June 28, 2021

10 Ways to Build Your Students' Resilience and Involvement

June 28, 2021/ Stephanie Chandra

10 Ways to Build Your Students’ Resilience and Involvement

Developing resilience is critical to student success. Difficult situations can arise at any point, but during this new chapter of independence, college students -- who may already be experiencing many new stressors all at once, such as busy class schedules, extracurriculars, and competing work, studying and social demands -- might find encountering setbacks and obstacles demoralizing or even derailing. While students with healthy resilience are able to adapt and tackle obstacles that arise, others who lack resilience may develop anxiety, depression or unhealthy coping strategies.

June 15, 2021

12 Key Strategies to Improve Student Retention

June 15, 2021/ Stephanie Chandra

12 Key Strategies to Improve Student Retention

When considering student retention initiatives, higher education administrators often examine how a student is integrated into the campus community both academically and socially. Accordingly, retention strategies that focus on these two key areas, including academic interventions and a sense of belonging, are critical to a student’s success. Developing actionable plans to identify students in need and implement supportive programs greatly improves student retention rates by helping struggling students not only to get back on track, but integrate themselves as active, integral members in their campus communities.

June 08, 2021

Make Your 2021 Career Fair the Most Successful!

June 08, 2021/ Lucie-Kay Desthuis-Francis

Make your 2021 Career Fair the most successful!

Career fairs provide students with the chance to learn about new companies and make face-to-face connections with potential employers and recruiters. Launched in 2020, as an alternative to in-person fairs, virtual fairs are a product of the Covid-19 Pandemic. They have, however, changed the mindset of how career fairs should be managed forever and are now a mainstay of early talent recruiting.

The benefits of this next-generation student engagement experience are proven. Whether your 2021 career fair will be fully in-person or hybrid, having a virtual guide or app is instrumental to the process from both an efficiency and qualitative perspective. Outlined below are five key takeaways, demonstrating why leveraging an online career fair platform will maximize the success of your next career fair.