Think Like a Leading Career Center: From Internal Consensus to Employer Alignment
Your team's resume standards may not match what employers actually filter for. Learn why leading career centers anchor their baseline to labor market data—not internal consensus—and how to build consistency that scales across advisors, teams, and departments.
  • Summary

    Most career centers define "good" based on their own internal expertise. But when 88% of employers admit their own hiring systems exclude qualified candidates, what your team thinks isn't enough.  

    This session explores why top-performing career institutions anchor their standards to employer and labor market data—not just advisor judgment.  

    We'll examine we'll examine why advisor-defined scoring breaks at scale, how to systematize ATS and hiring signals into your workflows, and how to build consistent standards across your team. 

    Whether you lead a career center or coach students directly, you'll leave with a new vision for closing the gap between how your team prepares students and how employers actually evaluate them.

    Following this program, you will be able to:

    • Identify why advisor-defined resume standards produce inconsistent student outcomes at scale—and how to diagnose where your team's baseline diverges from employer expectations.
    • Distinguish between internal consensus and employer alignment, and apply a "minimum viable consistency" framework to standardize career readiness across departments.
    • Evaluate how ATS filtering, job description dynamics, and recruiter behavior shape student outcomes—then map those signals into actionable workflow changes for your team.

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