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Prioritizing Career Advancement of Students with Jackie Slaats
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Join Sarah Holtan, PhD, as she sits down with Jackie Slaats, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Career Advancement at Lake Forest College. Jackie’s commitment to career readiness has transformed Lake Forest into a leader in integrating career services into college life. This episode is packed with strategies that can redefine how institutions prepare students for their future careers.
Lake Forest boasts an impressive employment rate and has been ranked #1 for social mobility. What exactly makes their approach stand out? Jackie shares the college’s innovative pathways and community-focused programs that engage alumni and faculty in unique ways to foster student success.
Wondering how a commitment to career services can elevate a college’s mission? Listen to Jackie’s unprecedented journey from athletics to career leadership and discover how Lake Forest is leading the way in higher education advancement.
Episode Highlights:
02:46 - One thing we did early is put together what we call our career pathways, and it was recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as very kind of cutting edge and getting out there, and actually taking the different majors and putting them into pathways. Just to give you an example, we have five pathways: Business, Finance, and Data Science, which is a relatively new topic. We have Creative Arts and Communication. We have Law and Public service. We have Science and Health Care, and then we have our Build Your Own, which is really just kind of where you live until you figure out where you want to land.
14:48 - The other thing we do is we offer a very unique CAREER Program. It started during COVID, and this is important–CAREER, and it is because we started this idea in COVID. It was all of a sudden, what are we going to do for career advancement? Our students are home, and our alumni can really help us here. So we started with this idea of CARE. So we had our alumni, different than other networking, reach out to our students. In most networking situations, students reach out and ask for help. In this one instance, because of COVID, we had our alums reach out to our students and really say, "How are you doing? How can I help you?" We have a very different job market out here. But what happened out of that program was it was so successful.
18:09 - We have an amazing Career Advancement Center Team. Our director, she's in her tenth year. Again, continuity in that is important, too. Keeping your staff, making sure they really get to know your students. The students have people they can trust. Between our faculty and our staff, our students feel very supported in the career space, and I think that's important. We even offer these certifications for students at another time after they graduate if they want to pick up some more of those. It just never hurts.
Sarah Holtan, PhD
Jackie Slaats
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