Connecting Students to the

Appropriate Resources for Their Current Needs

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history of the office

collaborative approach

plan for the future

organizational chart

career theories/models

best practices: unit-specific

career education plan

outcomes and goals

connections to advising

where career advising happens

what to consider

outcomes and goals

Career Services Office - CoBA

Pre-2008

• Academic Advisors; faculty advisors – exclusive referral to CSC

2008-2009

• Transition to Office of Business Experiences

2013

• Creation of Career Services Office in the College of Business Administration

• Employer Advisory Board

• First meeting next month

• Targeted group by invitation

• Meet three times per year (June, October, February)

• Required action and engagement

• Student Advisory Board

• Members from each major/class level

• Meet twice per semester

• Advocate and provide feedback

• Cross-campus partners

• CSC – monthly touch point meetings

• Regular interaction among staff

• Staff/faculty in other units doing “like work”

• OMIC2

• CoB advising staff

Career Services Office - CoBA

Employers/ Advisory Members

Student Advisory

Board

Cross-Campus Partners

Career Services Office - CoBA

data and benchmark

best practices

grow staff

reassess

• student internships

• wage/salary

• employment rate

• intake and referral

• aspiration peer

• HBS

• Wharton

• Fisher

• U of Illinois CoB

• Eller College • employer relations

• career education

• grd career management

• internship coordination

• goals

• engagement

• continued

collaborations

Career Services Office - CoBA

Director, Career Services

Office

Assoc. Director for Career Education

Career Advisor(s)

Career Peer Network (student

volunteers)

Internship Coordinator

(formerly Business Exp. Mgr.)

Asst./Assoc. Director for Employer Relations

On-Campus Recruiting

Coordinator

Special Event Ambassadors

(student volunteers)

Assoc. Director MBA Career Management

Administrative Support Staff

Graduate Assistant(s)

Career Development Theory

• Understand self, knowledge of world or work & relationship between the two

• Active career choice, personal job satisfaction Trait-Factor (Parsons)

• RIASEC correspond to personality types

• Congruency, consistency and differentiation

Career Typology (Holland)

• Self-concept as one ages, develop images of world or work and similarities b/t self and vocational concept

• Dimension of roles in time and space

Life-Span, Developmental (Super)

• Personality is result of past learning: instrumental and associative learning

• Environment conditions and events affect career decisions

Social Learning (Krumboltz)

• Multiple meanings and realities; individuals create/construct their own reality from experiences

• People construct selves and world through interpretations and actions; constructs may be useful or misleading

Constructivists (White, Savickas)

Academic Advising Models

Strength-Based Advising

Advising as Teaching

Appreciative Advising

Intrusive / Proactive Advising

Prescriptive / Developmental Advising

PSYCHOSOCIAL | COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT | TYPOLOGY

Unit-Specific Career Development

How schools developed students

How schools connected &

provided opportunity with employers

Online portals

Similar demographics,

business schools, rankings

Best Practices

Unit-Specific Career Development

Best Practices

• Business Career Services at University of Illinois

• Professional Development Center at Eller College

• Career Services at DeSales University

• Career Services at Princeton University

• Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Career Education: Our 4 Year Model

Freshmen

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Explore • Self assessment • Match majors & careers

Decide • Career readiness • Decision-making styles

Experience • Write docs

• Experiences

Prepare • Interview

• Network, online

Our 4 Year Model & 5 Year Plan

Freshmen

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Outcomes: Our 4 Year Model & 5 Year Plan

Freshmen

• Resume, Cover Letter & References

• Experience Job Database

Sophomore

• Informational Overview

• Self Directed Search

Junior

• Elevator Pitch

• Mock Interview

Senior

• Career Advisor

• Career Fair

- 2015

Outcomes: Our 4 Year Model & 5 Year Plan

Freshmen

• SDS, Info interview,

• Elevator pitch & Career Management course 001

Sophomore

• Elevator pitch, mock interview

• Career advising appt. & CM course 002

Junior

• Career advising appt., career fair

• Network & CM course 003

Senior

• Develop network, professional image, social media & CM course 004

- 2016 - 2019

CSO & Academic Advising – What to consider?

Goals: Our 4 Year Model & 5 Year Plan

Goals

Menu of Workshops

Employer Involvement

Outreach (FYE, senior capstone &

student orgs)

Marketing

Collaborate with faculty &

CSC

Large Scale Events

(Etiquette, TSSS)

CSO & Academic Advising

CSO & Academic Advising - Collaborations

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