- October 10, 2014
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Raising the Bar: Career Development for the 21st Century
When I was a little boy, the most common question I was asked was, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Since that day, I have always been drawn to a place where student development and career readiness is really at the core of everything I do. The forward-thinking students I witness who are getting recruited by top employers daily are truly my inspiration. It’s a natural progression for our bright students.
What a sensational time it is for Business Career Services (BCS) at the Quinlan School of Business. The John and Kathy Schreiber Center, expected to open in August 2015, will be the new home for our office and will showcase a new career center that is state-of-the-art in both programming and in its staffing model. The new career center model is entitled “Career Connections” and shifts the focus from building a network to leveraging networks. The difference between finding a job and finding a career is passion. As an innovative and growing impactful team, we strive to help students connect passion to purpose, instilling “career readiness”, and helping them bridge new lines of communication and collaboration.
If I had to describe what we do on a daily basis by distilling all of the activities, coaching, events, workshops, meetings, etc., it would filter down to two things: 1) helping to build dreams, and 2) witnessing their impact. By continuing to harvest new best practices and by providing a nimble approach to career and professional development, we are helping to foster a university-wide, diverse, visible, living and global business career culture that celebrates and breathes success. We’re deeply committed to coaching forward thinking career-seekers who will strengthen our global business system.
This year, with the launch of the Q Passport to Success, we are serving as a compass, implementing a career and professional developmental map and journey for our students, graduates, and alumni — helping them find their true ambition, by exploring career options and motivating them to reach for their career and professional dreams/aspirations. We are solution based, action oriented, and committed to providing students with career and job-search guidance. We want to help organizations find our talented students, so that they can be future interns, employees, managers, and leaders. Our job is simple, we match top talent with top employers— that’s our job. Their job is to look for a job.
We have a plethora of services that we offer our students and alumni. This includes access to warm job leads via our Ramblerlink proprietary database, facilitating job referrals to employers, coordinating on-campus recruiting events, helping review and align cover letters and resumes to the industries of your choice, building interview skills, and strategizing on professional aspirations as they relate to transferable skills. With lifetime services, we are here for our students every step of the way.
As a career cultural catalyst, my objective is help students leverage all of the resources that are readily available for them. We offer innovative, creative, and passionate approaches that are focused on revolutionary, strategic, and novel concepts and design. This has helped us create a new magnetic career center for the 21st Century. As a career development thought leader, I believe that this contemporary approach captures the importance of vision, passion, purpose, growth traits, personal branding and multi-layered social media in career development. Not only are these elements the key to maximizing careers, but they are the gates to growing life’s fulfillment.