Career Services
Subjects:
- Benchmark and Topical Surveys Benchmark Surveys | Hot Topic Surveys
- Best Practices of NACE College Members
- Career Services & Employers
- Career Course Syllabi
- Counseling & Career Development Resources
- Evaluating the Career Services Function
- Marketing the Career Center
- Professional Issues
- Samples: Recruiter Packets, Surveys, Forms, Letters, Job Descriptions, Career Center Newsletters
- Student Web Sites
- Technology
- Third Party Recruiters
- White Papers
- Benchmark Surveys
- 2006-07 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey for Four-Year Colleges and UniversitiesPart Two (PDF)
- 2006-07 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey for Four-Year Colleges and UniversitiesPart One (PDF)
- 2008 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey for Two-Year Colleges Executive Summary (PDF)
- 2006 NACE Salary Survey for Associate Degree Candidates
- 2006 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey—Two-Year Colleges (PDF)
- 2005 NACE Career Services Survey Executive Summary (PDF) (Find out how to get the full report.)
- 2004 NACE Career Services Survey: Executive Summary (PDF)
- 2002 NACE Career Services Performance Measurement Survey: Executive Summary (PDF)
- 2001 NACE Career Services Survey (PDF)
- 2000 NACE Career Services Survey
- 1998 NACE Career Services Survey
- 1997 NACE Career Services Survey
- Career Services Survey Special Break-out Reports
- 2000 NACE Diversity Advancement Survey
- 2007-08 NACE M.B.A. Benchmark Survey
- 2005 NACE M.B.A. Benchmark Survey Executive Summary (PDF)(Find out how to get the full report.)
- 2001 NACE M.B.A. Recruiting & Hiring Survey
- Job Outlook
- 2009
2009 NACE Job Outlook Fall Preview (PDF) - 2008
2008 NACE Job Outlook Spring Update Survey (PDF)
2008 NACE Job Outlook Survey (PDF)
2008 NACE Job Outlook Fall Preview (PDF) - 2007
2007 NACE Job Outlook Spring Update (PDF)
2007 NACE Job Outlook Survey (PDF)
2007 NACE Job Outlook Student Version (PDF)
2007 NACE Job Outlook Fall Preview (PDF) - 2006
2006 NACE Job Outlook Spring Update
2006 NACE Job Outlook Survey (PDF)
2006 NACE Job Outlook Fall Preview (PDF) - 2005
2005 NACE Job Outlook Spring Update (PDF)
2005 NACE Job Outlook Winter Update (PDF)
2005 NACE Job Outlook Survey (PDF)
2005 NACE Job Outlook Student Version (PDF)
2005 NACE Job Outlook Fall Preview (PDF)
- 2009
- 2008 NACE Graduating Student Survey
- 2007 NACE Graduating Student Survey
- 2006 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- 2005 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- 2004 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- 2003 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- 2002 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- 2001 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey (PDF)
- 2000 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- 1999 NACE Graduating Student & Alumni Survey
- Topical Surveys
BEST PRACTICES OF NACE COLLEGE MEMBERS
- Career Exploration
- Career Fairs
- Creative Ideas for Presentations to Students
- Data Collection and Reports
- Diversity
- Employment
- Internship/Co-op Programs
- Marketing
- Mentor Programs
- Programming
- Small Career Centers
- Student Skill Building
- Benchmarking the Status of College Recruiting: NACE Research
- Career Centers and Employers: Creating Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Affirmative Environments
- Career Services and Recruitment in 2018: Addressing the Seismic Shifts in Work Force Development
- Career Services: A Crucial Link
- Closing the Gap: Helping Students Identify the Skills Employers Want
- College Recruiting and Hiring: What to Watch in 2007
- Diversity Recruiting a Focus of Most NACE Member Employers
- Diversity Recruiting: How Career Services Can Help Employers
- Do Employers and Colleges See Eye to Eye? College Student Development and Assessment
- Education Students Benefit From Program at Central Missouri State
- Employer Expectations of Students Attending Job Fairs
- Employer Perceptions of Letters of Recommendation
- Employers and Student Candidates: How They See Each Other
- How Young Professionals Find International Jobs
- The Job Interview: Is Career Services Giving Students a Realistic Picture of What to Expect?
- Key Trends in Career Services and College RecruitingDemographics, Technology, The Nature of Work, Globalization
- Looking Ahead: Got Workers?
- Making Magic: New and Emerging Occupations
- Managing the Transition to Work
- Minority Students Reveal Top Employers and Their Best Qualities
- The More Things Change: Workplace Evolutions Prompt Changes in Counseling Students
- Motivating Generation X and Y on the Job…and Preparing Z
- Multifaceted Relationships Benefit Career Services Offices and Employer Recruiters
- Navigating the Online Application Process: Part 1
- Navigating the Online Application Process: Part 2
- Online Poll: Students Need to Be Better Prepared for Career Fairs
- Only a Phone Call Away: Interviewing Candidates by Telephone
- Preparing Education Majors for the Job Market: Behavior Based Interviewing
- Recruiters: Student Preparedness Vital for Success at Career Fairs
- Resumes: Typos, Grammatical Errors Most Common Resume Mistakes
- So Tell Me About Yourself: Recruiters Offer a New View of the Job Interview
- Still Together After All These Years: The Oregon Liberal Arts Placement Consortium
- Student Expectations of Employers At Job Fairs
- Traditional or Electronic Tools: How Do People Get Hired?
- What Recruiters Want: A Focus Group Study
- Who Gets Hired: Interviewing Skills Are a Prehire Variable
- Who's in the Booth? reverse Job Fairs Change Traditional Dynamics
COUNSELING & CAREER DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
- Career Liftoff® Interest Inventory
- Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development (Tech Center), The Florida State University Career Center
- Discover
- FOCUS II
- Keirsey Sorters
- Sigi 3
- Strong Interest Inventory
EVALUATING THE CAREER SERVICES FUNCTION
- General
- Accountability Creates Challenges, Opportunity for Career Services
- Demonstrating Career Services Success: Rethinking How We Tell the Story
- The Meaning of Learning: How Students Can Effectively Communicate to Employers What They Have Learned (2008 Annual Conference Workshop)
- Measuring Up: Assessment in Career Services
- Mega-Trends Over 50 Years: The Importance of Accountability
- We Think They Need Us, But Do They Really? A Longitudinal Look at the Career Services Needs of Freshmen
- Program Assessment
- Student Outcomes
- Career Center Use Translated Into Job-Search Success
- College Career Center Most Effective Job-Search Tool for New Grads
- Evaluation Tools
- Best Practices for High Student Survey Participation: University of Miami
- Guidelines for Self-Assessment and External Review
- How Others Do It: Effective Data Collection: NACE Members Offer Sample Graduate Surveys
- How Others Do It: Effective Data Collection: Part 2
- How Others Do It: Effective Data Collection: Part 3
- Professional Standards for College & University Career Services
- Professional Standards Evaluation Workbook
- Samples - First Destination Surveys
- Samples - Graduate Exit Surveys – Four-Year College Samples
- Samples - Graduate Exit Surveys – Two-Year College Samples
- Samples - Student Survey of Career Information (PDF)
- Samples - Student Survey of Career Planning Services (PDF)
- Samples - Student Survey of Employment Services (PDF)
- Samples - Student Survey of Graduate School Services (PDF)
- Samples - Student Survey of Internships and/or Cooperative Education Programs (PDF)
- Surveys Made Easy: Online Instruments Can Guide Decision-Making
- Measures of Success
- Success Stories
- General
- Marketing to Students
- Career Services Tailgate Party (Award of Excellence - 2008)
- An Evolution of Solutions: Dissecting Four Approaches to Career Services' Marketing at a Four-Year Institution
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 1
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 2
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 3
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 4
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 5
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 6
- Getting First- and Second-Year Students Involved in Career ServicesPart 7
- Instant Messaging Program Blends High-Tech and High-Touch Services
- Making Critical Connections With First- and Second-Year Students
- Meeting the Challenge: Effective Marketing to Students
- Programming for First- and Second-Year Students: Best Practices
- ROI: Best Practices: Embedded Career Module Helps Montgomery College Reach First-Year Students
- Showtime: Career Development, Customer Loyalty, and the Theater of Transformation
- Tailoring Career Services Programs to Meet the Needs of Today’s Students
- Tapping the Mistaken Market: Career Services for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Terms of Manchester College’s Employment Guarantee Keep Students Engaged in Career Services
- Undergraduate Reality Bytes: How to Use Peer-to-Peer Programming to Captivate and Serve the Facebook Generation
- You Too Can YouTube!
- Marketing to Employers
- Navigating College Career Services in Indiana – Purdue University (Awards of Excellence – Educational Programming – College Winner)
- Perspectives: Based on Experience as a Recruiter, Behrens Shares Tips for Enhancing Employer Relationships
- Still Together After All These Years: The Oregon Liberal Arts Placement Consortium
- What Recruiters Want: A Focus Group Study
- Employability for All?
- Marketing to the College Community
- Marketing to Parents
- Applying Motivational Interviewing and Career Coaching Concepts With Liberal Arts Students
- Anxiety and Career Action: The Impact of Contextual Factors On Graduating College Seniors
- Are Helicopter Parents Landing in Graduate School?
- Attracting the Recent College Graduate: The Question of Location
- A Better Way to Deliver M.B.A. Career Services
- Building a Fee-for-Services Model for Career Services
- The Business Profession: A Developmental Career Preparation Program for Undergraduate Business Majors
- Career Coaches: Inspiring Students to Make Positive Career Changes
- Career Courses: How We Know What Students Are Learning
- Career Exploration Community ProgramUniversity of Florida
- Career Services and the M.B.A. Student
- Career Services and Recruitment in 2018: Addressing the Seismic Shifts in Work Force Development
- Career Services and Student Retention: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Career Support for Students With Disabilities
- Celebrating Successes: The Marriage of Fun and Work
- Chasing Happiness: Is Consumerism in Conflict with Student Career Development?
- Coaching Nontraditional Students: Helping to Remove the Myths
- Creativity Counts: Career Advising College Students in the Arts
- Detour Ahead: Taking a Gap Year After Graduation
- Gay Lives, Straight Jobs: Career Counseling Tips and Resources for GLBT Students
- Help Organize Student Job Searches: Developing an Individual Job Placement Plan
- Helping Stakeholders Understand the ROI of Job-Search Skill Development
- How to Become a Career Services Professional (Career brochure)
- How to Establish a Cyber Career Center
- In Search of Career Services Professionals
- Into the Future: Top Issues and Trends for Career Services and College Recruiting
- Making Magic: New and Emerging Occupations
- Managing a Center With Minimal Staff
- Mega-Trends Over 50 Years
- Myth of the Millennials
- The More Things Change: Workplace Evolutions Prompt Changes in Counseling Students
- Parents Have Their Say . . .About Their College-Age Children's Career Decisions
- Policies and Procedures: Reviewing Graduate School Essays
- Professional Staff/Support Staff: You Can Eliminate Outdated Elitism
- Research to Practice: DO-IT Prepares Students With Disabilities for Employment
- Recession-Proof Career Management Skills:Adding Value to Coaching Students, Alumni, and Employees
- Recruiting Trends and the Economy: A Southern Employer Retreat Roundtable
- Self-Managed Career Services: A Team Approach
- Self-Managed Team Revisited
- Serving Students With ADD
- Staff Development in Career Services
- Step by StepCreating a Strategic Management System for Career Services Delivery
- Student Profiles and Career Planning: Case Study of a Human Resources Development Program
- We Think They Need Us, But Do They Really?
- What if Students Listened to Everything We Said?
- Workshops Revisited
- Writing for Dollars: Researching Grants and Writing Proposals
SAMPLES: SURVEYS, FORMS, LETTERS, JOB DESCRIPTIONS, CAREER CENTER NEWSLETTERS
- First Destination Surveys
- Hold Harmless AgreementsSamples submitted by JobPlace members
- Job DescriptionsCareer Services Professionals
- Newsletters from JobPlace Member Career Centers
- Policies and Procedures: Reviewing Graduate School Essays
- Recruiter Packets (articles available for photocopying)
- ReciprocitySix Sample Letters of Request
- Reciprocity: A Sample School Policy
- Graduate Exit Surveys (four-year schools)
- Sample Recruitment Policies
- Student Survey of Career Information (PDF)
- Student Survey of Career Planning Services (PDF)
- Student Survey of Employment Services (PDF)
- Student Survey of Graduate School Services (PDF)
- Student Survey of Internships and/or Cooperative Education Programs (PDF)
- How Social Networking Sites Affect Employers, Students, and Career Services
- JobWeb
- Quick Poll Results: More Than One-Quarter of Organizations Have "Googled"/Reviewed Candidate Profiles on Social Networking Sites
- 2006-07 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey for Four-Year Colleges and UniversitiesPart One (PDF)
- 2007 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey for Two-Year Colleges (PDF)
- Delivery of Services (2000 NACE Career Services Survey)
- Developing A Virtual Job Fair For Your Campus
- How to Establish a Cyber Career Center
- How Social Networking Sites Affect Employers, Students, and Career Services
- The Issues Surrounding College Recruiting and Social Networking Web Sites
- Key Trends in Career Services & College Recruiting: Technology
- Mega-Trends Over 50 Years
- Quick Poll Results: More Than One-Quarter of Organizations Have "Googled"/Reviewed Candidate Profiles on Social Networking Sites
- Surveys Made Easy: Online Instruments Can Guide Decision-Making
- Technology: Impact On and Implications for College Career Centers
- Technology: Shaping and Moving the Profession Forward
- Technology Decision-Making In Career Services
- Using New Media: Blogs and Social Networking Technology
- You Are Not Alone: Beware of What You Say on the Internet
- Guess Who's Coming to Campus: A Guide to Third-Party Recruiting
- Student's Guide to Interviewing with Third Party Recruiters
- Bridging the Gap Between Student Expectations and Employer Reality: Electronic Tools and College Recruiting
- NACE White Paper: Can High Tech Coexist With High Touch? Online Application Processes and Career Fairs
- The Growing Concern for Privacy Online
- Native American Achievement Program
- NACE White Paper: Hold Harmless Agreements