I was having a discussion with a client about some career services challenges when the conversation turned to projections for the 2014 cohort. “One important thing to remember” I said, “is that new enrollments are down, so many of the graduate employment issues we are discussing today are going to self-solve in the near future.” Read more
Three days per week, I go to the same restaurant, at the same time and order the same thing for breakfast. Three days per week, as I am standing in line, the same young “Millennial Girl” comes in and literally cuts to the front of the line to place her order. I appreciate her tactic; she acts as if she is incredibly hurried and is always talking on her cell phone in an attempt (I believe) to appear as though she is so absorbed in conversation that there is no possible way she could notice the other five people waiting in line in front of her. No one ever corrects her, and the server always takes her order with no questions asked. Bravo Millennial Girl, bravo.
I would never hire her in a million years and I suspect she is not well liked at work. Why? She hasn’t any manners. Read more
Recently, I had a scheduling conflict which forced me to turn down an offer to conduct an In-Service Workshop on effective communications for a school that I really wanted to visit. The job came to me via a contact (networking) who was trying to recommend a speaker to someone in her network who asked for a referral. Follow me?! Let me bottom line it- seven-degrees of separation at work. Read more
One thing I thoroughly enjoy about LinkedIn is the ability to observe what works with respect to networking and what doesn’t. LinkedIn is very similar to life; people with original ideas, thoughts and comments get noticed, people seek them out and they are highly interesting.
More often than not I observe people sitting back being “Observers” or “re-posters” and for those folks I wonder if there is as much true value in social media as we are led to believe; or worse- for the “re-posters” of the world – is social media doing more harm than good? Read more
Here’s the thing about expertise, when we believe we are Experts- we stop learning, seeking new information, and above all else we stop listening to others.
We’ve all worked with a person who believes they are an expert in many, if not most areas related to their profession. (Perhaps you’ve been this person at one time) Read more
Not that long ago we were hired to “fix” a career services department for a college school system that was struggling to meet bench in almost all programs. As part of our initial assessment of the department we asked the team what they felt was the root cause of the problem?
One person reported that the problem was poor quality resume’s another felt the problem was the preparedness of the grads for interviews, one person felt they just didn’t have enough hiring employers and another told us that the real problem was they were all overworked, didn’t have enough resources to do their jobs and needed at least three more people in the department. Read more
Your accreditation report isn’t due for another nine months or so… so it’s NOT too late!
That said, TODAY is the day to do a “health check” on your placement outcomes. Sure, you already run reports to see how you’re doing. You know your placement results year-to-date like the back of your hand. You might even have a dashboard that shows results by campus, and by program. But you’ve tracked that before, and still ended up in a rush at the end of the reporting period because one cohort, or one campus was behind…
Here are some important questions to ask yourself now so you can Read more