The Business Case for Employee Career Development Programs

By Don Schutt

Workforce shortages, demographic shifts, and skill mismatches are reshaping talent acquisition and retention. Employee career development programs are vital for reskilling, closing skill gaps, and driving retention. Career Service Providers play a critical role in championing these initiatives, ensuring organizations adapt, compete, and thrive in an evolving and highly competitive labor market.

Overcoming Students’ Assumptions About Career Counseling

By Adam Diaz

Understanding the integrative approach that is needed to support clients makes career counseling concepts both practical and expansive. Selecting frameworks that tap into this is fundamental in career counselor training.

Applying the Production Triangle to Career Development for Informed Decision-Making

By Leslie Ferrari

The Production Triangle, which evaluates the balance of cost, time, and scope of a project, could offer a useful framework for career development practitioners. Using this concept to clarify priorities and trade-offs, career development practitioners can empower clients to make informed decisions about their education, job searches, and long-term goals. This can support realistic expectations and strategic planning for career development and satisfaction.

Strengths-Based Career Counseling: Ideas for School Counseling Practice

By Jill S. Minor

When preparing students for options after high school, it is important that school counselors are equipped with effective strategies and practices to aid in their decision-making. Strength-based career counseling is a process that school counselors can use to assess students’ strengths through the use of assessments and other career interventions.

Confidently Navigating Career Paths

By Manny Velásquez-Paredes

Career services practitioners can aid the creation of a welcoming environment by advocating for inclusive policies, networking, and fostering a supportive community on behalf of students, including transgender and nonbinary (TNB) students. Practitioners can empower TNB students to confidently navigate their career paths and contribute to a more inclusive and equitable workforce.

Women, Work and Intersecting Identities: Key Coaching Strategies for Engagement and Retention

By Rhonda L. Norman

The awareness that women’s workforce participation continues to increase, at a slightly greater rate than men, is an important factor when considering the culture of the workplace. This article highlights the impact of the “Great Resignation” for women with intersecting identities. Further emphasis is placed on affirming the strengths of intersectional women. Key strategies for career practitioners are included to support the retention of women in the workplace.

Becoming a Career Professional: Around the Globe

By Amy Zdanowski and the GCC’s Shared Insights Group

This is the second installment in a series based on interviews conducted by the Shared Insights Group, a subcommittee of the NCDA’s Global Connections Committee (GCC). These articles share insights gained from interviews with randomly selected international members of the GCC.

Making Surveys using ChatGPT

Need to survey participants after a career service event? I used ChatGPT to help create a short survey for each session of our university’s 2-day Senior Career Bootcamp. Simply by entering "Short Feedback Survey for Guest Speakers" in the ChatGPT prompt, I was able to create/copy/paste a one sheet printout for each of our sessions. I dubbed it "The 45 Second Survey", and all attending students quickly provided helpful and valuable information for each session. Watch my how-to video here.

Tech Tip submitted by Young Choi-Plass, ychoiplass@soka.edu