Career Everywhere

Sarah Coburn , Senior Associate Director for Experiential Learning and Employer Engagement at St. Lawrence University, shares how she built a successful on-campus internship program. The on-campus internship program (OCIP) provides paid internships for students to work in various departments on campus, gaining valuable skills and experience. The internships are structured to include additional pro...

Dr. Audra Verrier , Associate Vice Provost of Career and Professional Development at Loyola Marymount University, shares her best advice, tips, and tricks for advancing a career in higher education career services leadership.  In the episode, Audra discusses her career journey from career services coordinator to associate vice provost, and how she made it happen. She also shares advice on: How to...

In this episode, Josh Domitrovich of PennWest, Kelli Smith of Binghamton University, and Mike Summers of Lafayette College each share their approach to strategic planning for their career centers.  In the episode, the panelists discuss: What their strategic plans look like (and what their processes entailed) How they involve their teams in the process The importance of understanding the mission an...

Josh Taylor and Hayley Hollenberg of the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics share three specific strategies their team is using to better engage Gen Z students with career services.  Those three strategies include: A popular career-focused study abroad program in Paris A career development course A revamped web and social media presence (particularly on LinkedIn) All o...

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...

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 abou...

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...

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...

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, utili...

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 oth...

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...

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 rete...

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 ou...

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 partne...

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 ser...

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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...

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-curricu...

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 f...

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 inclu...

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...

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, Bowl...

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...

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 service...

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 Wh...