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CAREER SERVICES INTEGRATION & TRENDS
Stefano VerdesotoGraduate Assistant
WELCOME!
Tasked with:• Researching academic advising and
career services integration models• Researching career services trends• Utilizing combination of peer-reviewed
research/literature and popular media articles
No easy task.
DEFINITIONS
Academic advising: a “systematic process based on close student-advisor relationship intended to aid students in achieving educational, career, and personal goals…”
Career counseling: a “one-to-one or small group relationship between client and counselor with the goal of helping the client(s) integrate and apply understanding of self and environment to make the most appropriate career decisions”
(Reardon & Bullock, 2004)
DEFINITIONS
Academic advising: a “systematic process based on close student-advisor relationship intended to aid students in achieving educational, career, and personal goals…”
Career counseling: a “one-to-one or small group relationship between client and counselor with the goal of helping the client(s) integrate and apply understanding of self and environment to make the most appropriate career decisions”
(Reardon & Bullock, 2004)
More academic advising than career.
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Found focused discussion on academic advising needing to evolve, especially to serve new generation of students in fast, efficient, and comprehensive way
Discussed inefficiency of prescriptive advising model, as it focuses on institutional authority over students’ individual development
Recommended academic advisors to utilize student development theory during appointments
(Jordan, 2000)
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Advising continuum (Jordan, 2000)
Prescriptive Developmental Counseling
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Advising continuum (Jordan, 2000)
Prescriptive Developmental Counseling
Academic goals Holistic approachReplaceable Integrating goals
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Advising continuum (Jordan, 2000)
Prescriptive Developmental Counseling
Academic goals Holistic approachReplaceable Integrating goals
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Found clash in expectations for developmental advising, as not all advisors consider student development as part of their responsibility.
“Not my job.”
(Jordan, 2000)
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Clash and backlashVs.
Student demand
• Students want career counseling as part of academic advising service
• 63% of students were extremely satisfied with service, and over half were satisfied because of dual training
• 26% of students expected dual training when seeking advising services
(Damminger, 2001; Jordan, 2000)
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Described specialization of services at four-year institutions• Academic advisors (degree planning)• Educational counselors (study skills)• Career counselors (career exploration/planning)• Mental health counselors (personal concerns)
Discussed emergence of cost-effective, developmental models at community colleges through use of “life strategists.”
(Jordan, 2000)
Let’s recap• Loads of research and publications on
academic advising• Pressure to shift from prescriptive to
developmental• Backlash from professionals• Student demand and cost effective• Actual implementation taking place
“Where do you want to take this next?”
CAREER SERVICES
Higher education, including career services, experiencing climate of accountability with emphasis on outcome measurement from parents, students, and leadership.
They want proof.(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
CAREER SERVICES
Placement Planning Networking
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
Career services models
CAREER SERVICES
Placement• “In loco parentis,” the philosophy of higher
education institutions viewed as needing to provide to students
Planning• Developmental theory began to take hold of
higher education, which developed the student, not parenting
• Described as having humanistic emphasis on counseling and application of student development theories
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
CAREER SERVICES
Networking
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
Student development
Student learning
More information
Faster pace
New counselor evaluation criterion
“Coordination”
Interview and counseling rooms
Computer labs, self-help
CAREER SERVICES
Placement Planning Networking
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
Career services models
(CCL)
CAREER SERVICES
Networking (CCL)
Highlighted Colorado State University’s College Career Liaison (CCL) Model
Utilizes career counselors who are dedicated to specific academic colleges within the university
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
CAREER SERVICES
Networking (CCL)
Does not simply assign colleges to existing counselors, instead counselors are hired by both the career center and academic colleges
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
Career services
Academic colleges
Career liaisons
CAREER SERVICES
Networking (CCL)
CCL counselors hired, paid, and supervised by two different sources: academic college dean and career center director.
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
CCLDean
Director
CAREER SERVICES
Networking (CCL)
Greater appreciation of, and higher commitment to, the efforts of career center
Varied responsibilities
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
• Orientation• Admissions
Natural Sciences
• Intro courseBusiness
• Alumni engagement
Liberal Arts
CAREER SERVICES
Networking (CCL)
CCL model calls counselors “flexible” generalists in the networking model, which emphasizes information-giving and providing networks to alumni, as opposed to therapeutic counseling
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
Therapeutic counselor
“Flexible” generalist
CAREER SERVICES
Networking (CCL)
CCL model does not integrate career services and academic advising, but rather, integrates career services and academic colleges.
(Kretovics, Honaker, & Kraning, 1999)
Let’s recap• Career Services experiencing changing climate• Evolution of models, placement to planning, to
networking• Networking model changes role of career
counselors (“coordinators”)• Shift from therapeutic counseling to information-
giving and providing networks• Career liaison model creating partnerships
between career services and academic colleges
National
trends.
CAREER SERVICES
Movers and Mergers
Career services moving and/or merging with other areas, including academic advising, enrollment management, alumni relations, and advancement.
(Dey, 2014)
CareerServices
Academic advising
Enrollment management
Alumni relations
Advancement
CAREER SERVICES
Making connections and communities
Greater focus on building sense of community and helping students make connections for career success.
*Informal guided discussion circles led by counselors who are assigned various student communities.
(Dey, 2014)
Workshops Career “meet-ups”*
CAREER SERVICES
Changing philosophies
With greater focus on community and connections for career success, professionals’ philosophies evolving
(Dey, 2014)
CounselorGroup facilitator,Expert consultant
CAREER SERVICES
Money, space, and people
Career services receiving more institutional resources, such as increase in allocated budget, number of positions, and greater focus on renovated space
(Dey, 2014)
Interesting.• Integration• Models• National trends
Questions?
Comments?
Thoughts?