Career Center
Scalable & Personalized Conversational AI Career Support!
Your career center is instrumental in guiding students toward successful futures. Yet limited budgets, small teams, and high student demand can make it challenging to provide the individualized career support every student needs. The solution? Conversational AI!
Conversational AI is a technology that uses a blend of natural language processing and machine learning to allow computers to understand, process, and respond to human language in a way that feels like a natural conversation.
It offers your career center a powerful way to scale your impact while freeing up your team to focus on high-impact activities, such as building relationships with employers, scheduling mock interviews with alumni, and engaging faculty to integrate career activities into their curriculum.
Imagine ThisA first-year student named River, eager to explore their career options, visits your career center’s website. The student is greeted by an engaging AI career advisor:
" Hi River! It’s great to see you engaging in your career. I can share opportunities to connect with alumni, explore career resources, things you need to do to prepare for your job search, including networking, finding mentors, and internships. How can I help you today? "
Conversational AI provides instant answers to fundamental questions, connects students to valuable resources, and creates a welcoming environment that encourages early engagement. It’s like adding a team of full-time staff, 24x7 without exceeding your budget.
Why Conversational AI is a Game-Changer for Career Centers
- Early Engagement: Attract students earlier in their college journey, ensuring they’re career-ready by graduation.
- Scalable Support: Handle hundreds of students AND ALUMNI simultaneously while maintaining a personalized experience.
- Resource Optimization: Automate entry-level inquiries, giving your team more time for impactful coaching sessions.
- 24/7 Accessibility: Be available to students AND ALUMNI whenever they need support, even after office hours.
- Database Collection of Responses: All information shared by students is recorded, databased, and available to provide more personalized curriculum, coaching and advising.
- Enhanced Outcomes: Provide consistent, reliable guidance that helps students AND ALUMNI confidently navigate their career paths.
Five Ways Your Career Center Will Use Conversational AI Advisors
Conversational AI offers a scalable and personalized approach to student support. By initiating outbound communications via phone calls, text messages, or emails, it can proactively engage students based on specific dates or their progress on assignments. Students can also reach out to the AI advisor at any time, as it provides 24/7 accessibility. Our platform records and stores all conversations, using this information to lead personalized discussions over time. This continuous engagement is reinforced with automated follow-up correspondence, which include transcripts of conversations, resources for further study, and suggestions for next steps. All virtual advisors are capable of talking to one or thousands of students simultaneously and in 30 plus languages!
1) INCOMING FRESHMEN MEET & GREET
Imagine a student getting a call from a conversational AI advisor named Chloe even before setting foot on campus. The virtual career advisor engages the student in a ten-question chat to build a comprehensive profile of the student. Chloe learns about their life experiences, academic interests, and hobbies, while also addressing any concerns they might have about college. Even though the conversations follow a structured path, Chloe's responses are crafted to feel free-flowing and intuitive for the student.
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Chloe will continue to initiate contact with students (via phone calls, texts, and emails) during their freshman year, offering resources on career exploration, guiding them through the creation of a professional LinkedIn profile, and facilitating early connections with alumni mentors.
2) SOPHOMORE INTERNSHIP ADVICE
When the student completes their assessment, the next step is to connect them with Tony Alessandra, a leading authority on assessment interpretation. Tony will guide the student in understanding their results and applying those insights to leverage their strengths and improve their relationships with friends, family, faculty, and future bosses. This interactive session will help students not only interpret their DISC assessment results but also apply them in their daily lives.
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3) SOPHOMORE INTERNSHIP ADVICE
Conversational AI can be a critical tool in a required career management curriculum. Our platform can guide students through mandatory checkpoints, ensuring they stay on track. For instance, the AI career advisor can proactively reach out to sophomores about internships, automating initial outreach and gathering essential information to update their profiles. This allows the system to provide personalized, timely support and ensure all students meet key developmental milestones, and bring in a human career advisor (or parents) when needed.
CLICK HERE and Ask Chloe:
- When should I start looking for an internship?
- How do I search for internships?
- What kind of skills are companies looking for?
- How can I get an internship with no experience?
- Should I be paid for my internship?
4) STUDENT ASKING GENERAL CAREER ADVICE
When a student hasn't engaged yet, they'll connect with Jamie, a conversational AI career advisor. Designed as a flexible guide, Jamie specializes in getting students caught up - FAST. If the student had provided permission, the student’s parents would be brought into the loop and asked to encourage the student to engage in career activities. Students can begin by asking a question from a list, but the conversation can then go in any direction they choose.
CLICK HERE and Ask Jamie:
- What are the most in-demand skills?
- How do I prepare for the career fair?
- What should I include on my resume?
- How do I practice for interviews?
- How do I connect with alumni?
5) RECENT GRAD NEEDING JOB SEARCH ADVICE
Here’s a scalable way to provide graduates career support. You can give every graduate access to Taylor, a conversational AI career advisor. Taylor provides daily check-ins with EACH graduate focusing on personalized action steps and confidence-building guidance to help students navigate the job search. Taylor offers scalable, one-on-one support to show them what to do daily, keeping them engaged in their professional job search.
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6) SUPPORTING ALUMNI IN CAREER CHANGES
Meet John, your alumni’s personal conversational AI job search coach. He helps them stay focused and motivated by acting as a daily job search buddy. John provides step-by-step guidance, reminders, and encouragement, breaking the process into manageable actions. This helps alumni build momentum, shorten their job search, and land roles that match their skills and goals.
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This is a once-in-a-lifetime technological introduction that will allow your career center to provide more personalized support to more students, grads, and alumni, at a lower cost.
Each of these conversational AI advisors can be modeled after your current staff. We can program their personality, talking style, and even mimic their voice, creating a seamless and natural transition for students who want to continue the conversation with the "real" career advisor.