CDAC (now referred to as Career Services) offers all students the opportunity to receive career counseling and coaching to assist them with identifying and reaching their career readiness goals. All students are provided access to the Mastering Career Readiness modules in D2L to begin taking steps towards their career and professional development through self-assessment and career exploration. In addition to the modules, students have access to explore their strengths and motivations to discover and identify their motivation to become productive and succeed in the workplace through an assessment called TruMotivate
Students explore their career readiness through our online, self-paced Mastering Career Readiness [MCR] modules in D2L. We continue to scale this activity to students across campus. The TruMotivate assessment will be added to the current MCR modules. Through the TruMotivate experience, students are able to utilize their past success stories and use the information to realize their interests and drive in being productive in their career. We are in the piloting phase of this activity.
Evaluation Plan and measures:
Satisfaction survey to our students for feedback on their career counseling and coaching appointments. At this time, we do not have an evaluation measure for MCR course. There was a plan in place was to work with the Director of Co-Curricular Assessment on an assessment. The position became vacant and has been decommissioned. In the interim, Career Services plans to create a Qualtrics survey and send to students to assess learning outcomes. This is a temporary solution until a formal assessment is created.
Baseline measure NA
Goal for coaching and counseling appointments: 100% satisfaction
Target for MCR: 40% of those completing the survey indicate that they feel much more confident in their development
Time period/duration: Ongoing
During AY 2022/2023 Career Services continued to offer MCR Modules through D2L to students either on their own or through faculty collaboration within their course. Over 2100 students have completed activities in Focus 2 Career assessment, including Creation of a Clawlink account, Resume, Mock Interview, LinkedIn, Goal Setting, Employability, Career Competency and Reference Sheet.
Over 719 students participated in taking the Focus 2 Career Assessment with their top three values being Altruism/Helping Society, Income and Stability.
Changes needed to ensure success and benefits of the self-paced modules is the creation and implementation of a sustainable assessment plan.
Extensive outreach continues to promote MCR to faculty for incorporation into their courses.
In Fall 2022, 33.5% of students enrolled in the First Year Seminar (GGC 1000) course completed the Mastering Career Readiness modules.
Currently (Fall 2023) students in the seminar course are completing the modules as part of a class assignment, so we anticipate robust completion rates and will update that information as it becomes available.
Continue to promote MCR with added modules, increase outreach for faculty partnerships and individual student participation and create a sustainable assessment plan.
Lack of faculty support to incorporate MCR modules into their courses and the lack of student awareness to see how it connects to their educational and career goals.
