{"id":78698,"date":"2022-02-05T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78698"},"modified":"2022-02-05T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T18:01:12","slug":"reflections-on-rethinking-the-faculty-role-in-students-career-readiness-toor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/02\/05\/reflections-on-rethinking-the-faculty-role-in-students-career-readiness-toor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “Rethinking the Faculty Role in Students\u2019 Career Readiness” [Toor]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rethinking the Faculty Role in Students\u2019 Career Readiness<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com by Rachel Toor; with thanks to Ryan Craig for this solid, well-written resource
\nIt\u2019s time for all of us on campuses, not just the people in career services, to step up and help offer the competencies employers say they\u2019re looking for, Rachel Toor writes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

Career centers on campuses can offer students coaching, resources and connections. But, as Angle points out, they tend to be a just-in-time service. They are also, he says, \u201cscary places for a lot of students.\u201d Many young people don\u2019t want to face the reality of life after graduation. Often, it\u2019s a case of too little, too late.<\/p>\n

Instead, they come to people they know\u2014professors like me\u2014for help with cover letters and r\u00e9sum\u00e9s. And while I can comment on language, until recently I had no idea about how most r\u00e9sum\u00e9s are read first by a version of R2-D2 and his little robot friends who make up automated tracking systems. If an applicant doesn\u2019t include the right keywords in a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 or cover letter, into the trash bin they go.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is, I have not applied for a job in 15 years; for many of my colleagues it\u2019s been even longer, and some of them have never worked outside academe. It\u2019s not surprising that employers are seeing recent college grads\u2014smart students, hard workers\u2014who don\u2019t know how to present themselves as potential employees.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From DSC:<\/em><\/span>
\nI can relate to that part about R2-D2 reading the resumes first (i.e., trying to get by the Applicant Tracking Systems before one’s resume ever makes it in front of the eyes of a fellow human being). Many faculty\/staff members and members of administrations haven’t been out interviewing in a long while. So it can be a rude awakening when they\/we need to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, I wanted to say that it’s not fair to assess<\/em> the learners coming out of higher education using a different set of learning objectives<\/em>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n