A 1-hour webcast interview with Craig Chipps, Recruitment Manager for Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Waterloo, Ontario with a school population exceeding 17,000 students. Wilfrid Laurier University is known as…
Legacy Mapping for Nursing (Webinar)
This recorded webinar examines Legacy Mapping as a self-use career guidance tool for nurses and how it works with digital portfolios and the concept of the Life-Long Learning Record. Nursing…
The 2021 Job Market for Students & Grads
Each year as students graduate, we work closely with them to help them prepare for a very competitive job market. It is already hard enough for most graduates to win relevant and…
Why Parents Need to Stop Telling Their Kids to “Just Focus on Their Studies”
I was recently giving a talk to university students on why they needed to go beyond their education. Learning on its own is no longer enough to succeed in the…
Benchmarking Student Career Development
In our discussions with university program leadership we have found a great deal of interest in getting more involved in their student’s career development. Career development has traditionally not…
5 mistakes most university students and graduates make in their job search
We’ve had thousands of interactions with university students, unemployed graduates, successfully employed graduates, top recruiters, and career development professionals. Our conversations across these different groups have given us a unique…
The University Degree: Essential? Yes. A Core Differentiator for Recruiters? Not so much.
It’s hard to believe that it has already been 30 years since I graduated with my MBA and went out into the real world for my first graduate job search….
A Checklist for Transformative Leaders
Higher-education transformation, which is essential if colleges and universities are to survive in the 21st century, relies on transformative presidential leadership. Twenty-seven years ago, Judy B. Rosener, now a…
Referrals: How to get your job application to the front of the line
At Acadiate, part of our mission is to demystify the hiring processes for new graduates, give them insight into how to gain a competitive edge and provide them with…
Social media should be viewed with an eye for employability
Social media usage by students affects their chances of finding a job after graduation By Karishma Albal | 01/18/18 7:59pm Social media is hardly a stranger to the 21st century….