The Future of Career Services

Career services are a vital link between a student’s current life and their future life. In recent years, higher education has rapidly accelerated online. In a short amount of time, institutions have improved their digital resources, reached more students, and embraced a data-driven approach.

During this webinar, our panel of speakers will look at how the landscape of career opportunities available to students has changed, and how we can provide support to our students into the future. Our guests will also share perspectives on digitizing services to further support institutional excellence.

This panel of speakers was selected to represent different geographical locations as well as different types of institutions in higher education. Whether public or private, small or large, educators can strategically leverage employability to achieve better outcomes.

SPEAKERS:

• Judie Kay is Vice Chair of Programs and Partnerships and an Executive Committee member for the World Association for Work-Integrated Education (WACE). Here, she manages the WAVE Global challenge. Previously, Kay was Director of Employability and Career Education at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). RMIT is a large public institution, based in Australia.
• Jesús Luyo Tay is Head of the Career Services Office at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (UC). UC is a medium size public institution. During his 25 years tenure at the career service office, he has implemented some interesting innovations and business intelligence tools.
• Mohammed Najeeb Ibrahim is the Assistant Director of Career Services at Ashesi University (AU). AU is a small private institute. Prior to his role with Ashesi, Najeeb served as a Senior Program Manager with the American Council on Education’s Center for Education and Innovation.
• Amy Refaat, Senior Private Sector Specialist, IFC

Ultimately, higher education institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to become more competitive by embracing an employability agenda. IFC’s webinar series on Employability in Higher Education shares lessons learned with educators intent on ensuring rewarding careers for their graduates.

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