It is important for your career services office to conduct strategic assessment and planning to understand and communicate where it is and where it is going. A strategic plan also gives you a valuable reference tool to use when asking for funding or fighting off reductions....more
Advisory board members provide your career center with great value by shaping programming, conducting special projects and events, evaluating services, and more. What can you give them in return? Here are some ways to create value for your advisory board members....more
The average student to professional staff level is 1,889 students to each career services professional, according to the 2012-13 Career Services Benchmark Survey....more
Two obstacles to innovation in the career services office, expressed by our survey respondents, were budget constraints and lack of time....more
Eighty-five percent of the career centers that responded to NACE’s 2012 13 Career Services Benchmark Survey report having centralized offices. Here are other survey highlights....more
Salaries and experience levels for professional positions in career centers did not change significantly over the past year, according to results of NACE’s 2012 13 Career Services Benchmark Survey. ...more
Potential for innovation in the career center is more prevalent where budget and time are available to explore ideas, systems capture ideas, and stakeholders serve as sources of information and inspiration....more
Analytics are important when optimizing websites for mobile. It's important to be aware of the hardware and software visitors use to access the system....more
An examination of the characteristics and approaches to innovation in the career center. Part three of five articles in the Innovating in Times of Change series....more
There are three primary factors that affect an organization’s potential for innovation—climate, leadership, and process. When the center incorporates several key elements of an innovative climate, it can be one of the principal drivers of innovation....more