For too long, career services has been an afterthought. Now it's time for career services to be in the driver's seat, leading institutional strategy around career readiness. Join us every other Tuesday for in-depth interviews with today’s most innovative career leaders about how they’re building a campus culture of career readiness… or what we call Career Everywhere.
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For too long, career services has been an afterthought. Now it's time for career services to be in the driver's seat, leading institutional strategy around career readiness. Join us every other Tuesday for in-depth interviews with today’s most innovative career leaders about how they’re building a campus culture of career readiness… or what we call Career Everywhere.
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July 14, 2026
BONUS: What Does Career Everywhere Mean to You? (Live from NACE 2026)
<p>In this special bonus episode, host Meredith Metsker brings listeners inside the NACE 2026 conference in Denver, where she did live mini-podcast interviews at the uConnect booth and asked career services professionals from across the country the question at the heart of this show: What does Career Everywhere mean to you?</p><p>The result is a fast-moving montage of voices—more than 20 higher ed professionals, from front-line advisors to executive directors—each offering their own take in just a sentence or two.</p><p>While every answer is personal, a few clear themes emerge:</p><ul><li><strong>It's not confined to one office or one appointment.</strong> Guest after guest described Career Everywhere as something that has to live outside the career center—in classrooms, dorms, student orgs, and everyday conversations with faculty and staff.</li><li><strong>It's a whole-institution effort.</strong> Many guests emphasized partnership: faculty sending students their way, employers showing up for more than recruiting, and every corner of campus rowing in the same direction.</li><li><strong>It spans a student's entire journey—and beyond.</strong> Several answers pushed back on the idea of career readiness as a single milestone (like a capstone course or a first job), framing it instead as something that starts on day one and extends well past graduation.</li><li><strong>Equity is central.</strong> A number of guests connected Career Everywhere directly to access—making sure career support reaches first-gen students, students without existing networks or cultural capital, and anyone who might otherwise be left out.</li><li><strong>Mentorship shows up everywhere.</strong> From coaches to professors to fellow students, guests pointed to the wide range of people who shape someone's career journey, not just formal career staff.</li></ul><p>Tune in to hear the full range of answers, in guests' own words, recorded live amid the energy (and noise!) of the NACE conference hall.</p> <br><p>Continue the conversation in the Career Everywhere Community! Join 2,000 other higher ed career services leaders today: <a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/career-everywhere/community/">careereverywhere.com/community</a></p>
July 7, 2026
Internships for Everyone: How ODU Removes Barriers to Work-Based Learning, Part 1 (feat. Barbara Blake)
<p>What would it look like if every college student—not just the ones who knew to ask, or had the time, or could afford to go unpaid—actually got a meaningful work-based learning experience before graduation?</p><p><br>That's not a hypothetical at ODU. It's the mandate.</p><p>In this episode of the Career Everywhere Podcast, host<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmetsker/"> Meredith Metsker</a> sits down with<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-barbara-blake-90831142/"> Dr. Barbara Blake</a>, Chief Internship Officer and Executive Director of the <a href="https://internship.odu.edu/">Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office</a> at Old Dominion University, for the first installment of a two-part conversation.</p><p><br>The Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office doesn't run career fairs. It doesn't do resume workshops. It has one job: make sure every ODU student—regardless of major, college, or background—has a work-based learning experience before they walk across the stage. That singular focus is what sets it apart from ODU's traditional career center, and from most career services models entirely.</p><p><br>That focus is also by design. ODU is a minority-serving institution with high Pell and first-gen populations and a large military-connected community—students who are statistically less likely to complete internships and who face real barriers to access, from transportation to professional attire to the simple reality of not being able to afford to work for free. Barbara built her office around the belief that those barriers are solvable, and that solving them requires dedicated infrastructure, not just good intentions.</p><p><br>In part one, Barbara and Meredith dig into how the office came to be, how it sits within ODU's broader ecosystem alongside the Center for Career and Leadership Development, and how four distinct pathways—for-credit internship courses, a free zero-credit co-curricular course, prior learning assessment, and prior internship recognition—are making sure work-based learning is accessible, documented, and on the transcript where employers can see it.</p><p>Stay tuned for part two, dropping later in July, where Barbara and Meredith get into the office's biggest wins so far, what their funding strategy looks like, how they address challenges around unpaid internships, and what’s next for the office. </p><p>Key takeaways:</p><ul><li><strong>Placing internships in Academic Affairs changes everything.</strong> The Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office reports to the Provost—a deliberate choice that signals internships are part of the learning journey, not an optional add-on. Barbara says she wouldn't have taken the job if it had been placed anywhere else.</li><li><strong>One focus. One job.</strong> Unlike traditional career centers, which carry a wide range of responsibilities, the Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office has a single mandate: help every ODU student get a meaningful work-based learning experience. That clarity of purpose is both a strategy and a cultural statement.</li><li><strong>Four pathways make work-based learning accessible to more students.</strong> For-credit internship courses, a free zero-credit co-curricular course, prior learning assessment, and prior internship recognition give students multiple ways to have their experiences acknowledged.</li><li><strong>Getting it on the transcript is the goal.</strong> Barbara's office treats the transcript as the primary deliverable. When graduates send transcripts to employers, having an internship listed there becomes a conversation starter—and a differentiator. Several ODU graduates have already reported that their transcript note was the first thing an interviewer brought up.</li><li><strong>You have to change the culture before you can change the numbers.</strong> The office's first priority wasn't programming—it was shifting campus-wide language from "if" students do an internship to "when." That required buy-in from the president, the provost, faculty, and staff, and Barbara credits top-down institutional commitment as foundational to the office's early success.</li><li><strong>Capturing invisible internships matters.</strong> Many students are already doing internships that their institutions don't know about. ODU's free co-curricular course has documented over 500 internships that would otherwise have gone unrecognized—along with the employers and students behind them.</li><li><strong>High touch isn't just a nice-to-have for this population.</strong> ODU serves high Pell, high first-gen, and military-connected students who need real guidance, not just a job board. Barbara describes an approach that feels more like a human resources office than a traditional career center—open Monday through Friday, no remote work, and ready to help students think through the actual logistics of getting an internship, from financial constraints to geography to timing.</li></ul><p><strong>About the guest:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraablake/">Dr. Barbara Blake</a> is the Chief Internship Officer and Executive Director of the <a href="https://internship.odu.edu/">Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office</a> at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. An economist by training, she has taught economics for over 20 years, conducted economic research for NATO, worked in the corporate world for companies like Hanes Mexico, and owned her own consulting business. Since launching the Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office in July 2023, her team has secured $8.5 million in funding from more than 20 funders and built one of the most distinctive experiential learning models in higher education. Dr. Blake holds a master's degree from the University of Leeds and has published and presented original economic research in the United States and the United Kingdom.</p><p><strong>Resources from the episode:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-barbara-blake-90831142/">Dr. Blake's LinkedIn profile</a></li><li><a href="https://internship.odu.edu/">Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office at ODU</a></li><li>Stay tuned for part two of this conversation, dropping later in July, for more on the internship office’s biggest wins so far, what their funding strategy looks like, how they address challenges around unpaid internships, and what’s next for the office. </li></ul> <br><p>Continue the conversation in the Career Everywhere Community! Join 2,000 other higher ed career services leaders today: <a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/career-everywhere/community/">careereverywhere.com/community</a></p>
June 23, 2026
How to Make Career Services a Campus-Wide Strategic Priority (feat. Barbara Zerillo)
<p>What does it actually take to make career services a campus-wide strategic priority—not just in name, but in budget, staff, and institutional structure?</p><p>In this episode, host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmetsker/">Meredith Metsker</a> sits down with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarazerillo/">Barbara Zerillo</a>, Senior Director of the Career Development Center at Post University, to talk about how she turned career readiness into one of the institution's five official strategic pillars.</p><p>When Barbara arrived at Post about a year and a half ago, the career center was a team of three serving a large and diverse student population—including a significant online learner community. Within less than a year, she had secured approval to hire 10 new staff members, build out a comprehensive technology stack, and restructure career services as a formal institutional pillar with its own project manager, dedicated time with the president, and multiple strategic initiatives underneath it.</p><p>Barbara walks through the full journey: how she benchmarked Post against peer institutions in New England, what she included in her "Why" document for the president, how she made the case that career is not just <strong>important</strong> but that <strong>not investing is a risk</strong>, and what it looked like when the institution said yes.</p><p>She also covers the practical realities of scaling a team quickly, the role project management principles played throughout, and her honest advice for career leaders who want to do something similar.</p><p><strong>Key topics covered:</strong></p><ul><li>Stop saying "career development is important" and reframe around institutional risk</li><li>Bring leadership into the research process through site visits, not just reports</li><li>Mine both external benchmarking data and internal persistence data to tell the full story</li><li>Know what keeps your president up at night and align your case to those priorities</li><li>Why staggering your hires matters more than you think</li></ul><p><strong>Resources from the episode:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarazerillo/">Barbara's LinkedIn profile</a></li><li><a href="https://career.post.edu/">Post University Career Hub</a> (powered by uConnect)</li><li><a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/">uConnect</a>—the virtual career center platform Post University uses, referenced by Barbara as a key part of their tech stack. Three other career centers mentioned in this episode (Bentley University, Suffolk University, and Boston University) also use uConnect.</li><li><a href="https://community.careereverywhere.com/">Career Everywhere Community</a>—free network for higher ed career services professionals; mentioned by Meredith during the episode</li><li><a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/podcast-episode/launching-an-experiential-learning-center-at-pennwest/">Recent episode with Josh Domitrovich of PennWest</a>—Barbara cited Josh's persistence data research as an influence on her own internal data strategy. Other episodes featuring Josh are <a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/podcast-episode/strategic-planning-for-the-career-center-josh-domitrovich-kelli-smith-mike-summers/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/podcast-episode/bringing-career-everywhere-to-life-at-pennwest-josh-domitrovich/">here</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/podcast-episode/when-career-becomes-a-presidential-priority/">Episode with Joe Catrino of Dartmouth</a>—another example of presidential buy-in for career services, referenced by Meredith</li></ul> <br><p>Continue the conversation in the Career Everywhere Community! Join 2,000 other higher ed career services leaders today: <a href="https://www.gouconnect.com/career-everywhere/community/">careereverywhere.com/community</a></p>
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