I am focusing upon "how to talk so folks will listen" and "listen so folks will talk" effectively, creatively and kindly as a teacher!

I LEARNED TODAY A QUOTE THAT I WILL SHARE WITH MY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES :  " FOCUS ON YOUR ABILITIES NOT IN YOUR DISABILITY"

My stuedent's success is my success!!

Once a person lands that interview they should make sure to prepare before the interview by researching the company and when they were founded along with who they key players are in the organization i.e Owner, President, CEO etc. Know the position that you are applying and interviewing for and what is excepted of you in that role. Mkae sure that you are wearing the proper business attire for the position you are applying for, be well groomed and smell good. Arriving 15 minutes early is the best way to start off your first impression, a firm handshake and a… >>>

I loved the idea of implimenting on our school website the area for our graduates current resumes to be on file for potential hiring companies. However is their a consent form needed so their contact information can be publicly shared?

I think that the workflow of the process is so important. It eliminates so much confusion. This is something that I wish we would use.

Important topic for Online campuses

I am so thankful for this training. Even though I see all of our students as the wonderful people they are, I want to be better prepared to handle questions of our LGBTQ students to get them ready for the workforce. This course has done just that. Thank you for broaching this topic in such a wonderful & effective manner!

The course was helpful.  I will implement an Exit interview for job placement

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Would anyone be interested in forming a PLN for online career counselors on The Educator's PLN (http://edupln.ning.com/).  While I find most information universal, ther is a distinct difference with online counseling as students are remote and the lack of face to face interaction can seem to be a barrier sometimes.  If interested, please let me know and I will investigate creating the group.

Respectfully,

Elizabeth Mimms

Career Counselor

Columbia Southern University

The Career Services Department impacts the entire institution. From the moment a student walks through the door - the entire faculty and staff including Career Services Advisors are responsible for connections inside and outside the institution employer connections.  We call this "networking."  The Bigger Picture proves that students, faculty, staff, graduates, employers, and the community all benefit from a well run and networked Career Services.  

My next step will be to get an email out to employers with the services ECPI Career Services Dept. will offer them to generate confidence and networking on a comprehensive level.

My goal is… >>>

After being with ACICS, I felt it necessary to review the CS procedures to ensure that I understood compliance correctly.  This was a good refresher course and I would recommend it for anyone regardless of how many years in CS they have.  One can sometimes forget things that are important. 

I have found in my experience that Career Services should position itself in three places. This was definitely reinforced by the information in this training module.

1. Admissions – Have the admissions representative send all new students/perspective students to the Career Service Department, where you or a member of your team can give them a brief 10-15 min oversite on the department and services.
2. New Student Orientation- During new student orientation I take a complete hour of the student’s time, hand out business cards and give a more in depth in site to career services and team. I also tell them

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This is an interesting take on Career Services after being in a Career Services role for over a year. I feel as though this will help me to better prepare my students and graduates for the workforce and increase my team's understanding of the vital role Career Services will play in years to come. 

Trust but Verify all data collected by internal and external staff can be one key to having successful placement data. Lessons learned as shown that internal staff can sometimes over look simple placement errors and by checking and verifiyng on a regular basis helps keep your institutions placement data pure.

Strengths: Welcoming, personable with students & grads, effective in career path & focusing attention on career goals & their outcome. Very motivational to students meeting goals without judgement or beligerance. Organized in tracking, quick response to student requests. Flexible with scheudlue to accommodate student/grad needs. Helpful with co-workers needs/information

Needed Improvements: Carving out time for focusing on daily tasks. So focused on "putting out fires", that routine suffers occaisionally.

Great content and applicable information to enhance my knowledge!

Based on this training, I have learned that being more intune with an on line presence is extremely important in this day and age. Things are changing daily and we have to keep up with the changes if we want to suceed in the job market and want our students to suceed in the job market. I plan on updating my on on line profile, make an avatar, have a hyper link to my profile and URL. I plan on having an on line BIO and helping my students see the need for this as well as seeing the need… >>>

I really appreciate this course. I have been a career services director for approx. several years and many of the Ideas that are presented here I have used. But the way it is explained with all the up to date info and use of technology is amazing. I am going to use this info with my classes on job searching, branding, resume writting, asking for people to be references. This is great information. The challange I have is that many of the students are somewhat lazy when it comes to putting this together. They want us to do it for… >>>

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 I think the information regarding placements, graduating rates, time to complete program and local salaries is all awesome measures to look at while developing information for not only potential but current students/graduates. My question is, how often do we update these stats? Every Year, Every Six months? These numbers can fluctuate constantly, and I was just wondering when would be a good timeline.