Building a Career-Ready Campus
“A career-ready campus integrates career development into the student experience through intentional collaboration.”
— William (Wil) Jones
Assistant Vice Provost & Chief Career Officer
About the Rutgers Career Ecosystem
The Rutgers Career Ecosystem brings together faculty, staff, and campus partners to embed career readiness across the student experience as part of building a career-ready campus. This coordinated effort—spanning more than 200 campus partners—connects academic and career development to help students explore pathways, build skills, and successfully pursue their post-graduation goals.
Start by exploring how you can contribute based on your role.
Building a Career-Ready Campus, Together
Rutgers is advancing a career-ready campus through a shared vision, clear strategic priorities, and a common framework and shared language for career readiness. Together, these elements align academic and co-curricular experiences to support students in developing skills, gaining experience, and successfully pursuing their post-graduation goals.
Start with Your Role
This is your starting point for accessing programs, resources, and opportunities to support students’ career readiness. Explore tools, funding, training, and partnerships designed for your role—and begin integrating career readiness into your work. Many of these efforts can also connect to the #RUCareerReady initiative, helping align your work with a broader, campus-wide experience.
Select your role to access programs and resources:
Next Step: #RUCareerReady
Once you’ve explored resources for your role, connect your programs, courses, and experiences to the broader Career Ecosystem through #RUCareerReady.
Explore Professional Development & Resources
Access professional development, teaching resources, and data to strengthen your work in advancing career readiness. These resources are designed to help you integrate career development into your programs, courses, and student experiences.
Expand Your Impact Across the Career Ecosystem
Take the next step by partnering with Career Exploration and Success to expand opportunities for students and contribute to a career-ready campus.
These opportunities allow you to engage beyond your individual role—recognizing impact, collaborating across campus, and helping shape the future of career readiness at Rutgers.
Choose how you want to engage:
