What is the Career Collaborative?
The Career Collaborative supports busy staff and faculty by providing up to date resources for career exploration and planning to aid in connecting the classroom to life after college.
We’re a community of individuals committed to democratizing and ensuring equitable access to career information and resources, facilitated by the Strommen Center. We invite all faculty and staff to become a part of the Collaborative to build on the conversations and work you’re already doing in the classroom and in extracurricular spaces.
Goals
- Increase connection and understanding to Strommen Center staff and services and allow faculty/staff to provide targed referals
- Promote understanding in how the Strommen Center supports faculty/staff missions and learning objectives for students
- Support faculty/staff in educating students with a variety of career resrouces and using common langauge about career regardless of department
Not ready to join the Collaborative? Learn more about connecting with the Strommen Center to connect career and classroom learning in the flyer linked below.
FAQ
Most students (and their families) say their top reason for enrolling in college is to improve the student’s job prospects. However, a survey by Forage and Knit Research shared with 1,000 college students pursuing four-year degrees in 2022 found that across all four years of school, only 47% of college students felt confident or somewhat confident that they knew how to get a job after college. The Career Collaborative aims to better prepare students and support staff, faculty, and other Augsburg community members with resources and tools to integrate career exploration into the college experience.
There is also powerful data about the overall reach that faculty can have with students. Consider the table below:
Students report having more advice from faculty, namely because they interact with them more closely and more frequently than career center staff. Through supporting faculty with career resources, the Strommen can better support faculty and staff in conversations they are already having and encourage more conversations across campus as well.
- Sign up and share a little information regarding familiarity with career integration in the classroom
- Read our newsletter and use our website to receive updates and easy to access resources
- Engage with students in career conversations and make targeted referrals to Strommen
- Attend at least one virtual Lunch & Learn over the course of the year hosted by Strommen Center staff
- Engage in optional events and workshops as able, including 1:1 meeting with Strommen staff
- Faculty and staff can name and/or feel connected to at least one staff member in the Strommen Center.
- Faculty can understand how the Strommen Center supports their mission and learning objectives for students.
- Faculty can confidently provide targeted referrals to Strommen Center services and staff memebers
- Faculty can educate students on the variety of career resources available to them
- Faculty can use common language about career regardless of department
- Students will receive career resources and information, regardless if they visit our office or not
- Students will be able to make connections between what they learn in the classroom and what they plan to do after graduation
- Students will strengthen connections to staff, faculty, and to the Augsburg community
Have questions or want to schedule a personal 1:1 session with the Strommen Center? Email Gina Musto (musto@augsburg.edu) to learn more about the Career Collaborative!
Lunch & Learns
All faculty and staff are invited to attend virtual lunch and learns on various topics. They are hosted 2-3 times a semester on Wednesdays from 12pm – 1pm and are recorded for those who cannot attend.
