How Career Services Can Innovate for the Future of Work (feat. Joe Catrino)

Joe Catrino, the Executive Director of Career and Life Design at Trinity College, talks about how career services and higher education can innovate and prepare students for the future of work.

Much of Joe’s philosophy is inspired by the concepts of life design and design thinking and how they can be applied within career services. He even wrote a chapter on “Design Thinking and the New Career Center” in the 2022 textbook Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education.

In this episode, Joe shares what the future of work means for higher education, how career services can embed life design into career coaching, what it will take to make sure today’s students are ready for tomorrow’s workforce, and more.

“Jobs that our students are going to have, they don't even exist yet. So how do you prepare students for that? How do you prepare for this future of work, this disruption? Well, you focus on skills,” Joe says.

Resources from the episode:

• Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education textbook (Joe wrote chapter 8: “Design Thinking and the New Career Center”)
• Designing Your Life book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• Long Life Learning book by Michelle Weise
• Robot-Ready report by Emsi (now Lightcast) and Strada Education Network
• Joe’s LinkedIn page

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