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Bloss CollegeBloss College

Emil CunninghamCSC Director

The Journey• Expectations• Mission• Vision • Values• Responsibilities• Staffing• Two Goals• Innovative Program• Questions

Expectations

• As current practitioners, what were your fondest memories of your undergraduate Career Services Center (CSC)?

• What were some issues you faced?

CSC Mission

In line with Student Affairs, the mission of the Career Services Center operates under a holistic development

model with the intent to ensure its students success beyond matriculation from Bloss College by providing Women

students with experiential learning and internship opportunities, professional networking capabilities, and

effective job acquisition strategies. Through various workshops, career fairs, and personalized career

counseling, our mission is to prepare students to be able to work in an ever changing and diverse global community.

CSC Vision

The Career Services Center at Bloss College will become the most comprehensive career networking unit of our

size. We strive to provide our students with the necessary professional skills that matriculating college graduates

need to work in a diverse and ever changing global society. We aim to provide our students with the most

up to date resources on employment and internship opportunities and we aspire to provide

educational and instructional programs that enable our students to become more aware of local and global issues

surrounding their career options. Additionally, we aspire to offer the most comprehensive mentoring programs

of comparable institutions in our region.

CSC Values

• Experiential Learning and Internships -we value the vocational exploration of our students and support them by providing them with opportunities involving hands on experiences in career related fields.

• Professional Networking -we value the ability of our students to build connections with future employers and therefore will create on-campus networking opportunities for our students to explore their career options.

• Personalized Counseling -we value the individuality of every student and are committed to ensuring that each students’ career counseling needs are individually met.

CSC Unit Responsibilities

• Offer individual and group career counseling • Host Career and Internship Fairs• Offer workshops on effective job acquisition skills• Offer mentoring program- Bloss Connections• Provide medium for students to interact with

potential employers• Provide students with the resources needed to

acquire employment or internship opportunities

Staffing

Assistant Director

Coordinator of Mentoring Programs

Career Counselors

Office Manager

Associate Director

Employer Relations

CoordinatorAdministrative

Assistant

Student Career

Assistants

Graduate Assistants

CSCDirector

Web Specialist

Staff Salary  PERMANENT BUDGET TEMPORARY BUDGET

Staff Title Salary Wage Salary Wage

         

Director 80,000 20,000 3,700  

Associate Director 38,000 9,600 1,800  

Assistant Director 32,000 8,000 1,200  

Employer Relations Coordinator 29,500 7,530 900  

Coordinator of Mentoring Programs 29,500 7,530 900  

Administrative Assistant 27,000 6,700 700  

Career Counselors 50,000 47,520 1,000  

Office Manager (Receptionist)   26,000    

Student Career Assistants   38,720  

Graduate Interns     33,000  

Web Specialist   44,600   14,600

Internship Scholarship       4,000

Total 286,000 216,200 43,200 18,600

CSC Goal ~ Staff DevelopmentStaff Development-it is important for the staff in the CSC to stay current

with knowledge and best practice approaches to effectively serve our students

Goal1. Create a body of shared professional development knowledge2. Increase staff knowledge of best practices in career services

Implementation Strategies1. All full-time salaried staff members will be required to attend one

national conference per year related to the field of career services.2. All full-time staff members will be required to host one staff

development session per year related to their knowledge gained at the national conference.

CSC Goal ~ Programming

Educational and Instructional Programming-in an effort to achieve our vision of ensuring that all students will have the necessary skills needed to acquire a job prior to graduating, it is important that the CSC offer a variety of educational and instructional programs to its students

Goals1. Create opportunities for students to acquire effective job acquistion skills2. Become a resource for students seeking career guidance information

Implementation Strategies1. The CSC will offer weekly resume building workshops designed to provide

students with the necessary developmental skills to create a strong resume.2. The CSC will offer daily drop in appointments for students seeking immediate

feedback on their resumes or cover letters.

CSC Innovative Program Finding Success in Failure

Desired Learning Outcomes1. Students will be able to recall the mantra of F.A.I.L.U.R.E. 2. Students will be able to recognize 2 ways to seek employment

opportunities in a related field to their career choice.3. Students will be able to differentiate between failure and opportunities

for improvement.4. Students will acquire knowledge about successful interviewing

strategies.5. Students will be able to formulate a F.A.I.L.U.R.E. mantra of their

own.6. Students will be able to identify 3 ways in which they can improve

their interviewing skills.

Questions?