Career Everywhere
Career Everywhere intentionally embeds career education and readiness into the student experience by providing access and equity to career development for all students through a network of faculty, staff, alums, and employer career advocates.
The establishment of a Career Everywhere culture is not just a part of the University's 150 Forward Strategic Plan, it is a strategic pillar. This culture is about the entire campus community coming together to introduce and engage students in career-ready skill-building throughout their U of A career.
Our Goal: That ALL students have access to the resources needed to build meaningful, lifelong careers.
We know that career readiness conversations and student career development can happen everywhere on and off campus, with everyone a student may encounter, in every possible way. Career Everywhere is a term used to help articulate this fact and help hone in on this effort to provide students with career-related support.
Career Everywhere: Everywhere. Everyone. Every way.
Faculty
Everywhere: Meeting students where they are, like in the classroom, is one of the prime origins of entry to connect with students to assist them with their careers. Supporting various avenues of career development is essential for aiding students in realizing their career success, and doing this early and often is key!
Everyone: This includes YOU! We cannot connect with all students on our own due to the opt-in nature of career services. As a faculty member, students trust your guidance, so we want to keep you up to date on the trends and best practices for aiding students while adding consistency into the student experience. As a faculty career advocate, you aid us in expanding our reach so that this effort is not confined just to high-achieving students.
Every Way: Amplifying our resources by engaging career advocates from every corner of the college to have effective career-related conversations with students is critical to ensuring that all students, regardless of their status, can make early connections with their careers and participate in their career development.
Did you know? 69% of UA seniors indicated that they are more inclined to speak to a faculty member about their career instead of Career Connections (42%).
Staff
Everywhere: Your engagement with the student allows for the greater good to be accomplished. Supporting students all over campus with their career readiness to be equipped for the career world.
Everyone: The magic of helping students with their career readiness is already built within your relationship; your trusting relationship will help with the trajectory of the student. You have a consistent relationship with the students to empower them with career readiness.
Every Way: Career Everywhere is a project that is training individuals all over campus (e.g. faculty, staff, students) to be better equipped with career development and readiness. Our goal is for staff to be trained in basic career development; you are not meant to be the expert in this area, we are aiming to equip you with more training to support the students with specific tools to in turn help with their career development journey.
Pillar one of the university’s strategic plan focuses on student success, highlighting students’ career readiness. Through holistic education, the university strives to create opportunities for every student to define and attain their career or post-graduate pathways. YOU matter in making this pillar a reality.
Why Career Everywhere?
86% percent of Gen Z and 87 percent of millennials consider having a sense of purpose “very” or “somewhat important” to their job satisfaction, according to a recent study. Colleges and universities must cultivate a learning environment that is less about facts, dates, and names, and more about transferable skills, real-world applicability, and purpose. (Citation: Harvard Business Impact)
Quality career coaching is associated with a 17%-point increase in post-graduation college-level employment, positive well-being, and a 9%-point increase in feeling that their education helped them to achieve their goals. Quality career coaching is defined as coaching that offers guidance, timely information, and support in setting education and career goals and overcoming barriers. (Citation: State Opportunity Index)
The most common structural career advising integration practices that can assist with improving equitable student outcomes involve strategically and thoughtfully embedding career advising into academic advising, instruction, curriculum and co-curricular activities.
"A critical and often missing piece in the student success equation is career advising. Recent research has found that helpful career advising is one of the most likely practices to increase college student career mobility in the first ten years after graduation." (Citation: AASCU's Integrating Career Advising for Equitable Student Success)
Ignite Students' Career Confidence
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Why?
Support student learning and improve post-graduation career outcomes by integrating career readiness into college experiences.
- Connect content to career readiness: Learners will be able to analyze how key Career-Ready Skills relate to academic and co-curricular experiences.
- Apply Shared Language: Learners will be fluent in current common workplace terminology and practices.
- Demonstrate use of career resources: Learners will be able to embed career education resources and/or activities to support students' career and self- development within their course, program or job.
Who?
Any U of A faculty, instructor, academic advisor, student success staff or program manager interested in connecting course or program content with timely career exploration, readiness, application resources, and career confidence boosting activities.
How?
Enroll by completing this Career Catalyst application form.
Participants can expect to spend approximately 5-10 hours to complete the following 3 program requirements.
- Complete 2-5 ACUE career development-focused quick study courses. Each module takes
~1 hour to complete. Courses to choose from are:
- Embedding Career Guidance into Your Course
- Designing with Purpose: Authentic Tasks and Assessments
- Preparing for Experiential Learning
- Connecting with Alumni and Peers
- Establishing a culture of constructive conversations
- Review the Career Guide and Faculty & Staff Career Toolkit to identify at least 1 activity or resource into your class, program &/or job duties.
- Reflect on your experiences using and embedding career education into your class,
program &/or job duties by completing this HogSync Catalyst Program Reflection Form. You'll be prompted to answer the following 4 questions:
- Which ACUE Quick Study courses did you complete?
- Which Career Guide and/or Toolkit resource(s) did you embed into your student learning experience? And why did you choose this resource/activity?
- How did it go? What insights about the activity and/or resource did your students share with you? What challenges did you experience? How might you address those challenges in future learning experiences?
- Testimonial: Would you recommend this program to your colleagues? And why would you recommend it or why would you not recommend it?
When?
Any fall, spring or summer semester
Completers Receive
- Increased sense of confidence supporting students with career decision making and connecting students' education to career interests and goals
- Certificate of completion to include in annual evaluation packets, grants, Arkansas workforce development reporting
- Recognition on Arkansas News, Career Connections website and at existing faculty and staff appreciation campus events
Career Advocates make up a network of individuals who are assisting students with their career development in a variety of ways! By coming together to share resources and support each other, career advocates are championing student success. Join our network of Career Advocates to ensure you stay up to date on events, resources, and much more!
Visit our Become a Career Advocate page to learn more or connect with your college's Career Connections team
- Emphasize career readiness skills in assignments or on-campus position learning objectives
- Embed career content in your courses and departmental curriculum
- Sign up for a class presentation
- Share career networking event & fair dates with your students;
- Refer students to Handshake to find jobs and internships
- Read and share your college Career Insider newsletters
- Encourage students to take the career readiness assessment and identify 1 action step they can take to improve their career readiness
- Mentor students using the Career Exploration Roadmap
Upcoming Events
Additional Events
- Check out upcoming career fairs and events here: https://career.uark.edu/students/events/
- To view upcoming employer information sessions, log in to Handshake and click on Events.
Coming Soon
Asynchronous Blackboard Career Everywhere course for Faculty & Staff!
Past Events
Aligning Student Programs & Job Descriptions with UA Career-Ready Skills [Staff/Faculty Workshop]
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
BELL 3162 – Upchurch Conference Room
Facilitators: Cecilee Essary & Robyn Williams
Engineering Career Connections would like to invite you to join us for a hands-on lunch and learn where you will learn how to integrate the 8 UA Career-Ready Skills into your programs and student employee job descriptions (TAs, GAs, Student Workers, etc.). You will have the chance to collaborate with colleagues to redesign and optimize your descriptions. Please bring a digital copy of your current descriptions to the session.
Lunch will be provided!
Register Here: https://forms.office.com/r/yJKk26zrPK
Aligning Student Job Descriptions with UA Career-Ready Skills [Staff/Faculty Workshop]
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
10:00am to 12:00pm
CORD 349
Facilitators: Cecilee Essary, Michelle Muzzillo, Sarah Denison
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to integrate the 8 UA Career-Ready skills into your student employee job descriptions. You will get the chance to collaborate with colleagues from across campus to redesign and optimize your job descriptions. Please bring a digital copy of your current descriptions.
Register Here:
Not-So-New Faculty Lunch – Career Everywhere Discussion [Faculty Workshop]
Wednesday, April 18 & Thursday, April 19, 2024
CORD 349
Demonstrate your commitment to the U of A's Student Success Strategic Priority by attending this event. Learn how you can help undergraduate and graduate students gain access to resources and networks needed to build meaningful careers. Add value to your academic area & your annual performance evaluation by intentionally embedding career education and career readiness into the full student
- Discuss with colleagues your students' career questions and needs
- Faculty Panel: Learn from colleagues' successful ways to incorporate career education into your class
- Learn which career resources and services are available through Career Connections
Lunch & Learn: College of Engineering Staff Career Advocates
Friday, March 29, 2024
Upchurch Conference Room
Learn more about the Career Everywhere movement and how staff can support students in this mission!
