It's in the mail! The Career Advisory Committee has sent you a Marketing Career Center Tool Kit. It includes a box of materials and a tube with posters, designed to help you publicize the services your Career Center offers. These colorful promotional materials target your undecided student population because these students especially need your help and support to find their academic/career direction. Since career education is everyone's job, this package includes products for students, counselors, faculty, and staff. Below is a description of the five products you will receive, a few ideas on how to use them, and links to follow for more copies.

  1. Career Clues and Missing Major Booklet
    • Ten activities counselors, career center staff, and/ or student support services' advisors can use with students.
    • Distribute to appropriate end users. (Distribution list included)
    • Booklet also online (Missing Major/Career Clues) and easy to download for additional copies or individual activities.
  2. Missing Major Posters
    • Twelve MissingMajor.Com posters to grab students' attention and drive them to your Career Center and to the site.
    • Add your contact information and strategically place them around campus.
    • Print flyers and post them on campus bulletin boards.
  3. Benefits of Workplace Experience Information
    • Review informational brochures about the benefits of work-based learning ... CCC students who participate in work-based learning learn more, earn more, and enter the workplace faster..
    • Consider how your center could use the flyer Learn More to Earn More.
    • Post, print and/or distribute at faculty and staff meetings/workshops to help tell the Work-based Learning Story.
  4. CareerClues.Org/Missing Major Bookmarks
  5. Undecided Student/Career Clues Flyers
    • Five copies of this flyer with quick and easy tips to help faculty and support staff serve our undecided students.
    • Career Clues site information is on the other side to encourage counselors, faculty, and staff to recommend site to students.
    • For additional copies, click here.

The most effective student retention strategy is to help students identify their career goals and create an academic road map to reach them.