How to Make Career Everywhere a Reality on Campus (feat. Nancy Bilmes, Christian Garcia, and Mike Summers)

Career Everywhere

In this episode, Nancy Bilmes of UConn, Christian Garcia of the University of Miami, and Mike Summers of Lafayette College each share how they’re making Career Everywhere a reality on their campuses.

The University of Connecticut has built one of the most robust and successful Career Champion programs in the country, with over 1,000 faculty, staff, alumni, and employer participants who have been learning about current career-related trends, resources, and language to have more confident and meaningful career conversations with students.

The University of Miami has found creative ways to engage faculty and staff (including a faculty toolkit, a dedicated webpage, and an annual awards ceremony) and embedded live RSS job feeds into every academic department website.

Lafayette College holds networking opportunities and programming that focus on helping students build social capital, aligns all career counselors to majors and liaises with faculty to create partnerships, uses their website to make career resources available 24/7, and more.

Resources from the episode:

• Nancy’s LinkedIn profile
• Christian’s LinkedIn profile
• Mike’s LinkedIn profile
• Career Everywhere community (join today!)
• PDF handout with resources
• How to Build and Scale a Career Champion Program podcast (UConn)
• Example of a Career Champion newsletter (UConn, 2023)
• UConn’s virtual career center website (powered by uConnect)
• UConn Career Champions resources page (which includes their champion intake forms)
• University of Miami faculty toolkit PDF (2022)
• University of Miami faculty toolkit PDF (2023)
• Live job and internship RSS feed for the College of Arts and Sciences (Miami)
• Toppel Awards homepage (Miami)
• Career Everywhere Live recording about the Toppel Awards (Miami)
• Toppel Faculty and Staff Engagement Hub webpage (Miami)
• University of Miami virtual career center (powered by uConnect)
• Lafayette College’s virtual career center (powered by uConnect)
• Learn more about uConnect

Join the Career Everywhere Community today: careereverywhere.com/community