Strategic Directions for Career Services Within the University Setting

Filled with strategic directions, practical advice and best practices, this volume delivers an overview of emerging trends for the career services profession.Hot topics include:* a blend of research, case studies, and personal experiences that are intended to stimulate a productive dialogue about career services* how career services professionals should be leaders in creating university-wide, innovative career programs and systems* discussions of assessment, collaboration with academic advising, external relations, and internationalization.This is the 148th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly series. An indispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and other student services professionals, New Directions for Student Services offers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.

EDITOR'S NOTES 1Kelli K. Smith1. Evolution of Career Services in Higher Education5Farouk Dey, Christine Y. CruzvergaraSocioeconomic changes, technological advances, and generationaltrends have been the impetus behind every major paradigm shift inthe delivery of career services in higher education during the pastcentury, including the one taking shape today. This chapter willprovide an overview of the changing nature and emerging trends thatare shaping the future of career services in higher education.2. Value-Added Career Services: CreatingCollege/University-Wide Systems 19Jeff GarisThis chapter addresses a range of core programs that careercenters can lead in contributing to an institution-wide seamlesssystem of career services.3. Back to the Basics: Career Counseling 35Keri Carter Pipkins, Gail S. Rooney, Imants JaunarajsThis chapter emphasizes that the practice of career counselingshould be the foundation of career centers.4. Academic Advising and Career Services: A CollaborativeApproach 49Katherine E. LedwithThis chapter describes how career services professionals andacademic advising units can partner to serve college students.Observations are also provided regarding the role of advising andbest practices to meet the growing need for a shared approach tothe academic and career needs of students.5. Framing Assessment for Career Services: Telling Our Story65Julia Panke Makela, Gail S. RooneyThis chapter provides career professionals with an overview ofcurrent assessment practices and a framework for understanding howto bring practitioner-led assessment activities into dailypractice.6. Career Services in University External Relations81Seth C. W. Hayden, Katherine E. LedwithThe chapter will focus on the role of career services inexternal relations. It will provide the basis for this connectionalong with best practices in developing and maintaining a mutuallybeneficial relationship between career centers and on-campus andoff-campus partners.7. The Globalization of Career Services 93Mark A. Kenyon, Heather T. Rowan-KenyonThis chapter emphasizes the important role career services playsin advising students about global careers.INDEX 103