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
Why
Who
How
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Receive
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?
Self Enroll in the Career Everywhere: Catalyst Program course on Blackboard.
To self enroll Log into Blackboard at http://learn.uark.edu.
Click on the Courses link in the left menu.
Click Course Catalog in the top right.
Copy and paste the Course ID into the Search Catalog: CPLP.Catalyst
Click on the course options menu and select "Enroll"
Participants can expect to spend approximately 5-10 hours to complete the following 3 program modules:
- Career Development Concepts
- Career Everywhere Explained
- Career Education Frameworks
- Discussion Assignment: Who helped you in your career journey?
- Career Readiness
- Career-Ready Skills Overview
- Career-Ready Skills Matching Test
- Choose Your Track: Faculty (Embed in Class) Track
- Faculty Track Description
- Faculty Track: Article to Read: The integration of Career Readiness into Experiential Learning and High-Impact Practices
- Faculty Track: Review & Learn
- Review Faculty Career Toolkit resources
- Complete 2-5 ACUE quick study career-related courses
- Describe what you learned from the Faculty Career Toolkit resources and ACUE quick study courses
- Faculty Track: Practice & Reflect
- Practice at least one new concept, tip, resource, tool from the Career Toolkit and/or ACUE courses with students in a class
- Reflect on your experience practicing with students
- Alternative 3. Choose Your Track: Staff (Non-Course) Track
- Staff Track Description
- Staff Track: Article to Read: Quality Coaching: Helping Students Navigate the Journey from Education to Career
- Staff Track: Review & Learn
- Review Career Toolkit for Staff & Advisors resources
- Describe what you learned from the Staff & Advisor Career Toolkit resources
- Staff Track: Practice & Reflect
- Practice at least one new concept, tip, resource, tool from the Career Toolkit with students
- Reflect on your experience practicing with students
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!
Connect with your college's Career Connections team to learn more.
- 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