CCWT hosts and offers a variety of speaking engagements related to improving career outcomes for students! This page is a searchable repository for all of CCWT’s recorded events.
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Confronting Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
JVD Consulting
February 2025
Stop the cycle of continuous self-doubt and “auditioning” at work and learn to embrace and activate talent. In this interactive webinar, Jodi helps participants put these challenges in perspective and develop proactive strategies and mindsets to move past them. She leads a discussion about:
- How gender and other systems intersect with perfectionism and imposter syndrome, and how these challenges can keep you stuck.
- How to identify workplace triggers and develop a growth mindset.
- Developing self-awareness and learning habits of self-reflection and self-regulation to let go of perfectionism.
- Identifying anti-perfectionism strategies like delegation, help-seeking, mutual empowerment team building, identifying and leveraging key strengths, and practicing self-compassion.
NOTE: Claudia’s (the CCWT Student Intern) audio is patchy at the beginning of this video, but the rest of the sound, including the presenters’, is clear throughout the video.
Work-Based Learning: Paving the Way for Career Success through a General Education Course
Dr. Mita Banerjee & Kaila Bingen
University of WI-Parkside
January 2025
When structural barriers prevent students from participating in internships, institutions of higher education can offer alternative solutions to ensure equitable opportunities for all learners. This session will explore the conception, implementation, and continuous evaluation of a new experiential learning course that meets general education requirements. Utilizing a mixed-method design, presenters will share early positive outcomes from the UWP 294: Work-Based Learning course demonstrating how students develop crucial career readiness skills that enhance their future professional prospects. Utilizing a course model based on NACE career readiness competencies and best practices in experiential learning, participants will learn how students’ current work experiences scaffolded with relevant coursework can serve as a viable alternative to internships.
Webinar Slides Accessible Here
To learn more about their work, CLICK HERE to visit Mita’s and Kaila’s website.
Diversity, and Anticolonial Considerations: Immigrants and Refugees at German Universities
November 2024
Join Dr. Lisa Unangst as she uses a critical and historical perspective to explore how immigrant and refugee students have been racialized and how they access and experience college in Germany. Her discussion will address migration and displacement as drivers of student mobility, and specifically the German higher education sector where the vast majority of students enroll at public universities. Dr. Unangst will provide participants with an opportunity to consider how historical context, geopolitical developments, and higher education internationalization have melded to have a clear influence on student equity in the present.
Webinar Slides Accessible Here
Key words: Immigrant, refugee, migration, internationalization, Early Career Scholar, Early Career Scholars
Promoting Language Skills in Career Development
November 2024
Language abilities are an incredible asset for job seekers – regardless of their career interest!
In this webinar, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Lydia Odegard, Language Directions Specialist at the Language Institute, will discuss how she coaches students to help them learn how to “wow” employers by communicating skills they’ve learned through language study and by creating a personal brand that highlights their language skills and international experiences.
Webinar Slides Accessible Here