Career Success Library | Strategic Priorities

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2023-2024

Strategic Priorities of the Office for Career Success

#1

The Office for Career Success will establish uniform, campus-wide standards and learning expectations for internships across all academic undergraduate and graduate programs.

MAY 2023

Using the Career Champions task force group, create an internal roadmap for succeeding with this priority.

AUGUST 2023

Synthesize variations and similarities of each academic program’s internship program by collecting and recording their programming expectations. Obtain research on evidence-based practices.

DECEMBER 2023

Issue recommendations that align with the newly created 4-year career milestone pathway for undergraduate students and describes how faculty, staff, students, alumni, and employers can create success for the student's internship.

DECEMBER 2024

Execute full rollout with university executive leadership, faculty, staff, and OCS team.

Rationale: Our Career Leadership Collective consultants recommend increased intentionality to ensure career-related experiences. This allows Gallaudet University to truly impact students by requiring two career-related experiences prior to graduation. The campus is already primed for such a requirement given the high number of students employed on campus and the proximity to world class internships in Washington, D.C. Each academic program would still retain autonomy in defining specifics around the requirements for these career experiences.

#2

The Office for Career Success will bolster career data and the overall story of career success for Gallaudet students and alumni.

MAY 2023

Completion, with support from cross-unit department representatives, of a robust alumni career data plan that provides insight about 1, 5 and 10-year career data.

MAY 2023

Spotlight a new success story alternating between student and employer perspective each week while school is in session. Elevate these stories in the University’s web presence, as well to key donors, grantors, and to prospective students.

AUGUST 2023

With guidance from the Career Champions working group, create a roadmap to regularly share career data internally and externally. Such data would include career engagement data, first job data, and the new alumni career success data from the NACM survey. The roadmap would also contain an annual schedule for sharing new and relevant career success data of all kinds with campus stakeholders, including an annual presentation to the campus community on 1-, 5-, and 10- year career insights of graduates, career engagement trends, and broader employment trends directly affecting Gallaudet students and alumni.

Rationale: Given the changes in higher education and the economy, creating a high sense of transparency aids greatly in building and maintaining relationships across shareholders: students, prospective students, alumni, employers, school faculty, staff and administration. This also helps establish accountability for the Office for Career Success, and provides a sense of purpose for their work.

#3

The Office for Career Success will engage faculty in leading a campus-wide understanding of the new career milestones that all Gallaudet undergraduate students experience.

MAY 2023

Engage with the University Communications team on the launch of a series of presentations on the new career milestones for students, faculty and staff as well as employers.

MAY 2024

Engage with faculty on implementing the new career milestones framework. Include special focus on students curating their career competencies as they progress through their university experience.

Rationale: Career milestones are widely seen as the guiding framework of a university’s career education. They inform students, prospective students and their parents as well as employers about the university’s learning priorities for instilling career success in their student’s college pathways.

#4

The Office for Career Success will build a digital career library targeting students, alumni, employers and community.

MAY 2023

Recruit & hire Senior Digital Engagement Coordinator.

AUGUST 2023

Establish benchmarks for type and quality of materials to be made available to the public as
well as exclusively to Gallaudet students and employers.

AUGUST 2023

Explore pricing strategies (see Strategic Priority #5).

DECEMBER 2023

Explore marketing strategies to raise awareness, on a national and global level, about the career education resources available
through our Office.

Rationale: There remains much evidence that deaf individuals are underemployed; Gallaudet University is well positioned to take the global stage in establishing themselves as the leading expert on career education for the Deaf and hard of hearing community. They can set the example for illustrating how Deaf Gain can elevate the employability of Gallaudet students and deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In order for this to be accomplished, they must have reliable and professionally developed educational products.

#5

The Office for Career Success will build systems, capabilities, and partnerships to generate the supplemental revenue to support the resources and initiatives necessary to achieve the goals identified in strategic priorities #1-4.

DECEMBER 2023

Design the systems, capabilities, and processes necessary to raise funds for OCS strategic priorities in 2023 and beyond.

DECEMBER 2023

Compile and report on the information needed to achieve this goal, including meeting with the Development Office and OCS at other colleges and Universities to understand what systems they have in place and what can be replicated within GU’s OCS.

MAY 2024

Identify 3-5 potential grants and coordinate strategies with the
Development Office.

MAY 2024

Create sponsorship tier opportunities for employers.

Rationale: Currently, we rely on endowment accounts to fund much of our employer networking sessions and supporting students with their internships. There are additional sources of revenue that can be investigated to support our center’s multiple endeavors.