Part 2: Validity. In my last blog post, I introduced the idea of reliability (e.g., consistency) and noted that if scores on a career assessment are not reliable, there is no way they are valid. But...

Part 1: Reliability.  Are all career assessments created equal? If not, are there ways to judge which ones are better than others? Career assessments vary widely in their quality, and yes, there are...

If you only recently learned of PathwayU, you may be wondering what the hype is about. PathwayU is an online career guidance platform. We call it the career and educational compass. The platform was...

If you live and work around higher education, by now you’ve heard about ChatGPT, the generative AI bot developed by the nonprofit OpenAI to fundamentally change the way we write. Give it a simple...

I am a sucker for new beginnings. The new year, with a new semester, offers an opportunity to reflect on what is going well and what I’d like to do better—and an opportunity to make to make some...

Calling all career counselors and advisors...   

In this 4-part series, I’ve explored evidence provided in a classic meta-analysis by Liu, Huang, and Wang on effective job search interventions, and offered advice on how to navigate a job search...

The most effective job search interventions recognize that once you’ve learned and practiced key job search skills, deploying them with persistence requires motivation. This is especially the case...

What does research reveal regarding how to navigate a job search well? In my last blog post, I began to review the evidence found in Liu, Huang, and Wang’s extensive meta-analytic study of job search...