As a adjunct faculty member in an school with an accelerated program, I don’t have time to spend a lot of time talking to students about it. Have I? Yes. But the school also has a course that covers this type of thing. (our accelerated program will produce a business student beginning start to BS degree in 36 months. Each course is 4 WEEKS long and meets no more than twice a week.) I teach in the evening so my classes go from 6:00-8:30 pm. So I have 5 classroom hours per week with my students (max) for 4 weeks. If in the course of our class discussion something comes up, it gets addressed. I am always willing to address it outside of the classroom one on one but unless other faculty members do likewise, it will be when the students take PSY299 – which covers the topic in detail. Problem is this is one of the last courses the students take. Of course, most of our students are non traditional students. (it is a Career College in the Salt Lake City area)

As for networking, branding, etc, I really do think that they should talk about it, at least a little bit. I don’t mean that it is all their fault if they don’t, but I think it’s a shame that they don’t even breath an idea of any career management stuff (an overgeneralization, I’m sure).

@Malcolm, the thing is, I think they already know how to do it, because of their own career paths, and should mentor us. Even a statement like “I’m going to teach you all about _____. If you want to get a real job in this field you should check out the following books, which will really help you in your career.” I think branding and networking have been around long enough… but tenured prof’s don’t really care much about anything … another over-generalization, I’m sure

@JP – amen! Good point!

Malcolm