Career advising is an important activity for advisors because such a high percentage of students do not have clear career goals.  Due to the nature of their relationship with students, advisors can help students clarify their goals and lead them to essential career resources.  Capitalizing on such a unique position, the following resources provide insight into the nuances and practices of career advising.

Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising - NACADA Webcast, 2008

NACADA resources: 

• Career Advising: A Call for Universal Integration and Curriculum, via Academic Advising Today, 2019
• The Career Identity Program: Helping Students Successfully Choose their Major and Create a Purposful Career Pathway, via Academic Advising Today, 2018
• Academic Advising + Career Development = The Key to Student Success, via NACADA Annual Conference 2017
• A guide to student reference letters, by Richard A.Voorhees and Larry Landis
• Career advisors: a new breed, by Dorothy Burton Nelson, 2006
• Career advising and counseling annotative bibliography, by Dorothy Burton Nelson, 2014
• Career connection with advising, by Marianne E. Green, 1992
• Integrating career and academic advising: Mastering the challenge, by Betsy McCalla Wriggins, 2009
• Interview and business etiquette, by Nancy Sue Merz, 2005
• Advising students who are changing majors, by Dorothy Burton Nelson, Robert A. Alexander, Holly E. Martin and Bradford L. Cunningham, 2012
• The changing workplace: Implications for academic and career advising, via Academic Advising Today, 2006
• What is your career advising I.Q.? by Virginia Gordon, via Academic Advising Today, 2005
• Academic Advising Today, Why Choosing a Major is Not Choosing a Career (...and not the end of the world), 2011

  Other resources:

• Career Advising Survey
• Evolution of Career Services in Higher Education, via the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
• The Condition of Education 2017 report, via National Center for Education Statistics
• Career services must die, via Inside Higher Ed
• How liberal arts and sciences majors fare in employment: A report on earnings and long-term career paths, via Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Integrated approaches to career and life planning, via Keeling & Associates
• Planned happenstance: Preparing liberal arts and social science students to follow their hearts to career success, via Academic Advising Today, 2010
• These Are the Biggest Skills that New Graduates Lack, via Fast Company, 2016
• Why Are So Many College Students Failing to Gain Job Skills Before Graduation?, via The Washington Post, 2015

College and University Integrated Services and Resources:

• Aims Community College, Success Center
• Amarillo College, Academic Advising
• Arizona State University, Career Services
• Brigham Young University, Counseling and Career Center
• Dickinson College, Career Center
• Florida State University, Advising First STEPS Program
• Keene State College, Academic & Career Advising
• Miami University of Ohio, College of Arts and Sciences and University Studies
• Northern Arizona University, Gateway Student Success Center
• Northern Illinois University, Career Services - Careers by majors 
• Ohio State University, University Exploration
• Old Dominion University, Career Management Center
• University of Buffalo, Career Services Student Links
• University of Cincinnati, Center for Exploratory Studies
• University of Michigan, Newman LSA Advising Center
• University of New Hampshire, Advising and Career Center
• University of Texas, Vick Center for Strategic Advising and Career Counseling 
• Wartburg College Pathways Center