Chan offers insights into market for jobs, internships in new Q&A
Andy Chan
Vice President Andy Chan, in a newly posted Q&A on the Wake Forest News website, offers insights into the market for jobs and internships and suggests proactive ways graduates can move forward in a challenging economy.
Chan is vice president for innovation and career development. During his leadership at Wake Forest, the University has become the national model for creating a college-to-career community designed to help students prepare for a lifelong career journey. Recently, Wake Forest received the 2020 National Career Development Association’s Exemplary Career Center Program Award.
In his comments, Chan says that “the jobs available may not be exactly what grads expected, so they will likely need to recalibrate plans and expectations.”
He also encourages graduates to assess if they are “career ready.” As he explains it, “A common mistake by job seekers is that they’re not well-prepared for every aspect of the job search which includes self-assessment, market assessment, personal branding, interviewing and networking.”
The full Q&A is available here.
Categories: Inside WFU
Wake Forest recognized for exemplary personal, career development
Wake Forest has been awarded the 2020 National Career Development Association’s (NCDA) Exemplary Career Center Program Award. The award recognizes a career center program for their commitment to thoughtful, innovative and effective initiatives that support career development.
Under the vision of President Nathan Hatch and leadership of Vice President, Innovation and Career Development Andy Chan, the University has become the national model for creating a college-to-career community designed to help students prepare for a lifelong career journey, not just a first job after college.
After 2008 during the Great Recession, when many colleges and universities cut funds for career development, Wake Forest invested. Under Chan’s direction, the University’s new Office of Personal and Career Development set out to prepare students to launch careers in less than ideal economic conditions.
“Though students often have a career and life vision, we know that over a person’s lifetime crises happen that may involve job insecurity. Our most important work in career development is to prepare students for whatever economic environment they may face,” Chan says. “It’s easy to get a job in a good economy when the wind is behind your sails, but sometimes the wind changes direction.”
The entire story is available here.
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Celebrating 10 Years: University leads career development into next decade
Wake Forest has established itself as a national leader in personal and career development with its Rethinking Success conference in 2012 and the crowdsourced publication “A Roadmap to Success.” The Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and dozens of other outlets over the years.
Ten years later, Wake Forest is still paving the way in prepping students for careers after graduation with a new “Ready7” path that begins with self-awareness and ends with graduates leading an authentic and meaningful life.
From orientation to graduation and beyond, the OPCD team, faculty, staff, student-athlete development, recruiters, alumni and parents help students build skills that will keep them nimble in the future, no matter what the national or international economic landscape, says Andy Chan, vice president for innovation and career development.
More of the story is available here.
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