Hi Vanessa,
Thank you for sharing your experience! This is a great "case-study" for others who may want to implement similar strategies. My own experience is very similar to the process you described. In my experience, faculty were a bit more territorial and had lots of resistance with exception of a few. I partnered with the DOE and requested to conduct training for our faculty at in-services. I still remember the first time I delivered a training - light bulbs came on and they had the "aha" moment and saw that what we conveyed to them (which is what we wanted to train our students on) was of high value and was an urgent need. They were all on board and our office started getting invited to go to classrooms because faculty were so excited about what we were teaching. This lead to a formalized process of identifying specific courses throughout each program where Career Services would conduct workshops/presentations on specific career topics. I found that educating our faculty helped get enthusiastic buy-in but it helped build advocacy for Career Services and made our instructors better - they appreciated learning and wanted to pass what they learned along to their students.
It's valuable to hear these stories - thank you for sharing!
Robert Starks Jr.