What is your best advice to spruce up a resume for a student that does not have any work or volunteering experience at all?

How many employers do you suggest to students?

When is the best time to prepare students for a career?

How many students to each career service Member?

Placement services are up and running to a successful path. Many responses to our placement services, workshops, and assistance for our students. But only a small amount is not attending due to school, and working hours. And had many one on one session workshops. How else can we reach out to our student and help them to a successful career path? Is there a percentage that we will not reach out too?

When students are getting ready to graduate I have them all fill out forms, these forms help us understand what the students are looking for in a job. Such as, how far they are willing to travel to find a job, what days and hours, the different shifts, etc. Most of them are putting 9am-5pm Monday-Fridays. I work at a nursing college, nursing jobs are not a typical '9-5', and trying to get them to realize this, it is a fight in itself sometimes, they get upset because they have kids, lives, etc. They usually just say that they will still want us to help them locate these 'dream' job schedules.

Is it wise to take on ideas/suggestions from current enrolled students in regards to alumni association process?

What is the best approach in facilitating that all involved are doing their part to make an alumni association progressive?

What is the best way to recruit students who have not graduate to become part of this alumni association project?

Our school incorporates externships into many of our programs. It definitely helps with placement. We have a program that when brought in didn't have an externship and placement was difficult at times. When they changed it to include an externship our placements increased incredibly. I have worked for schools that chose to discontinue externships in certain programs because externship coordinators complained about the difficulty finding sites. In my opinion it was never a good idea. We lost the externship to placement side and when they students did get jobs their skill level was much lower. When employers hire graduates from a specific school and their skills are not very good they will quit contacting the school with their open positions. I absolutely love externships. The externship coordinator I work with now is wonderful. She knows the significance of externship sites and hiring. She keeps track of the externship to placement and prides herself on the conversion rate. I am very lucky to have her.

I would like to implement Job Skills Olympics as an event programming idea to facilitate framework for students' to showcase academic prowess, and to demonstrate use of professionalism in their soft-skills.

Identify at least one new event programming idea you learned in the course that you would like to see your institution implement (Job Skills Olympics, Job Fairs, Networking Mixers, Industry/Alumni Speakers, Intern/Extern/Volunteer Fairs). How do you believe this would improve graduate employment outcomes?

Which of the following experiential learning opportunities mentioned in the course does your institution implement (Service Learning, Internships, Externships, Co-ops, Interdisciplinary Projects, Work-Study), and how would you evaluate the success of each?

My Institution works closely with Career Services for input regarding enrollment trends, market forecasts, and employment outlook. Career Services is also involved in the campus tour with prospective students. Our corporate Marketing Department also includes Career Services placement data and staff's opinions on advertising, each year.

Upon reading the last chapter I believe my department can do more to improve the student's employability skills and I am going to implement some stratagies right away. I try to work with students one-on-one now but I don't feel it has been as effective as I would like. As you know student's can have so many obstacles in their way when applying for jobs and addressing them more effectively will be my priority. My school has a class specific to teaching soft skills and I must say it has been a very effective class. It teaches professionalism and how to get along with people in the office just to name a few. It is a very good class and overall the students' soft skills have improved quite a bit.

Does your institution’s career services department assess student employability skills and barriers to success prior to offering interventions? If so, what assessment is used and how are interventions applied? If not, how does the staff personalize interventions to ensure that the best approach is applied to each student?

Does your institution currently consider how enrollment management plans impact employment rates, or is there often a discrepancy between the goals of admissions and the goals of career services? How would you recommend this gap be closed, and/or what strategies has your organization successfully implemented?

One additional strategy that our instition uses to improve our relations with employers and alumni is having our Career Services Coordinators and students set up Linkedin accounts. This allows the student to network using a professional social media site and employers have an opportunity to consider our students for possible employment opportunities.

Increase level of customized employer of employer staff training.

What are some new opportunities for improved partnerships you believe your institution should adopt to move forward?