An Empirical Investigation of a 21st Century Career Development Program for Business Majors

When a small, Midwestern business school launched required, four-year career development curriculum, robust practicum courses, and dynamic, co-curricular program, it proved itself to be in the vanguard of practices. Due extensive experiential learning this program provides, greater numbers accounting majors are graduating with raised employment aspirations knowledge, skills, confidence begin their professional lives. Using quantitative measures, results suggest positive impact these activities on students’ certainty about direction, assessment quality resumes LinkedIn profiles, interviewing.