Scaling Engagement with Career Services in a Business School Environment (feat. Toni Rhorer and Gene Rhee)

When it comes to student engagement with career services and resources, business schools are a different beast.

First, most students enrolled in business schools (especially those in graduate programs) have specific goals and expectations around post-graduation outcomes. As a result, they often require more frequent and specialized engagement with career services.

Second, it’s no secret that rankings and reputation play a critical role in the success of every business school. Career outcomes directly influence both of those things, which is why many business schools have their own career centers and leverage their own relationships with employers, faculty, alumni, and more.

In this episode, we talk with Toni Rhorer of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego and Gene Rhee of the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon about how they’ve scaled engagement with career services. 

Toni and Gene share tactical strategies about:

• How they get buy-in from faculty to embed career development into curriculum
• How they partner with admissions (and use outcomes data)
• How they use technology to make resources available 24/7
• How they leverage student clubs, alumni, employers, and more for large-scale programming
• How they’ve turned 1:1 appointments into personalized, high-value sessions
• And more

Resources from the episode:

• Toni’s LinkedIn profile
• Gene’s LinkedIn profile
• Rady School of Management’s virtual career center (powered by uConnect)
• Lundquist College of Business’ virtual career center (powered by uConnect)

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