Career Navigation
PURPOSE
To support colleges to provide differentiated and inclusive practices that aim to facilitate students’ onboarding and career decision-making and to enrich students’ learning with career and WBL, as well as job opportunities and activities.
Leads
Claudia Estrada-Howell
Dean, School of Business, Technical Careers, and Workforce Initiatives, San Diego Miramar College
George Dowden
Dean of Career and Technical Education, Cuyamaca College
Kevin McMackin
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Region
Goals
- Focus on equity, to include processes, services (including remote), and offerings
- A career services experience that gives all students, especially populations of DI students, myriad opportunities for career awareness and career exploration throughout their student journey
- Increased participation of students in WBL
- Embedded career navigation processes into all community college coursework
- Successful implementation of colleges’ unique Career Services Strategic Plans over three years with support and technical assistance from the Regional Consortium
2023-24 Projects and Strategies
- Development of college strategic plans for career services
- Improved work-based learning and job placement functions at each college
- Establishment of goals and processes for career services, with equity as a priority
- Professional development to expand and or improve services offered
Materials and Resources
*(modified from original 2019 NACE standards workbook; includes modified NACE standards questions and rubric) PDF 75 pages