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

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Comments?

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