How MANY students is the average career coach expected to serve? 🤔
100?
1,000???
Try 2,000. 🤯
And that's just the average ratio of students to career services professional - according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
So it includes a number of Employer Engagement, Operations, and Admin folks who aren't even coaching students directly.
Which means whether the true number is 2,000 or 20,000: It's. A. LOT.
And, unfortunately, the Headcount Cavalry ISN'T on its way... 🏇🏾
...Because it's actually in RETREAT - in the form of budget cuts and hiring freezes! 🥶
So what's a dedicated coach to do???
Turns out we all have THREE tools at our disposal to scale up our impact - even facing a tsunami of need:
1️⃣ SEGMENTATION - Instead of treating every student the same, let's use data + AI analysis (no Data Science Team required) to figure out which students need which supports.
2️⃣ AUTOMATION - Instead of having each student come in for office hours (which would never be possible in the first place) to discuss the same career exploration and resume basics, let's build our own career software so that students can tackle these fundamentals before they schedule time with us.
3️⃣ OUTREACH - Instead of assuming that students will come to us (since we know that a good 1/3 of all students will never proactively engage), let's go right to them via personalized outreach with the tools and steps they need, right when they need them.
Now I know what you're thinking: "Jeremy, that sounds like a LOT!" 😅
But fear not: I've broken the entire process down into a 20-minute CRASH COURSE. ⚡️
Just check out the full steps from my latest Jobscan workshop: https://youtu.be/CGQYdyJRzAU?si=FD3_-PUCe7CWWz_z&t=1393
Plus, grab my sample data to practice with here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kFh1Jo-JFMy3baWiORln0BJrO_54eGUZJ_OIW8xwn5I/copy
And then share your own best practices for handling this coaching deluge in the Comments below! 🙌