Navigating Culture Shock in Career Transitions
While there’s no magic fast-forward button you can hit to skip over culture shock’s more challenging moments, making connections and building relationships with your new colleagues are great ways to...
Making Values-Informed Career Decisions
Your values will inevitably shape the story you tell about yourself in email introductions, during informational interviews, at networking events and even on your application materials....
Will COVID-19 Permanently Shift How Higher Ed Thinks About Remote Work?
There are many potential ways that this pandemic will permanently alter our higher ed landscape. Will we think differently about online learning? Will investing in campus instructional design capabilities seem...
How to Get New Students When Campus Tours Are Out of the Question
Colleges turn to online programs and other efforts to make up for loss of access to campuses. Some colleges are also extending the May 1 deadline....
Helping Those With Disabilities Navigate Job Transitions
Early-career professionals with disabilities face distinct challenges in identifying positions, interviewing and networking, among many other things....
Finding a Workplace Where You Fit
To learn about a company's culture, examine how it presents itself to the world. When possible, find out how current and past employees describe their motivation for work....
Financial incentive and a ‘nudge’ encourage students to re-enroll in classes: study
New research compares efforts to encourage students to re-enroll in college with information alone or with tuition waivers. The financial incentives appear to work better....
Students aren’t going to college just to get a job – and that matters
The narrative that students are going to college simply to get a job isn’t quite so tidy. The decision-making process is far more complicated....
Resume scanners gain ground at college career centres
More employers are using applicant tracking systems to hire employees. Some colleges are using new AI-based tools, like VMock, to help students keep up....
We need better data on competency-based education
More information about what works in competency-based programs is needed to inform policy and encourage the growth of this promising form of postsecondary education, writes Charla Long....