Sharon Belden Castonguay of Wesleyan University explains why a liberal arts education equips students with the adaptability, critical thinking, and employability needed to thrive in an AI-driven and constantly changing job market.

Gerald Tang of Bridgewater State University shares how his team is rethinking employer engagement by using data, tiered partnerships, and regional focus to build more meaningful, mission-aligned relationships that better serve students and the workforce.

Career services leaders from three institutions share practical strategies for scaling impact with tiny teams, leveraging technology, partnerships, and smart prioritization to better support students at any size campus.

Dr. Matt Cowley of Virginia Tech shares how his team built a cross-campus coalition—uniting career services with financial aid, procurement, legal, payroll, advancement, the controller’s office, and employers—to design and execute a creative, compliant solution for funding unpaid and underpaid internships.

Learn how PennWest launched a university-wide Experiential Learning Center across three campuses—aligning it with institutional priorities and transforming how students access and articulate meaningful hands-on learning experiences.

AI expert and The Job Insiders founder Jeremy Schifeling breaks down AI’s impact on jobs and in-demand skills, while sharing a three-point plan career coaches can use to help students AI-proof their careers.

Briana Randall of the University of Washington shares how her team secured major, ongoing funding through a Student Tech Fee grant—and what they learned from the creative (and a few not-so-successful) strategies they tried along the way to expand their career center’s budget.

Anita DeCianni Brown shares how she scales career support for SUNY Empire State University’s 17,000+ online, largely nontraditional students through flexible programming, technology, and partnerships across campus.

Oregon State’s new Beyond OSU curriculum is making career education a core part of every student’s journey. In this episode, Brenna Gomez, Director of Career Integration, shares how her team collaborated with faculty to embed career learning into gen ed courses and what other schools can learn from OSU’s approach.

From board pressures to budget realities, Joretta Nelson explains what keeps cabinet leaders up at night—and how career services can meet the moment with empathy, evidence, and impact.

Longtime enrollment leader Jonathan Wehner (Carnegie) shares how career services can be a mission-critical partner to enrollment—using outcomes data, student stories, and strategic collaboration to prove ROI and drive student success.

Julia Vollrath and Marissa Altenburg from the University of Florida share how career services leaders can foster a true data culture—making data accessible, consistent, and actionable to drive decisions, storytelling, and cross-campus collaboration.