Robert Pearl Starks

Stacey, I hear you on this one. I remember similar challenges. Because career professionals rely on others (gatekeepers) to partner with us to provide us with what we need to do our jobs, relationships are essential to our ability to optimize our results. Often, when I was a Director of Career Services, we had some Registrars we frequently interacted with at other schools to get enrollment verification. These are people we would send thank you cards to or go out of our way to do something nice for them. In the event that such people are on social media platforms,… >>>

Hello Stacey, This is a big question that requires a thorough response – so, here it is for you: The challenge you present is how can one intervene with a robust plan that helps students get experience before they graduate and how does social media play a role in that overall plan? A number of intervention strategies I’m sure you’ve already identified are developing programs such as internships, externships, service learning programs, volunteering opportunities, etc. that encourage students to get experience while they are in school. The ideal situation is when you can make experience a required part of the… >>>

Stacey, Before identifying a tool, you'd have to first identify your goal. Let me give you an example. The reason Career Services conducts workshops is to educate students. The idea is that educating students improves their career readiness, thus, increasing their likelihood of success which is a win-win. In this example, if your goal were to improve the career-readiness of students by scaling your educational workshops (Reaching more students), you could use a few tools to help you accomplish this goal. So, you might choose to create short video snippets covering a variety of career topics and have a Youtube… >>>

Stacey, I shared these 10 tips in forum 3 but since you mentioned LinkedIn, I thought I'd share them with you in case any of them might be helpful to you when discussing some basics on optimizing a LinkedIn profile: 1. Build a 100% complete profile and create a vanity URL for your profile. To create a vanity URL, instructions are in my blog post: http://bit.ly/u7iH0k 2. Use a professional-looking head shot photo consistent across all social media platforms you use (This is brand consistency) 3. Optimize key words in your profile that align with target industry/job since profiles become… >>>