic Success and Career Center at Washington State University, shares how WSU blends academic advising and career coaching. In the episode, Amanda talks about: Why (and how) WSU’s Academic Success and Career Center office is set up to blend academic advising and career coaching How they’ve created an optional University 100 course for students that’s all about career exploration How they train academic advisors across campus on ho...
Nov 14, 2023•44 min•Ep. 27
Kelli Smith and Lexie Avery , both of Binghamton University, share how their team has successfully engaged more first- and second-year students with career services. In this episode, Kelli and Lexie talk about their four-phase strategy, why it’s so important to engage students early and often, and how they’ve increased first-year engagement from 28% to 71%. The four-phase engagement strategy includes two phases for freshman year and two for sophomore year. The first two phases are all about buil...
Oct 31, 2023•51 min•Ep. 26
Manny Contomanolis , Director of the Mignone Center for Career Success at Harvard University, shares how career services professionals can become thought leaders on campus. Manny discusses why thought leadership is so important and provides strategies for becoming a thought leader, such as asking hard questions, leveraging external trends, and being a good storyteller. He encourages career leaders to make time for thought leadership and to seek support from others in their network. He also empha...
Oct 17, 2023•49 min•Ep. 25
Kerry Spitze and Steve Russell , both of Bowling Green State University, share how their career services team and the entire campus (from the top down) are implementing life design and design thinking. Life design, like Career Everywhere , is all about helping students think about their careers and life after college as early and purposefully as possible. To implement life design campus-wide, Bowling Green is taking a top-down approach with support from the university president and collaboration...
Oct 03, 2023•49 min•Ep. 24
Jackie Warner , the Assistant Director of the Center for Career Success at Thomas Jefferson University, shares how career services professionals can support neurodivergent students. In this episode, Jackie talks about: What neurodiversity is What unique challenges neurodivergent students face when it comes to career development What accommodations career services teams can make for neurodivergent students How to advise students on whether or not they should disclose to an employer that they’re n...
Sep 19, 2023•47 min•Ep. 23
Julia Vollrath , the Associate Director for Campus Initiatives at the University of Florida, shares how her team is using data to track and improve student engagement. In this episode, Julia talks about: What specific data points her team is measuring (and how they measure them) The most interesting things they’ve discovered in their data How they’re using the results to adapt their career services offerings (including the timing of their events) How they create a narrative around their data How...
Sep 05, 2023•48 min•Ep. 22
Mike Summers , Associate Vice President of the Gateway Career Center at Lafayette College, shares why he thinks career must be everywhere. “Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. So we have to increase the social capital and access to all students,” Mike said. In this episode, Mike talks about: How he and his team have implemented the Career Everywhere approach to career services Why it’s so important for career services to lead the charge What results his team has seen since impl...
Aug 22, 2023•45 min•Ep. 21
Beverly Johnson , Associate Director of Career Readiness at Arizona State University, shares how her team is engaging Indigenous students with career services. Beverly talks about: The programming and initiatives her team has implemented to reach more Indigenous students What important cultural considerations to keep in mind How career services professionals can be good allies And more Having worked with Indigenous students for many years, Beverly digs into the feedback she and her team received...
Aug 08, 2023•42 min•Ep. 20
Dr. Carissa Liverpool , Assistant Athletic Director of Student-Athlete Development for the Scarlet Knights For Life Program at Rutgers University, shares how her team is engaging student-athletes with career services. Carissa talks about: The unique challenges student-athletes face in terms of career development and how to address them How her team uses technology to engage student-athletes, employers, coaches, and more Her best advice for meeting student-athletes where they are And more Being a...
Jul 25, 2023•47 min•Ep. 19
Emily McCarthy , Senior Director of Career Development at the University of Arizona, shares how her team partners with the alumni office to support recent grads in their career development. Emily talks about the services they offer recent grads (and why), what the partnership with the alumni office looks like, and how both teams partner to cost-share the uConnect platform to scale their support for students and alumni. With the needs of current students and recent grads being relatively similar,...
Jul 11, 2023•46 min•Ep. 18
Monica Clem , Vice President of the National Career Center for Teach For America, talks about how the Teach For America (TFA) career center supports its 60,000+ alumni in their careers after the two-year teaching program. Monica shares how her team uses technology (like uConnect’s virtual career center ) to engage alumni, how the national and regional TFA teams work together to support alumni all over the country, and what career resources TFA offers to alumni. As a former higher education caree...
Jun 27, 2023•45 min•Ep. 17
Leonelle Thompson , Manager of Early Career at Williams and a former career services leader at Langston University and the University of Tulsa, talks about how career services teams and employers can work together to get students career ready . Having worked in both corporate recruiting and higher education career services, Leonelle discusses: What career readiness means What skills today’s students are lacking as they enter the workforce Why it’s so important for the two sides to partner What q...
Jun 13, 2023•44 min•Ep. 16
Joe Testani , Deputy to the President and former Associate Vice Provost for Career Education Initiatives at the University of Rochester, talks in this episode about how career services (and higher ed in general) can better partner with education technology vendors. Before taking on his new high-level role as Deputy to the President in 2022, Joe worked in career services for over 20 years and implemented dozens of EdTech tools at the University of Rochester, Virginia Commonwealth University, Univ...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 15
Christian Garcia , Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Toppel Career Center at the University of Miami, talks in this episode about his team’s motto: “Career services is everybody’s business." He also shares three specific ways his team is implementing this motto across campus: 1. Faculty toolkit and webpage. The team created a PDF toolkit for faculty members to help them understand what the Toppel Career Center does, what resources they offer and where to find them, etc. The toolkit li...
May 16, 2023•52 min•Ep. 14
Mark Peltz , the Daniel and Patricia Jipp Finkelman Dean of the Center for Careers, Life, and Service at Grinnell College, talks about how to improve equity and access to career services. In this episode, Mark walks through several specific strategies he and his team have implemented and how they used those strategies to achieve a 98% engagement rate for Grinnell’s Class of 2022. The strategies include: Proactive early outreach. Each incoming Grinnell student is assigned a career coach. During t...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 13
In an effort to engage more students with career services (and earlier in their college careers), the University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business career center partners with faculty to add career-related assignments to three core business classes. The assignments, all asynchronous and requiring no live class time, are sprinkled throughout: BA 101: Introduction to Business (a freshmen-level class) BA 240: Spreadsheet Analysis and Visualization (a sophomore-level class) Marketing 311: Marke...
Apr 18, 2023•59 min•Ep. 12
