Career Crossroads: Guiding Clients Through Transition and Reinvention

By Gaeun (Gwenn) Seo and Megan Elrath

As AI reshapes work and career transitions become lifelong realities, career professionals play a critical role at these crossroads. This article offers practical strategies to empower clients to clarify their why, leverage transferable skills, craft authentic stories, and harness social capital to navigate uncertainty and drive career reinvention.

Between Clinical Practice and Content Creation: A New Frontier in Counselor Career Development

By Alanni Brown, Giovanna Ford, Isabelle Essa, Chantel Smoots, Paige Stabile-Dunnigan

Career counselor educators are witnessing a significant shift in utilizing an online professional identity to create new opportunities for learning and career growth. Technological evolution poses both a great resource as well as unprecedented ethical considerations. For counselor educators, this phenomenon brings opportunity and obligation: to prepare future counselors to use technology ethically.

Emotional Intelligence: The Secret Weapon for Career Coaches

By Heather N. Maietta

This article explores how integrating Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills, such as empathy, active listening, and reading nonverbal cues, can lead to more meaningful client conversations, better outcomes for clients, and greater professional satisfaction for coaches.

Parental Behaviors that Influence Adolescents’ Career Development

by Briana K. Keller

How do parents’ actions relate to adolescents’ career development? This article discusses the findings from a research study regarding the relationship between specific parent behaviors and the career maturity and decision-making self-efficacy of middle school students. Suggestions for school counselors who work with young adolescents or parents of adolescents are offered. [Ed. Note: this article is being re-run due to its value for youth during National Career Development Month.]

Building Collaborative Partnerships for Integrated Career Education

By Kelsey Nelson and Jamie Jensen

If post-secondary career centers are to meet the needs of a large student body, they must overcome the challenge of limited staff capacity. This article presents a successful framework developed by one university to scale support by integrating career education into the academic curriculum. By applying the actionable strategies found in four different pillars, career services professionals can forge essential partnerships across campus.

Stagility: A Skills-Based Strategy for a Stable and Agile Workforce

By Safaa Amer

As employers increasingly adopt skills-based hiring, the concept of “stagility” offers a vital framework to balance workforce stability with flexibility. This article explores how career professionals can facilitate job seekers’ transition to a skills-based labor market by promoting internal mobility, designing personalized upskilling paths, and guiding future career planning.

Igniting 60 Years of Imagination, Amplifying Advocacy: NCDA’s National Career Development Month

By Kimberly Carothers

Across North America, November bursts to life with creativity, inspiration, and career exploration. Far more than just another month, it is a nationwide celebration of dreaming big, taking action, and honoring the transformative power of career development during National Career Development Month.

Ultimate U.S. Internships List

Internships are an excellent way for college students to get experience, learn about industries, and test out companies before they pursue full time employment. Many companies use internships as a pipeline for new talent. The Ultimate U.S. Internships List, https://www.intern-list.com/,  gets hourly updates from 200K+ career sites and major job boards and puts that info in an Airtable spreadsheet. Internship seekers click on the industry group, then filter by one of thirteen options, including work model (onsite, hybrid, or remote), graduate date, location, and salary. Then they can apply for the internship using the link or go to the company’s site and apply.

Tech Tip submitted by Kathyy Battee-Freeman, kathyy@uis.edu