Category: Carrer Management

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Jan

Career offices announce single, integrated career management system
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Carrer Management

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Career offices from across Penn State announced the development of Nittany Lion Careers, a collaborative, University-wide career management system.

Nittany Lion Careers will become the single career-management network for all students, alumni and talent recruiting organizations. This effort will merge multiple portals across University colleges and campuses into one central platform.

This initiative is the result of a coordinated effort between Penn State Career Services, a unit of Student Affairs, and all of the individual college and campus career offices. The system provides a seamless experience to all students and alumni, enhances customer service for recruiting

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1
Jan

Encouraging career development across the university
Irawan
Carrer Management

Staff and faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University can complete a Career Champion training program to learn more about incorporating career readiness into curricula and co-curricular activities.

Virginia Commonwealth University

In a winter 2023 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse, 69 percent of students said they’ve received support from at least one professor in exploring potential careers or developing specific skills for their careers.

A new initiative at Virginia Commonwealth University trains faculty and staff members to better support students in their career development, experiential learning and job search processes. The program, VCU Career Champions, provides participants

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9
Oct

How Learning and Development Can Attract and Retain Talent
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Carrer Management

​The pandemic has caused millions of people to quit their jobs, leaving companies scrambling to find ways to hold on to their top employees and attract new ones.

“Employers are getting a hard wake-up call around how competitive their offerings are—pay, benefits, flexibility,” says Britt Andreatta, chief executive officer of workplace consultancy 7th Mind Inc., based in Santa Barbara, Calif.

But these standard, if shifting, incentives aren’t the only options companies have for setting themselves apart. “Another way to be competitive is to allow for learning,” Andreatta says.

Learning and development (L&D) programs can be an appealing benefit. In fact,

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9
Jul

Kerry Cooper of Choose Energy, on Career Management
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Carrer Management

This interview with Kerry Cooperthe chief executive of Choose Energyan energy marketplace, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.

Q. Were you in a leadership role when you were a child?

A. I was captain of the swim team and several other roles. But it wasn’t high on my list to be a CEO when I grew up. I was blessed with parents who let me explore various things. I remember, when I was 6, telling my mom I was going to be a flight attendant. She said, “That’s an interesting career, because you get to travel

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9
Feb

Speedway donates to Williamson’s Career Management Center
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Carrer Management
Valerie Luther, regional administrative assistant of Speedway, left, and Lejla Sehic, advanced human resources advisor at Speedway, right, present a $1,500 check to Christina O'Connell, director of the Center for Career Management in the Williamson College of Business Administration at YSU .
Valerie Luther, regional administrative assistant of Speedway, left, and Lejla Sehic, advanced human resources advisor at Speedway, right, present a $1,500 check to Christina O’Connell, director of the Center for Career Management in the Williamson College of Business Administration at YSU .

Speedway LLC donated $1,500 to the Center for Career Management in the Williamson College of Business Administration at Youngstown State University to support professional development programming for business students.

The Center for Career Management is the single point of contact between business students and employers seeking undergraduate and graduate business students for internships and full-time professional positions. The

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1
Jan

The Best MBA Career Centers
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Carrer Management

Career services team at UCLA Anderson’s Parker Career Management Center

Regina Regazzi’s wake up call happened at graduation in 2011. As she waited for the robed-and-tassled class to parade down to the cadence of “Pomp and Circumstance,” she began to feel increasingly uneasy. The newly-hired assistant dean for the Parker Career Management Center at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, Regazzi was still growing into her job at her alma mater. As she ran down the list of graduates, she started to ask her staff about where this-or-that student would be working. The answers staggered her.

“People in the office would

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1
Jan

Survey highlights financial barriers to creative career development | News
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Carrer Management

New research highlights how financial barriers impede career development in the creative industries and make the workforce less diverse.

The social enterprise Creative Access surveyed 1,900 people “working in, or looking to pursue, a career in the creative industries”.

Of these, 77% said financial concerns had stopped them applying for a better creative job.

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This rises to 82% for people from socio-economic backgrounds currently under-represented in the sector, with 58% of this group stating they had to turn down a job offer because they couldn’t make it work financially.

Across all respondents, over a third (35%) said they

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1
Jan

Career Development Toolkit wins national award for technology excellence | Student & Campus Life
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Carrer Management

Career Services accepting the NACE award

Cornell Career Services, the central career services office at Cornell University, is the college winner of the 2023 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Award for Technology Excellence for its Career Development Toolkit.

The career development toolkit is a series of modules on Canvas, the university’s learning management system. It was awarded by NACE for excellence in best practices using technology and/or social media outlets.

”We created it with the goal of providing 24/7 accessible career content,” said Jessamyn Tulis, senior associate director with Cornell Career Services. “Through the toolkit, we wanted to level the playing

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