Student Expectations of Career Center Staff
Just like the students we serve, the staff in the Career Center is held to a set of professional standards, expectations, and responsibilities. The Career Center has outlined the following responsibilities and expectations for its staff.
Responsibilities for all Career Center Staff
- Assist all students, alumni, employers, and other clients with career services needs.
- Establish, maintain, and promote effective relations with relevant individuals, faculty, campus offices, employers, and external agencies to enlist support and enhance services and programs working collaboratively to further students and alumni career development.
- Assist students and alumni with job-search information and resources to prepare themselves effectively as candidates for employment.
- Support student organizations and encourage student involvement activities. Participate in worthwhile organizations and activities on campus and extended communities.
- Provide students with information on a range of career opportunities and types of employing organizations. Inform students of the means and resources to gain access to information which may influence their decisions about an employing organization.
- Facilitate opportunities for students and alums to connect with employers utilizing campus recruitment programs, networking events, and Internet resources.
Additional Responsibilities for Career Center Advisors
- Assist students, alumni, and other clients to develop and assess skills necessary to compete in a rapidly changing, competency-based, global workplace. Assist students and alumni at any stage of their career development to understand the relationship between self-knowledge and career choice through assessment of interests, competencies, values, experience, personal characteristics, and desired lifestyles.
- Help students identify employers for career development and potential employment, and pursue future educational objectives. Encourage and facilitate students’ exploration of career interests through field visits, student employment, professional practice/internships, shadowing experiences, research or creative projects, and informational interviews with professionals.
- Research, obtain, and provide occupational, educational, and employment information to assist students and alumni to make reasoned, timely informed career choices based on accurate self-knowledge and information about the global workforce. Remain current in the career services field.
- Be available to constituent groups on career and employment topics, on current employment opportunities, and on employers to ensure that candidates have the widest possible choices of employment.
- Teach students appropriate job-search and employability techniques. Assist students and alumni to present themselves effectively as candidates for employment.
- Promote a student-centered learning and development
environment and stay up-to-date and apply CIP and other appropriate career development theory. Make appropriate campus referrals as needed.
Adapted from CAS: Career Center Self-Assessment Guide and NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers
