See How You Can Offer Your Students Amazing eCoaching
Meet Don Philabaum, CEO of TalentMarks and a thought leader in the higher education industry. Don is the author of Create a Career Centered College Culture, The Unemployed Grad and What Parents Can Do About It!, Alumni Online Engagement, and dozens of insightful white papers and LinkedIn articles. With decades of experience and a passion for innovation, Don has dedicated his career to empowering career center professionals like you to achieve measurable results.
We’re excited to introduce a game-changing technology inspired by our research and the success of our four-part webinar series, “AI Unscrambled for Career Center Professionals,” attended by over 700 career professionals.
Today, we’ll demonstrate how this technology enables you to provide 24/7 career and professional development eCoaching for your students, graduates, and alumni. This innovative solution ensures consistent, reliable, and personalized support, delivering the kind of insights and advice your team already provides, but now available anytime, anywhere, and to everyone simultaneously!
While Don’s expertise is within the career center industry, imagine this technology answering your students, grads, and alumni questions!
Ask "Virtual Don" any question. Click below!
Not Sure What to Ask Don? Here are 20 “Warm Up” Questions!
- Andy Chan and colleagues wrote a report a decade ago called, “Career Centers Must Die!” Can you give me a summary of what was proposed?
- Alumni associations hold annual telethons where they call alumni requesting participation in scholarship programs and annual giving programs. How could we use that same approach to increase alumni mentoring?
- Give me some ideas on how our college could collaborate with other college career centers to create a “shared services” environment to reduce costs and improve services.
- Give me three statistics I can offer my boss on why we need to increase career center funding and staffing.
- Give me some ideas on how we can turn our career center into a revenue producing department.
- What percent of freshmen drop out of college? Give me some examples of what colleges are doing to keep them in college?
- Give me a couple examples of colleges who have alumni supporting a fund that pays student internship wages when firms cannot afford to pay.
- Can you tell me about the First Year Experience and how our career center can use it to increase student career engagement?
- Can you tell me why you wrote the book, The Unemployed Grad and What Parents Can Do About It?
- Why should we have a First Year GRADUATE Experience program?
- Can you provide five ways our career center could connect with alumni?
- What ideas can you share that will increase the number of students that are participating in our mentoring program?
- Can you offer four ideas on how we can increase the number of students who get internships?
- What are four ways we can get parents to support our career center’s mission and goals?
- Can you share any research or reports that identify how well career centers are serving students and alumni?
- How can we get more students to participate in assessments?
- According to NACE what is the average ratio of students to full-time career center staff?
- Can you provide four quotes from well known celebrities that encourage students to take ownership of their career and engage in career exploration, management and job search skills?
- What are 3 primary reasons students fail at interviews and what would you suggest they do to improve their odds of acing the interview next time?
- What are the five most important stats or data we should watch and monitor in order to continually improve our students, grads, and alumni satisfaction with our service?
Here’s Why Your Career Center Needs an eCoach Solution
We gotta assume you were wowed at how FAR AI eCoach programming has advanced and that you had numerous aha moments reflecting on how effective this would be for your students, grads, and alumni. While you are still brainstorming, keep in mind this kind of solution will:
- Expand Access and Equity - An eCoach ensures that every student, graduate, and alum has access to vital career guidance, regardless of time zones, office hours, or personal schedules. It breaks down barriers and creates opportunities for all.
- Enhance Career Center Efficiency - Free up your team’s valuable time by automating repetitive and foundational tasks. With eCoach, your staff can focus on providing high-touch, personalized support where it’s needed most.
- Provide Consistent Messaging - Deliver a unified and trustworthy voice to your audience. The eCoach reflects your center’s best practices, ensuring students receive accurate, actionable information every time.
- Meet the Needs of Digital Natives - Today’s students and alumni expect instant, on-demand solutions. An eCoach fits seamlessly into their digital-first lifestyle, offering guidance in the way they prefer to receive it.
- Drive Better Outcomes - With round-the-clock access to professional development resources, your audience is better equipped to build their skills, explore career paths, and achieve their goals—leading to higher placement rates and more engaged alumni.
Join the AI eCoaching Movement
Discover how our groundbreaking research and technology can help your career center provide unparalleled support to your students, graduates, and alumni. Let us show you how the eCoach concept can transform your approach to career and professional development.
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