Description
Bridge The Gap Between Campus Involvement and Workforce Readiness
Are your institution’s career initiatives falling short due to siloed efforts and disconnected programming?
Foster cross-department collaboration between career services, student affairs, academic departments, student organizations and industry leaders to co-design and create unified, high-impact experiences that truly prepare students for the workforce. Align your co-curricular experiences with recognized career competencies, while offering practical tools to assess and articulate students’ skill sets, helping to bridge the gap between campus involvement and workforce readiness.
Join us for a results-driven webinar led by the Assistant Vice President of the award-winning Career Center at Florida Atlantic University, a leader with over 25 years of experience in transforming campus-wide career initiatives. Learn how his team’s innovative Industry to Campus Lab creates real-time collaboration with employers to close skill gaps, anticipate market trends, and ensure that student development is relevant, inclusive, and future-focused.
Gain actional insights to embed career readiness into student life, bridge the gap between campus and career, and drive student success through meaningful collaboration with faculty, staff, alumni, and industry leaders.
Topics Covered
Gain crucial, proven strategies that will help you:
- Embed career readiness into student activities through student programs that seamlessly integrate career development into clubs, events, and leadership roles.
- Use the NACE career readiness framework to intentionally align student organization experiences, campus events, and leadership opportunities with employer in-demand skills.
- Engage both students and industry partners in shaping campus events and activities that reflect workforce trends, making programming more relevant.
- Partner with career services to equip students with ways to document and share their skills—such as co-curricular transcripts, e-portfolios and micro-credentials tied to student involvement.
- Use campus activities as real-world skill-building spaces, with career services helping translate these experiences into future-ready narratives for resumes, interview and grad school applications.
- Empower career services to lead a cross-functional campus network that integrates academic, co-curricular, and employer engagement efforts into a cohesive student development strategy.
Presenter
Brian M. Montalvo has worked in higher education since 2000. He joined the national award-winning Career Center at Florida Atlantic University in July 2006 and is currently the Assistant Vice President of Career Services.
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Included When You Purchase
- 90-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
- Unlimited access to view session recording for two years
- Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
- Certificate of completion for each participant
Instructions for access are available immediately upon checkout. You may share this On-Demand Training with any staff members from your campus community. For information about licensing this training for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.
