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Welcome to the Career Champion Resource Page!

Career Champions are faculty and staff who are committed to student success by supporting students’ career development both inside and outside the classroom.   The office of Career and Professional Development created this community to recognize the important role of these faculty and staff and to support them as they advise, teach, and mentor students.
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Benefits of becoming a Career Champion

  • Be better informed in how to assist students in pursuing their future professional and career goals.
  • Access to training that highlights the latest resources and best practices in career development.
  • A modular Career Development curriculum that allows you to include specific class discussions, activities, and assignments relevant to your students.
  • Resources and assignments for connecting the relevant NACE Career Readiness Competencies to your existing content
  • Individual assistance with including career content in a new or existing class.
  • A community of professionals with which to collaborate about challenges and best practices.
  • Monthly newsletter with curated resources related to current Career and Professional Development opportunities.

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Become a Teaching Career Champion

The Teaching Career Champions program was designed to assist instructors in connecting their coursework to specific career readiness competencies and to encourage the inclusion of relevant career development activities in the classroom.  Learn How

Become an Advising Career Champion

When students need career advice, they tend to go to people they already know and trust.  This is often an academic advisor or a faculty member.   The Advising Career Champions program is designed to meet students where they are at.  The program helps faculty and staff stay informed about career resources so they can assist students with their career questions.    Take the Career Champions Challenge  to become an Advising Career Champion

Grounds for Growth: A Career Champions Event

Join the Career Champions team as we play Bingo, sip coffee, and win prizes — all while discovering how you already use the NACE competencies every day! This event is open to all UAlbany faculty, staff, GAs and course instructors!

Come …

By Sarah Gelfand
Sarah Gelfand Assistant Director of Career Education
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Announcing the Summer 2026 Advising Career Champions Challenge!

Our next Advising Career Champions Challenge will run from Monday, August 3rd until Friday, August 14th. The Advising Career Champions Challenge is perfect for UAlbany faculty, course instructors, staff, alums, and graduate assistants who:

-Have frequent 1-1 or small group …

By Sarah Gelfand
Sarah Gelfand Assistant Director of Career Education
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Career Champions Syllabus Office Hour- July 30th!

Come with all or part of your syllabus to workshop adding Career topics to your course. Open to all course instructors for Fall 2026. Please email sgelfand@albany.edu with any questions!

Can’t make this time work? Please send an email to …

By Sarah Gelfand
Sarah Gelfand Assistant Director of Career Education
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You’re invited! Career Champions Year-End Event!

Please join the Career Champions Team for our third annual year-end event. We will be honoring three Career Advocates and celebrating our challenge finishers from this academic year. Please use this form to RSVP. https://tinyurl.com/careerchampionsyearend

Email sgelfand@albany.edu with any questions!

By Sarah Gelfand
Sarah Gelfand Assistant Director of Career Education
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Career Competency of the Month: Critical Thinking

The NACE Career Competienes are a nationally recognized and adopted framework to prepare graduates for workpalce success in their chosen careers. Each month, we will highlight a Career Competency and how you can use it in your work.

This month, …

By Sarah Gelfand
Sarah Gelfand Assistant Director of Career Education
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Featured Resources

The Career and Professional Development team is proud to support faculty as they work to incorporate career topics into the …

The National Association of College and Employers (NACE) came up with a list of eight Career Readiness Competencies that employers …

This infographic gives tangible advice for first-year students on how to create and optimize their resume (regardless of experience!)

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