Evaluation is a hot topic at university career centres. At the end of 2011, a new resource was launched to help career centres improve and expand their evaluation activities.

 

Cathy Keates and other members of the project team will be presenting at Cannexus12.

Participate in their session on January 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM.

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Career Centre Evaluation: A Practitioner Guide (www.ceric.ca/careercentreevaluation) is a customized online resource to help university career centres think about and design effective evaluation strategies. This resource provides a look at how five different career centres have tried to understand the components of evaluation and how they developed tools to use in their settings.

The guide provides:

  • An introduction to a framework for evaluation
  • Example tools that you can adapt to your own setting
  • Case studies of evaluation activities at other career centres

This project was created through a partnership between CERIC and a working group of the career centre leaders at the University of Toronto, Trent University, the University of Waterloo, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Windsor. Many thanks to the career centre staff, managers and directors who inputted ideas and comments, and those who reviewed drafts.

 

Cathy Keates was the Project Co-ordinator for the creation of this CERIC-supported guide. Cathy has worked for over a decade with university career centres and has recently joined Queen’s University as the Director, Career Services.