CAREER DEVELOPMENT Johnson & Wales University
will prepare its students to launch and advance in professionally enviable
and personally satisfying careers. JWU graduates will be aggressively
sought after in the workplace.
To accomplish this aspiration, the university will achieve these goals:
GOAL Transform career development
services to better meet the needs of university graduates and alumni by
- Intensifying our efforts to promote and measure career progress and achievement
of our alumni;
- Initiating new career success measures that go beyond 98 percent employment
within 60 days of graduation;
- Creating a stronger student-customer service model for the Career Development
Office;
- Implementing measures to assess the effectiveness of the Career Management
System;
- Expanding career services to include graduate school, continuing education
and international students;
- Developing and implementing measures of employer demand and student and
employer satisfaction to advance improvement.
GOAL Enhance employer relations
by
- Building strong employer demand for the graduates of every degree program;
- Providing mechanisms for industry input into degree programs through strong
partnerships with academics;
- Developing electronic tools to facilitate industry’s recruitment
of our graduates and alumni.
GOAL Re-engineer experiential education by
- Consistently and effectively offering signature experiential education
across programs and campuses;
- Providing each student with a real-world learning experience integrated
with the academic component of their program;
- Developing and implementing new student and employer satisfaction measures
for experiential education.
