Supporting Faculty & Staff in Student Career Readiness
Faculty and staff play a critical role in preparing College of Business students for life after graduation. The Career Management Center partners with you to integrate career readiness into advising, classrooms, programs, and student engagement. Our goal is to help our entire College of Business community make student career success easier without adding an extra burden.
Our appreciation for you as a partner and champion of career development runs deep. Thank you!
Engaging Students in Career Readiness
You don’t need to be a career expert to make a meaningful impact. Small, intentional actions can significantly improve student outcomes.
✅ Share career readiness resources with students, classes, and student clubs to normalize career conversations.
✅ Encourage students to meet with a career counselor early and often as part of academic and professional planning.
✅ Include a career readiness statement in your syllabus to reinforce the connection between coursework and career development.
✅ Promote experiential learning opportunities, including internships, employer engagement, and applied class projects.
Featured resources to share with students:
Student Guide to Internships
Guide to Writing a Resume
Immersive Job Simulations
Professional Clothing Fund
Equitable Access to Opportunities
Former students and industry contacts may ask you to share internship and job opportunities with current Rams. These connections are valuable and appreciated.
By partnering with the Career Management Center in these instances, opportunities can be shared through Handshake to expand access for all College of Business students, supporting CSU’s student success initiatives, and aligning with CSU Recruiting Requirements and NACE recruiting guidelines. On the employer side, this approach bolsters recruitment efforts by expanding candidate pools.
Request a Faculty/Staff Account to view Handshake firsthand.
Corporate Relationships
Faculty and staff relationships with employers, alumni, and community partners play an essential role in connecting students to internships, jobs, mentoring, and experiential learning opportunities. Whether those relationships develop through teaching, research, advisory boards, or professional networks, they can create meaningful pathways for student career success.
When appropriate, the Career Management can help translate the relationships into accessible opportunities for students. Rams Connect offers an easy way to connect students with alumni and industry professionals for mentoring and informational career conversations.
For partners interested in hiring or engagement, we encourage sharing the Internship Guide for Employers, outlining best practices for impactful internship experiences, as well as Partner With Us, highlighting the multiple ways organizations can recruit in the College of Business.
By working together, we can strengthen employer relationships and expand student access to opportunities.
Industry Trends
Staying aligned with industry trends is a shared responsibility across the College of Business. Faculty and staff are often closest to emerging developments, through research, industry engagement, advisory boards, curriculum updates, and professional networks. These insights are invaluable to student career outcomes.
The Career Management Center actively monitors labor market trends and employer hiring demands. However, with the breadth of academic areas and specialties within the College, we rely on ongoing communication from faculty and departments to stay informed about what’s changing in industry and how our students are being prepared in new and innovative ways.
Sharing insights about emerging skills, new or evolving roles, industry partnerships, curriculum updates, and employer leads helps us accurately reflect the evolving strengths of our academic programs and the realities of today’s business landscape.
Outcomes
Demonstrated by our College accreditation and rankings’ achievements, student outcomes are critical to our success as a business school. The successful outcomes of our students are also a vital component for recruiting the next generation of business students.
By partnering on the collection of First Destination data, you can help the CMC in tracking the plans secured rates, internship rates, and starting salaries of graduates. With the most up-to-date and comprehensive data, we can support your department with information to move your recruitment initiatives forward.
