Welcome to the first edition of Breaking Barriers, a biweekly leadership column for career services professionals! Featuring insights, advice, and inspiration on preparing the next generation of diverse leaders from Daniel Pascoe Aguilar, a 20-year leader in career services and higher education.  ..read more

Like many institutions, Illinois Institute of Technology struggled with enrollment after COVID as students took a hard look at the value of higher education in a post-pandemic world ..read more

uConnect, the creator of the first all-in-one virtual career center platform, announced today that it has acquired Candid Career, the premier provider of more than 8,000 career education videos to colleges and universities across the country ..read more

According to Gallup, 96% of chief academic officers at higher education institutions believe they are preparing students for the workforce, however barely one in 10 (11%) business leaders strongly agree that college graduates have the skills and competencies that their workplaces need. Even if we agree the reality is somewhere in the middle, it’s clear that there's a glaring skills gap that exists among most students coming out of college. At uConnect, we believe that the answer isn't to necessarily overhaul the curriculum - which might be what many of the 96% of academics are protecting when ..read more

One goal we often hear from our college and university partners is that they want to engage students with career services earlier in the student journey. This is an incredibly important goal that all career services offices, and institutions at the higher level, should focus upon. In working towards getting students to begin career exploration and development sooner, it is critical to remember that many students won’t be ready to create resumes, pursue internships, or meet employers right off the bat. Such students who engage with their career center and only see job postings and resume servi ..read more

Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), a leading graduate school within the New York City-based Ivy League institution, has now launched their virtual career center - bringing career development to the forefront for their community ..read more

The divide between what job seekers offer and what employers need continues to be a massive problem. Today, there are 7.5 million unfilled jobs and nearly 10 million people unemployed, in the U.S. alone.
 Students will enter a workforce where as many as 120 million workers in the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled by 2022, according to a recent IBM report ..read more