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Another great NACE Conference in the books! 🎉

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our Founder and CEO David Kozhuk's panel session with Hakan Unsal of Primerli, Michael DeAngelis of Penn, and Jingy Yen of BCG.

We loved seeing you all in person, and we're already looking forward to next year. See you in Denver in 2026! ⛰️

National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

ICYMI: We launched our new Career Everywhere podcast last week! Featuring in-depth interviews with today's most innovative career services leaders about how they're implementing on their campuses.

Watch, read, or listen to our first 3 episodes here: https://gouconnect.com/career-everywhere/podcast/

Join us for a webinar on Nov. 8th with Thy Nguyen of Illinois Institute of Technology about how career services can help drive enrollment!

Amid a national decrease in higher ed enrollment, IIT drove their highest enrollment in about 40 years this semester by centering their recruitment strategy around career readiness.

In this webinar, Thy will share:

1. How IIT recognized the need/opportunity to make career resources the lynchpin of their recruitment efforts.

2. An overview of the partnership between career services and other teams across campus (and early results).

3. Specific strategies and tactics used by enrollment teams to promote career resources.

4. How creating a campus culture of career readiness has impacted retention efforts in addition to new student enrollment.

5. How IIT uses outcomes data as a key selling point in recruitment marketing.

6. And more!

Register here: https://bit.ly/3Dc05JJ

Career conversations happen all across campus—not just in the career center.

In fact, many students initially seek out career advice and information from faculty, staff, alumni, or even their parents.

But not all of those groups have the resources and training to provide meaningful, accurate career support. At least, not like a career services team does.

That's why Nancy Bilmes and her team at UConn launched a Career Champion program. In the last 3 years, they've recruited 500+ faculty, staff, alumni, and employers to join the program and learn how to have better career conversations with students.

Here's a detailed guide on how they did it: https://blog.gouconnect.com/how-uconn-built-a-career-champion-program

How UConn Built a Career Champion Program With 500+ Champions Nancy Bilmes, Director of the Center for Career Development at University of Connecticut, shares how her team built a successful Career Champion program.