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5 big deals for career staff teams in July 2020
By Jeremy Podany
CEO, The Career Leadership Collective.
Well, here we are in July 2020, and dare I say that the uncertainty...
Jul 7, 2020

BlackLivesMatter and College Career Services
By Jeremy Podany CEO, The Career Leadership Collective Let me start by saying that this post is just scratching the surface...it's not...
Jun 3, 2020

Why having a formal Career Champions Network is the most important career services trend of 2020
Since the birth of The Career Leadership Collective we have advocated for one consistent concept: student career education is bigger than...
Oct 1, 2019


Increasing Career Engagement on Your Unique Campus
Over the last ten years, higher education has felt the increased pressure to tell their story of success, through transparency and data...
Sep 25, 2019


10 Tips for Building Your Career Services Dream Team
Let’s be honest…working in Career Services can be tough. We simultaneously balance preparing our students to thrive in the 21st Century...
May 28, 2019


Faculty Engagement Strategies for Career Services
When I (Kelly) first moved into a Career Center role where I would be working heavily with faculty, a well-meaning colleague gave me a...
Apr 8, 2019


The Untapped Potential of Campus Employment
American college students are working more than ever. According to a 2015 Georgetown University report, 70-80% percent of undergraduates...
Feb 14, 2019

5 Career Services Trends Every University Should Embrace in 2019
Happy New Year, 2019! The new year brings renewed energy to so many personal and professional goals for individuals, and as such, I...
Jan 2, 2019


Career Services Friend Raising Partnerships with Alumni Relations and Development
There was an age in which career services, development/advancement and alumni relations collaborated only on an event or two a year, but...
Oct 25, 2018

Carving out a Journey to Open the Curriculum Door
Over a decade ago, “Learning Reconsidered” boldly redefined learning to be an integration of academic learning and student development...
Oct 18, 2018


The Connection between Alumni Giving and Career Services
You don’t have to look hard to see that higher education leaders are more and more shining a spotlight on the work of career services....
Oct 11, 2018


The Fast Track to Career Services Director: An Interview with Brandon Wright
We have met many individuals in the world of University Career Services who wish to become the Director a career office someday. So has...
Sep 25, 2018


Radical Collaboration in Career Services
It’s hard to believe that it’s been just a little over a year ago since we’ve embraced RADICAL COLLABORATION as one of our mantras this...
Sep 18, 2018


Putting Mission and Strategic Objectives at the Heart of Transformational Change
Seventy percent of all change efforts fail according to Gallup, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. A McKinsey & Co. study on radical...
Sep 11, 2018


Getting Past Generational Thinking to Meet YOUR Students’ Needs
Ascribing characteristics to particular generational cohorts has become a routine way to make sense of the world. Boomers, Gen X, Y, and...
Sep 4, 2018

Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education (Part 2): Lessons from Early Social Inn
I gravitate toward everyday leaders who are trying to be courageous in the way they lead. I get the joy of hearing their stories and...
Jun 19, 2018

Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education (Part 1): The Big Problem
In the field of University Career Services, the word INNOVATION has been thrown around quite a bit in the last five years... at...
May 21, 2018

Which Direction Should Your Career Center Go?
I spent much of February glued to the TV watching the Olympics. I’m drawn to it not so much for the individual sports – some of which I...
Mar 6, 2018

Iterate or Eliminate: Making Courageous Choices in Moving your Career Center Forward
There are two common operational pain points that usually stand out in neon lights as I interact with career center teams. In fact they...
Feb 20, 2018

A Case for Measures of Engagement and Reputation in Career Services
Toward the end of the last semester, I found a much-needed brief distraction from the seasonal delirium in an instructive media moment....
Feb 5, 2018
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