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Career Everywhere25 Years of Career Services Leadership: Reflections, Lessons, and Advice from Harold Bell (feat. Harold Bell)What does it take to build a 25-year career in higher ed career services—and know when it's time to walk away on your own terms?In this episode of the Career Everywhere Podcast, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Harold Bell, who recently wrapped up 25 years as Director of Career Planning and Development at Spelman College, the No. 1-ranked HBCU for 19 consecutive years and, more recently, the top-ranked women's college in the country. Harold is a longtime NACE leader and a mentor to countless career services professionals across higher ed.Harold traces his winding pa...
2026-09-011h 15Career EverywhereWhy Career Services Engagement Matters More Than Your Major (feat. David Kozhuk)What if the single biggest predictor of a student's success after graduation isn't their major, their GPA, or even their school's brand name—but simply whether they engaged with career services?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker welcomes back David Kozhuk, Founder and CEO of uConnect, for his second appearance on the show. David makes the case that career services engagement is the most important thing a student can do during college—more influential on outcomes like retention, graduation rates, and earnings than the major they choose or the classes they take.David traces this conv...
2026-08-181h 05Career EverywhereBONUS: Answer a Question + Leave a Question (Live from NACE 2026)In this second bonus episode recorded live at the uConnect booth at NACE 2026 in Denver, host Meredith Metsker puts a twist on the "Answer-a-Question/Leave-a-Question" segment from the regular show. Each guest answered a question left by the person before them, then left a new question of their own—resulting in a fun, unpredictable chain of career-focused insights and lighthearted personal stories.Here were a few themes:Career services wish lists. Guests floated ideas for improving the field, from more seamless resume upload tools to better support for adult learners building online portfolios that translate previous wo...
2026-07-2817 minCareer EverywhereInternships for Everyone: How ODU Removes Barriers to Work-Based Learning, Part 2 (feat. Barbara Blake)If you haven't listened to part one yet, start there first. In that episode, Dr. Barbara Blake walks through the origin story of ODU's Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office—why it was created, how it's structured, and how four distinct pathways are making work-based learning accessible to every student regardless of major, background, or circumstance.In part two, the conversation goes deeper. Host Meredith Metsker and Barbara dig into what the office has accomplished in its first three years, how Barbara secured $8.5 million in funding from more than 20 sources, and what it looks like to turn a $5 million Me...
2026-07-2143 minCareer EverywhereBONUS: What Does Career Everywhere Mean to You? (Live from NACE 2026)In this special bonus episode, host Meredith Metsker brings listeners inside the NACE 2026 conference in Denver, where she did live mini-podcast interviews at the uConnect booth and asked career services professionals from across the country the question at the heart of this show: What does Career Everywhere mean to you?The result is a fast-moving montage of voices—more than 20 higher ed professionals, from front-line advisors to executive directors—each offering their own take in just a sentence or two.While every answer is personal, a few clear themes emerge:It's not confined to one...
2026-07-1414 minCareer EverywhereHow to Make Career Services a Campus-Wide Strategic Priority (feat. Barbara Zerillo)What does it actually take to make career services a campus-wide strategic priority—not just in name, but in budget, staff, and institutional structure?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Barbara Zerillo, Senior Director of the Career Development Center at Post University, to talk about how she turned career readiness into one of the institution's five official strategic pillars.When Barbara arrived at Post about a year and a half ago, the career center was a team of three serving a large and diverse student population—including a significant online learner community. With...
2026-06-2341 minCareer EverywhereOnline Career Development that Reaches All Ages, Programs, and Places (feat. Amy Ballard)What does it take to build a career development program for students you may never meet in person—students scattered across time zones, juggling jobs and families, logging in at 3 a.m.?In this episode of the Career Everywhere Podcast, Amy Ballard of Eastern University talks about how she built an online career development program from scratch for a population that's as diverse as it is distributed.Eastern University, located just outside Philadelphia, serves close to 10,000 students—and roughly two-thirds of them are online. Amy joined as a new hire in early 2025 with a background in a...
2026-06-0946 minCareer EverywhereReframing Experiential Learning in a World Without Enough Internships (feat. Todd Schuster)The internship landscape is shifting—and if you've been feeling the pressure in your career center, you're not alone. In this episode, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Todd Schuster, Senior Director and Head of Network Development at Forage, to take an honest look at the state of experiential learning in higher education.Todd brings a rare dual perspective: he spent the first half of his career working directly with students as an academic advisor and hall director, and the second half in edtech, now working with hundreds of employer partners through Forage's virtual job simulation platform....
2026-05-2646 minCareer EverywhereWhen Career Becomes a Presidential Priority: One Career Leader's Partnership Playbook (feat. Joe Catrino)What does it actually look like when a university president makes career a strategic priority — and how does a career services leader make the most of it?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Joe Catrino, Executive Director of the Center for Career Design at Dartmouth College, for a candid look at what's possible when career services has a seat at the highest table on campus.Joe joined Dartmouth in early 2025, stepping into a rare situation: a president who had made career one of her core institutional pillars. In just over a year, he...
2026-04-2850 minCareer EverywhereHow UConn Transforms Student Employment with Work+ (feat. Eran Peterson)What if your on-campus student job could do more than pay the bills? What if it was actually a career development experience?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Eran Peterson, Associate Director of Work+ at the University of Connecticut, to talk about how UConn is reimagining student employment through the Work+ program.UConn's Work+ program — adapted from a national model pioneered by Arizona State University and the Work+ Collective — is built around a simple but powerful idea: student jobs should be more than transactional. They should be intentional learning experiences wher...
2026-03-1748 minCareer Everywhere3 Ways University of Central Missouri Embeds Career Into Academics (feat. Amber Goreham, Jess Johnson, and Derrick Gill)What does it look like when a small career services team thinks big—and builds the systems to back it up?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Amber Goreham, Jess Johnson, and Derrick Gill from the University of Central Missouri's Career and Life Design Center to talk about how their six-person team is scaling career education across a campus of nearly 9,000 students.UCM has spent years building a strategic framework rooted in three pillars—exploration, career readiness, and connection—and those pillars now power three concrete initiatives designed to embed career into the ac...
2026-03-0347 minCareer EverywhereWhy Career Services Leaders Need to Think Like CMOs (feat. Ashley Safranski)What if career services leaders thought more like Chief Marketing Officers?In this episode of the Career Everywhere Podcast, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Ashley Safranski, Chief Marketing Officer at uConnect, to explore why adopting a CMO mindset can help career services leaders elevate their impact across campus.Ashley shares the striking parallels between marketing teams and career centers—from being perceived as cost centers to sitting at the center of institutional strategy. She also outlines five practical marketing strategies career leaders can use to increase student engagement, build campus champions, drive cross-functional alignment, an...
2026-02-1754 minCareer EverywhereProving the Value of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of AI (feat. Sharon Belden Castonguay)In an era of constant technological change, a liberal arts education builds the adaptability, critical thinking, and career agility students need to stay employable—even as jobs evolve or disappear.In this episode, host Meredith Metsker is joined by Sharon Belden Castonguay, Executive Director of the Gordon Career Center at Wesleyan University, to explore why a liberal arts education may be more valuable than ever in an AI-driven world.Sharon shares why employability matters more than first-job outcomes, how liberal arts graduates are uniquely prepared to navigate uncertainty, and why “major ≠ career” is actually a strength...
2026-02-0349 minCareer EverywhereCrafting Employer Engagement Strategies that Align with Your Institution’s Mission (feat. Gerald Tang)In this repurposed live session from the Career Everywhere Community, Meredith Metsker sits down with Gerald Tang, Executive Director of Career Services and Internships at Bridgewater State University, to explore how institutions can rethink and strengthen their employer engagement strategies.Gerald shares how his team moved beyond counting career fairs and job postings to develop a tiered, data-informed employer engagement model that aligns with institutional mission, regional workforce needs, and equity goals. From leveraging alumni and labor market data to launching BSU’s Hire Locally campaign, this episode offers practical insights for career services leaders looking to bu...
2026-01-2051 minCareer EverywhereSmall Team, Big Impact: How Career Services Teams of 1-5 Can Drive Outsized Outcomes (feat. Anita DeCianni Brown, Nick Edwards, and Tyler Orr)What does it really take to scale career services when you’re a team of one—or leading a very small team? In this episode, host Meredith Metsker is joined by Anita DeCianni Brown (SUNY Empire State University), Nick Edwards (Hardin-Simmons University), and Tyler Orr (Southern Virginia University) for a candid conversation about doing more with less.The panel shares practical strategies for expanding reach, leveraging technology, building faculty and campus partnerships, and advocating for resources—all while staying focused on meaningful student impact. Whether you’re building career services from the ground up or rethinking how to scale...
2026-01-0651 minCareer EverywhereFunding Unpaid and Underpaid Internships Through Cross-Campus Collaboration (feat. Matt Cowley)In this episode, Dr. Matt Cowley of Virginia Tech shares how his team united career services, financial aid, procurement, legal, payroll, advancement, and employers to build a creative, compliant solution for funding unpaid and underpaid internships. Matt discusses how simple leadership moves—framing the problem around student impact, asking the right people to the table, and staying open to iteration—turned a complex challenge into a scalable system that gets real dollars into students’ hands.Key Takeaways:Solving unpaid internships required cross-campus collaboration, not just career services leadership.Matt brought together typically siloed teams by clearly articu...
2025-12-2353 minCareer EverywhereHow to Secure New Funding Streams for Your Career Center (feat. Briana Randall)In this episode, University of Washington Executive Director of the Career and Internship Center Briana Randall shares her team’s four-year journey to expand their budget and find new funding sources for career services.She walks through what worked (and what didn’t) when it came to pursuing new revenue streams—from donor campaigns that fell flat, to creative partnerships across campus, to the major success that changed everything: securing funding through a Student Tech Fee grant.Briana breaks down exactly how she made her case to the student committee that manages the fund, what data a...
2025-11-1146 minCareer EverywhereScaling Career Support for Nontraditional, Online Students (feat. Anita DeCianni Brown)How do you scale career support for thousands of nontraditional, online students—many of whom are balancing work, school, and family life?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker chats with Anita DeCianni Brown, who has led career services at SUNY Empire State University for over a decade. Anita shares how she built SUNY Empire’s career services function from the ground up, including how she transformed the career center’s digital presence from a single webpage to a full virtual career center that offers 24/7 resources and support to more than 17,000 students across New York and beyond.They...
2025-10-2850 minCareer EverywhereHow Oregon State Integrated Career Development Into Core Curriculum (feat. Brenna Gomez)How can career education become part of every student’s academic journey—not just an optional add-on?In this episode of Career Everywhere, host Meredith Metsker chats with Brenna Gomez, Director of Career Integration at Oregon State University, about how OSU successfully embedded career development into its new general education curriculum (called Core Education).Brenna shares how the Beyond OSU initiative ensures that every student, in every major, has built-in opportunities to explore career paths, develop professional skills, and reflect on their goals. She also breaks down OSU’s four-pillar strategy for career education and of...
2025-10-1452 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Align to Institutional Priorities (feat. Joretta Nelson)In this episode, host Meredith Metsker talks with Joretta Nelson, Vice Chairman of Credo (now part of the Carnegie family). With 25 years of experience in higher education—including time as a music faculty member, vice president for enrollment management, and now a national consultant to presidents and cabinets—Joretta brings a unique vantage point on how career services leaders can position themselves as strategic, institutional partners.Drawing on her extensive work with presidents, provosts, enrollment leaders, student affairs leaders, advancement officers, and more, Joretta offers a behind-the-scenes look at what life is like for these senior executives. What...
2025-09-3055 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Partner with Enrollment to Drive Student Success (feat. Jonathan Wehner)In this episode, host Meredith Metsker is joined by Jonathan Wehner, AVP of Enrollment Strategy at Carnegie and a seasoned higher ed leader with more than 20 years of experience leading enrollment at institutions like Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Case Western Reserve University.Jonathan brings a rare insider’s perspective on what enrollment leaders are juggling today, from declining demographics and shrinking budgets to waning public trust in higher education.He explains what keeps chief enrollment officers up at night (like meeting headcount goals with fewer students, balancing institutional finances with st...
2025-09-1648 minCareer EverywhereHow to Build a Data Culture in Your Career Center (feat. Julia Vollrath and Marissa Altenburg)In this episode, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Julia Vollrath (Director of Career Data, Technologies, and Engagement) and Marissa Altenburg (Integrative Career Solutions Manager) from the University of Florida.Julia and Marissa share how UF’s career center has woven data into the fabric of its operations—transforming data from a scary, four-letter word into a common language that empowers staff, drives decisions, and builds credibility across campus. They discuss how to create a true data culture within career services teams, where every staff member feels confident using data for storytelling, decision-making, and cross-campus collaboration.
2025-09-0254 minCareer EverywhereIntegrating Career Exploration and Skill Development into Curriculum (feat. Krysta Foster and Shahnaz Masani)How can career services and faculty partner to embed career exploration directly into the classroom—so every student has access, no matter their background or schedule?In this episode, host Meredith Metsker chats with Krysta Foster, Associate Director of Career Services at Michigan State University’s Lyman Briggs College, and Dr. Shahnaz Masani, Assistant Professor in Lyman Briggs College and MSU’s Physiology Department.Together, they’ve built a unique, fully integrated career curriculum called the In Real Life Lab (IRL) that weaves career exploration and skill development into the core science curriculum.Krysta a...
2025-08-1958 minCareer EverywhereThe New Career Services Value Proposition: Balancing Human Connection and Scale in the ROI Era (feat. Christine Cruzvergara)With public trust in higher ed at an all-time low, and ROI under the microscope, career services is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s central to proving the value of a college degree.In this episode, Christine Cruzvergara of Handshake joins host Meredith Metsker to discuss how career services leaders can meet this moment with clarity, courage, and strategy. Christine shares how leaders can redefine their value proposition, position their teams as essential partners on campus, and scale their work through tech and human connection—even as a one-person office.You'll learn:Why getting stud...
2025-08-0547 minCareer Everywhere5 Ways to Measure Career Center Effectiveness (feat. Rebekah Paré)Rebekah Paré shares five ways career services leaders can measure career center effectiveness—beyond the standard metrics.--In this episode of the Career Everywhere Podcast, host Meredith Metsker is joined by higher ed career services veteran and Paré Consulting founder, Rebekah Paré, to explore how career centers can measure (and improve) their effectiveness.With a wealth of experience in both academic affairs and career services, Rebekah shares five core strategies that career leaders can use to optimize their centers and clearly demonstrate value to institutional stakeholders.Rebekah’s five-part framework includes:Strateg...
2025-07-221h 04Career EverywhereHow Stanford Supports Alumni Career Development with the PlusFive Program (feat. James Tarbox and Theanne Thomson)In this episode, James Tarbox and Theanne Thomson share how Stanford’s career education and alumni teams collaborate to support graduates for up to five years post-graduation through the innovative Stanford PlusFive program.From 1:1 career coaching to alumni-led networking groups, this program offers recent grads a meaningful bridge from college to career—and the data proves it’s working.Here are a few key themes from episode:What the Stanford PlusFive program is and how it worksThe importance of career coaching and alumni connections for recent gradsHow alumni volunteers help scale support through global indust...
2025-07-0845 minCareer EverywhereHow WashU Centralized Career Services Without Losing a Single Position (feat. Danny Pape)Danny Pape, Executive Director of the Center for Career Engagement at Washington University in St. Louis, shares the story of how WashU shifted from a long-standing decentralized career services model to a unified, centralized structure—without losing a single position.With decades of experience across multiple institutions and roles—from career coach to administrator—Danny brings a thoughtful, people-first approach to leadership. He walks us through the why behind the unification, how his team used data and stakeholder input to guide the process, and how they've reimagined career services around student interests instead of majors.Here a...
2025-06-2450 minCareer EverywhereFrom Silos to Synergy: How Career Services and Enrollment Management Can Partner (feat. Rebekah Paré and Michael Griffin)As prospective students and their families become increasingly focused on ROI, post-grad outcomes, and career readiness, collaboration between career services and enrollment management has never been more important.When these two functions work in tandem, institutions are better positioned to not only recruit and retain students, but to tell a more compelling and authentic story about the value of the college experience.In this episode, uConnect Founder and CEO David Kozhuk talks with Rebekah Paré and Michael Griffin about how career services and enrollment leaders can collaborate more intentionally—and...
2025-06-1051 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services and Admissions Collaborate at Binghamton University (feat. Lexie Avery and Melissa Lawson)Lexie Avery and Melissa Lawson of Binghamton University share how career services and admissions collaborate to recruit, retain, and support students with career development—before they even step foot on campus. Lexie, the Senior Associate Director of Student Engagement and Career Readiness, and Melissa, the Director of Admissions Communications, have worked closely together for years and built a strong partnership between the career center and admissions.Here are a few key ways the two offices collaborate:The career center participates in admitted student events, exposing students to career services before they even begin classes.Car...
2025-05-2852 minCareer EverywhereHarnessing the Untapped Power of Career Services Leaders (feat. Dylan Houle)In this episode of the Career Everywhere podcast, host Meredith Metsker welcomes Dylan Houle, Executive Director of the Career Center at Santa Clara University, to discuss the misalignment between the importance of career outcomes for students and the positioning of career services in higher ed.In short: If career outcomes are a major reason most students choose to go to college, why are career centers so often underfunded, understaffed, and positioned as mid-level offices on campus. A former teacher, Dylan’s propensity for lifelong learning led him to career services and to start his own po...
2025-05-1357 minCareer EverywhereLeading Career Services in a Decentralized Model (feat. Erica Kryst)In this episode of the Career Everywhere podcast, host Meredith Metsker welcomes Dr. Erica Kryst, Executive Director of Career Services at Cornell University, to discuss how she leads a decentralized but highly collaborative career services function.Erica, a first-generation college student with degrees in musical theater and communications, brings a unique perspective to her leadership. She draws on her own experiences growing up in rural Pennsylvania with limited early exposure to career options and emphasizes the importance of collaboration, context, and enthusiasm in her approach to career services.A...
2025-04-291h 00Career EverywhereHow BGSU’s Investment in Career Readiness Drives Record Enrollment (feat. Rodney Rogers and Steve Russell)BSGU President Rodney Rogers and Steve Russell, AVP of Corporate Partnerships and Executive Director of the Kuhlin Hub for Career Design and Connections, share how Bowling Green State University continues to shatter records when it comes to enrollment and retention. In fact, the 2024-2025 academic year marked the second consecutive year that BGSU has set enrollment records. This year, they welcomed one of their largest and highest-achieving freshman classes in university history, with new student enrollment up 14% compared to fall 2023, and up 22% compared to fall 2022.BGSU is also seeing i...
2025-04-1551 minCareer EverywhereHow the University of Oklahoma Is Building a Career Ecosystem (feat. Justin Morris and Robin Huston)Justin Morris and Robin Huston, both of the University of Oklahoma, share how their team is implementing Career Everywhere and building a career ecosystem across campus and beyond. In the episode, they discuss:How they built a three-year strategic plan for the career center to implement Career EverywhereHow they secured high-level buy-in from university leadership to drive the Career Everywhere initiative forwardHow they secured budget to nearly double the career center staff and create roles focused on data analysis, events, advising, and experiential learningHow they deploy a "roadshow" approach, where career center staff p...
2025-04-0149 minCareer EverywhereWhat Professionalism Looks Like in 2025 (feat. Allie Danziger)Allie Danziger, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AscentUP, shares what professionalism looks like in 2025 and how career services teams can stay on top of new trends. AscentUP is a student success platform that bridges the gap and offers support for learners of all ages about professionalism, career readiness, academics, finance essentials, and more through training, coaching, and access to paid internship opportunities. They are also one of uConnect’s content partners for our Curation Kits and our Classes Module, both of which plug into our virtual career center platform.
2025-03-1836 minCareer EverywhereBuilding a Professional Development Program for Career Center Staff (feat. Andrea Franklin and Tracy Austin)Andrea Franklin and Tracy Austin, both of Clemson University, share how they’ve built a scalable, free, and effective professional development program for their career center staff. The program, called Spark Exchange, includes monthly presentations led by career center staff or external partners like faculty and employers about topics that matter to students and to the work of career services.In addition to providing valuable professional development for the Clemson career team (especially when it’s not always possible to send staff members to conferences), Spark Exchange also strengthens the c...
2025-03-0443 minCareer EverywhereHow to Scale Career Services as a Team of One (feat. Nick Edwards)Nick Edwards, Guided Career Advisor at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, shares how he has scaled career services for Hardin-Simmons’ 1,100 students as a team of one. Nick’s strategy relies heavily on the use of technology—in particular, uConnect’s virtual career center platform—to offer more resources to students and make them available whenever (and wherever) students need them. “My approach is all about finding tools that will help me work with students smarter, not harder, and that will ultimately help serve the unique needs of all the different stud...
2025-02-1843 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Support LGBTQIA+ Students (feat. Amanda Zielinski Slenski and Suede Graham)Amanda Zielinski Slenski and Suede Graham of Out for Undergrad, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping high-achieving LGBTQ2+ undergraduates reach their full potential, discuss how career centers can support LGBTQIA+ students. In this episode, Amanda and Suede cover:Some of the unique challenges that LGBTQIA+ students often encounter as part of career explorationBarriers or biases LGBTQIA+ students might face during interviews or internships, and how career services can coach them to be prepared to handle these situations confidentlyHow career services teams can help students assess a company’s culture or inc...
2025-02-0448 minCareer EverywhereScaling Engagement with Career Services in a Business School Environment (feat. Toni Rhorer and Gene Rhee)When it comes to student engagement with career services and resources, business schools are a different beast.First, most students enrolled in business schools (especially those in graduate programs) have specific goals and expectations around post-graduation outcomes. As a result, they often require more frequent and specialized engagement with career services. Second, it’s no secret that rankings and reputation play a critical role in the success of every business school. Career outcomes directly influence both of those things, which is why many business schools have their own career centers and leverage their own relationships wi...
2025-01-2151 minCareer EverywhereHow to Improve Career Equity for All Students (feat. Dave Merry)Dave Merry, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Career Equity, Development, and Success at Suffolk University, shares how his team is working to improve career equity, address systemic bias, and provide equitable support for all students.“It [career equity] means not everyone has the same, but everyone has what they need. We try to really question how we can target and tailor our resources in a way that, to some, sometimes feels like we are providing more resources to some students. And that's because we are. We recognize that some students need more support or...
2025-01-0748 minCareer Everywhere5 Elements of Effective Change Management in Career Services (feat. Gerald Tang)Gerald Tang, Executive Director of the Career Services and Internships Office at Bridgewater State University, shares his top five elements for effective change management in career services. The five elements include:People: Understand the strengths, management styles, and buy-in of the individuals involved in the change process.Culture and environment: Assess the organizational culture, hidden rules, shared values, and dynamics among key leadership.Time: Consider the timing of the change and any external factors that may impact its implementation.Vision and leadership: Reflect on your own leadership style and vision, and ensure that you communicate a c...
2024-12-1056 minCareer EverywhereBest Practices for Supporting International Students (feat. Nitin Agrawal)Nitin Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO of Interstride, shares best practices for supporting international students. Interstride is a plug-and-play platform to support international students across the full lifecycle, from admissions through graduation.In the episode, Nitin (who was an international student himself) covers:The unique experiences of international students as part of the career exploration processHow career leaders can best support international students in career developmentHow to consider adapting career advising, workshops, and resources to meet the unique needs and circumstances of international studentsImmediate strategies that can be implemented to increase support for international studentsAnd...
2024-11-2647 minCareer EverywhereHow to Advance Shared Goals with Cross-Campus Collaboration (feat. Claire Klieger)Claire Klieger, Assistant Vice President and Executive Director of Career Services at Swarthmore College, discusses how she advances shared goals by building cross-campus partnerships and collaborations. “I don’t think you need to reinvent the wheel. You just need to strengthen the spokes,” Claire says. In the episode, Claire shares:What cross-campus collaboration means to her (and why it’s important)What effective collaboration looks likeHow she builds and maintains relationships across campusHow she stays up-to-date on what’s going on across campus (and strategizes on where career services can plug in)Specific examples of how the c...
2024-11-1245 minCareer EverywhereBest Practices for Supporting Neurodivergent Students (feat. Jhillika Kumar and Conner Reinhardt)Jhillika Kumar and Conner Reinhardt, co-founders of Mentra, share best practices for supporting neurodivergent students. Mentra is an employment network for 1 billion neurodivergent professionals (with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, etc.) worldwide. Mentra is an AI-powered, reimagined hiring process that captures more nuanced skills-based and humanistic factors like a person’s unique neurotype, which is not currently captured in more traditional resumes and forms of hiring.In the episode, Jhillika and Conner cover:What neurodiversity is and the widespread benefits of cognitive diversityThe unique challenges that neurodivergent students often face as part of the career exploration pr...
2024-10-2949 minCareer EverywhereProducing a Podcast for Your Career Center (feat. Paul Maniaci)Paul Maniaci, an Assistant Director in the Career Design Lab at the Columbia University School of Profesional Studies, shares how he’s hosting and producing a podcast for his career center. Paul’s podcast, called Rising to the Top, covers a variety of topics related to career development and features interviews with leaders and individuals who have achieved success in their careers.In the episode, Paul shares:What his production process looks like (including finding guests, pre-interview conversations, recording, editing, etc.)Why he launched the podcastHow he zeroed in on the podcast’s theme and fo...
2024-10-151h 09Career EverywhereHow to Leverage Video to Engage Gen Z with Career Services (feat. Willie Wittezehler)Willie Wittezehler, Creative Director at Roadtrip Nation, shares best practices for how career centers can use video to engage Gen Z with their services.Willie has produced and directed Roadtrip Nation’s award-winning documentaries for over 16 years and been behind the lens for over 200 interviews. Roadtrip Nation is a nonprofit organization that provides resources and tools to help people explore careers and build lives around their passions. Roadtrip Nation has conducted over 3,500 video interviews with leaders from around the world who have turned their interests into their careers.In the episode, Willie covers:Why Ge...
2024-10-0154 minCareer EverywhereDeveloping an Early Career Exploration Program for Sophomores (feat. Michele Doran and Melanie Murphy)Michele Doran and Melanie Murphy of Denison University share how their team built the Journey Program, a popular two-day workshop that helps sophomores with early career exploration. The Journey Program includes four 90-minute sessions designed to help students explore careers, think critically about what they want out of work and life, and come up with a plan to make it happen. The four sessions include:Reflect: Students look back on all the things they've done in high school and their first year of college and think about what motivates and fulfills them.Imagine: Students start thinking a...
2024-09-1747 minCareer EverywhereDeveloping an Improv for Interviewing Workshop (feat. Michael DeAngelis)Michael DeAngelis, the Senior Associate Director of Communications and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, shares how he created a popular Improv for Interviewing workshop for Penn students. A former theater major, published playwright, and accomplished podcaster, Michael uses games and techniques from the theater world to help students think on their feet and keep the conversation going.Because as Michael says, “What is an interview anyway, but a conversation?”In the episode, Michael covers:What the 90-minute workshop entails (including detailed overviews of each improv game he facilitates with students)Why he st...
2024-09-0345 minCareer EverywhereDemystifying the Recruiter Experience with an ATS Simulation (feat. Cheryl Rotyliano)Cheryl Rotyliano, Senior Associate Director of Market Readiness and Employment at the Wake Forest University School of Business, discusses the ATS simulation program she developed to demystify the recruiter experience for students.The program involves a one-hour simulation where students review resumes, cover letters, and video interviews to make hiring decisions. The simulation helps students understand how applicant tracking systems (ATS) work and empathize with the challenges that recruiters face in the modern age. In the episode, Cheryl shares:What the simulation entails and how it’s structuredWhy she built the simulationHow she built the...
2024-08-2044 minCareer EverywhereHow to Make Career Everywhere a Reality on Campus (feat. Nancy Bilmes, Christian Garcia, and Mike Summers)In this episode, Nancy Bilmes of UConn, Christian Garcia of the University of Miami, and Mike Summers of Lafayette College each share how they’re making Career Everywhere a reality on their campuses.The University of Connecticut has built one of the most robust and successful Career Champion programs in the country, with over 1,000 faculty, staff, alumni, and employer participants who have been learning about current career-related trends, resources, and language to have more confident and meaningful career conversations with students. The University of Miami has found creative ways to engage faculty and staff (including a...
2024-08-0652 minCareer EverywhereBuilding an On-Campus Internship Program (feat. Sarah Coburn)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 professional development time and orientation (also paid) through the career center. In the episode, Sarah discusses:What the OCIP looks like and how it’s structured Why she built the OCIP and how valuable it is for St. Lawrence students in rura...
2024-07-2344 minCareer EverywhereHow to Advance Your Career as a Higher Ed Career Services Leader (feat. Audra Verrier)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 map out a career pathHow to find and build relationships with mentorsNegotiating for salary, professional development, technology, and other benefitsGetting experience with budget and people managementWhat great (a...
2024-07-0956 minCareer EverywhereStrategic Planning for the Career Center (feat. Josh Domitrovich, Kelli Smith, and Mike Summers)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 processThe importance of understanding the mission and goals of the career centerGathering feedback from the team and campus communityAligning the strategic plan with the overall goals of the institutionThe importance of building relationships with stakeholdersSaying no to initiatives that do not align with t...
2024-06-2553 minCareer Everywhere3 Ways to Improve Engagement with Gen Z Students (feat. Josh Taylor and Hayley Hollenberg)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 ParisA career development courseA revamped web and social media presence (particularly on LinkedIn)All of these strategies play a part in the Graham Office of Career Management’s new approach to career services. In an effort to evolve with the times and meet Gen Z students where they’re at, the Graha...
2024-06-111h 01Career EverywhereCareer Readiness Efforts with Identity-Based Populations (feat. Larry Jackson)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 emphasizes the significance of listening to the concerns and experiences of marginalized communities and committing to long-term efforts to create a more inclusive and supportive career services environment. H...
2024-05-2850 min
Leader Talk - By BrainiactLeader Talk - Episode 81. David Abdelmessih. Managing Director of UConnect (International).David Abdelmessih is a dynamic leader in the business world. David is the Managing Director of UConnect (International), which includes several well-known companies under its umbrella, including Buzz Cleaning.David shares his knowledge as a mentor with UConnect, helping new entrepreneurs find their footing. He has also authored “Lead Generation Mastery,” a detailed guide aimed at teaching business owners how to attract and connect with potential customers. David’s work is marked by his dedication to business growth and expertise in reaching customers worldwide.------Leader Talk is a weekly podcast proudly brought to you by Bra...
2024-05-1759 minCareer EverywhereBest Practices for Supporting First-Generation Students (feat. Yasi Mahallaty)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, including being the first to navigate the college and career experience, financial constraints, and imposter syndromeHow career leaders can best support first-generation students in career developmentHow to con...
2024-05-1451 minCareer EverywhereAmplifying Your Impact Through Campus Partnerships (feat. Rebekah Paré)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, and attract prospective students and their families. In the episode, Rebekah talks about:Why building effective partnerships across campus is so impor...
2024-04-3050 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Create More Equity and Inclusivity (feat. Jenn Tardy)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 historically underrepresented students typically face when it comes to career development and seeking their first...
2024-04-1646 minCareer EverywhereHow to Use Video to Engage More Students with Career (feat. Matt Phillips and Rebecca Davis)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, Matt and Rebecca also talk about:How they partner with faculty to embed Candid Career videos into assignments Why vid...
2024-04-0244 minCareer EverywhereCareer Everywhere in a Decentralized Model (feat. Adam Capozzi)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 studentsHow they all work together to engage faculty and staffHow they use technology to support their collective engagement goals (including their new virtual Career Hub, powered by uConnect)His a...
2024-03-1943 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Support Student Veterans (feat. Eric Stetson)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 developmentHow career teams can help veterans translate the wealth of skills they have from military service into the language of the civilian workforceBest practices for providing nuanced support and resources for veterans Immediate strategies that can be implemented to increase su...
2024-03-0551 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Support Retention (feat. Chris Entringer)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 community collegeWhat his team’s integrated model looks like and how it supports their efforts to improve retention at NI...
2024-02-2046 minCareer EverywhereHow to Build and Scale a Career Champion Program (feat. Nancy Bilmes)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 Champion program. In this follow-up episode, Nancy shares:How her team has scaled the program to over 800 participants through various strategies, including ac...
2024-02-0651 minCareer EverywhereHow to Prepare Gen Z for the World of Work (feat. Ang Richard)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 employeesHow career services leaders can communicate those best practices to their employer partnersHow career services leaders can prepare Gen Z for the world of work (in a high-touch, personalized way!)How career teams can better reach Gen Z students while they’re still in schoolAnd mor...
2024-01-2345 minCareer EverywhereWhy Higher Ed Should Invest More in Career Services (feat. David Kozhuk)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 servicesWhy 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 yearsWhat the future of career services looks likeWhy he started uConnectAnd more“[Career services] is what students are motivated by. It's what they ultimately need to lead more meaningful lives and careers. The career path you embark on...
2024-01-0948 minCareer EverywhereYear in Review: 2023 on the Career Everywhere PodcastJoin us for a recap of our 2023 episodes of the Career Everywhere podcast!
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2023-12-261h 04Career Everywhere3 Ways Penn Implements Career Everywhere (feat. Michael DeAngelis)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 programLaunched 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 center dedicated to Career Champions, with training videos, resources, faculty and staff profiles, and a regular newsletter. 2. Strategically sharing stu...
2023-12-1254 minCareer EverywhereConnecting Co-Curricular Activities to Career (feat. Ellen Awad)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 developmentHow to help students articulate the skills and competencies they learn in these activitiesThe need for students to reflect on their co-curricular experiences and think about how they can apply what they've learned in different contextsHow career services can partner with student life to support students in making these connectionsExamples of how she has helped students synthesize their co-curricular experiences a...
2023-11-2837 minCareer EverywhereBlending Academic Advising and Career Coaching (feat. Amanda Morgan)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 coachingHow they’ve created an optional University 100 course for students that’s all about career explorationHow they train academic advisors across campus on how to have career conversations with studentsHow they use uConnect’s Labor Market Insights module to help students with career explorat...
2023-11-1442 minCareer EverywhereHow to Engage First- and Second-Year Students with Career Services (feat. Kelli Smith and Lexie Avery)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 building awareness around career services and exposing students to career early and often. The second two phases put more...
2023-10-3149 minCareer EverywhereHow to Become a Thought Leader on Campus (feat. Manny Contomanolis)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 emphasizes the need for career leaders to stay up to date on external trends and to connect them to their institution's...
2023-10-1748 minCareer EverywhereImplementing Life Design in the Career Center and Beyond (feat. Kerry Spitze and Steve Russell)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 between different departments. For example, BGSU has created two key centers to support the life design implementation and provide...
2023-10-0348 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Support Neurodivergent Students (feat. Jackie Warner)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 isWhat unique challenges neurodivergent students face when it comes to career developmentWhat accommodations career services teams can make for neurodivergent studentsHow to advise students on whether or not they should disclose to an employer that they’re neurodivergentHow to make programming more inclusive for neurodivergent studentsAnd more Jackie said the biggest thing career services professionals can do to better support neurodivergent students is to...
2023-09-1946 minCareer EverywhereHow to Use Data to Track and Improve Student Engagement (feat. Julia Vollrath)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 dataHow they’re using the results to adapt their career services offerings (including the timing of their events)How they create a narrative around their dataHow they share their data with other departments and leaders on campusAnd more Specifically, Julia said her t...
2023-09-0547 minCareer EverywhereWhy Career Must Be Everywhere (feat. Mike Summers)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 servicesWhy it’s so important for career services to lead the chargeWhat results his team has seen since implementing Career Everywhere—particularly in terms of improving equity and accessAnd more Mike said...
2023-08-2244 minCareer EverywhereEngaging Indigenous Students with Career Services (feat. Beverly Johnson)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 studentsWhat important cultural considerations to keep in mindHow career services professionals can be good alliesAnd more Having worked with Indigenous students for many years, Beverly digs into the feedback she and her team received from Indigenous students at ASU about why they weren’t engaging with career services. One big piece of feedback from students was...
2023-08-0841 minCareer EverywhereHow to Engage Student-Athletes with Career Services (feat. Carissa Liverpool)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 themHow her team uses technology to engage student-athletes, employers, coaches, and moreHer best advice for meeting student-athletes where they areAnd more Being a former Rutgers student-athlete in softball, Carissa knows better than anyone that student-athletes are one of the hardest populations to reach. Between athletics, academics, a social life, a...
2023-07-2545 minCareer EverywherePartnering with the Alumni Office to Support Recent Grads (feat. Emily McCarthy)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, Emily says it made sense for career services and the alumni office to share a virtual...
2023-07-1145 minCareer EverywhereHow Teach For America's Career Center Supports Alumni (feat. Monica Clem)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 career services leader, Monica also digs into the differences and similarities between higher ed career services an...
2023-06-2744 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services and Employers Can Partner to Get Students Career Ready (feat. Leonelle Thompson)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 meansWhat skills today’s students are lacking as they enter the workforceWhy it’s so important for the two sides to partnerWhat questions career services can ask employers to open a productive dialogueWhat programming ideas employers can approach career services withWhat both side...
2023-06-1343 minCareer EverywhereHow to Evaluate, Purchase, and Get the Most Out of Your EdTech Stack (feat. Joe Testani)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, University of Richmond, Yale, and more. He’s also served as an advisor for several EdTech companies.In this episode, Jo...
2023-05-301h 06Career Everywhere3 Ways to Make Career Services Everybody’s Business (feat. Christian Garcia)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 lives on Toppel’s Faculty and Staff Engagement Hub webpage and includes:An overview...
2023-05-1651 minCareer EverywhereHow to Improve Equity and Access to Career Services (feat. Mark Peltz)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 the summer, all coaches reach out to their students to introduce themselves. At new student orientation, the...
2023-05-021h 06Career EverywhereHow to Make Career Services a Requirement by Embedding It Into Curriculum (feat. Gene Rhee and Jessica Best)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: Marketing Management (an upper-division class)That way, by the time business students reach their senior year, they’ve already been exposed to career multiple times. And because the assi...
2023-04-1857 minCareer EverywhereIntroducing Faculty to Career Resources (feat. Laura Kestner-Ricketts)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 can easily be adapted for them) due to its interactive, engaging format. Listen to the epi...
2023-04-0446 minCareer EverywhereCareer Everywhere in a Liberal Arts Environment (feat. Sharon Belden Castonguay)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, and advancement) to embed career throughout the entire student journey. “On a liberal arts campus, Career Everywhere means that the community is helping...
2023-03-2151 minCareer EverywhereHow to Build a Digital Corporate Sponsorship Program for Your Career Center (feat. Leonelle Thompson and Harold Bell)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 University’s has been sponsored by Dell, Boeing, Hormel Foods, and more. While corporate sponsorship programs are not necessarily new to many career...
2023-03-0752 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Innovate for the Future of Work (feat. Joe Catrino)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, Joe shares what the future of work means for higher education, how career servic...
2023-03-0743 minCareer Everywhere6 Ways to Make a Big Impact with a Small Team (feat. Megan Baeza and Maribea Merritt)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 tasks, communicating, dividing and conquering, jumping in to help with duties outside of their job description, an...
2023-02-2147 minCareer EverywherePartnering with Admissions in a Graduate Business School (feat. Toni Rhorer)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 what employers are looking for and what competencies will make graduate business students most successful in the wo...
2023-02-0751 min
The Academy of EsportsA Conversation with Dylan Liu // Collegiate Esports OG & CEO of UconnectDylan Liu is not one to not have an opinion on the state of collegiate esports. That is one of the things that makes him such a compelling guest for a conversation! Since 2011, Dylan has been involved in collegiate esports while founding the team at his alma mater, Texas A&M, and now serving as the CEO of his company, Uconnect. Uconnect provides a platform to help collegiate programs and clubs to connect with potential sponsorship opportunities. This wide-ranging conversation pulls no punches and looks critically at the current state of collegiate esports, and the overall business of esports...
2023-02-061h 02Career EverywhereHow Career Services Can Help Drive Enrollment (feat. Thy Nguyen)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 for success after graduation.Why? Because today’s learners (and their parents) care deeply about the return on investment in higher educ...
2023-01-2449 minCareer EverywhereHow Career Services Can Build Allies Across Campus (feat. Junior Delgado)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 pageJunior’s email: jdelgado@westfield.ma.edu
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2023-01-2452 minCareer EverywhereHow UConn Built a Career Champion Program with 500+ Champions (feat. Nancy Bilmes)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 agoHow they recruit Champions (particularly faculty)What the training process looks like (including the resources)How they measure successAnd more!Resources from the episodeCareer Champions resources page on UConn’s career center website
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2023-01-1148 minCareer EverywhereBringing Career Everywhere to Life at PennWest (feat. Josh Domitrovich)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 staffA five-week Professional Advantage Academy for students that simulates the job application processJosh 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 Pennsylvania, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.He shares actionable advice, best practices, and detailed breakdowns of how he built...
2023-01-1058 minCareer EverywhereServing Underrepresented Students with Identity Communities (feat. Daniel Pascoe Aguilar)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 team built the communities, how he got buy-in from senior leadership, and why improving access to higher education is everyone’s re...
2023-01-1044 minCareer EverywhereWelcome to Career EverywhereFor 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.
2022-12-2201 min
Cody’s Car ConundrumInterview: Vince Galante and Nick Cappa on Uconnect 5!Yes indeed, I've got a special interview for you all today! After seeing that I still had some questions left from the last Uconnect 5 meeting, I decided I would get in touch with Vince Galante (Chief of User Experience at FCA) and Nick Cappa (Media Relations at FCA) to get a little more information on the latest generation of FCA's award-winning infotainment system.
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2020-08-0326 min
Cody’s Car ConundrumWhat Is Uconnect 5? | What You Need To Know About Uconnect 5 | The HighlightsRecently, I was invited to attend a meeting regarding FCA's newest iteration of its famous Uconnect system: Uconnect 5. Obviously I attended and got –to be honest– a bit more than I bargained for when I set out to record the meeting. What you're about to listen to is the condensed (yes, condensed) version of what happened. A full-length, completely unedited version of this interview will be coming out soon. In the meantime, enjoy!
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2020-07-0649 min
Três e meio#2–Será que o novo 500e consegue repetir o sucesso do Fiat 500? (Bônus: tudo sobre o novo Uconnect 5)Neste episódio, vamos conversar sobre a nova geração do 500, apresentada em março na Europa e que é cotada para chegar ainda neste ano no Brasil — será o primeiro modelo da marca, destinado ao público geral, totalmente elétrico. Um dos destaques desse carro é a estreia da nova geração do sistema multimídia uConnect, do qual também vamos falar, porque ele já deu as caras no Brasil: será oferecido na nova geração da Strada. E, de acordo com pesquisas da Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), 51% dos novos compradores de carros já levam em conta o sistema multimídia para...
2020-04-2150 min