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Career Services for Faculty & Staff

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 The Office of Career Services is here to equip students with the skills they need to be successful in their #CougarCareerJourney, while empowering them to find an internship or job to launch their careers. 

Faculty are a key source of career advice for students — with more than nine of out 10 saying students asked them for guidance in the past year, according to a new study conducted by NACE in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges & Universities and the Society for Experiential Education.

By collaborating with faculty and staff members just like you, we can ensure that together we're reaching as many Kean Cougars as we can while engaging them on the topics that interest and concern them. There's no doubt about it: the level of student career-related engagement increases the more often career topics appear in the classroom.

 

Ways Faculty and Staff can Collaborate with Career Services includes:

  • Enhancing your curriculum or help foster new career-related assignments for pre-existing courses

  • Provide in-class career workshops to help achieve learning outcomes

  • Develop exclusive employer engagement opportunities

  • Co-sponsor career-specific special events or programming

  • Help clarify the internship process and guide students through

  • Provide real-time knowledge of industry and today’s labor market

  • Increase successful student outcomes and overall institutional effectiveness

 

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Other means of Career Services collaboration can also include introducing your students to NACE's Career Competencies or our Focus 2 Career tool to help foster a culture of career exploration, sharing our Career Readiness Resources with your students or encouraging them to learn more about how LinkedIn Learning's stable of career-ready courses can help enhance their experience with you this semester.

Registering with us as an Employer and post internships (or other positions) through Kean's Handshake Portal and beginning to welcome student interns into your Department or College is also another great way to collaborate too.

Not ready for a semester-long commitment just yet? Consider starting with micro internships instead.

Lastly, don't forget: as the level of student career-related engagement increases the more often career topics appear in the classroom, you can always request a Career Services in-class workshop for your students as well! Topics vary from resume and cover letter drafting to effective job search strategies, strategic use of LinkedIn and so much more. *Specialized presentations are available upon advanced request. Please contact us at career@kean.edu by clicking here to learn more.