Your partner in becoming a career-ready campus
We help 4-year colleges drive and measure employability through our flexible curriculum, faculty trainings, and advisory services. Our vision is that every student graduates with the skills and agency to launch their careers.
How we partner
Career-ready campus
Impact at scale. Partners receive a landscape analysis (academic affairs, student affairs, alumni relations, development, orientation, and more) of the current state of your career readiness efforts benchmarked against back best practices and a plan and blueprints for how to close the gaps. Partners also receive unlimited licenses for staff and faculty to access our Certification trainings and unlimited licenses to our best-in-class student resources.
Academic Integration
Early and often. That is the mantra for career development and life design best practices. We help get rid of the old/current norm where students don’t start thinking about life after college until they are close to completion. FYS and lower division core and major specific courses are ideal for integration through our train-the-faculty model.
Categorical Program/Co-Curricular Implementations
Shared identity. Common experiences amongst students with a shared identity is at the heart of several high impact practices. We support low income and first generation student programs like TRiO, GEAR UP, EOPS, and many, many others; as well as scholarship cohorts, student athletes, international student programs, and many others programs through our train-the-facilitator model.
Career Readiness Inventory
15 minutes and high impact. Students reflect on the skills employers value the most and take inventory on how students are progressing. This is a formative inventory that is best for students to take several times during high school or college to assess gains in career readiness, including during orientation, courses, co-curricular activities, work experiences, and more.
Case study: Integration with multiple programs, and measurement across campuses
Measuring career readiness system-wide
The NACE Career Readiness+ Inventory is spreading to 17 campuses system-wide, and being implemented in orientation, career services, student organizations, and academic affairs. With the state system having access to career readiness data, the insights gained will support programming for students at each campus.
"Our partnership with Career Launch is different from any other vendor/partner I’ve ever had. Not only do they have excellent services and student resources, the people who make up their organization are the best."
- Bob Orndorff, Senior Director, Career Services, Penn State
Case study: Collaborative, Cohort-Based Career Readiness with a Capstone at Western Kentucky
Built a Career Launch experience focused on First-Generation and TRIO students
Co-designed and implemented through a cross-campus partnership between TRIO SSS, the Career Center, and Student Success Initiatives, aligning resources to better support students and expose them to campus resources they might not otherwise access on their own
Delivered through a custom 4-session structure + capstone experience
Recognized student achievement with certificates of completion, creating a strong sense of accomplishment and closure. Invited campus administrators to the celebration event, creating visibility and advocacy for the program’s impact
“Career Launch has helped me become more confident in my abilities to approach professionals in my career path more comfortably”
- Chloe Kidd, student