Amplifying Your Impact Through Campus Partnerships (feat. Rebekah Paré)

Rebekah Paré, the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Paré Consulting and a former longtime career services leader, shares how career leaders can amplify their impact through campus partnerships.

After 20 years in career services and higher ed, Rebekah began her consulting business in 2023 to help career centers all around the world develop strategies that improve students' career readiness and outcomes, engage alumni, elevate the career center’s status with employers and community members, and attract prospective students and their families. 

In the episode, Rebekah talks about:

• Why building effective partnerships across campus is so important 
• What’s at risk if career leaders don’t prioritize building partnerships with other stakeholders
• How career leaders can go about building partnerships (and with whom)
• How to leverage those partnerships to advance the career center’s goals
• How to balance long-term strategy with short-term day-to-day tasks
• How career leaders can combat outdated perceptions about what the career center does
• And more

Resources from the episode:

• Rebekah’s LinkedIn profile
• Rebekah’s website
• (Re-)Introducing your new ROI department: Career Services (LinkedIn article, includes the Career Services Relationship Map)

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