Laura Kestner-Ricketts , Executive Director of Career and Professional Development at Augustana College, shares how she introduces faculty to career resources in a super scalable, efficient way. In this episode, Laura offers a step-by-step overview of a new 45-minute program she launched at Augustana that trains faculty on how to navigate the career center website and use all of the resources. After only six months of running this program, Laura says it’s a hit with faculty (and students, as it ...
Apr 04, 2023•48 min•Ep. 11
Sharon Belden Castonguay , the Executive Director of the Gordon Career Center at Wesleyan University, discusses Career Everywhere in a liberal arts environment—particularly as it relates to career services working with admissions, academic affairs, and advancement. Sharon shares how Career Everywhere can be implemented in a liberal arts institution like Wesleyan. She also digs into specific ways career services can partner with each of what she calls the “three As” (admissions, academic affairs,...
Mar 21, 2023•52 min•Ep. 10
With institutions across the country facing funding cuts, many career services leaders are reinforcing their budgets by getting corporate sponsors for their career centers. And employer partners, eager to connect with the next generation of talent, are stepping up. For example, Spelman College’s career center has been sponsored by Carrier, Salesforce, Wells Fargo (and others); University of Washington’s has been sponsored by Alaska Airlines, AT&T, Starbucks (and others); and Langston Univers...
Mar 07, 2023•53 min•Ep. 9
Joe Catrino , the Executive Director of Career and Life Design at Trinity College, talks about how career services and higher education can innovate and prepare students for the future of work. Much of Joe’s philosophy is inspired by the concepts of life design and design thinking and how they can be applied within career services. He even wrote a chapter on “Design Thinking and the New Career Center” in the 2022 textbook Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education . In this episode, Jo...
Mar 07, 2023•44 min•Ep. 8
Megan Baeza and Maribea Merritt , the two-person career services team at the University of Texas Permian Basin, are responsible for serving more than 5,000 students. So they’ve learned a thing or two about how to make a big impact with a small team. In this episode, Megan, the Director of Internships and Employer Relations, and Maribea, the Director of Career Education, share six specific strategies they use to make the most of their limited staff and resources, including: Teamwork : Sharing tas...
Feb 21, 2023•48 min•Ep. 7
Toni Rhorer , Executive Director of the Career Management Center for the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, talks about how career services can partner with admissions in a graduate business school environment. Toni has worked and led in career services for over 15 years, with the majority of those being in graduate business schools at Duke, Arizona State, and now UC San Diego. She’s spent years building partnerships between career services and admissions teams and conducting research on...
Feb 07, 2023•53 min•Ep. 6
Amid a national decrease in higher education enrollment, Illinois Institute of Technology drove their highest enrollment in about 40 years in Fall 2022 by centering their recruitment strategy around career readiness. Thy Nguyen , Associate Vice Provost for Student Engagement and Career Services at Illinois Tech, and his team partnered with colleagues in enrollment management to build a virtual career center full of resources both teams use to recruit, enroll, and retain students—and set them up ...
Jan 24, 2023•50 min•Ep. 5
Junior Delgado , Director of the Career Center at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, shares his best tips and tricks for how to build allies across campus through genuine interactions. Junior shares how he’s built so many partnerships in his 22+ years at Westfield, how he leverages them in his work as a career services leader, and why it’s so important to approach these relationships with authenticity. Resources from the episode: Junior’s LinkedIn page Junior’s email: jdelgado@westfiel...
Jan 24, 2023•53 min•Ep. 4
Nancy Bilmes , Director of the Center for Career Development at the University of Connecticut, shares how she built UConn’s Career Champion program and trained 500+ faculty, staff, alumni, and employers to have better career conversations with students. Nancy shares: How (and why) her team started the program three years ago How they recruit Champions (particularly faculty) What the training process looks like (including the resources) How they measure success And more! Resources from the episod...
Jan 11, 2023•50 min•Ep. 3
Daniel Pascoe Aguilar , the Founding Director of the Center for Social Justice and Chief Diversity Officer at Excelsior University, shares how he’s using identity and allyship communities to develop the next generation of diverse leaders. A longtime leader in career services and higher ed, Daniel discusses the critical importance of developing the next generation of diverse leaders, improving access, and building a village around underrepresented students on and off campus. Daniel shares how his...
Jan 10, 2023•45 min•Ep. 2
Josh Domitrovich , Executive Director of the Center for Career and Professional Development at PennWest, talks about two Career Everywhere initiatives he recently launched: A Career Champion program for faculty and staff A five-week Professional Advantage Academy for students that simulates the job application process Josh is in the unique position of leading career services for a brand-new institution. PennWest was established in July 2022 as a result of the merger of California University of P...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 1
For too long, career services has been an afterthought. Now it's time for career services to be in the driver's seat, leading institutional strategy around career readiness. That's why we're launching the Career Everywhere podcast! Join us every other Tuesday for in-depth interviews with today’s most innovative career leaders about how they’re building a campus culture of career readiness… or what we call Career Everywhere.
Dec 21, 2022•2 min
