EDUCATORS

Option 1 is the lightest in integration. It offers extra-curricular opportunities open for students.

Examples: elective choices within career centers, direct studies, and employability-focused and consulting cases-focused student clubs

• YOUR ACTIONS: If your university selects this option, you announce this opportunity in the students’ newsletter, list it on your university’s career-focused website, and let students know it is available. Invite Dr. Ivy for a keynote speech for students “Become an investor in your own edge.”

• CONS: The program is not customized to the specifics of the university’s students or programs and does not collect data on students’ investment into their employability and its outcomes.

• PROS: If students are interested, they can join the center, where they meet students from other schools and countries. They can start their student club as a local chapter of the BE-EDGE Center for Global Talents.

Option 2 is a subscription tailored for a distinguished group of students. Universities can research this group’s employability sources.

Examples: honor students, international students from a particular region, career changers, veterans, and senior citizens,.

• YOUR ACTIONS: If your university selects this option, connect Dr. Ivy with the selected group (say, veterans, career changers, or international students) to discuss the group’s specifics and expectations.

• CONS: The university’s decision on subscription for a minimum of 25 individuals. Potential resistance of gateholders to curriculum adaptation.

• PROS: You receive a tailored program that distinguishes these students as global talents across colleges, an opportunity for joint research on the employability of this population, and data on their profile and drives as global talents for the “future of work.”

Option 3 is the most integrated option, as we work closely with the college to incorporate employability-crafting activities into the curriculum.

Example: The gate course, the becoming case consultant course, the midterm, and the capstone are tailored for the MS in International Management.

• YOUR ACTIONs: The integration starts with Dr. Julia Ivy’s buy-in workshop for faculty and staff involved in the program and students’ success. Based on the data collected in the workshop, we “make the case” to develop a fully tailored product with faculty and staff involvement.

• CONS: While this option provides the highest result in synchronizing students and “the future of work,”, it also requires more resources and the university’s will.

• PROS: The center will be fully tailored for your program and its students, including customized assignments, collected data, joint publications, and buy-in for faculty and staff.