February 9, 2023
Many thanks to the University Program of Ga (USG), Columbus State College pupils have obtain to a new job-setting up device
that will offer them with additional career counseling providers and hook up them
to information about graduates and alumni in the subject in which they want to perform.
The Profession Source Planning Platform positions the method and its 26 general public colleges and universities as leaders in assisting students with precise job expert services and career guidance—including
possible levels to pursue, occupation alternatives and wage ranges based on a student’s
interests.
USG is the initially college procedure in the country to work with an Atlanta-based mostly data
analytics business to put into action the platform systemwide.
“The Job Source Scheduling Platform is the most complete job resource USG has
ever made available, and it will be the foundation for foreseeable future profession and workforce development
initiatives being designed within the university method and throughout Ga,” USG Chancellor
Sonny Perdue reported. “As we prioritize affordability, performance and degree attainment,
our ongoing get the job done to serve workforce enhancement demands furthers our goals and sets
the stage for our graduates’ prosperity and accomplishment.”
The platform enhances solutions obtainable to Columbus State pupils by way of the
university’s Middle for Experiential Finding out and Career Style and design. The center’s workforce is committed to coaching and empowering learners and alumni to
establish and pursue career-oriented aims that ultimately guide to put up-graduate employment
and skilled achievement in their preferred vocation fields. It is portion of a more substantial state
initiative to present Ga large school students with integrated career and university
guidance—a collaborative effort and hard work that contains the Ga Student Finance Commission,
the Georgia Office of Education and learning, the Technological School System of Georgia and USG.
It also builds on the college system’s Georgia Degrees Pay out web site, released very last fall to give college students and families with a a single-end site to review the overall charge
of attending higher education, majors and fields of study, average student borrowing and the
common profession earnings of USG graduates.
USG current the Ga Degrees Pay out web-site in January to consist of additional details about students’
cost above time to make a degree—including tuition, charges and foregone earnings—by establishment
and diploma method. This “Time to Degree Cost Calculator” clarifies how using a lot less than a comprehensive course load improves the time to entire
a diploma and its whole cost.
With the Profession Resource Planning Platform, USG pupils can obtain the platform by
their normal campus portal and use it to investigate careers and specific work opportunities held
by alumni of any of USG’s 26 institutions. Among other companies, they can locate which
organizations alumni work for, their ordinary salaries and the likely majors and precise
abilities essential to be successful in those career fields. They can also consider an assessment
that analyzes their strengths and offers most likely acceptable perform matches centered on
their pursuits.
This details is broken down by geographic location, state and county and can be
common or distinct to an person USG establishment. The program used by Steppingblocks®
to electricity the system collects, organizes and analyzes demographic, instruction and
work knowledge from hundreds of unique resources these kinds of as on the web profiles, position postings,
public salary databases, community filings, firm firmographic databases and government
sources these types of as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Studies.
Columbus State students can obtain the Occupation Useful resource Organizing System directly
at columbusstate.steppingblocks.com.
Media get hold of:
Michael Tullier, APR, Government Director of Strategic Communication + Marketing, Columbus
State College, 706.507.8729, [email protected]
