Connections
Career
Strategy Session
Bonner Fall Network Meeting
The Claggett Center • November 5-8, 2023
SessionGoals
• Gain a deeper understanding of models and frameworks that
support links between student development, service, and career
paths.
• Re
f
lect on current structures and identify key areas of campus
or programatic growth.
• Take back ideas for building and sustaining structures and
programs that support linkages between career and students'
service experiences.
SessionAgenda
•Raise your hand if…. (25 min)
•What’s all this talk about Career Connections? (20 min)
•Existing Models in our Network
•Post It Activity (20 min)
•What are Common Themes? (15 min)
•Group Sharing (10 min)
RaiseYourHandIf….
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Please raise your hand high if the
following statement resonates with
you, your program, or campus
Career Services facilitates trainings/
workshops at your Bonner
Meetings on interviewing skills
RaiseYourHandIf……..
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Your Bonner Program or Career
Services offer resume review
Your Career Services offers
programing for speci
f
ic career
pathways
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Your Community Engagement Center is
utilizing the National Association of
Colleges and Employers (NACE)
competencies or other NACE resources
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Career Services provides support/
resources for students interested in the
non-pro
f
it and public service sector
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Career Services has a system/tool for
f
inding internship or job opportunities
(e.g., Handshake)
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Career Services has an assessment tool
for career exploration (e.g., career quiz)
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Your faculty provide structured
opportunities for advising to students on
their post graduate & career next steps
RaiseYourHandIf……..
Student
Perspective
What’sAllThisTalkAboutCareerConnections?
What’sAllThisTalkAboutCareerConnections?
What’sAllThisTalkAboutCareerConnections?
What’sAllThisTalkAboutCareerConnections?
ExistingModelsin
ourNetwork
CareerCommunities
OberlinCollege
Explore the communities to see which areas interest you
most:
•Arts, Communications and Creative Professions
•Business, Consulting and Finance
•Careers with Social Impact
•Law and Public Policy
•Medical, Global Health and STEM
•Music Performance, Education and Administration
CareerExplorationCommunities
CentreCollege
CareerExplorationCommunities
CentreCollege
CareerPathwaysInitiative
SpelmanCollege
Funded by United
Negro College
Fund (UNCF)
Offered
fi
ve years
of diverse
programming
around its theme of
melding careers
and the curriculum
CenterforPurposefulWork
BatesCollege
Club Collaboration – We can help you:
1. Bring in Speakers
2. Add Club Experience To Your Resume
3. De
fi
ne Transferable, Career-Related Skills
4. Craft Workshops or Make Individual
Appointments
CenterforPurposefulWork
BatesCollege
Purposeful Work Mini-Grant Funding Request
offers limited
fi
nancial support to students for professional
attire, graduate school test prep & application fees, and
interview and conference transportation costs, insofar as
they relate to Purposeful Work.
Mini-Grant awards are available up to $300.00 for
most purposes, or up to $150.00 for professional attire.
CareerServices
University of Richmond
PostIt!
PostIt!
1. How can your center better support Bonners and other students to
connect community engagement and civic experiences with their career
pathway?
2. How can your institution better support students to connect community
engagement and civic experiences with their career pathway?
3. What can the Foundation do to support you, your program, and
institution?
CommonThemes
Organize common themes/questions & report out
LargeGroupSharing
What’s one action item you will try to
implement when you return to campus?

Fall Network Meeting Career Connections.pdf