Exemplary career services leading students into the future.
We provide compassionate, comprehensive career assistance to the diverse Texas State family. Our exploration, experiential, and job search services incorporate leading practices to guide students throughout all stages of their career development and progression.
DEPARTMENTAL GOALS
- Deliver high quality, efficient, effective services to university and non-university constituents.
- Expand opportunities for students and alumni to strengthen and broaden their professional preparation, image, and presentation.
- Develop university advocates to assist in the marketing of our programs and services.
- Enhance and expand the marketing of our services.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Students engaging in Career Counseling will report less anxiety about their presenting career concerns.
- Students participating in an Experiential Learning activity (e.g., Job Shadowing) will report increased knowledge of their chosen field.
- Students participating in a Job Search activity (e.g., job fairs, employer networking, campus interviews) will improve their professional presentation (e.g., etiquette, appearance, networking skills, self-marketing, knowledge of employer).
ASSESSMENT PLANS
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- Before career counseling, clients will complete a brief pre-session survey. Immediately after meeting with a career counselor, each client will complete a brief post-session survey. As a result of their counseling session, 75 percent of responding clients will report less anxiety about the career concerns presented that day.
- Each semester, all clients registered in a two-month period will be surveyed online, with 75 percent of responding clients reporting less anxiety about presented career concerns as a result of their counseling session.
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- Two weeks after Job Shadowing, employers will complete evaluations of their student participants, with 75 percent reporting those students gaining a greater knowledge of their chosen career field.
- Students taking part as Job Shadowing observers will complete a survey two weeks after their experience, with 75 percent reporting a greater knowledge of their chosen career field.
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- During campus interviewing each semester, employers will rate students after each interview. Employers will complete an evaluation of each student, reporting 75 percent satisfaction (3.75 on a 1-to-5 scale) with the interviewees’ professional presentation.
- Student attendees at each job fair will complete surveys upon exiting the event, with 75 percent of those responding reporting positively on the professional presentation.
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