Actually Connect the Classroom to Real Careers
Career experience leads to career readiness.
There's more to career confidence than studies
In Academic Affairs offices, selecting a major is – rightly – a big deal. After graduation, however, the academic classes a student found success in won’t always make or break a learner’s career. Since most switch jobs four times in the first decade after college¹, majors aren’t the only way universities can ensure post-college student success. Enter: experiences.
Career Prep
Leveraging career connections
Reality is, career paths today aren’t linear. And academic advising can adapt to this. Universities can prepare students to be career ready, just as well as they prepare students to be leaders, researchers, scholars, and fellows. Offering access to relationship-rich and work-integrated experiences is how.
Student Expectations Have Changed
Classes must support careers
Even if they're unsure of what their career will look like, as college students enter college, research shows they're job-aware from the start.
University's Greatest Marketing Tool
Alumni serve as a valuable resource
With PeopleGrove, universities can give their learners a dynamic way to consume as many career experiences as possible through a win-win resource: alumni. Inside PeopleGrove, students (and alumni seeking career support) are connected to career exploration content and alumni. Video career stories from real professionals and multimedia resumes make for bite-sized learning opportunities. And PeopleGrove helps learners ask those alumni how their major connects to their career, making students better informed about their choices – and helping them build social capital.
Connections Support Careers
Social capital is key
Students overwhelming recognize building a network will help their careers, studies show.
Student Testimonial
It was really cool being able to connect directly with people who have followed the career path that I intend to take, and hearing their thoughts on what I should do in the future.
Career-focused features for academic affairs
Academic success includes career confidence with PeopleGrove’s Career Access Platform™.
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References
- CNN Business, “The new normal: 4 job changes by the time you’re 32,” 2016
- UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, “The American Freshman,” 2019
- Intelligent, "1 in 7 College Graduates Earn Less Than the Poverty Threshold," 2022
- PeopleGrove's 2021-2022 Benchmarks Report