Innovative Ideas

Job Placement Assistance

Here are some job placement assistance strategies and initiatives that your private career college might adopt:

  1. Develop a comprehensive Career Strategies module for graduating students.  Within the module, be sure to provide helpful training on conducting a job search, preparing a résumé, and participating in an interview.
  2. Have graduating students prepare a professional looking portfolio of their work completed during the their program.  Provide coaching on use of the portfolio.  This showcases your students as well as your college, and can give students the edge that lands them in better jobs.
  3. Invite a number of Human Resources and industry speakers to participate in a Career Day at your college.  You will want to have them address such themes as opportunities within certain sectors, preparation of a résumé, as well as conduct and dress at employment interviews.
  4. Make your college the place for potential employers to advertise new job openings.  Develop an attractive web page with new postings and keep it well maintained.
  5. Offer your job placement assistance as a lifetime benefit to graduates.  Develop a Job Board web page that is easy to maintain and update.  Keep it current, with no posting being on the page more than 30 days.