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A New Vision for Career Services:  Redefining and Redeveloping 21st Century Careers

It’s a brave new world for the field of career services. Allow me to share part of my story—to what I do not refer to as a necessarily a “destination”, but the beginning of a much longer and impactful journey that means much more than a job. For the past year and a half I …

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Columbia Career Design Lab (CDL)—Student Program-Specific and Career Mastermind Group for Job Seekers

#CDLMasterminds Q) What is a CDL Mastermind Group? A group of like-minded individuals determined to achieve personal and professional goals, who      also recognize that they can make significantly more progress when working together rather than alone. Q) Why join one? Exchange ideas and best practices for conducting successful job searches, and possibly job leads …

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Student Career Mastermind Groups—The Future of Mentoring?

What does it take to be a state-of-the-art career center in the 21st Century? The Global Community of Information Professionals define the word ‘collaboration’ as “a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefit”.  In my career as a Director of Career Services, now in my 10th year, I have had the …

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Columbia University’s Inaugural Executive Director of Industry Relations and Career Strategies believes “Career Readiness” is the Door to Positive Career Outcomes

Hassan Akmal knows how to build a résumé. Over the course of his nearly 20-year career, he’s been a professional athlete, an international ambassador, a researcher, a financial advisor, a banker, and a professor—to name just a few of the many hats he’s worn. He even started his own nonprofit to help refugees. This combined …

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