A Green Guide to AI: Sustainable Choices for Career Coaches & Counselors

By Angie Thompson

Addressing environmental concerns surrounding artificial intelligence adoption, this article presents career practitioners with Green AI strategies. It demonstrates how batch prompting, model selection and sustainable digital habits can reduce AI’s footprint, model intentional AI use, and support values-aligned engagement across diverse student and community populations.

Engaging Future Career Educators Through Writing: A Call for Intentional Career Conversations

By Michael J. Stebleton

Optimism in 2026 is possible, despite a blighted 2025. Career development practitioners, including counseling educators, are encouraged to explore innovative strategies, such as writing projects, to engage, challenge, and support students. View a course writing project sample here.

Career Wellness: A Powerful Addition to the Coaching Toolkit

By Binta Brown

Many clients arrive at career coaching feeling disengaged, stuck, or burnt out despite the appearance of career success. This article introduces career wellness as a practical, client-centered concept that enhances traditional coaching tools. Career professionals will learn how to recognize wellness gaps, incorporate reflective prompts, and design sustainable growth strategies to support clients in building careers that are both meaningful and manageable.

Helping High School Students Understand Post-Secondary School Accreditation

By Aletta C. Anderson

Post-secondary school and programmatic accreditation status are important to the career development and academic future of high school graduates. Both types of accreditations are imperative for students planning to continue education after graduation from high school. The school career development advisor, counselor, or specialist can aid the student with this aspect of decision-making.

Creating Equitable Career Pathways - Practical Steps for Career Development Professionals

By Logann Todd

Promotions Are SO Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive

Book Review by Anna Schar

An ever-growing need exists in workplace career development to support employees through their diverse experiences and opportunities. Workplace consultant Julie Winkle Giulioni has put forth a career development framework to address a multidimensional approach to employee career growth. Her book is an immediately actionable resource for any career practitioner serving clients working within organizations.

Learner Feedback: Increasing Opportunities for Online Learning

By Melissa Venable

NCDA’s commitment to professional development includes The Hub, an online platform offering a variety of courses that offer continuing education credit. The Association is currently collecting feedback about learner motivation, interests, and recommendations. This article reveals initial findings and how you can share your thoughts through an ongoing survey.

Entry-Level Jobs for New Graduates

New graduates sometimes find a paradox in the job search. They want to get a job, but the jobs they want to apply for require more experience than they have. Jobright, https://www.newgrad-jobs.com/, has created a webpage that helps alleviate that distress. It aggregates job listings and provides 12 filters to help users find relevant openings. Job seekers click on the industry group, then filter by a variety of fields including work model (onsite, hybrid, or remote), H1B sponsor, salary, location, and company size. Results are presented in an Airtable spreadsheet and job seekers can subscribe to get email updates.

Tech Tip submitted by Kathyy Battee-Freeman kathyy@uis.edu