Mary, Does you school have any required programs or courses for students? Here is a small sample of some I'd like to toss out for everyone and hope to see the list of interventions grow: ● Required Career Preparation courses as part of core curriculum ● A series of required career services seminars ● Periodic portfolio and/or department chair/lead instructor panel reviews after so many credit hours have been completed as "career-readiness" checkpoints ● Student school-to-work transition programs that focus on career management skills or leadership programs ● Volunteer/service-learning programs or real-world community-based projects ● Networking programs ● Interdisciplinary projects where possible ● Personal-branding camps or "Me Inc." camps to teach and practice online personal branding ● Alumni community/mentor programs ● Industry field trips and/or site visits ● Success T.V. - Consider a Youtube Channel of successful alumni/students sharing their advice with other students/alumni (and promoting Career Services!) ● Guest speaker programs/panel discussions/webinars ● Industry-focused events to bring employers to campus for relationship-building beyond job fairs such as Best Practices in Internship Program development workshop for employers, skills-based workshops to refresh employer skills, chamber events, professional association event hosting, etc. (List is endless!) ● Employer newsletter for constant contact with employers perhaps featuring "Top" students as a means to drive competition for student success with their benefit being they may get featured in a newsletter distributed to employers. The benefit to employers is that you are branding your CS department as the place to get the best, most talented new hires as you feature the top candidates as a marketing strategy There are many creative ideas out there and social media can play a role in all of these interventions to enhance what career centers are already doing. This is but a small list to consider. Of course, everyone has different resources and capabilities so never will all interventions be feasible, but innovation should always be attempted! What other types of interventions/programs can you identify? Robert Starks Jr.